The Yellow Wallpaper
The Yellow Wallpaper
The Yellow Wallpaper uses symbols to show the hardship that women had to endure to fight oppression. By showing these hardships, we gain the knowledge that we don’t always make the right decisions. We believe that we are giving people freedom when in turn we are oppressing them even more.
Gilman uses symbols throughout her story in a variety of ways. In The Yellow Wallpaper Gillman uses the house to symbolize a body. The speaker describes the outside as “beautiful and delicious.
The most beautiful place! It is quite alone, standing well back from the road, quite three miles from the village. It makes me think of English places that you read about, for there are hedges and walls and gates that lock, and lots of separate little houses for the gardeners and people. There is a delicious garden! I never saw such a garden large and shady, full of box-bordered paths, and lined with long grape-covered arbors with seats under them.
This quote gives you an elegant image in your mind. This is how the speaker is viewed from the outside, Impeccable. The Cambridge Ladies document Furnished Souls gives a further insight of how the house represents a body. E. E. Cummings describes the Cambridge ladies as “ladies who live in furnished souls.” The term furnished is used to describe a house’s interior. This is further exemplified when Cummings describes the women as “unbeautiful, comfortable, unscented, and shapeless”, all of these words describing the interior or exterior of a house. Dr. Nazmi AL-Shalabi describes the house as a body into even deeper detail in his article House as a Container- Seven Gables. Dr. Nazmi AL-Shalabi writes “[…] Regard the house as the symbolic body and spirit of man.” He compares the house to the human body: the “noble and beautiful parts” exposed, the “ignoble but essential parts” hidden. Dr. Nazmi views the Italian villa as a “compact organism, with each work designed as if members were joined symmetrically to a
The Yellow Wallpaper uses symbols to show the hardship that women had to endure to fight oppression. By showing these hardships, we gain the knowledge that we don’t always make the right decisions. We believe that we are giving people freedom when in turn we are oppressing them even more.
Gilman uses symbols throughout her story in a variety of ways. In The Yellow Wallpaper Gillman uses the house to symbolize a body. The speaker describes the outside as “beautiful and delicious.
The most beautiful place! It is quite alone, standing well back from the road, quite three miles from the village. It makes me think of English places that you read about, for there are hedges and walls and gates that lock, and lots of separate little houses for the gardeners and people. There is a delicious garden! I never saw such a garden large and shady, full of box-bordered paths, and lined with long grape-covered arbors with seats under them.
This quote gives you an elegant image in your mind. This is how the speaker is viewed from the outside, Impeccable. The Cambridge Ladies document Furnished Souls gives a further insight of how the house represents a body. E. E. Cummings describes the Cambridge ladies as “ladies who live in furnished souls.” The term furnished is used to describe a house’s interior. This is further exemplified when Cummings describes the women as “unbeautiful, comfortable, unscented, and shapeless”, all of these words describing the interior or exterior of a house. Dr. Nazmi AL-Shalabi describes the house as a body into even deeper detail in his article House as a Container- Seven Gables. Dr. Nazmi AL-Shalabi writes “[…] Regard the house as the symbolic body and spirit of man.” He compares the house to the human body: the “noble and beautiful parts” exposed, the “ignoble but essential parts” hidden. Dr. Nazmi views the Italian villa as a “compact organism, with each work designed as if members were joined symmetrically to a