Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Rest Cure Analysis
Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Rest Cure.
"The Yellow Wallpaper" and Its Autobiographical Background.
Contents 1. Introduction 3 2. Charlotte Perkins Gilman 's Biographical Background 4 2.1 General Information 4 2.2 Gilman and the Rest Cure 5 3. The Rest Cure 5 4. Parallels between Charlotte Perkins Gilman 's Experiences and Her Short Story "The Yellow Wallpaper" 6 4.1 Comparison of Fictional Characters with Authentic Persons 6 4.1.1 The Narrator Compared with Charlotte Perkins Gilman 6 4.2.2 John Compared with S. Weir Mitchell 7 4.2 Images and Stylistic Means Used to Emphasize the Author 's Intention 8 4.2.1 The Function of Madness 9 4.2.2 The Wallpaper 9 4.3.3 The Final Scene 11 5. Conclusion 12 6. Bibliography 14 1. Introduction Literature, an art of expressing …show more content…
After school she studied at the Rhode Island School of Design but she did not graduate. At the age of 24 she married Charles Walter Stetson and one year later her daughter Katharine Beecher Stetson was born. Subsequently she fell into a depressive constitution and therefore decided to undergo a Rest Cure of the nerve specialist Silas Weir Mitchell. After this dubious experience, whose course and impact will be presented in the following two paragraphs, and the separation from her husband she picked up her career as an author with the satiric poem "Similar Cases" and her masterpiece "The Yellow Wallpaper". She wrote several books and was very active in social and feminist congresses as well as in economic issues ("Women and Economics", 1897). In 1900, one year after her father died of a nervous collapse, she got married with Houghton Gilman. She wrote a few utopian works serialized in the magazine Forerunner whose editor she was for seven years. In 1932, breast cancer was diagnosed to her and three years later Charlotte Perkins Gilman committed suicide
"The Yellow Wallpaper" and Its Autobiographical Background.
Contents 1. Introduction 3 2. Charlotte Perkins Gilman 's Biographical Background 4 2.1 General Information 4 2.2 Gilman and the Rest Cure 5 3. The Rest Cure 5 4. Parallels between Charlotte Perkins Gilman 's Experiences and Her Short Story "The Yellow Wallpaper" 6 4.1 Comparison of Fictional Characters with Authentic Persons 6 4.1.1 The Narrator Compared with Charlotte Perkins Gilman 6 4.2.2 John Compared with S. Weir Mitchell 7 4.2 Images and Stylistic Means Used to Emphasize the Author 's Intention 8 4.2.1 The Function of Madness 9 4.2.2 The Wallpaper 9 4.3.3 The Final Scene 11 5. Conclusion 12 6. Bibliography 14 1. Introduction Literature, an art of expressing …show more content…
After school she studied at the Rhode Island School of Design but she did not graduate. At the age of 24 she married Charles Walter Stetson and one year later her daughter Katharine Beecher Stetson was born. Subsequently she fell into a depressive constitution and therefore decided to undergo a Rest Cure of the nerve specialist Silas Weir Mitchell. After this dubious experience, whose course and impact will be presented in the following two paragraphs, and the separation from her husband she picked up her career as an author with the satiric poem "Similar Cases" and her masterpiece "The Yellow Wallpaper". She wrote several books and was very active in social and feminist congresses as well as in economic issues ("Women and Economics", 1897). In 1900, one year after her father died of a nervous collapse, she got married with Houghton Gilman. She wrote a few utopian works serialized in the magazine Forerunner whose editor she was for seven years. In 1932, breast cancer was diagnosed to her and three years later Charlotte Perkins Gilman committed suicide