Silas Weir Mitchell

In The Yellow Wallpaper, I believe the narrator is suffering from insanity. Her insanity is not due to any prior mental health issue. I believe it is directly because of her detrimental relationship with her husband. Her husband, John, means well, but he is a symbol of male dominancy and the negative consequences it has on women. He assumed throughout the novel what was best for the protagonist, never once asking her herself. Whenever she verbally voiced her feelings to him, he would ignore…

Gilman's conviction that there truly was no distinction in methods for mindset between men or ladies is unequivocally exhibited through The Yellow Wallpaper. The Yellow Wallpaper is a short anecdote about a lady who has a psychological instability however can't mend because of her better half's absence of conviction. The story seems to occur amid an era where ladies were mistreated. Ladies were dealt with as below average individuals in the public eye amid this day and age. Charlotte Perkins…

At the turn of the 19th century, mental health was a confusing concept that led to the suffering of millions of people. In “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the main character was taken to a vacation home for three months in order to relieve what was diagnosed as a “nervous condition.” Throughout her time at this home, she went through a mental battle. She was told not to think or use too much energy. In contrast to what her husband perceived, her condition progressively…

In the book, Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon, the reader is introduced to the character Madeline as she goes from being a sick girl wondering how the world is like to a girl that shows leadership and independence. The character Madeline Whittier has a severe sickness and is not allowed to leave the house. A boy named Olly moves into the house next door and they both fall in love. The only problem is that Olly cannot get to her because she is trapped inside her house. Madeline then takes a…

Kate and I resonated with the pitfalls of traditional treatment presented in Many Roads, One Journey by Charlotte Davis Kasl regarding the journey of addiction. Kasl states, about one of her clients, “And when [the program] didn't work, she assumed she had not done it right. Her passivity - the core of her depression - was being reinforced in her twelve-step program,” (Kasl, 1992, p 148). In our dyad meetings, Kate and I discussed the rigidity of traditional twelve step programs, and the…

Distinctively images shape individual’s experiences in society through the use of dramatic techniques and language to achieve a new perspective. The shoe horn sonata written by John Misto is a play about Australian nurses and civilians during the brutality of World War 2 and fictional characters Bridie and Sheila. The red tree written by Shaun Tan is a picture book about a lonely red-headed girl; a red leaf from a red tree follows the girl through her day. It illustrates how she feels and shows…

The Yellow Wallpaper is a short story written by American author Charlotte Perkin Gilman and was first published in The New England Magazine in 1892. (Wikipedia, n.d.) The story follows the mental breakdown of a young woman, a wife, and new mother, and is told through a series of nine journal entries. One of the underlying themes of the story revolves around the likelihood that the main character's neurosis is resulting from what we would today consider postpartum depression. This is a…

After the birth of her baby, the female main character suffers through depression, and her physician husband, John, diagnoses her with a mild case of hysteria—from which even her high standing, physician brother agrees (844). He tells his wife that the "rest cure" is the best route to her recovery. However, he his method of recovery for her includes isolation from the public and restriction from intellectually stimulating activities such as writing. The main character's condition deteriorates…

Rebel Women (1910) is a compilation of short stories about different situations that suffragettes went through, providing the feminist point of view of the author in regards of society; a second edition of this book was published in 1915. The depiction of suffragettes from the inside and her personal point of view were key elements that Evelyn Sharp used to express her view about the general situation of women’s suffrage. I considered for this analysis some short stories that, in my opinion,…

which is also her physician prescribed her with Dr. Mitchell’s treatment and kept her isolated in a room with locks on the doors and bars on the windows. Charlotte reason for writing The Yellow Wallpaper was to inform her previous physician, Dr. Weir Mitchell of his mistake of prescribing her the “rest cure” treatment, how it is related to her personal life and gender inequality. Charlotte Gilman story “The Yellow Wallpaper” introduced us to the protagonist and narrator named Jane who is a young…