Silas Marner

I visited the Museum of Modern Art on October 9th. It was a very rainy day, but the museum was very crowded. I had never been to a museum of this type before; I have never been really interested in “art”. While at the museum I was amazed to see how intricate the works of art were, even though I didn’t always understand what the work was meant to be or meant to explain I admired the work put into them. After walking around confused trying to decide which piece I would like to analyze, I found…

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the author of “The Yellow Wallpaper”, is one of many women that experienced having a mental illness during the Victorian Era, resulting in the harsh treatment of women to cure them. Gilman was in the narrator’s very shoes and wrote this story not for entertainment, but to tell a special message meant for men and the rest of society, being that the harsh mistreatment of women causes adverse effects. Gilman’s purpose of writing “The Yellow Wallpaper” was to acknowledge…

1. Apply the definition “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a short story that seems to be semi-autobiographical. The story is told by a first person narrator, Jane, where she describes in her journal entries the yellow wallpaper in her room. Jane suffers from a nervous depression condition and her illness gives a clear insight into her situation in society and in her own marriage. She devotes these journals to describe how the treatment that she has to undergo (bed rest) deprives her sanity and how the…

Kyliegh Dovale Ms.Kennedy ENC 1102 10 October 2015 The Yellow Wallpaper In the story “The Yellow Wallpaper” Charlotte Gilman portrays her own struggle with nervous depression through the voice of the narrator whose name may or may not be Jane. She relates that depression with the relegation of women in marriage and their roles in the domestic lifestyle of the 19th century. Her initial distaste with the wallpaper develops through the story into to an outright obsession while following her…

The narrator of The Yellow Wallpaper is a young married woman who is receiving treatment for postpartum depression. Her husband, who happens to also be her doctor, is treating her condition with the rest cure; a relatively common treatment for mental disorders during the late 1800s. As required by this treatment, she is to refrain from all intellectual and creative tasks, as they will hinder her recovery. Though her husband loves her and is well-meaning in his care, he fails to see that this…

As I sat down trying to decide what to write this analysis paper on, I couldn’t fight the urge to write it about Bertha Mason Rochester and the narrator from “The Yellow Wallpaper”. There are so many similarities. A misunderstanding husband traps each of them, they themselves are trapped, they are stuck in their own minds which drive them mad, and so much more. These similarities include the use of a gothic tone, a sense of male superiority, mistreatment of space, and the mental instability of…

Mental Marriage The short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper”, represents the relationship between the nineteenth century concept of marriage and the deterioration of the narrator’s mental health. Throughout the story, the narrator’s husband, John, continuously keeps tabs on her and controls the majority of her actions. The imbalance of power between John and herself was not uncommon for a nineteenth century marriage. According to the narrator, she and her husband John were “mere ordinary people”…

Gillam’s The Yellow Wallpaper and O’Conner’s A Good Man’s Hard to Find both imitate the horrific practice of dehumanization. After digging deep and analyzing the characters in each text the practice of dehumanization is uncovered. In The Yellow Wallpaper Gillman illustrates the husband/doctor prescribing treatment that treats his wife in a dehumanizing way. Likewise, O’Conner demonstrates dehumanization through the Grandmother and her use of titles in replacement of names. Throughout both The…

The Role of a Woman The short story “The Yellow Wallpaper”, written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is about a woman suffering from a temporary nervous depression as described by her physician husband, John, during the 19th century. After being diagnosed with this condition, the couple decides to stay in a mansion during the summer where the woman, who is also the narrator of the story, rests to be able to overcome her condition. Her husband constantly prohibits her from writing and isolates her…

In the short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, women’s systemic oppression in the 1800’s is revealed to her audience. In Gilman’s time, a girl was born into a world constructed to keep her out of certain spaces; a world that would consistently seek to control her and reduce her to a status far below the man beside her. A woman lived in a system of power hierarchies that sought to silence her. In her short story, Gilman spoke to an audience that would outlast her forever…