"The Yellow Wallpaper" is considered a feminist piece of literature because it is written by a woman‚ and deals with the issue of male doctor’s treatment of women with possible mental illness; based on unscientific theories about what causes mental illness and the best treatments. The male medical hypothesis is that the lady in “The Yellow Wallpaper” is suffering from‚ “…-a slight hysterical tendency-…” (526) ‚ according to Gilman. This was a common diagnosis at the time and was a way to keep women
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To be a woman during the 19th century‚ one had to submit fully and wholeheartedly‚ for being a woman gave you an infinite and definite place in society the moment of conception. Women have been defined by not possessing the power to define themselves. For Charlotte Perkins Stetson‚ this was too overwhelmingly real. In the story The Yellow Wallpaper‚ Stetson displays the perspective of the plague it was to be a woman. Purposeless and fickle‚ the narrator in the tale is a woman married to a physician
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In the waiting room of the doctor’s office is where it all begins. Mrs. Turpin and her husband‚ Claud‚ arrive to treat an ulcer on Claud’s leg. As they arrive‚ they see that there is nowhere to sit‚ because a dirty child is taking up too much space on the sofa. Immediately‚ Mrs. Turpin starts a mindless conversation with the only woman in the room who she deems worthy based on appearance alone. However‚ the woman is the mother of an extremely unattractive‚ fat‚ teenage girl reading a book called
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By staring at‚ ‘[the] recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down‚”(pg. 649‚ Stetson) the protagonist‚ the narrator‚ from ‘The Yellow Wallpaper becomes insane. However in this case‚ the narrator’s insanity develops a form of emotional and mental liberation for herself. In order to cure her mental illness‚ the narrator is prescribed to the rest cure but her husband John. The prescription of the rest cure caused the narrator to change
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In “To Everything There Is a Season‚” Jeanie French explains how nothing can hold forever and how season is natural. She illustrated how we suffer when we perform against natural biological process to respond to the question of the modern life requirements‚ the connection of the scientific explanation of depression and the cause of Seasonal Affected Disorder (SAD). She further went and explains about‚ how women are four times more prone to SAD than men because of their reproductive system. In paragraph
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“Marigolds” written by Eugenia Collier is a story about a girl who realizes the end of her innocent childhood after a childish action. In The Scream by Edvard Munch‚ we see a man who seems scared and confused‚ the world around him seems undefined and confusing as well. In Kiseg’s painting Scared Girl‚ we see that she looks trapped and scared. All 3 of these pieces there is a common element: scared and confused. In “Marigolds”‚ the narrator‚ Lizabeth‚ is scared on page 319 where she says‚ “The fear
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The significance of the room and the foreboding mood implied by the language used to describe it‚ clearly points out isolation as the cause to instability. Jane‚ the mentally unstable narrator of the story‚ is forced to stay in a vacation home in order to get better or so her husband hopes. Jane hates the room she stays in and especially the wallpaper‚ being left alone by her husband she just stares at it‚ “The color is hideous enough‚ and unreliable enough‚ and infuriating enough‚ but the pattern
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“The Yellow Wallpaper”‚ written by Charlotte Perkins‚ tells a story of a woman who is oppressed through her marriage in the early 19th century. In this time period when a woman married‚ legally her husband owned everything she had. The protagonist represents the oppression and frustration that women went through in society. Perkins use of symbolism adds to the reality of the wife’s oppression that slowly progresses into insanity. The subordinate position the wife is in because of her overpowering
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“The paint and paper look as if a boy’s school had used it. It is stripped off – the paper – in great patches all around the head of my bed‚ about as far as I can reach‚ and in a great place on the other side of the room low down I never saw worse paper in my life.” (Gilman 1) I believe the wallpaper represents the narrator’s livelihood and health. Throughout the story the narrator speaks all about how much she hates the wallpaper and describes it in great detail. However‚ it progressively gets
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The short stories; ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ by Charlotte Gilman and ‘On Her Knees’ by Tim Winton both have Female Protagonists who both suffer. Jane‚ the main Protagonist in ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ Suffers from not only inner struggles but also external forces. In ‘On Her Knees’ Carol Lang‚ also comes across challenges and struggles in her life. The similarities in their struggles are plenty. They both have men controlling what they do‚ whether or not is intentional‚ they are both suffering from houses
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