Yellow Wallpaper Comparison

There are a variety of similar novels that are written with the same theme or purpose, but yet they're so different in the way they capture the theme through their writing. In the novel the Lord Of The Flies by William Golding and the “Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Stetson, both authors have the shared theme of isolation and a perspective of civilization. The Lord of the Flies shows the theme of civilization on the island beginning to deteriorate. Seen by how the boys start to break the rules and take their own actions. While in “Yellow Wallpaper”, the narrator introduces the theme by showing the narrator slowly becoming insane, due to her being isolated from the outside world.The change in her personality are shown when she begins to get annoyed by her husband and obsessed with the wallpaper. Both Ralph from Lord Of The Flies and the narrator in the “Yellow Wallpaper” have very different back stories, yet end up isolated from civilization leading to the deterioration of their personality. Ralph was the chief of the group and made rules to keep order until they were rescued. He brought them together by blowing the conch which symbolises order. As the story progresses we see how they start to divide up into two groups, the hunters which consists of Jack and his choir boys and Ralph’s group, which is focused on basic survival skills and them getting rescued. They split into groups when they are choosing the responsibilities they will have to support to survive on the island.’Jack's in charge of the choir. They can be—what do you want them be? ‘Hunters.’Jack and Ralph smiled at each other with shy liking. The rest began to talk eagerly. (Golding 254-257) Jack approved of Ralph being chief and didn't revolt against it, but they began to have conflicts when they disagreed on whether providing food was more important than maintaining the fire and building shelter. ‘I painted my face—I stole up. Now you eat—all of you—and I—’ ( Golding 191). The moment they truly divide into two groups is when Jack decided to leave …show more content…
Regarding many event that happened, relating with her husband and the wallpaper, causing her to go delusional. When the narrator is first diagnosed, it is done by her husband John, who is a physician and is apprise to rest. She is placed in a room which has a yellow wallpaper. Creating the narrator to devote much of her time in examining the meaning of the wallpaper. She rests very little due to that she is convinced she will be the first and only one to find the meaning of the pattern. “There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will.”(Golden Stetson 653). As time passes she discovers that inside the painting there is a woman trapped. “ I often wonder if I could see her out of all the windows at once, but turn as fast as I can, I can only see out of one at a time” (Stetson 655). She without realizing compares herself to the wallpaper, as she felt trapped and finds herself constantly hiding. The wallpaper represents herself and her breaking free from herself as she finally understands that the woman trapped is herself. The wallpaper is a symbol of her and the barriers she had faced from being kept in isolation, just as Ralph had the obstacle of maintaining order on the