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Imagination: The Forbidden Fruit

Abstract
This paper is a comparative study of the Egyptian short story 'Worms in the Rose Garden" by Saiwa Bakr, published in 1992, and the American story "The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Oilman published in 1892.Although the two stories are separated by a hundred years, both writers address the same issue; that of women driven to madness because of their refusal and/or inability to fit into the...
Keywords
Introspection
Nonconformity
Insanity
Conformity
Sociology
Aesthetics
Pariah group
Literature
Psychoanalysis
History
Psychology
Art
Social psychology
Law
Philosophy
Politics
Political science
Epistemology
Operations management
Economics
Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
Gender equality

2003
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Open Access

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Imagination: The Forbidden Fruit
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Imagination: The Forbidden Fruit

Abstract
This paper is a comparative study of the Egyptian short story 'Worms in the Rose Garden" by Saiwa Bakr, published in 1992, and the American story "The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Oilman published in 1892.Although the two stories are separated by a hundred years, both writers address the same issue; that of women driven to madness because of their refusal and/or inability to fit into the...
Keywords
Introspection
Nonconformity
Insanity
Conformity
Sociology
Aesthetics
Pariah group
Literature
Psychoanalysis
History
Psychology
Art
Social psychology
Law
Philosophy
Politics
Political science
Epistemology
Operations management
Economics
Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
Gender equality

2003
Article

Open Access

2-Y Citation Average

0.001

Language

pdf file