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    is part of the reason of her mental breakdown. While researching the story‚ we find out that our narrator is a new mother. In the time‚ no one knew of postpartum depression. This is essentially what is the cause of our narrator’s cessation. In "The Yellow Wallpaper" the treatment that the narrator receives has the harmful impact‚ making the narrator’s condition worse. The irony is illumined when one considers what might have happened if the narrator had received no treatment at all. Would she have

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    The Yellow Wallpaper. Gilbert’s chronical of her own descent into madness is set in a remote‚ isolated older home‚ with very beautiful surroundings‚ and more in particular and old nursery in which Gilbert is imprisoned for her own "sanity". The ironic point is that it is the cure for her " insanity" that creates the insanity she ultimately adopts. The narrator is a repressed woman with nowhere to go except madness. As a parallel to Kate Chopin"s " Story of an Hour" in which death was the escape

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    Depression and How It Affect Marriages “The Yellow Wallpaper” written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman‚ is a short story that exposed a psychological problem called‚ postpartum depression. This paper will focus on the negative psychological impact that postpartum depressions have on marriages when both the wife and the husband are not educated about the condition and experienced different and unhelpful treatment for the depression based on the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper.” In the story the narrator

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    •In “The Yellow Wallpaper‚” Gilman uses the horror tale to analyze the position of women within the institution of marriage‚ practiced by the “respectable “classes of her time. •For the author‚ the conventional nineteenth-century middle-class marriage‚ with its distinction between the “domestic” functions of the female and the “active” work of the male‚ ensured that women remained as second-class citizens. •The story reveals that gender division had the effect of keeping women in a childish state

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    As her madness progresses the narrator in The Yellow Wallpaper becomes increasingly aware of a woman present in the pattern of the wallpaper. She sees this woman struggling against the paper’s "bars". Later in her madness she imagines there to be many women lost in its "torturing" pattern‚ trying in vain to climb through it. The woman caught in the wallpaper seems to parallel the narrator’s virtual imprisonment by her well-meaning husband. While the narrator’s perception of the

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    Alienation and Loneliness in “The Yellow Wallpaper” In the story‚ “The Yellow Wallpaper” written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman‚ the narrator talks about several things: She feels she is sick and her brother and husband do not believe her‚ her husband moved her to a deserted house and keeps her isolated‚ he controls her every move‚ and she feels that she has no companionship. All of these things contribute to the theme of alienation and loneliness in this story. The Narrator is convinced she is

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    “The Yellow Wallpaper‚” is a feministic biography‚ in which the main character is remained with no clarification of her name. The character that author sets up in the first few pages is a proper woman‚ who is obedient towards her husband and non-technical. Also‚ the author goes out of her way to describe the garden as “delicious‚” possibly making an allusion to a woman’s place in the kitchen. A woman would naturally be intrigued by a beautiful garden. The character is a faithful woman‚ who does as

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    MacKenzie Land Ms. Herndon LNG 332 1 February 2016 Themes of “The Yellow Wallpaper” Throughout the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper”‚ Charlotte Perkins Gilman demonstrates how little society knew about mental illness in the Victorian era‚ the madness boredom can cause‚ and the subordination of women. The narrator’s husband‚ John‚ has the desire to help his wife’s “nervous condition” and "slight hysterical tendencies" in any way he knows how. In a research paper done by Michigan State University

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    Charlotte Perkins Gilman ’s Feminist Piece Charlotte Perkins Gilman orchestrates an all-out feminist assault on societal male dominance in her work‚ “The Yellow Wallpaper”. She cleverly conceals her points in an attention-grabbing story about a wife seemingly held prisoner by her mental deterioration. However‚ the real captors turn out to be societal norms where men are in charge and other women unwittingly supporting the oppressors. Set in the late 19th century‚ the story reflects the current

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    Gilman’s “ The Yellow Wallpaper” exposes a common gender stereotype during the late 19th century: by showing that men had more power over women‚ and how women were afraid to speak up for themselves. In society in the 19th century‚ women felt as if they were a burden from their spouse they are with this is shown when the narrator says‚ “ I meant to be such a help to John‚ such a real rest and comfort‚ and here l am a comparative burden already!” This influences how women try to kneel down to men to

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