A Feminist Analysis Of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" – A Feminist Analysis
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper is a psychosomatic survey of her condition written by a nervous, paternalistically-suppressed young woman, during a three-month period of her treatment of neurasthenia. It is a document of the contemplations of her external environment and the physiological variations occurring within her, a sketch of the function of her mind-frame, within a tensed and depressed brain, when her system of thought is limited to the scope of settings provided by people other than herself. Charlotte was suffering from psychological disease neurasthenia, characterized by nervousness and mental tension, when a well-known physician, Silas Weir Mitchell, advised her a mind-rest cure. This meant that the doctor wanted Charlotte to give a rest to her disturbed mind, aimed at refreshing her brain. The young lady, being creative and have an artistic mind-set, however, found the …show more content…
These self-propelled illusions were stimulated, to a large extent, by the literary foundation on which her brain was working, mixed by anxiety and suppression of ideas. Charlotte liked to imagine things and one might be able to do restrict the mode of communication of one’s perceptions but they are not able to prevent the expressions that speak out one way or the other. Instead of easing the nervousness and anxiety that had caused the problem, the scheme of treatment enforced on Charlotte clashed with her personality. She was more of an independent sort of a person where the idea of concealing one’s worries under the pretext of easing mental stress deceives natural evolution of ideas. The consequence, as we see in this account, is a severe alteration of the mental disorder, marked by disfiguration in metamorphic sense of
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper is a psychosomatic survey of her condition written by a nervous, paternalistically-suppressed young woman, during a three-month period of her treatment of neurasthenia. It is a document of the contemplations of her external environment and the physiological variations occurring within her, a sketch of the function of her mind-frame, within a tensed and depressed brain, when her system of thought is limited to the scope of settings provided by people other than herself. Charlotte was suffering from psychological disease neurasthenia, characterized by nervousness and mental tension, when a well-known physician, Silas Weir Mitchell, advised her a mind-rest cure. This meant that the doctor wanted Charlotte to give a rest to her disturbed mind, aimed at refreshing her brain. The young lady, being creative and have an artistic mind-set, however, found the …show more content…
These self-propelled illusions were stimulated, to a large extent, by the literary foundation on which her brain was working, mixed by anxiety and suppression of ideas. Charlotte liked to imagine things and one might be able to do restrict the mode of communication of one’s perceptions but they are not able to prevent the expressions that speak out one way or the other. Instead of easing the nervousness and anxiety that had caused the problem, the scheme of treatment enforced on Charlotte clashed with her personality. She was more of an independent sort of a person where the idea of concealing one’s worries under the pretext of easing mental stress deceives natural evolution of ideas. The consequence, as we see in this account, is a severe alteration of the mental disorder, marked by disfiguration in metamorphic sense of