Victorian Rest Cure Research Paper

The Victorian rest cure, an (identification of a disease or problem, or its cause) explain in detail to upper class, white, Victorian women who were believed to be suffering from "panic/very strong emotion", or "(serious physical or emotional harm) related to an unsuccessful role (change to make better/related to changing something)" tried to put in them a "childlike submission to masculine authority" (Ammons 35). Charlotte Perkins Gilman, herself a victim of the Victorian rest cure, uses within "The Yellow Wallpaper" her own experiences to show an example of the violence of (accomplishing or gaining with effort) the Victorian ideal of (the qualities that make a woman) and the sacrifices necessary for a woman to promise her right to (deciding …show more content…
The foundation of this type of explanation (of why something works or happens the way it does) involves sacrificing all independent thinking and will and becoming only factories of reproduction. Charlotte Perkins Gilman fights against this explanation (of why something works or happens the way it does) and the science that gives a good reason for the actions of it by presenting a woman with no choice in what she does, what she thinks, and (appearing to be) what she feels and the effects that this (treatment of people like they were animals) can do. In order to promise/state as true her own authority and break free from this violent process the (person telling the story) must go mad. Mad in the sense of an (angrily fight against unfair authority) against reason (Victorian reason in this case) and mad in a sense of anger. She proves that all women facing the same situation as the (person telling the story) will submit to this madness "before they will submit to the lives of embarrassingly baby-like dependence prescribed as ideal by Victorian America" (Ammons