Repression And Mental Illness In The Yellow Wallpaper
Having a baby should be the happiest time of your life, not a deep, dark horror story where your husband is your doctor and thinks you are crazy. Being young with a boyfriend should also be a happy time in your life, and yes, dads should be protective but not to that extent. Repression and mental illness both play major roles in the stories and a little bit of symbolism.
The first main theme is about the repression of women in marriage. Long ago, women were tied to their husbands both financially, emotionally and sexually. Woman depended on their husbands for almost everything. The husband is responsible for the finances and the women would provide everything else in their life. The woman is meant to provide by taking care of the house, …show more content…
I feel like if I was in that position of the narrator in “The yellow Wallpaper” I would get a different doctor if I were in Emily’s position in “ A Rose for Emily” I would tell my dad to back away a little bit. If I was to go through what they went through I would be crazy too. Barbara says “Critics following Gilbert and Gubar's lead continue to interpret “The Yellow Wallpaper” primarily as a feminist manifesto.[ 3] Paula A. Treichler, for instance, reads the story as an indictment of the complex and unhealthy relationship between women and medical language. Conrad Schumacher argues that it demonstrates “what happens to the imagination when it is defined as feminine (and thus weak)” (590) in a patriarchal Victorian society that values only the practical. Similarly, evoking the Foucaultian perspective, John S. Bak sees the narrator as almost literally bound and gagged by what he calls the oppressive structures of “her male-imposed shackles, her Panopticon” (40). Bak shows the narrator in a sympathetic light, as a woman whose increasingly frantic attempts to escape the monitoring gaze of the panoptical wallpaper in fact represent a quite logical aversion
The first main theme is about the repression of women in marriage. Long ago, women were tied to their husbands both financially, emotionally and sexually. Woman depended on their husbands for almost everything. The husband is responsible for the finances and the women would provide everything else in their life. The woman is meant to provide by taking care of the house, …show more content…
I feel like if I was in that position of the narrator in “The yellow Wallpaper” I would get a different doctor if I were in Emily’s position in “ A Rose for Emily” I would tell my dad to back away a little bit. If I was to go through what they went through I would be crazy too. Barbara says “Critics following Gilbert and Gubar's lead continue to interpret “The Yellow Wallpaper” primarily as a feminist manifesto.[ 3] Paula A. Treichler, for instance, reads the story as an indictment of the complex and unhealthy relationship between women and medical language. Conrad Schumacher argues that it demonstrates “what happens to the imagination when it is defined as feminine (and thus weak)” (590) in a patriarchal Victorian society that values only the practical. Similarly, evoking the Foucaultian perspective, John S. Bak sees the narrator as almost literally bound and gagged by what he calls the oppressive structures of “her male-imposed shackles, her Panopticon” (40). Bak shows the narrator in a sympathetic light, as a woman whose increasingly frantic attempts to escape the monitoring gaze of the panoptical wallpaper in fact represent a quite logical aversion