Essays on The Yellow Wallpaper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper was published in 1892. The story introduces a candid female protagonist who’s isolation from society, and from her writing, drives her insane. Written from a first person perspective, the story allows the reader to become personally involved with the narrator. Gilman uses symbolism throughout the story, two examples of which are the wallpaper and the wallpaper pattern. The story reveals interesting clues about how mental illness was treated at the time, and how women in particular were repressed by society. Through the use of a first person narrator and symbolism, Gilman ...

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Introduction For many centuries women were deprived of their natural rights to control their life and even body and yet the struggle for equal rights is still continuing. At some point, feminism acquired a negative connotation that people today associate with the fanaticism and misandry. It is quite difficult to explain why the movement that released so many women from their invisible prisons is criticized by the modern society. A lot of women have fought to overcome discrimination, prejudice, and stereotyping of womanhood by changing the laws, altering the views of the society, and fighting back their oppressors. In ...

In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”, the typical Victorian marriage is constructed as a prisoner from which a woman is only able to escape when she becomes insane. Her insanity becomes her only way of defying her husband, and gaining freedom. The author’s feminist argument in “The Yellow Wallpaper” is skillfully constructed by creating a protagonist whose growing mental instability is narrated from her own perspective. However, ironically, at the same time with her worsening mental state, she evades the social rules and pressures which had entrapped her in an unhappy marriage. While her mental condition ...

American Literature

One of the most charming and striking characteristics of the American literature of the nineteenth century is its naïveté. The protagonists regardless of being positive or negative heroes have a unique trust to the world and people surrounding them. This naïveté adds to the romantic and sincere nature of the poem or short story. It usually enhances the idea mentioned in the story and is intended to emphasize the meaning of it. To a certain degree, it may be taken as a symbol of American literature of the nineteenth century as naïve ideals and naïveté ...

The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gillman, is a short story that was written in order to describe the total inefficiency of medical treatment for postpartum depression in its era, and to create a greater awareness of the lack of medical understanding of the condition. As such, the storm describes the primary character’s deteriorating mental health, as she descends into madness as a result of her depression. More specifically, her description of her environment, and the personification of the wallpaper directly represents her deteriorating mental condition. As the wallpaper’s descriptions become more vivid and charactuerized, the narrator’ ...

Medical experiences are completely dependent on an individual's gender. Men and women, in most cases, are more prone to illnesses, which differ in nature. Men are more prone to conditions, which affect their physical health while women tend to suffer from conditions, which affect their emotion/psychological health. This paper seeks to support the notion, which states that medical experiences depend on the gender of the patient in question. In the case of George Dedlow and the narrator in ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’, the two protagonists, who differ in gender, undergo completely different medical experiences. They are, however, both adversely affected ...

Our modern world is full of implacable disparities. All living beings are classified into different categories. The animals, for example, will often be categorized into those who can run, feel coming danger and be able to escape it. The biggest diversity ever is probably that of the gender difference and gender stereotypes. No matter how much time passes, there will always exist that inevitable opposition between two sexes. Though stereotypical views of men and women have highly reduced in recent years, many people still believe that some of the gender-role stereotypes retained till the present day. The two genders ...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s story, “The Yellow Wallpaper”, is a fictional depiction of her own experience. Once, she was forced to undergo a course of treatment for what the doctor felt was a severe nervous breakdown. The psychiatrists in those days, in the nineteenth century, were in the habit of looking at a woman as a domestic animal and diagnose her mental disorders as a result of her distorted domestic life. Gilman fictionalizes her experience in order to highlight the state of the subordinated life of a woman in her days, particularly the suppressed state of a married woman. ...

“The Birthmark” is a short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1843 and “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a short story written by Charlotte Perkins-Gilman published in 1892. “The Birthmark” deals with a husband’s determination to make his wife look perfect while “The Yellow Wallpaper” deals with the subordination of a woman to her husband which drives her crazy. Both Georgiana and the wife from “The Yellow Wallpaper” are trapped in a marriage in which their husbands are dominant and who determine their fate. The similarities between “The Birthmark” and “The Yellow Wallpaper” are related to the fact that ...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an outstanding American writer and a huge supporter of women’s rights that reflected in her literary works. One of her most famous one is the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” that is written in the form of a diary of a young lady, who was diagnosed with a mental disease and spent a time living in a room with yellow wallpaper that led to her demise. The story can be viewed as semiautobiographical, as Gilman wrote it after she had a postpartum psychosis. In her story she uses figurative language to reveal the theme ...

