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    Edgar Allan Poe, “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and “Strawberry Spring” by Stephen King are all deemed as unreliable because of the way they express their memories. They all have their own characteristics that categorize them into the group of untrustworthy when it comes to sharing their side of the story. There is a delusional killer, a mentally unstable hallucinator and a forgetful murderer. All of these narrators are…

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    Love is a difficult matter when it comes to deciding what love actually is. There are many perspectives of love, which then leads to different values and characteristics of love. Generally, it is also diverse in a sense that it can be directed in all sorts of ways including love for selves, love for others, or love for or to something. If not dealt carefully and cautiously, then sometimes love can ultimately make a person to behave obsessively, manipulatively, or self-destructing. However,…

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    She believes that she was once part of the wallpaper, a creepy, sulking figure, and now she has broken free. Her husband faints, adopting the characteristics of the feeble, weak woman, and she continues to creep about, stepping over his body to continue doing what she wishes to do. This mental breakdown…

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    The wallpaper is a symbolism of her mental illness. She starts out by hating the wallpaper and describing how the wall paper looks and smells. She goes on and on about how repulsive the wallpaper is and how it smells bad. Towards the end of the story she goes crazily insane and try’s to rip out the wallpaper. “ It is dull enough to confuse the eye in the following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke , Study and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance…

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    A Comparative Essay on the Protagonists Isolation in “Yellow Wallpaper” and “Room19” In the short stories To Room 19 by Doris Lessing and The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the protagonists, Susan Rawlings and The Yellow Wallpaper’s narrator become increasingly isolated. What are the causes of this isolation? How do Susan and the narrator cope with their crisis and what is the ultimate outcome of their isolation? In To Room 19, Susan Rawlings becomes emotionally and physically…

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    This wallpaper has been torn from many sides and this thing worries her the most. She states, “I never saw a worse paper in my life” (4). And further says that, “no wonder the children hated it! I should hate it myself if I had to live in this room long” (4). Next she tells about children who used to live in this room before she shifted here. In the yellow wallpaper she sees an image of a lady who is completely like her. Like her she…

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    The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is an example of early work of feminist literature for its illustration of attitudes toward physical and mental women’s health. The narrator of this piece is the wife of John, who is a physician. We follow her story as she is brought to an old estate by her husband due to her mental condition, which her husband labels as “temporary nervous depression-a slight hysterical tendency” (Gwynn, pg. 78). She is placed in a nursery where she is forbidden…

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    London’s short story “ To Build a fire” The main character is able to isolate himself from outside influences and is able to deny reality. In the short story “ Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The narrator was also detached from reality but was trapped in a room with only her imagination that was taken over by a yellow wallpaper. In both cases reality was merely a phase in which both characters were not a part…

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    psyche and depicts how an inimical social atmosphere can deteriorate the human mind. Charlotte Perkins Gilman 's, "The Yellow Wallpaper", is a cynical tale compiled from a collection of journal entries in which, a woman suffering from manic depression catalogs her descent into madness, and probable suicide. The woman presents herself as a naive…

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    Both of her famous short stories “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “Turned” deal with the relationships between husbands and wives, but that is where the similarities end. “The Yellow Wallpaper” deals with a woman completely overshadowed by her husband and the men around her. “Turned” tells the story of a woman standing up for herself and separating from the male figure in her life. The stories show two very different sides of a relationship. In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the wife is treated as a…

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