The Yellow Wall Paper By Charlotte Perkins Stetson Analysis

Women’s marriage life is considered as one of the most important milestones of life. Every woman wants to marry a man who loves her truly and treats her gently. But sometimes, married life is not what we think it would be. The yellow wall- paper written by Charlotte Perkins Stetson is about the narrator suffering her illness oppressed and denied of her freedom by her husband, John, a physician. The narrator becomes mad not allowed to write to express her feelings then she admires the wall- paper that makes her tend to declare her freedom. This story investigate the interaction of conscious and unconscious elements in the mind developed by Sigmund Freud. This story reveals the oppression of women by men like John who treats his wife, the narrator like a child.
Freud said that unconsciousness means the part of your mind that contains feelings and thoughts that you do not know about, and that influences the way you behave. It is like John’s behavior because he controls over her by using his masculine power. It might be considered that in that time men possibly want to show off their masculinity and thrust weakness to women. The narrator believes that writing can help her recover but John does not allow her to do. As the narrator mentions that “Personally, I disagree with their ideas. But what is one to do?” It obviously shows the unconscious of the model of the psyche called id and ego. According to Freud assuming the id is instinct, the ego is reality and super- ego is morality. The quote mentioned above reveals that the narrator wants to argue with John as a wife but she cannot. This shows the id when she needs to relieve her pressing feelings by crying for her freedom but she cannot. So, she uses her ego to control over her id by find another way to relieve feelings by writing confidentially to make her feel