The depiction of a setting as the main hindrance or destructive force behind the fall of a protagonist is evident in William Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily, Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper, and D. H. Lawrence’s The Rocking-Horse Winner. As the authors develop the settings around the main characters’ homes, the mentioned texts go on to give the otherwise lifeless structures roles of their own as they affect the inhabitants in one way or another. To that end, Emily’s house symbolizes her gradual deterioration while the unknown narrator regards her house as one would ...

In the Victorian period The Woman Question was a widely discussed topic, and engaged many Victorians, both male and female. The ideal woman of that age was associated with tenderness, understanding, innocence, domestic affection and submissiveness. The woman had to maintain the status and integrity of her husband, being always the devoted and pleasing angel in the house. Coventry Patmore supported the idea that women should be extremely pure and selfless in his popular, best-selling long poem “The Angel in the House” (1854). A woman that failed at such responsibilities was labelled either mad or hysterical. During the Victorian ...

“A Rose for Emily” written by William Faulkner and “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gillman both have a theme of psychological issues that are present in the main female characters of both stories. In each story the women show signs of depression through their isolation from the world. The strange and questionable behaviors displayed by each of the main characters are not handled correctly and if anything, it is exacerbated by the men in their lives. The stories both show the tragedy and turmoil that women have gone through in previous era’s when men made a large ...

The Yellow Wall Paper is a short story written by an American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman It was first published in January 1892 in the New England Magazine and considered as an important example of the early feminist literature. In order to analyze the work of the psychoanalytic school of criticism viewpoint we should refer to the author's life and personality, that is important for psychoanalytic research. She was born on the 3 July 1860, in Hartford, Connecticut. Her childhood was not easy because her father gave up the family and Charlotte's mother had to grow up her two ...

If you happen to be out at a trendy bar one night and a bachelorette party happens to wander in, you can just about always pick out the bride-to-be. She often is wearing a tiara (often emblazoned with the word “PRINCESS” just for good measure), and her friends are plying her with Cosmopolitans, Prosecco, or even shots of Rumplemintz liquor as she is working her way through a night of debauchery, before she enters life as a wife. Even in our own modern era, when women have access to just as much education as their male counterparts and a ...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper places a woman into an insane Victorian environment for the purpose of demonstrating the insanity of the insanity of the Victorian Woman. It is an ingenious plan to “show” rather than “tell” the repercussions of a social construct that respected and repressed women at the same time. Charlotte Perkins Gilman is one of the most intelligent of the early feminist writers. Having published over 200 writings, she blatantly blows the collar of Victorian imagery off the necks of women everywhere. When Gilman started writing, the role of women was to act “as ...

Charlotte Perkin Gilman’s short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” reveals the controlled and limited societal gender roles dispensed by the narrator’s husband, John, whose intentions are positive for his wife. Throughout the story, he is very caring of his wife and gives her all of his love. John feels obligated to take care of his wife both emotionally and financially, thus depriving Jane of her freedom and leading to the ruin of the narrator’s mental health. The narrator’s husband, John, in Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper,” is a caring and loving husband who possesses affirmative intentions ...

Introduction

Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Edgar Allan Poe wrote the Yellow Wallpaper and the Tell-Tale Heart stories in different times. The two short stories are set in separate settings and times despite the striking similarities. The Yellow Wallpaper has contributed significantly in the evolution of American Literature. This story was published for the first time by the New England Magazine in 1892 (Trinastic 1), about five decades after the publication of the Tell-Tale Heart. The narrators in the stories draw interesting similarities and differences that offer the premise for the development of this paper.

Similarities

In the Yellow Wallpaper, the narrator ...

The Yellow Paper was a short story authored by Charlotte Gilman in 1892. The story focused on the married life of a depressive housewife who also turned out to be the narrator. It was written in first person and so the main character’s thoughts and emotions can basically be interpreted as that of the author as well. What makes the story distinct from other short stories written in first person during that time is that it was written in a journal form (which makes its being written in first person more sensible). The protagonist’s husband was a ...

The Yellow Wallpaper is a short story that was written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and was first published in 1892. It is seen as a landmark piece in early feminist literature in the United States, describing attitudes towards women’s mental health in the late 19th century. In “The Yellow Wallpaper”, Charlotte Perkins Gilman uses strong imagery to convey feelings of repression and other feminist ideals that many women of her time may have felt then. In this story, Gilman is a master at the use of strong imagery to describe the feelings of repression that many women of ...

