Similarities Between The Yellow Wallpaper And Quadraturin

The most striking similarity between the stories of “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “Quadraturin” is the theme of control. In “The Yellow Wallpaper” it is in the form of a controlling husband deciding for his deranged infantilized wife, and in “Quadraturin” it is the oppressive force of communism. In this essay I wish to explore the parallels between the two stories and how control affects the mental sate and outcome of the protagonists.

In the yellow wallpaper John, the husband and physician of the narrator, embodies communism in such a way that he shapes and forms the way that his wife thinks making her believe that there is absolutely nothing wrong with her, creating doubt and uncertainty within the narrator. “You see, he does not believe I