A Woman Indefinitely Plagued: The Truth Behind The Yellow Wallpaper

A Woman Indefinitely Plagued The Truth Behind The Yellow paperIn The Yellow Wallpaper, a young woman and her husband rent kayoed a country house so the woman can bum over her temporary nervous depression. She ends up staying in a large upstairs room, once used as a playroom and gymnasium, for the windows are prohibit for little children, and there are rings and things in the walls. A smoldering unclean yellow wallpaper, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight, lines the walls, and the pattern lolls like a broken neck and two bulbous eyes that stare at you upside down. The husband, a doctor, uses S. Weir Michells rest cure to treat her of her sickness, and he directs her to live insulate in this strange room. The nameless woman tells the reader through diary entries that she feels a connection to the yellow wallpaper and fancies that an imprisoned woman shakes the pattern. The narrators insanity is finally apparent when she writes, There are so many of those creeping women, and they creep so fast. I wonder if they all come out of that wall-paper as I did? When the fiction first came out in 1892, the critics saw The Yellow Wallpaper as a description of female insanity alternatively of a story that reveals societys values. A Boston physician wrote in The Transcript after reading the story that such a story ought not to be written . . . it was enough to drive anyone mad to read it, stating that any woman who would go against the grain of society might as rise claim insanity. In the time period in which Gilman lived, the ideal woman was not only assigned a social role that locked her into her home, but she was overly expected to like it, to be cheerful and gay, smiling and good humored. By expressing her need for independence, Gilman set herself apart from society. Through her creation of The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote a own(prenominal) testament of the emotional and psychological anguish of rejection from society as a free-think ing woman in the late nineteenth century.The life of Gilman revolved more or less troubled and loveless relationships that sparked the gothic tale of her descent into madness. Relating to Gilmans situation and appreciating The Yellow Wallpaper for how it exemplifies the womens lives of her time proves difficult today. Before the reform of womens rights, society summed the roles of the woman in a sim... ...ions far surpassed her time. The honesty of emotion in The Yellow Wallpaper sends a chill through any backbone, whether material or metaphorical, and reveals how a simple testament can create a revolution of any type.From . travel to 1.See 1.Lawell, Jeannine. The Yellow Wallpaper The Rest repossess as a Catalyst to Insanity. From .See 1.Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper? The Forerunner.To Herland and Beyond The Life and Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. New York Penguin, 1990.Lane, Ann J. The Fictional World of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Charlotte P erkins Gilman Reader. New York Pantheon Books, 1980.The fad of True Womanhood. Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia Deluxe. Microsoft Inc, 2004.Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia Deluxe. Microsoft Inc, 2004.See 7.See 7.Ceplair, Larry. The Early Years. Charlotte Perkins Gilman A Non-fiction Reader. New York Columbia, 1991.Depression (Psychology). Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia Deluxe. Microsoft Inc, 2004.Hysteria (Study and Treatment). Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia Deluxe. Microsoft Inc, 2004.See 13.See 7.See 7.See 7.See 7.See 7.See 6.See 6.See 6.See 8.