The Yellow Wallpaper is a story written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman as has played a central in understanding American feminist literature. The New England Magazine published the story for the first time in 1892. The Yellow Wallpaper describes the story of a depressed woman who is forbidden from working. Her husband, John, encourages her to eat and exercise well to avoid getting into this condition of depression (Trinastic 1). On the other hand, The Tell-Tale Heart was written by Edgar Allan Poe. The story was published for the first time in 1843. In this story, the narrator describes to ...

The differences in societal and cultural expectations between men and women are often vast and complicated, and change greatly over time. Literature is a fantastic avenue by which to explore these issues, and the effects they have on women in particular (as women have historically enjoyed fewer rights and agency than men). Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” and Charles Burns’ graphic novel Black Hole, while telling different stories, both have significant things to say regarding how girls and women are socialized into conforming to certain social norms that may not be in their best interests, ...

“The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin

In Kate Chopin’s short story “The Story of an Hour” the author paints a rather effective picture of heartbreak. However, rather than showing the devastation of Louise Mallard’s devastation upon hearing news of her husband’s accidental death in the train wreck, Chopin takes an unexpected turn. As the reader experiences Louise’s shock at the news of her husband’s death one is led to believe that she is overwhelmed with shock and unable to comprehend the tragedy of becoming a widow. Instead, as the final scene in the story unfolds the reader is made aware ...

“The Yellow Wallpaper” is the most renown short story of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935). It starts as a spine-chilling probably-horror-story that then becomes even more terrifying when we realize what extremes human mind can reach when put in inadequate conditions, even without any supernatural elements to interfere. We’ve learned from Charlotte Perkins’ article “Why I Wrote ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’” that there was a lot of speculation held about the motives behind this short story, so she decided to shed some light on it. Though it may seem that the author described the fall into madness so vividly and ...

In order to understand the significance of the houses in the novels ‘The Destructors’ and the ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’, the context of both novels must be understood in-depth. The story of The Destructors, for example, deals with a number of allegories pertaining to the post independent Sri Lankan state. The house in the novel plays a major symbolism in defining the symbol of the Sri Lankan state. The author brilliantly used personification in order to make the house in the story as a character of its own this is seen when Blackie was approaching the day of destruction and the house was ...

In a world obsessed with so much technology, it is fairly easy to get sucked into electronic devices, social media and virtual networking. This has not only affected our interpersonal relationships, but our relationship with the written word as well. There are many people that could not even tell you the last time that they picked up a book. It seems as though in our busyness and with our hectic lifestyles that we have lost a certain level of companionship and intimacy that we once had with one another and with the world. Literature and/or reading, has always had the ability to ...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman died in 1935 having enjoyed her fame for her journalistic an political writings as she notoriously featured in the limelight for her unconventional political life. During her days, Charlotte Perkins Gilman was popular as an intellectual feminist and a crusading journalist. Her primary focus in her writings was the inequality and social justice in general. Her major focus, however, was the unequal treatment of the women in her society within the institution of marriage: she refused to accept the assertion that all a woman was capable of doing in her life is her allotted role as a mother, a domestic ...

Compare and/or contrast "A Rose for Emily" and "The Yellow Wallpaper" and make an argument about the relationship between physical confinement and psychological confinement. Perhaps, William Faulkner’s short story A Rose for Emily most appropriately documents the symbol of physical confinement and mental confinement. A Rose for Emily is a short story about an old lady who goes with the name Emily dueling in the town of Jefferson, a fictional location in the Southern United States. The story is heavily influenced with the typical Faulkner’s style of “streaming consciousness.” The story has a deep and coherent ...

Write an essay on how individuals learn to forgive themselves. Do some research into this topic. Then write about how one might apply these concepts of forgiveness to social and political disagreements and confrontations."

Life is nothing less than a journey along an unknown path. A person can never know what lies ahead in the path of life. An individual grows up so that he or she can live happily in accordance with the society and state. A person learns to live in the domain of the society that has many institutions like politics and community. Every experience of life ...

Edgar Allen Poe's short story "The Raven" is one of literature's most well-known stories, depicting the slow deterioration of the protagonist's mental state at the hands of a talking raven. Mourning over the loss of his lady love, his depression grows more gradually into madness, as the persistent isolation and the repetition of the raven's call "Nevermore" distress him even further. There are many similarities to this story and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper,” in which a timid housewife is prescribed a rest cure by her physician husband, involving her ...

