Research Essay
In the story “The Yellow Wallpaper” the main character is isolated by her husband due to her illness of postpartum depression. Society should be against Isolation or Alienation because social interaction is important and loneliness can create stress and take a toll on one’s physical and emotional health. The character in the story displayed signs of an illness and also begins having illusions that were imagined due to her isolation. Although, to some, Isolation or Alienation does not seem to play such a large effect, but what are some of the negative effects of isolation?
According to the article The Dangers of Social Isolation by Traci Watson; Social isolation is an objective condition in which people have little interaction …show more content…
And I’ve pulled off most of the paper, so you can’t put me back!” (319). The name Jane had not been mentioned in the story up until this point. Throughout the entire story the speaker is giving her side of the story so we never hear her name. This leaves us to assume that Jane is the narrator, and that the person speaking now is the imaginary woman; which is also Jane. It seems like they have switched places and the woman behind the wallpaper has become Jane’s new identity. Towards the end of the story the main character stats, “I don’t like to look out of the windows even – there are so many of those creeping women, and they creep so fast. I wonder if they come out of that wallpaper as I did” (319), this proves she has changed places with the woman in the wallpaper. In her new mind, she is able to see the world in a different way and she now sees more than one woman. She is obviously no longer herself at this point. In her imaginary world, she starts to worry if “I shall have to get back behind the pattern when it comes night” this relates back to her thoughts that the woman sneaks around during the day but is stuck behind the bars again at night (319). When she pulls off the wallpaper she feels a sense of being free because they won’t be able to put her back into the
In the story “The Yellow Wallpaper” the main character is isolated by her husband due to her illness of postpartum depression. Society should be against Isolation or Alienation because social interaction is important and loneliness can create stress and take a toll on one’s physical and emotional health. The character in the story displayed signs of an illness and also begins having illusions that were imagined due to her isolation. Although, to some, Isolation or Alienation does not seem to play such a large effect, but what are some of the negative effects of isolation?
According to the article The Dangers of Social Isolation by Traci Watson; Social isolation is an objective condition in which people have little interaction …show more content…
And I’ve pulled off most of the paper, so you can’t put me back!” (319). The name Jane had not been mentioned in the story up until this point. Throughout the entire story the speaker is giving her side of the story so we never hear her name. This leaves us to assume that Jane is the narrator, and that the person speaking now is the imaginary woman; which is also Jane. It seems like they have switched places and the woman behind the wallpaper has become Jane’s new identity. Towards the end of the story the main character stats, “I don’t like to look out of the windows even – there are so many of those creeping women, and they creep so fast. I wonder if they come out of that wallpaper as I did” (319), this proves she has changed places with the woman in the wallpaper. In her new mind, she is able to see the world in a different way and she now sees more than one woman. She is obviously no longer herself at this point. In her imaginary world, she starts to worry if “I shall have to get back behind the pattern when it comes night” this relates back to her thoughts that the woman sneaks around during the day but is stuck behind the bars again at night (319). When she pulls off the wallpaper she feels a sense of being free because they won’t be able to put her back into the