Shahzadi Aimen
Descent into the Darkness
"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Gilman set in 1892 embodies the caprice of narrator about the existence and entity of the real world around her. The thin line between reality and fantasy is blurred as she descends into the deep abyss of the twisted realm of her mind. She becomes the victim of her own imaginations and fabrications by letting her artistry win over the truth. She becomes a victim by losing her touch with reality but by escaping reality she finds a type of freedom and comes out a survivor.
From the very beginning of the story, the narrator shows her disagreement about every decision that her husband makes but complies on it anyway. Although, she communicated with her husband …show more content…
In her journal, the narrator began with talking about the place, "the most beautiful place! It is quite alone, standing well back from the road, quite three miles from the village. It makes me think of English places that you read about, for there are hedges and walls and gates that lock, and lots of separate little houses for the gardeners and people" (Gilman 3). She saw beauty around her and kept trying not to give in to her imaginations in fear of disappointing her husband, but she started to break free of her husband 's control by letting herself fantasize.
As time passed, she got obsessed with the yellow wallpaper. The wallpaper was ugly and the worst paper the narrator saw in her life, and then the narrator got so fixated with it that she started seeing different patterns in it. The narrator didn’t have any control over life or her relationship. She was never asked for any opinion on anything. So, when she started writing about inhuman things, she finally felt in control of something. She started controlling her own perception, without realizing that she was losing touch with the
Descent into the Darkness
"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Gilman set in 1892 embodies the caprice of narrator about the existence and entity of the real world around her. The thin line between reality and fantasy is blurred as she descends into the deep abyss of the twisted realm of her mind. She becomes the victim of her own imaginations and fabrications by letting her artistry win over the truth. She becomes a victim by losing her touch with reality but by escaping reality she finds a type of freedom and comes out a survivor.
From the very beginning of the story, the narrator shows her disagreement about every decision that her husband makes but complies on it anyway. Although, she communicated with her husband …show more content…
In her journal, the narrator began with talking about the place, "the most beautiful place! It is quite alone, standing well back from the road, quite three miles from the village. It makes me think of English places that you read about, for there are hedges and walls and gates that lock, and lots of separate little houses for the gardeners and people" (Gilman 3). She saw beauty around her and kept trying not to give in to her imaginations in fear of disappointing her husband, but she started to break free of her husband 's control by letting herself fantasize.
As time passed, she got obsessed with the yellow wallpaper. The wallpaper was ugly and the worst paper the narrator saw in her life, and then the narrator got so fixated with it that she started seeing different patterns in it. The narrator didn’t have any control over life or her relationship. She was never asked for any opinion on anything. So, when she started writing about inhuman things, she finally felt in control of something. She started controlling her own perception, without realizing that she was losing touch with the