Using Formatting to Portray Mental Illness in The Yellow Wallpaper

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman takes the reader through the first-hand experiences of the narrator's bed rest following the birth of a child. Gilman uses a variety of methods to convey the mental anguish the narrator is experiencing and one of these methods is the use of shorter paragraphs. By utilizing this format, the reader develops a great sense for the racing thoughts the narrator is experiencing as she is left alone in her room for an extended period of time. The fragmented thoughts provide a sense of urgency and unrest that may otherwise be more difficult for the reader to ...

Subordination of Married Women

The pervasive theme in the narrative The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is women subordination. The narrative provides a critical analysis of the place of married women in society during the late 19th century. In the course of the narrative the author provides various roles of women in society. These feminine roles reiterate the depict males as the dominant gender. For instance, the narrative shows the role of women as house keepers, children bearers, and incapable of making their own choices. The narrative shows that the women are under the control of men and the narrator’s fate is ...

Gothic literature is often defined by a combination of romanticism and the macabre; conflating the feelings of darkness, isolation and ostentatiousness are part and parcel of what makes that genre so compelling. Female Gothic stories focus those elements particularly on the plight of women, who suffered through an especially systemic submission and oppression during the 18th and 19th centuries. Women in Female Gothic stories are often isolated, set apart from other people, and constantly have their desires, needs and fears downplayed or dismissed by their male counterparts. This leads to a tremendous level of anxiety and tension within them, as a direct ...

English

The Yellow Wallpaper is a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman which first appeared in the 1892 edition of the New England Magazine. The story narrates the perils of an anonymous women who is confined by her doctor husband. The tale narrates the manner in which the main protagonist becomes obsessed by the yellow wallpaper in her room during her period of confinement by her patriarchal husband. Gilman’s short tale intricately describes the oppression of women living in a patriarchal society. The main theme being feminist in nature, the short story has inspired several linguistic analysis. Despite the fact that ...

The issues of gender discrimination are witnessed across different cultures, and especially those that are still coming to age. The gender issues represent some of the feminist issues that emanate from the discrimination of women. Such issues include the hindrance of women from exploring the world, discrimination on expression of their sexualities and barring women from social interactions. Many authors talk about these feminist issues with the use of literary devices that tend to showcase their magnitude. The confab below purposes at emphasizing how different authors have used the literary device of metaphors in elucidating the issues of gender ...

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Discussion Of Oppressed Female Issues & Solutions

The following paper is based on the short story “ The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman that depicts the life of a normal couple and is narrated by an oppressed wife who accepts every decision made by her husband or other male family members but with despair. This paper will briefly discuss the concept of being submissive among women as characterized in the story and then discuss the issues behind this feeling in real life. The paper will also discuss some techniques to help such women get over their oppression.

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The domination of men as the superior gender is evident in Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” and Ibsen’s “A Doll's House.” As depictions of the existing societal norms around which the authors write their work, the different perceptions of the sexes emerge. Each plot concentrates on its female lead character, thus, informing readers about the effects of their husbands’ dominance. The authors approach the issue from different angles and in turn, provide diverse perceptions of the roles of men and women in their homes. Consequently, this paper seeks to provide evidence of male bigotry in the two novels ...

Alcott's Little Women and Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" seem to express very different attitudes toward the expected role of women in the 19th century. Analyze what you think are the main differences and similarities. Nineteenth-century heroines in the literature realm were characterized by different and exact social desires, including conduct and qualities. Female leads exemplified the desires of society and were flawless illustrations of the perfect women. In Gilman's, The Yellow Wallpaper and Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, the customary perspective of ladies is smashed and always supplanted by desires closer to those of the current period ...

Final Research Paper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman and “The Yellow Wallpaper”

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” follows a traumatized, submissive housewife who is taken to a summer home in the country by her physician husband, and given a rest cure for undisclosed reasons. This involves her being effectively locked up in a bedroom for days and weeks on end, being instructed to do nothing and go nowhere for an extended period of time. As time passes, she begins to slip into insanity, as she imagines figures in the yellow wallpaper of the bedroom – eventually turning on her husband and the rest cure that she has been prescribed. Charlotte Perkins ...

The book the yellow paper is about a woman and her husband John, who rented a house in a secluded estate. The writer describes the house, and I quote, as a big and airy room, with the whole floor nearly done, windows looking all ways, and serene air and sunshine galore. It was meant to be a nursery first and then playroom and finally a gymnasium. The narrator suffers from a temporary nervous depression as believed by her husband. He orders for her rest as much as possible and allocates a room for the two of them. The narrator feels completely uncomfortable with the idea but since ...

