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    Throughout the story the narrator writes about the wallpaper as being a grotesque yellow and she wishes to be moved to another room‚ but as she keeps writing her feelings change about the wallpaper it starts to grow on her. When she first arrives at the mansion and enters her the nursery she describes the wallpaper as being "almost revolting; a smouldering unclean yellow‚ strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight‚" which illustrates she despises it and makes the assumption that the children before

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    The Yellow Wallpaper An ill woman with a husband who contains her and a decoration that haunts her. A depressed woman is married to a Doctor who says that she is not truly sick. Her husband takes her to a rental house for a few months to help her rest. The bedroom that they stay in has one specific decoration that the woman does not like‚ yellow wallpaper. The woman despises the yellow paper on the wall. She sits and watches the wallpaper for days‚ particularly at night while her husband sleeps

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    “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a short story that centers on the narrator who is allegedly dealing with depression or “nervous depression” as it is referred to in the story. Throughout the period of her “rest cure” or recovery she is staying in a rented colonial mansion; the narrator is put into a room with yellow wallpaper. The setting becomes significant to the plot and theme of the story‚ which has to do with gender and free expression. It changes the character throughout

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    The Yellow Wallpaper‚ written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1892‚ depicted the medical care of depression and beliefs of that era and the treatment of women. 2. The struggle in the story was an unnamed writer and her husband‚ John‚ who was a physician and was treating his wife for depression. 3. The author was the protagonist who was ill and found her being placed in a rundown mansion situated in a rural area‚ far from society. 4. Her husband‚ the antagonist‚ thought it was best for her

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    individuals suffer from depression disorders. “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman portrays a woman who goes mentally insane after giving birth to her baby. Her husband is her doctor and he diagnoses her with a temporary depression disorder‚ which raises the question of post-partum depression. While staying at an estate during the summer‚ he confines her to one room in the home‚ and is unable to do anything she loves. Rao argues that the wallpaper is one dynamic symbol‚ which is quickly evident

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    Hypothesis: Gillman uses the yellow wallpaper to expose oppression against women living in patriarchal society in the 19th Century. After studying and interpreting Charlotte Perkins Gillman’s short story ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’‚ I am able to make the hypothesis that Gillman uses the yellow wallpaper to expose oppression against women living in patriarchal society in the 19th Century. The short story is written based on Gillman’s own life when she underwent “nervous prostration” after the birth

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    Charlotte Perkin Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” was published in 1892 after Gilman suffered from “a severe and continuous nervous breakdown tending to melancholia” (Gilman‚ “Why I wrote”) and was placed under the care of Silas Weir Mitchell. Mitchell’s cure for women with Gilman’s affliction were told to “live as domestic life as far as possible‚ have but two hours’ intellectual life a day and to never touch a pen‚ brush‚ or pencil again” (Gilman‚ “Why I wrote”). While following Mitchell’s advice

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    struggles with postpartum depression‚ which is causing her to become mentally unstable. In her temporary three-month bedroom‚ the yellow wallpaper becomes more than just a sheet of paper on the wall. She envisions this imaginary woman (her shadow) on the paper struggling to escape some part of her life‚ but she struggles to become free from the lines within the pattern of the wallpaper. This character she is seeing is symbolic as it represents her oppressive life she is living under the supervision of her

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    Critiques of The Yellow Wallpaper Throughout The Yellow Wallpaper‚ a lady battles against neurasthenia. The author‚ Charlotte Perkins Gilman‚ based this story on events that took place in her life when she faced a psychological crisis. Feminist literary can also be defined in her writing of The Yellow Wallpaper. Gilman went through treatments for her problem with depression she faced. Not only did she suffer from postpartum but ever since Charlotte’s early adulthood she suffered from episodes

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    the First Wave to the present and it has not slowed down in the slightest in achieving equity for women. Female writers in particular have shown support and recognition through their work‚ such as The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Gilman and Roman Fever by Edith Wharton. However‚ The Yellow Wallpaper is a better representation of today’s fight for women’s rights and fair treatment as it depicts female empowerment in the face of the patriarchy. Jane decimates the patriarchal ideal of a demure woman

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