Yellow fever

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story “The yellow wallpaper” centers around domestic abjection, regression and in some ways, female castration. This short story is in large part biographical. Charlotte Gilman is diagnosed with a nervous breakdown, and Charlotte Gilman was told that she must never write again. Gilman started to feel like she was losing her mind without writing, so she wrote “The yellow wallpaper” as an act of catharsis and also to demonstrate that an idle mind is not necessarily…

In 1899, the newsboys of New York rose up against the high prices for 100 papers from the Pulitzer’s paper, “The World” and Hearst’s “The Journal”. Many years later, the musical Newsies came out. During the Spanish-American War the price of papers rose from 50 cents to 60 cents per 100 papers (Li, Extra, Extra, read all about the newsboys strike of 1899). What made them strike was when the rest of the newspaper prices went back down to 50 cents; Pulitzers and Hearst’s did not. In the musical it…

Charlotte Perkins Stetson focused her center on feminist oppression via the use of her literature piece of “The Yellow Wall-Paper”, in which it was published in January 1892. The initially unnamed narrator, whom act as the protagonist, went through some mental conflicts and demonstrate a paucity of neurological stableness; thus, influencing her husband, John, to diagnose “neurasthenia”, and consequently use the “rest cure” i.e. a period of time of inactivity reserved for improving mental health…

There is no such thing as total freedom for there’s always some sort of restriction. In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper,” a young woman is forced to live in a house as confined as her own mind, surrounded by a garden and world as open as the rest of society, which is to say walled off and locked with a facade of being free. In this story Charlotte Perkins Gilman illustrates the theme of freedom and confinement through her use of diction and figurative language used to describe…

Joseph Campbell is a professor in the School of Communication at American University in Washington, D.C and has a Ph.D. in mass communication. He has also received the Society of Professional Journalists’ national award. His books about yellow journalism are mainly to “debunk” the myths that are historically widely believed by most historians and students. These books are very valuable to those who study journalism because of their ability to go against the popular notion and question the myths…

In the Bosom of Oppression “The Yellow Wallpaper” was written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, who suffered from depression. The story begins with the narrator, Jane, explaining her husband, John, has taken her to a country estate to rest. John, a doctor, feels Jane is experiencing a temporary nervous condition after recently giving birth and should have complete rest from all physical and mental stimulation. Jane feels she would better benefit from some stimulating work. John strictly forbids Jane…

In the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper,” there is a thought after question of whether the husband of a woman is trying to help her, or trying to ruin her. Within the short story, a women, that was kept from the outside world, goes insane while living in a mansion for some time. After reading the story, I believe that the husband was truly trying to help his wife, when he kept her away from the outside world. One way that her husband tried to help her, was by keeping her away from society.…

Gothic Feminism in “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “The Birthmark” Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper” as a way to gain publicity about the, once commonly prescribed, Victorian “rest-cure.” The piece became slightly autobiographical as well, seeing as how Charlotte Perkins Gilman had personally been prescribed such a treatment. “The Yellow Wallpaper” provides an account of a similar woman, driven to madness by this very same “period of inactivity” said to cure hysteria and…

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…

Everyday we conform to society and do what is expected of us. In The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the unnamed author who might be known as Jane had to conform in more ways than one, but also took a stand at times. She suffered from depression. For many years society has a hard time accepting mental illness especially in love ones. Jane was forced to live in a symbolic bubble that family expected and figured was right for her. Does its helps or makes the situation worst to…