Out of all the professions that individuals pursue, the medical profession is one of the most mind intensive. Professionals in this field usually have to undergo intensive session of training for a long time. This is because human health is a very sensitive issue that requires those charged with the responsibility of maintaining it to be competent and efficient. Because of the sensitivity of human health, the professional in this field are viewed as very powerful. In some situations, the health and wellbeing of a person is placed in the hands of a medical professional, and if the medical professional does not do ...

The short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman was first published in 1892. The story shows a woman brought to an “ancestral house” by her husband who is a physician, due to her nervous condition. She is convinced she is sick, but her husband doesn’t believe it is anything significant, instead explaining it as all in her head. Her husband insists she does nothing but rest, leaving her alone in a large upstairs room, which was once a nursery, while he is gone often overnight. She becomes seemingly obsessed with the wallpaper, and while at the beginning simply complains ...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's penned "The Yellow Wall-paper" at a time of immense changes in the early- to mid-nineteenth century society. A woman’s position remained in the privacy of her home as she carries out her stipulated role as mother and wife. In contrast, men ruled the world of politics, work, and economics. Nevertheless, the middle of the century brought changes that impacted positively on mental health. Many feminist groups embraced the changes in the concept of the “the New Woman.” Psychologist Patrice Engle writes, “despite mounting evidence of the impact of maternal mental health on women and children, prevention ...

The biography of Marjane Satrapi is the focus of this paper. The author’s biography shades light on the lives of Islamic women governed by their religious and cultural norms and the role of the men in the same. Satrapi’s work depicts the life of a Muslim woman and the expectations the society has with regard to the female gender. Gender inequality is an important matter as it inhibits people of a certain gender from basic rights, thus subjecting them to a prejudiced life. Inequality that favors the men affects the society at different levels because the aforementioned restrictions hinder personal ...

A Look at Antiquated Gender Roles

INTRODUCTION What is crazy? Mentally disturbed? What makes someone’s behavior unstable and makes them a threat? Today we have a much clearer understanding of the nature of people’s psychology, mental illness, and diseases. However, throughout the past people have been branded as insane, unstable, a threat, and locked away for issues that are not motivate by insanity. The mentally and physically disabled have often been mistaken for the mentally ill and placed in confinement. It was, also, not uncommon to see women committed to sanitariums for the “emotional outbursts” and disagreeable dispositions. None, of these were sign of true ...

In Amy Tan’s “Rules of the Game” and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” both characters inhabit worlds created within their minds. This leads to the isolation between them and the rest of the world. There are marked differences and similarities between the natures of their mentally imposed isolation. Both Gilman’s narrator and Waverly are responding to the setting in which they are forced to live. Westerly must endure her parent’s difficult marriage, and Gilman’s narrator must deal with being a woman without the autonomy in a male dominated domestic life. Gilman’s narrator ...

The plight of women in destructive, toxic marriages is an interesting one in fiction; literature has a way of illustrating the fundamental inequalities that exist in overbearing relationships between men and women, especially when society favors one gender over the other in terms of privilege. In Zora Neale Hurston’s short story “Sweat” and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s story “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the women in these relationships are beset upon by harrowing forces of domination and victimization. Their husbands abuse them in either overt or subtle ways; Delia in “Sweat” is regularly beaten by her husband, while the unnamed narrator ...

Literature

What is the underlying meaning of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”? I feel a strong desire to know more of what Gilman’s message was. I don’t see the strong connection between Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” and post-partum. It is only because I was informed of the post-partum underlying information that I was able to make the connection. I find this story fascinating because this story comes into my life when I find myself being 6 months pregnant with my first child. When we read this class, I was taking birthing and parenting classes in which we ...

The Yellow Wall-paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The short narrative has over the years been hailed as the one of the most significant early feminist literatures. The narrative illustrates the attitudes that existed throughout the 19th century regarding the physical and the mental health of women. The story is presented in a first person and is written by a woman who is confined by her husband (John) in an upstairs bedroom that the latter has rented for the duration of the summer. John restricts the author to work, which includes reading and writing. As such, the author has to hide the journal from John, as is certain that ...

There exist commonalities in the contexts of charlottes Perkins Gilman’s the yellow wallpaper and WEB du bois’ exist in terms of the concept of each article. They articles in additions on how they cover topics show some relations and the comprehension of the articles for example the issues of gender, inequalities among other themes that touch the society. The issue of class differentiation is depicted in the charlotte Perkins Gilman. The prominent women that existed during such time carried the theme of class differentiation for example the upper class women and these who did not have any ...

