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This 5 page paper examines thematic elements in both works. Gender is the focus of discussion. The plot of each work is discussed. Class is also noted as relevant to the outcome. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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perhaps--they are single or married, beautiful or plain--but underneath it all is an inexplicable madness. It lived inside Susan Smith and Andrea Yates. These seemingly ordinary mothers would each kill
their children for different reasons. The reasons--to get a new boyfriend, to free them from the Devil, to free them from the mundane--really matters not. What this boils down to
is a gender-specific kind of madness that lives inside women, but some would beg to differ and cite society, or men, as the true culprits in female insanity. Such thematic
elements are evident in Faulkners A Rose for Emily and Gilmans The Yellow Wallpaper. The gist of the Faulkner tale is that Emily Grierson, who is essentially a loner
and rarely leaves her home, develops a relationship with a black servant who only sees her occasionally. During the short time that the story takes place, Emily is unmarried and
longing for a husband. In order to keep a man, she ends up killing him. Obviously mad, Emily seems to have been driven to this by her environment. The people
in town, her family, and everyone who is seemingly watching her, provides approval and disapproval, and this is just too much for her to take. It is interesting to
note that the onlookers do not realize that they might have driven Emily to insanity. Wallace after all does suggest that the work is about gossip (105). Might it be
that the talk by the townspeople pushed Emily over the edge? Certainly, she cared what everyone thought. Otherwise, she would not have been prompted to act in such a fashion.
In her own way, the murder was a triumph. Finally , she did get a man, even though it was in a horrific manner. Birk notes that her engraving of
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