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    “The yellow wallpaper” in the story is resulted from the narrator’s perception that the wallpaper is a topic she must analyze. She believed that the yellow wallpaper symbolizes things that deeply affect her emotion. The wallpaper expands its symbolism accordingly throughout the story. In the beginning‚ the yellow wallpaper is quite unpleasant. The writer describes it as soiled‚ ripped and an unclean yellow. Moreover‚ it is of a shapeless pattern that makes the narrator try to figure out how it

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    Ladan Abdullahi “The Yellow Wallpaper” and Feminism Feminism is a movement in which women fought for equal social‚ political and economical rights as men. A feminist text usually has a woman in a male dominated society struggling against misogynistic ideologies and social norms in a patriarchal society. ‘’The Yellow Wallpaper’’ is an archetype of a feminist text. ‘’ The Yellow Wallpaper’’ is about a woman’s journey slowly descending into madness by her controlling physician husband. The story

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    On the Yellow Wallpaper Road to Madness Charlotte Gilman uses her short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” to examine the suffocating roles that denied women freedom of expression. In the 19th century‚ women were expected to fulfill their duties as wives and mothers within the household. All for the sake of their families. In this time period females were expected to be content with their lives at hand and nothing more. People saw women to be solely within the domestic part of the world. The ones that

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    Caitlin Ramsey English 102 April 5‚ 2007 Chief Symbols in The Yellow Wallpaper Gender roles play a significant part in The Yellow Wallpaper‚ represented heavily by the physical yellow wallpaper in the bedroom of the summer mansion. This story‚ written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman‚ even begins on the first page and throughout the entire story‚ the narrator portrays women in the common air of being dominated by men. Especially during this time‚ women were oppressed not only by their husbands but

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    The characteristics of the narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper” The “The Yellow Wallpaper” story started off with a small family that moved into a new summer home to spend some time away. The narrator’s husband is her own physician‚ and he tells her that she needs rest away from people to recover from her mental illness. The main character’s favorite hobby is to write thoughts and ideas down on paper. She is also a mother‚ but she doesn’t mention her child that often due to the fact that she wasn’t

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    reader is only seeing what the depressed woman is telling the reader through her journal entries. The woman constantly speaks of her boredom and how sever her boredom is. She has nothing to do but stare out the barred window and look at the yellow wallpaper all day. She writes in short‚ one sentence paragraphs. It seems as if this woman wrote sporadically‚ possibly taking days before she continues to write in the journal again. Throughout the story‚ one can infer that the women is possibly going

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    In Charlotte Perkins Gilmans’ The Yellow Wallpaper‚ the main theme is the oppression and repression of woman. We follow the narrator as her confinement within herself and her room slowly drive her insane. The main character is trapped by the wallpaper’s vine pattern‚ which she sees as a cage other women are stuck behind‚ just as her physician husband has trapped her in the room. There is also a gender division throughout the story. This gender division had the effect of keeping the narrator in a

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    the story‚ The Yellow Wallpaper‚ by Charlotte Gilman a woman and her husband move into a large secluded house. The husband‚ being an intelligent physician‚ informs his wife that this would be the best cure for her illness. The wife wanting to please her husband does as he says. She becomes fascinated and oddly obsessed with the wallpaper in the bedroom. This fascination causes her to become even more insane then she was in the beginning. Charlotte Gilman’s story The Yellow Wallpaper and other works

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    Summary: This week we read the short story The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman‚ the Vanity Fair article Rethinking the American Dream by David Kamp and the short story Thank You M’am by Langston Hughes. These three pieces of writing all had the common theme of tackling with expectation versus reality and the way our perceptions of ourselves and others can fail us. Abstract: I was intrigued by the combination of this week’s readings. I could appreciate each one for the individual

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    characters through imagery and symbolism. In the yellow wallpaper‚ Charlotte Gilman demonstrates the oppression of women by society while showing the struggle to be set free. Alternatively‚ John Cheever conveys the ignorance of a man’s downfall through time. However‚ the yellow paper and the swimmer both show gradual loss of reality as the characters oppress their problems while they strive to fit in with the norms of society. The yellow wallpaper takes the readers on a journey that captures the

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