What Is The Theme Of Hysteria In The Yellow Wallpaper

The power of knowledge gives any intellectual being the higher authority to be relied on for those seeking help. Professor Charcot dropped knowledge on Dr. Freud and Dr. Breuer who’ve acquired enough knowledge to study hysteria. However, the study leaves many unanswered questions to scholars who feel enigmatic about the cure of hysteria. Freud’s criticism of doctors portray the significance of undetermined cure’s and seeking knowledge of hysteria from “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins The narrator of “The Yellow Wallpaper” known as Jane suffers from hysteria, her husband John who’s a physician rents a colonial mansion for a three months time period for Jane to recover. In the room of Jane and John a disturbing gruesome yellow wallpaper is faded and stripped, the images of the wallpaper enthrall Jane during the day and night as it appears to change. “...Constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide-plunges off at outrageous angles..”, an outrageous description of Jane’s curiosity, wandering off into the patterns which she begins to hate. Her objective to figure out the hidden message to the dreadful yellow wallpaper drives her insane, …show more content…
‘Hysteria’ is a Greek word for uterus, odd as it may be was believed that the uterus would float to the throat which caused a disturbance. The origin of the word has little significance to the known illness of disturbance, however, as more studies have been conducted more knowledge have been discovered. These two texts have portrayed that as doctors have a great source of knowledge but when stumbling upon patients with an illness of limited knowledge and no accurate cure, through trial and error of medications there are more theories to be proven of