It’s very clear that the narrator of this story who husband by the name John is a physician, is facing a lot of difficulties within her institution of marriage. Her husband has decided to confine her in to the upstairs bedroom of the house he has rented for the summer season. she is forbidden from working or any other task for that matter to an extent that she even have to now hide her journal as she is writing. Despite the fact that she feel write when she writes and feel; it may be beneficial, she does not utter a word. ...

Compare and Contrast “Sonny’s Blues” and “The Yellow Wallpaper”

A lot of stories in literature is about coming to terms with or dealing with the interior world as it places out in the outer world. It has been mused that every person is a world onto himself or herself, and sometimes the rich inner life within the self is in direction competition with the world around them. This concept plays out in two very different stories in unique ways. James Baldwin’s story, “Sonny’s Blues” explores this world of communication of the self to the world through music and drugs and presents image of jazz culture in New ...

This classic story which was first published in 1892 is typical of Charlotte Gilman who describes a young woman’s descent into neurosis and psychosis with alarming reality and stark detail. Principally, the story focuses on the girl’s fixation with her surroundings which intermingle with the declining effect on her health. This is all brought about by her husband’s wicked decision to confine her to a room in solitary presence where she is forbidden to undertake any sort of mental activity, this may include literary or other similar pursuits and this type of situation literally drives her mad. This ...

I have chosen to examine four short stories whose characters are people with physical markings or mental disorders. People who have these traits are unusual and regarded as odd by "normal" people. Usually, they develop some mental powers and become able to achieve much more than people who have neither physical nor mental problems. Maybe these "marked" people achieve success because they believe in themselves, whereas, "normal", healthy people tend to be paradoxically more self-conscious which hold them back. However, they are always there to judge the challenged ones. The stories that were particularly interesting to me are: Roman ...

Introduction

‘The yellow wallpaper’ is a famous short story written by American writer charlotte Perkins Gilman. The story is considered as a landmark in American feminist literature and the same was published in a magazine in the year, 1892. Writing such feminist story was a brave step and this was very innovative for any contemporary writer. This paper intends to discuss ‘The yellow wallpaper’ with a special perspective to examine feminism along with discussing several other related aspects of the story.

Discussion

The yellow wallpaper is the story of a woman who is also the narrator of this story. This woman belongs to upper middle class society ...

The Yellow Paper is a symbolic story written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It is a disheartening tale of a woman struggling to free herself from postpartum depression. This story gives an account of an emotionally and intellectual deteriorated woman who is a wife and a mother who is struggling to break free from her mental prison and find peace. The postpartum depression forced her to look for a neurologist doctor who gives a rest cure. The woman lived in a male dominated society and wanted indictment from it as she had been driven crazy by as a result of the Victorian “rest-cure.” Her husband made sure that she ...

Literature has always had various functions depending on the time when it was written, but it has always had a peculiar feature of diverse meaning and subsequent messages the author would be able to send to the target audience. In this context, literature serves as a means of communication with potential triggering of certain ideas and even actions. In terms of feminist discourse, literature is viewed as means of expressing one's experience and also triggering diverse and often unpredictable and unexpected interpretive experiences of the target audience. One of the best examples of an interpretive literature is a short story "The Yellow ...

Old, empty mansions evoke feelings of loneliness, isolation and even fear. What used to be happy homes for a large number of people have become empty nests. They fearsome or “haunted” as they are dream homes at the same time. They are thus frequent settings for gothic tales and horror movies. Such old houses were the settings of two short stories: A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner and The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The two short stories are about two women who degenerated into complete breakdown while living isolated in huge, dream mansions. In A ...

The story of the Yellow Wallpaper is a description of women’s miserable life and the power of men over them back in the 18th century. Written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, this short story represents the primary issue of male superiority and cruelty over women. The main character who was not identified, was a woman who suffered from postpartum depression. She was not given proper recognition which only proved that women during those times were regarded with hostility in the society. She narrated the story about her tragic experience in the hands of her husband who for many years confined her ...

During the time when the careers of writers like Edith Wharton and Charlotte Perkins Gilman were flourishing, unemployment had also been growing and the working-class was getting larger and larger. Thus, the works of both Wharton and Charlotte often featured working-class characters. However, the question is: To what extent was their depiction of the working-class American society in their respective works and how were they different? In her works, Edith Wharton tends to purposely make the lifestyles of the American working classes seem like a fixation so that social inequality is seen as natural and normal. Apparently, she has ...