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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis thesis is basically a study of the women
characters as depressed women in Robert Frost's "Home
Burial", "A Servant To Servants", and "The Fear". The
writer of this thesis is curious to know why these
women can be considered as depressed persons. Through
the analysis, she wants to prove that each of the women
characters in those three poems has experienced
different psychological problems which are considered
as the symptoms of depression. In order to accomplish
the objective goal of this thesis, the writer uses
conflict and characterization as the literary approach,
and the psychological theory on depression as the tool
to prove the women characters' depression. The woman
character in "Home Burial" shows the symptoms of a
depressed person after she loses her baby; and, in "A
Servant To Servants", the hereditary insanity of the
woman character has made her depressed. Whereas in
"The Fear", the woman is haunted by her guilty feeling
of betraying her husband and this situation makes her
depressed. However, these women's condition will not
become that worse if their spouses give them much
attention which can be a very helpful thing for them in
overcoming their depression.