Causes Of Madness In The Yellow Wallpaper

Madness is state of mind that always raises many questions. These questions can lead to the root cause of the problem. In real life and in stories, the causes of madness could vary and be broad. However, there is always a turning point that makes one lose control of consciousness and sense of reality. For instance, “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is more than just a story about a mad woman. It unveils many symptoms of madness that can be traced down to the root cause. Another example is The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, which tells the conflicts a man who restricted himself too much but ended up losing control over his life. In both cases, the protagonists of the story have some sort of madness, yet the causes of it seem to be somewhat related. Their inability to live utterly drove them into dementia. Additionally, their fertile minds gave them the necessary tools to break out of reality. The story of Jane in “The Yellow Wallpaper” feels scarier and more insightful because unlike Jekyll 's kind of madness, hers is very likely to happen in real life.
In Jane 's story, there is a depiction of a real life situation and we can imagine the very distress she went …show more content…
As of now, science haven 't found a way to separate a body into two, each one with different personalities. This makes the story less convincing. In fact, I believe that the author used (very effectively) the two bodies analogy to explain it better how a double personality can affect someone 's life. That is, Jekyll and Hyde were all the time the same person in the same body, but every time he drunk the potion he 'd perceive the world differently, making it so much more sense to describe it as another person. Having that this isn 't like daily life situations, it makes the story less probable of happening in real life; thus it makes Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde less