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“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a semi-autobiographical short story that describes a time in which the unnamed narrator suffers from depression following the birth of her baby. Her husband, who’s a doctor, misdiagnoses her and prescribes her with “the rest cure”. Meanwhile, the husband goes away to work while the wife is locked away in this bedroom with barred windows and yellow wallpaper. During all her time spent in this room she becomes so infatuated over the yellow…

The Ghost Story of the Narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper” Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a tale of the Gothic tradition. Gilman wrote this story in a somewhat subversive manner, detailing the disturbing and ridiculous nature of medical treatment, specifically the “rest cure” that was popular during the Victorian Era. It could be argued that the narrator is a ghost herself, made that way by the repression of her individuality by her husband and society. The form…

In the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” published in 1892, author Charlotte Perkins Gilman writes about a young woman named Jane who is suppressed by her husband and suffers from depression. To begin, Gilman introduces Jane, a newly married woman who recently moved in to a new house with her physician of a husband, John. Next Gilman, displays how she is a struggling woman who suffers from “nervous weakness” (473) as misdiagnosed by her husband. Jane was continuously hoovered over and…

Part I. “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a chilling psychological tale written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Through a feminist lens, Gilman uses this story to emphasize both the position of married women during the nineteenth century as well as the medicinal practices of the time. Like the narrator of “The Yellow Wallpaper”, Gilman too suffered from a form of depression. Following her diagnosis, she was prescribed the Rest Cure that eventually drove her to her own mental destruction. Jane, the…

The story Yellow Wallpaper written by Charlotte Gilman is related to the problem of the gender inequality and the right depression treatment. Also, one of the main themes of the story is the right of the self-expression and the importance of this ability for every person despite the gender or age. It is very important to consider the fact that the story is based on the real facts of the author’s life, but the Gilman could find the ability to cope with the depression while her character did not…

Freedom. What is freedom? According to Webster, freedom is the quality or state of being free (Webster). In the story, The Yellow Wallpaper, the narrator retreats into her own mind to escape the confinements of her world to find her freedom. This tells us that women were very oppressed in this era. Women were thought as property. Gilman’s writing gives a look into the misogynistic views and suppression in that time period. Tying in her own experience to the “rest cure”, Gilman shows us that…

In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” Charlotte Perkins Gilman used her personal experiences to write a story about a woman losing her sanity because of the rest cure. This “cure” was a widely trusted medical treatment at the time and the truths behind it were unknown to the general public. As Calum A. Kerr writes in the essay, “Literary Contexts in Short Stories: Charlotte Perkins Gilman 's ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’," the aftereffects of the rest cure deeply disturbed Gilman and took her to a place that she…

Charlotte Perkins Gilman weaves into her story, “The Yellow Wallpaper” the lineage of the subjugation of women inherited via the slow, relentless process of disenfranchisement and marital subjugation, and delivered by the hidden hand of paternalism. The narrator experiences her life much as a nesting doll, immobile: a mind trapped in a woman, a woman trapped in a marriage room, womankind trapped by the institutions which they have no power to control, yet are complicit in maintaining. Engels,…

“The Yellow Wallpaper” is a short story that 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 bed rest treatment deprives her sanity and how the yellow paper begins to alter the longer she is inside the room. The pattern and designs of the…

The book The Yellow Wallpaper is the representative of the cult of true womanhood. The contrast between female and male both in home and the economic world; female’s only sphere which is home; female’s moral superiority; female’s ideal function as a mother and a wife. The author had a goal to make it clear for “True Womanhood” and “Women’s Right”. Author insisted through the whole story that there is only one human race. In her idea, in order to improve the society, the most crucial apart is the…