Oz Perkins

Madness from Isolation Insanity or madness can be defined as incompetence and thoughtless behavior. One can also see it as a never ending inner fight between reality and imagination. A person battles this destructive poison that can break down his or her mind with the slightest touch. Isolation can intensify the chaos one is struggling with. Once he or she gives in even a little, the tar-like toxin tightly grasps on, making it almost impossible to escape. Finally, the dark pit of insanity takes…

American feminism has come a long way in a world that was, and still is, ruled by men. These men controlled the women in numerous ways. This lead to women finally standing up and fighting back for their freedom. In The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a women’s writer and an American feminist, used her postpartum depression to cultivate this story to what it is today, a feminist piece. The narrator and her husband have come to vacation in a mansion after the birth of their daughter and…

outlet to express herself. I strongly believe if she was given an opportunity to write down her thoughts and feelings on a day to day basis without having to hide them from the world, she would have a faster recovery from depression. As Charlotte Perkins Gilman takes the reader on this journey she begins to unveil different aspects about the…

An example of an old common practice was that for any condition affecting a person’s mind, the treatment was usually complete isolation and many drugs thought to help overcome the disease. These common medical practices are the basis for Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper.” The narrator of the story, or Jane Doe for lack of a given name, writes in a journal that exposes her unraveling mental state. The diminishing of her mind is evident mainly through how she writes at…

The female characters from “The Yellow Wallpaper” & “The Chrysanthemums” experience oppression, frustration, and change. While Elisa Allen’s story happens on a ranch in the Salinas Valley. The Narrator from “The Yellow Wallpaper” is taken from her house to a desolated mansion in attempt to cure her “temporary nervous depression” (992). Elisa Allen is a thirty-five year old woman, who loves gardening, and rarely embraces her femininity. She is married to Henry Allen who is a business man, he is…

or freedom to express themselves. Women’s ideas were considered good-for-nothing whereas whatever a man said was always considered right. Examples of such oppressions can be clearly depicted in the short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The author wrote this story to change the perspective of men about women and their important status in the society. During the entire story, the narrator, a woman, is not given a name whereas her husband is given a name, John. Also, the…

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Stetson is a short story based in 19th century America. In this story Stetson, through a young mother, portrays the negative effects of patriarchal society as well as the maltreatment of women by physicians in regards to anxiety and depression. Stetson presents the story to the audience through a first person point of view with the narrator being the protagonist. The narrator catalogues her journal entries, which records her arrival to the mansion as…

they don’t matter. With a person with an anxiety or depression disorder they already feel the sense of being unknown. Where performing activities keeps their mind off the issue they developed. In the story of “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the concern of an individual’s ability to be free and unconstrained is discussed about. Jane is married to her husband John and have just moved into a new estate. The estate has been empty for a long time due reasons that were unclear to…

Putting Girls in Boxes Both Jamaica Kincaid and Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote with the purpose of informing others of the difficulties faced by women. Kincaid’s short story “Girl” expresses the way a mother places her daughter in a box and expects her daughter to remain there. Similarly in Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”, the narrator’s husband John diagnoses the narrator with a mental illness and expects her to remain within her room resting and not doing anything. Through the development of…

she is in no position to stand her grounds. She expresses this when she restlessly writes, “And what can one do?” and “what is one to do?” (216). Even more, Catherine Sustana declares in her article, “Analysis of ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ by Charlotte Perkins Gilman,” that John conceals his actions in concerns for her, in which she starts to believe herself. To verify, she writes things like, “He is very careful and loving, and hardly lets me stir without special direction” (Gilman 217). Jane’s…