The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins is about a young women who becomes mentally unstable after she has a baby. Her husband who she says is also a doctor, brings her to a room to rest where the walls are covered in yellow wallpaper. The women is annoyed by the wall paper and throughout the whole story you see her mental state collapse before her eyes. Charlotte Perkins was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1860. Charlotte wrote the short story The Yellow Wallpaper it was said during her breakdown and rest treatment, making this story more personal to her. In this paper I will talk about the symbolism, theme and the characters of The Yellow Wallpaper. Symbolisms
In The Yellow Wallpaper there are many symbols that are used. One of the biggest symbols would be the actual yellow wallpaper itself. In the story the women who we believe to be called Jane is put into a room to rest after having her baby. She starts off with post-partum and then begins to have a mental …show more content…
It is said that
“The Yellow Wallpaper”, though written earlier than The Awakening, represents even more violently the doubleness of female modernism; it moves further from nineteenth-century realist convention toward a Kafkaesque, proto-Surrealist formal stylization that deploys the great power of dream structure to enact self-contradiction.” (Macrides)
Feminism plays a big part in The Yellow Wallpaper. Jane is taken to that room by her husband John because he thinks he is going to make here better. One theory of the story is Jane is locked in a child room since she mentions a nursey downstairs. It is said John thinks Jane has a brain like a child and repressive her for writing and doing what she wants. He always thought her mental health was not fully available so he made her decisions and basically didn’t allow her to do what she wanted because her mind never matched up to his. Next I will talk about the characters and how each one affected one
In The Yellow Wallpaper there are many symbols that are used. One of the biggest symbols would be the actual yellow wallpaper itself. In the story the women who we believe to be called Jane is put into a room to rest after having her baby. She starts off with post-partum and then begins to have a mental …show more content…
It is said that
“The Yellow Wallpaper”, though written earlier than The Awakening, represents even more violently the doubleness of female modernism; it moves further from nineteenth-century realist convention toward a Kafkaesque, proto-Surrealist formal stylization that deploys the great power of dream structure to enact self-contradiction.” (Macrides)
Feminism plays a big part in The Yellow Wallpaper. Jane is taken to that room by her husband John because he thinks he is going to make here better. One theory of the story is Jane is locked in a child room since she mentions a nursey downstairs. It is said John thinks Jane has a brain like a child and repressive her for writing and doing what she wants. He always thought her mental health was not fully available so he made her decisions and basically didn’t allow her to do what she wanted because her mind never matched up to his. Next I will talk about the characters and how each one affected one