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    insanity. In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s story “The Yellow Wallpaper”‚ the main character goes through an experience that causes her to reach her breaking point from a caged fragile creature to a free animal. Gilman explores the hidden parts of the mind where illusion and reality collide as one by using the wallpaper as both a trigger and curse in allowing the main character reveal her inner self that was locked away from society. As the plot of the story finally

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    Hour of a Story When people with a low need for cognition read The Story of an Hour‚ they may think that Mrs. Mallard’s death was the result of a heart condition in correlation with a sudden surprise of her living husband. I believe that a heart condition is not completely to blame‚ as Mrs. Mallard was beginning to visualize and enjoy a future of free life without the governing hands of her husband. The site of Mr. Mallard stunned her‚ and forever killed away the illusions she had just dreamed up

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    “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a semi- autobiography by author Charlotte Perkins Gilman who composed it after going through a severe postpartum depression. Gilman became involved in feminist activities and her committal to writing made her a great figure in the women’s movement. Books such as “Women and Economics‚” written in 1898‚ are cogent evidence of her importance as a women’s liberationist. Here she states that women who learn to be economically independent can then create equality between men and

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    The Yellow Wallpapers Entrapment The short story‚ “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Gilman‚ concentrates on the narrator’s deep depression and her struggle to get better. The narrator spends her summer vacation confined in a nursery on the top floor of a mansion. This is in an attempt to cure her illness by her husband John‚ who is a doctor. The room has barred windows on all sides and yellow wallpaper with “sprawling flamboyant patterns” (514). The narrator at first is in disgust with the

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    Point of view and narrative mode in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s "The Yellow Wallpaper" supports and conveys the theme of sanity versus insanity in a number of ways. In her capturing of the authority of narration‚ Gilman leaves the reader questioning the narrator’s reliability. Her repeated use of self-reflexivity and the stream of conscious mode allow the reader to know in what way we are meant to comprehend the events of the story. Finally‚ the reader is bombarded by signs of the narrator’s descent

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    Jane’s Postpartum Depression in "The Yellow Wallpaper" In the "The Yellow Wallpaper‚" Charlotte Perkins Gilman describes her postpartum depression through the character of Jane. Jane was locked up for bed rest and was not able to go outside to help alleviate her nervous condition. Jane develops an attachment to the wallpaper and discovers a woman in the wallpaper. This shows that her physical treatment is only leading her to madness. The background of postpartum depression can be summarized by the

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    “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkin Gilman is a story about a woman who was prescribed the rest cure by her doctor for her depression. She thinks that working and writing will help her to feel better but her husband‚ who is also a doctor‚ will not let her do anything. Her depression worsens because she does nothing all day and ultimately becomes mad. “If a physician of high standing‚ and one’s own husband‚ assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary

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    “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a story told from the perspective of the antagonist‚ the wife of a high standing physician‚ John. The story is written as if it is the journal of the narrator which her husband does not approve of her writing in. We never learn the authors name throughout the story. While the female narrator receives most of the attention and criticism from readers‚ what does one think about the passive attitude of her husband‚ John? Evidence in “The Yellow Wallpaper” proves that John cares

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    realizing that the machine-inspired overworking culture of America was already full steam and driving men into the ground through mental exhaustion. “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and “Bartleby‚ the Scrivener” by Herman Melville touch on these issues and expand on how mental issues may affect others. The characters of both stories go through a mental decline‚ and Gilman and Melville implement point of view‚ symbolism‚ and their time period between a passive and active

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    a much bigger issue than most realize in the world and needs much more focus than it is being given. The short stories‚ “The Yellow Wallpaper”‚ along with “The Story of an Hour”‚ and the “Ray Rice Articles”‚ all give examples of how feminism writing has impacted the world. These writings compose a story of how the women were treated and still are treated today. As stated in the stories by Gilman and Chopin‚ their feminist writing emphasizes on the fact that women are being treated inhumanely by being

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