In the nostalgic memoir, “Girl Interrupted,” Kaysen’s imagery helps her share her experience with having to spend nearly two years in a mental hospital after being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. The patients of Mclean Hospital spent their days in empty rooms, and some were even lucky enough to have the ability to look out of “ tiny, high, chicken-wire-enforced, security-screened, barred windows.” Some people glorify mental illnesses or mental hospitals, but they do not realize the horror behind having to suffer from an illness. Living in a mental hospital is like living in prison since patients cannot escape until they are given permission by a doctor. In addition, mental hospitals contain “little bare rooms with…
The narrator and her doctor husband, John, have leased a house to those mid year thereabouts that she might recover from a “slight insane propensity. ” In spite of the storyteller doesn't think that she is really ill, john is persuaded that she will be enduring starting with “neurasthenia” Also prescribes those “rest cure” medicine. She may be limited with cot rest for a previous nursery room and will be taboo starting with attempting alternately composing. The spacious, sunlit space need yellow wallpaper – stripped off clinched alongside two puts – with An hideous, riotous example. The storyteller detests those wallpaper, Anyway john declines will transform rooms, contending that those nursery is best-suited for her recuperation.…
The narrator in, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” suffers from depression, although her husband, who is a doctor, does not consider it an illness. Therefore, he keeps her on a strict rest cure. She is not allowed to do work of any form, not even care for her baby. All she allowed to do is rest in her room and breath in the air as prescribed by her husband. Because she spends most of her time in her room, she becomes obsessed with the yellow wallpaper in the room and it drives her to insanity. The lack of creative stimulation and relationships with others causes the narrator’s obsession with the yellow wallpaper which leads her to believe she is trapped behind bars in this yellow wallpaper.…
There was no mention to how the room was decorated or if any other patient shared the room. The lack of description gives emphasis to the things the author deems important. The room was a place where a man could say goodbye, but still have feel the love of his children. The action of walking into the room allowed their presence to feel the empty space and affect the father. The words “maze” and “last room” were used to describe the location of the father; these words alludes to life coming to an end. Life is filled with twist and turns similar to a maze, but at the end there one exit in reference to the word…
The woman in the Yellow Wallpaper seems to be trapped in a reality where all she can think about is the repugnant wallpaper in her patients` room and how much she despises it. The woman really hates the wallpaper`s presence and how there is some shadowy figure in her room, coming from that same wallpaper, mocking her. The woman thinks that the ``paint and paper look as if boys` school had used it`` (333) and this is what the wallpaper would have been described as the whole time she was in the same room with. The woman would think that she is just trapped in her own little world where the wallpaper is there to mock and ridicule her to no end.…
In the journal she describes the wallpaper that is in the room that John picked out for her recovery. She uses very descriptive imagery to describe how “revolting” the color and pattern is. Inside of what she considers her prison the wallpaper becomes her distraction. She has varying emotions towards the wallpaper. She is at first scared of it and then it becomes more and more interesting to her. She eventually starts seeing a trapped woman inside of the pattern. By the end of the story she has started trying to free the woman in the paper and in essence herself as well.…
Partially obscured by fog, the Charles Radley Asylum for the Criminally Insane always stood as still as death among the chaotic hive of activity that was central London at morning rush hour. The red brick building was over a hundred years old and looked it, with rusted wrought iron gates, crumbling bricks and a thick coating of ivy that clung to the cracked bricks. Despite it still being in operation, the locals hadn't seen a soul exit or enter the building in as long as they could remember. The gates remained shut, the gardens deserted and no hint of patient or staff member alike could be ever be glimpsed from the street. No one really knew what went on behind the perpetually locked gates but there were whispers of electric shock therapy,…
The narrator has finally, after months of toiling over her obsession with the yellow wallpaper in the room where she was kept while ill, realized the relevance and meaning of the gloomy decoration. I chose this passage form the short story because it proves to the readers that the narrator is actually mentally ill and reveals her feelings and perception of the yellow wallpaper. This passage, in my opinion, is one of the most important parts of the short story due to the correlation of the woman trapped in the yellow wallpaper and the women in the story. This passage also clearly reveals that the narrator of the story is mentally ill, bringing the story to an abrupt and formidable ending.…
From the opening of the first scene evidence of stereotyping and mistreatment of mental illness patients is shown. A contrast of dark and light is created from the stage direction at the opening of scene one, “It is day outside but pitch black inside the theatre.” This dark verse light theme is introduced and developed throughout the first scene. At a more figurative level, this contrast can be perceived to represent the insanity within the asylum and the sanity outside. A stereotypical view of the asylum as being filled with mad people is created.…
The characters within the mental asylum are shown to grasp what truly matters, whereas society seems to focus on the Vietnam War. Even though they are mental patients and an asylum is a ‘mad house’ the inmates are ‘normal people who have done extraordinary things’.…
There was not much the patient could do to cope with emotions because she did not have the ability to move any part of her body. Because of this, the patient spent a lot of time daydreaming, and imagining she was somewhere else other than in the hospital. She would spend a lot of time re-living past events which were pleasant in her memories.…
How do I feel, after all these years, now that I am finally out of the four-walled room in the mental asylum that felt like prison? I feel incompetent, I feel redundant, I feel damaged and lastly I feel broken beyond repair. The years have passed by, but me; I’m still stuck in time, still stuck in that moment when I was whisked away to a mental asylum in opposition to my belief that I was going away with the handsome Shep Huntleigh. Is this fair your honor? Can the emotional scars that are now engraved on me be justified?…
It is evident that the narrator is frequently alone with her thoughts. Her husband, John, “is away all day, and even some nights” (42), and Jennie, who takes care of her, leaves her to be alone and does the housework. This isolation caused her mental health to deteriorate. A dangerous effect of the complete isolation the narrator experienced is obsession. The narrator was told to do nothing, except sleep. She could not even talk to anyone about how she felt. One of the only things that could not be taken away from her was the wallpaper of the room. As a result, she paid close attention to it. The narrator would “lay there for hours” (143) watching the pattern of the wallpaper; she would attempt to decipher it. According to her, the wallpaper would stare her “as if it knew what a vicious influence it had” (66). It wasn’t…
The character in this story suffers from what her husband can only describe as a “temporary nervous depression - a slight hysterical tendency” (Gilman 70) and has been “forbidden to work” (Gilman 71). In attempt to resolve and cure this “temporary nervous depression,” her husband takes her to a secluded colonial mansion, a hereditary estate that has been empty for year however it is private and sets away from the road and three miles away from the nearest village. In his best efforts to help her, he decided that it would be best to keep her isolated on the second floor in a room that was in the past considered a nursery, although it had several indications that the room was set up for a person that may have suffered from a mental illness, “for the windows are barred” and “rings and things in the walls” (Gilman 72). Although she disagreed with his ideas and…
This home's exterior comes with terrible views of the dark gloomy skies. The house is isolated so you will always feel loneliness that will fill your bones with so much depression you will never feel happiness again. You’ll always feel safe with the metal barred windows, until you hear the high-pitched screams from your mentally insane roommates. You won’t ever be annoyed by visitors because they will be to scared to even come near you and your crazy house. Don’t you love the feeling of being sick to your stomach, because that’s the feeling you will get when you see the huge chain fence surrounding your property, so you can’t escape. This horrible home will be so bitterly horrible that you will have to spend the rest of your terrible life there.…