The Yellow Wallpaper: The Cause Of Insanity

When someone uses the word “insanity,” the human mind may potentially go many in many different directions when defining it. One person may claim that the definition is “doing something over and over again and expecting a different result,” however, many other people believe in using the words “crazy” or “mad” to associate with insanity. Insanity is many things, but overall, it is something that affects the human body and mind in horrid, terrifying ways over a period of time. What causes insanity? The main cause among mental instability and other causes, is isolation. Isolation can cause horrifying changes to the human body and mind and can cause a mediocre human being to go dashing into the embrace of insanity. Many people believe that
Take the narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper” for example. She suffered already from postpartum depression, and being left alone drove her into a state of mind that she needed someone there to be with her. Her husband left her alone every day for work even after she begged him to stay. She decided while he was out that she would write in a journal about the things she experienced throughout the day and previous night. The first night she was at the house, confined in a room with strange yellow wallpaper, she saw what seemed to be like a woman trapped within the wallpaper. As the days went on, she kept seeing the same woman, every night, and she always seemed trapped within the wallpaper. One day, the narrator decided to rip the wallpaper down and free her friend from the confinement of the wallpaper, but did not realize that the woman was not real. Her mind slipped out of her hands and insanity swallowed it whole, all because she was left alone every day, confined to a house with no one in it. Isolation and insanity are linked together and not only affect the mind, but the body as well. Isolation is very disastrous and unhealthy to a human being. Even though doctors and other people whom others think are well educated on