Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Anna Perkins Stetson Gilman was born on July 3, 1860, in Connecticut. She was best known for her work The Yellow Wall-paper. Charlotte was a feminist that encourage all women to have economic independence, a sociologist, novelist, short story and poetry writer and a social reform lecturer. In 1892, she published her work The Yellow Wall-paper. Gilman experiences depression and undergoes different kind of treatment whihce inspired her to write the short stories. Charlotte Perkins Gilman then committed suicide when she was diagnosed with breast cancer in the year 1935. The Yellow Wall-paper is a story that consists of different themes. An example of this is subjection of women in marriage.
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Though some people says that rest cure is far more worst than the disease. In the story, Gilman attacks the way on how they cure people with anxiety and show the ineffectiveness of this treatment. “The Yellow Wallpaper” is used to illustrate how the mind that has been tormented by anxiety and it began to prey itself. The story can be interpreted in various ways if we look at it as a medical personnel or someone that cures people with mental illnesses. We can say that the story is showing us how medical treatment became a burden to the patient. The story shows how the rest cure has been criticized by the author. If you were a feminist we can interpret the story on how the women should not be treated. This is in the form of allowing them to work outside the society not by just isolating them. The story of Charlotte gives us information on how females were treated back then, and why women were fighting for their …show more content…
Gilman believes that this will never cure the patient but it just make things worst. Ignoring the patients concerns and looking at it as a passive object for curing. The story shows that even if a person wanted to help, and if they are doing it in a wrong way they are not helping. When Mitchell’s name who is the developer of the rest cure treatment has been mentioned in the story of Gilman, he abandons and stops to use that method in curing people with anxieties, but this does not mean that the story only focuses on Mitchell’s method. The story wanted to emphasize that any form of medical treatment that ignores the concerns of the patient is wrong and should not be
Though some people says that rest cure is far more worst than the disease. In the story, Gilman attacks the way on how they cure people with anxiety and show the ineffectiveness of this treatment. “The Yellow Wallpaper” is used to illustrate how the mind that has been tormented by anxiety and it began to prey itself. The story can be interpreted in various ways if we look at it as a medical personnel or someone that cures people with mental illnesses. We can say that the story is showing us how medical treatment became a burden to the patient. The story shows how the rest cure has been criticized by the author. If you were a feminist we can interpret the story on how the women should not be treated. This is in the form of allowing them to work outside the society not by just isolating them. The story of Charlotte gives us information on how females were treated back then, and why women were fighting for their …show more content…
Gilman believes that this will never cure the patient but it just make things worst. Ignoring the patients concerns and looking at it as a passive object for curing. The story shows that even if a person wanted to help, and if they are doing it in a wrong way they are not helping. When Mitchell’s name who is the developer of the rest cure treatment has been mentioned in the story of Gilman, he abandons and stops to use that method in curing people with anxieties, but this does not mean that the story only focuses on Mitchell’s method. The story wanted to emphasize that any form of medical treatment that ignores the concerns of the patient is wrong and should not be