The functionality of the human mind and how it processes information is quite fascinating. The "observation" of a mentally ill patient is mostly shown. However how often do readers get to examine the patients mind from their point of view? " I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity" (Edgar Poe). The tricky part is to see the steps a mental patient follows on their road to recovery or downfall . In " The Yellow Wallpaper" , Charlotte Perkins Gilman uses foreshadowing to illustrate the unraveling of the patients mind.
Denial is said to be the first step to recovery; Gilman foreshadows that the patients mind is getting worse but can not give in to it."...temporary nervous depression a slight hysterical tendency -what is one …show more content…
" ... He thought I was asleep first but I wasn 't...hours trying to decide...front pattern and the back pattern really did move together or separately"( par. 145). A new stage of the patients metal process is foreshadowed , the patient has found an out lit that intrigues her desire to fantasize . " So I will let it alone and talk about the house"(par. 15). Gilman foreshadowed the only thing that could make the patient feel good is focusing on the yellow wallpaper; Thus replacing the craving of something to look forward to from outside the house . " Life is very much more exciting now than it used to be...eat better...I am more quite..." ( par.165) . The patient starts to hint that the yellow wall paper has increased her well being and might be the cure / key to her freedom. " I had no intention on telling him it was because of the wallpaper...."(par. 170) . The patient foreshadows that she has found the apparent "cure" to her mental diagnosis . Therefore it is foreshadowed that the cure to her metal illness is not being inactive, but rather uncovering what 's behind the yellow wallpaper; in order to stabilize her increasing feeling of entrapment from the truth . The patient kept trying to find what it was as if , there was something or someone behind it, that connected her to the horrifying yellow wall …show more content…
" it is getting to be a great effort for me to think straight"( par.115). The patient nudges at the possibility of not being able guide her mind astray away from her fantasies for much longer. "... but now I am quite sure it is a woman" ( par. 155). Finally Gilman has blatantly foreshadowed the woman behind the yellow wallpaper is the same very woman watching it. " ...new shoots on the fungus and new shades of yellow all over...the smell!" ( par. 175). Gilman has now bestowed upon the reader with hints that the patients mind is falling to its demise. "... that pattern- It strangles so ; I think that is why it has so many heads"( par.195). The patient foreshadows her illness is not due to a temporary nervous depression but rather instead due to her dissociative identity disorder. The patient exemplifies the appropriate side effects : sleep disorder, lack of nutrition, visually hallucinogenic,and mood swings. " If that woman does get out...I can tie her!" (par. 240). The patient foreshadows that she shouldn 't let her other alter out because consequently she only wishes to share the her secret discovery of the other woman with John. Why ? Gilman proved through foreshadowing that her treatment affected her negatively compared to what her husband declared the to be best form of treatment . " I 've got out at last ...I 've
Denial is said to be the first step to recovery; Gilman foreshadows that the patients mind is getting worse but can not give in to it."...temporary nervous depression a slight hysterical tendency -what is one …show more content…
" ... He thought I was asleep first but I wasn 't...hours trying to decide...front pattern and the back pattern really did move together or separately"( par. 145). A new stage of the patients metal process is foreshadowed , the patient has found an out lit that intrigues her desire to fantasize . " So I will let it alone and talk about the house"(par. 15). Gilman foreshadowed the only thing that could make the patient feel good is focusing on the yellow wallpaper; Thus replacing the craving of something to look forward to from outside the house . " Life is very much more exciting now than it used to be...eat better...I am more quite..." ( par.165) . The patient starts to hint that the yellow wall paper has increased her well being and might be the cure / key to her freedom. " I had no intention on telling him it was because of the wallpaper...."(par. 170) . The patient foreshadows that she has found the apparent "cure" to her mental diagnosis . Therefore it is foreshadowed that the cure to her metal illness is not being inactive, but rather uncovering what 's behind the yellow wallpaper; in order to stabilize her increasing feeling of entrapment from the truth . The patient kept trying to find what it was as if , there was something or someone behind it, that connected her to the horrifying yellow wall …show more content…
" it is getting to be a great effort for me to think straight"( par.115). The patient nudges at the possibility of not being able guide her mind astray away from her fantasies for much longer. "... but now I am quite sure it is a woman" ( par. 155). Finally Gilman has blatantly foreshadowed the woman behind the yellow wallpaper is the same very woman watching it. " ...new shoots on the fungus and new shades of yellow all over...the smell!" ( par. 175). Gilman has now bestowed upon the reader with hints that the patients mind is falling to its demise. "... that pattern- It strangles so ; I think that is why it has so many heads"( par.195). The patient foreshadows her illness is not due to a temporary nervous depression but rather instead due to her dissociative identity disorder. The patient exemplifies the appropriate side effects : sleep disorder, lack of nutrition, visually hallucinogenic,and mood swings. " If that woman does get out...I can tie her!" (par. 240). The patient foreshadows that she shouldn 't let her other alter out because consequently she only wishes to share the her secret discovery of the other woman with John. Why ? Gilman proved through foreshadowing that her treatment affected her negatively compared to what her husband declared the to be best form of treatment . " I 've got out at last ...I 've