Amontillado And The Yellow Wallpaper

In this story the way that the woman was going insane with the yellow wallpaper and imagining images in the wallpaper that moves refers to insanity. As she was referring over and over again to the wallpaper it seemed that she was in some sort of jail but worse. The description of the settings where it mentions …any kind of light, candlelight or lamplight makes it seem as if it was back in the 19th century where the house would be illuminated by candles and the moonlight at nights. However, the patterns of the wallpaper could also have symbolized the pattern of the women and how she was just tire or horrified of her daily routine of taking care of her children, maintain a house, and etc.

She has been trained to trust in her husband blindly and sees no other way. He calls her “little girl” (352) and “little goose” (349) and states “She will be as sick as she pleases!” (352) whenever she tries to express her issues. Instead of fighting for what she thinks will make her better she accepts it and keeps pushing her feelings aside, while he treats her like a child. We get an instant feel for her problem in the first page when she says, “John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that” (pg 346). A woman shouldn’t expect her husband to laugh at her concerns. Even after briefly writing about her condition she remembers her husband telling her the very worst thing she can do is think about it and follows his instructions. This is when she begins to focus on the house instead of her problems and the obsession with the wallpaper starts. She has nothing else to think about alone in the home; they don’t even allow her to write, which she has to do in secret.

In Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper," a nervous wife, an overprotective husband, and a large, dank room covered in musty wallpaper all play important parts in driving the wife insane. The husband's smothering attention, combined with the isolated environment, incites the nervous nature of the wife, causing her to plunge into insanity to the point she sees herself in the wallpaper. The author's masterful use of not only the setting (of both time and place), but also of first person point of view, allows the reader to participate in the woman's growing insanity.

The short story, " The Yellow Wallpaper", written by Charlotte Gilman, and "The Cask of Amontillado" written by Edgar Allan Poe, are stories in which the plots are very different, but share similar qualities with the elements in the story. "The Cask of Amontillado" is a powerful tale of revenge, in which the narrator of the tale pledges revenge upon Fortunato for an insult. "The Yellow Wallpaper" is a story about a woman, her psychological difficulties and her husband's therapeutic treatment of her illness. She struggles over her illness, and battle's her controlling husband. The settings in both stories are very important, they influence the characters, and help

The main characters in “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “The Cask of Amontillado” are both blatantly mad, but what’s of particular interest is how Poe and Gilman portray male and female insanity. The authors are of the opposite sex and come from different backgrounds, therefore, giving very different perceptive on mental illness which is reflected in their character presentation. Unfortunately, the male character created by Poe is portrayed as calculating and psychotic, while the woman invented by Gilman in “The Yellow Wallpaper” is labeled meager and fragile minded, a common theme that exist when distinguishing between the sexes.

Since she allowed no creative outlets, nor the ability to make decisions for herself, her obsession with the yellow wallpaper in her bedroom becomes increasingly severe. The narrator begins to use the wallpaper to facilitate her creativity and give herself some purpose. The oppressive situation her husband forces her into seems to drive her further and further into insanity until she becomes one with the ‘woman’ behind the wallpaper. “I suppose I shall have to get back behind the pattern when it comes night, and that is hard! It is so pleasant to be out in this great room and creep around as I please!” (Gilman, 1899, p. 9) The narrator’s inability to control her own life due to her husband’s continuous controlling ways seems to increase her insanity to the point of no return. This directly represents a woman’s struggle in society during the time the story was written. It was expected of a woman to adhere to every wish of her husband, whether or not he was correct.

In the story The Yellow Wallpaper written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the heroine who suffered postnatal depression was applied the “rest cure” in a colonial mansion by her husband John, a high standing physician. The heroine was not allowed to do anything she wanted during the therapy: she was not allowed to write; she was not allowed to leave the house; she was not allowed to visit her relatives. She was forced to live in a room with the walls covered by yellow wallpaper, which finally caused her to create illusions and go mad. It seemed like the heroine had a sweet family and lived in a peaceful environment. Why did the heroine become a lunatic? In another word, what caused her to be lunatic?

By the end of the story, she is insane due to realizing the relation of herself and the wallpaper. This leads to her insanity. This is relevant because it is the story itself and it needed when analyzing the narrator's

In The Yellow Wallpaper, the narrator and her husband clash over how the wife should act. While it seems like she has a mental illness, readers may interpret it as she will no longer obey her husband or society’s view on how to be a normal housewife. The more her husband tries to convince her that she is fine and continues to tell her what she should be doing, the more the narrator begins to

is badmouthing her and doesn’t take her illness seriously. Which she can do nothing about because no one believes her and/or can say anything about it because he is the man, which means that he is right. The narrator has the inability to question her husband on anything he does or say simply because he is the man. John has prescribed the

It’s clear that, even if she doesn’t admit it, she isn’t happy about the fact that she has no power in making decisions about treating her own mental illness. The narrator wishes to do certain things such as write in her diary or switch bedrooms, but John does not want to give in to her “fancies”. She mentions at one point that the house they live in has many beautiful rooms, but the one she lives in is one of the most unattractive in the house, due mainly to the wallpaper. Her affection for the house in spite of its flaws seems to reflect her love for her husband despite his patronizing and controlling behavior toward her. As the story progresses, the flaw in the room she is in, the wallpaper, becomes increasingly important for the narrator to focus her attention on, paralleling the growing issue of the oppressive relationship in her marriage. John is the clear antagonist of the story in that his contempt toward his wife is the ultimate reason for her psychological breakdown. He is constantly patronizing her, at times treating her more as a daughter than a wife. At several points in the story, he refers to her as “little girl” or “blessed little goose”. It seems like, as both her husband and physician, he is genuinely trying to help her and is treating her the way he thinks is best in order to aid her recovery. But his persistent controlling behavior and stifling of his wife’s concerns continue to trap

Her husband treats and talks to his wife like a child and calls her by names like "little girl" and other non-sexual or intimate terms. Lacking proper engagement or stimulation, she becomes fixated on the yellow wallpaper. She becomes convinced that there is a woman who escaped from the peeling yellow wallpaper and sees herself as this person as well. The pattern in the wallpaper is complex like psycho-emotional state the narrator finds herself and the escape of this is highly symbolic. Her slow descent into mania is symbolic of how women’s conditions worsened by isolation and lack of understanding.

When I read “The Yellow Wallpaper” I didn’t know what to think of it. At first I thought the husband was trying to kill his wife by abandoning her in that big old house, but he was actually trying to help her get better. It appeared that the narrator was suffering from some type of mental disorder and the only way to recover was to let her rest in that old mansion. As I kept reading I was so sure the wife was going to die because she was tired and cried most if the time. Especially when she locked the door and had a rope I thought she was going to hang herself. You could tell she was starting to get a little crazy when she mentions seeing things behind the wall. It does not say what she was ill from, but it sounded like she was mentally ill.

No person is inherently mad; humans have caused other humans to drown their own sanity which can then submerge that person into an ocean of madness. Historically, madness had become a common occurrence with women due to several stress factors they must endure on a daily basis: finding a husband, baring children, raising children, find a suitable job, retaining femininity, and more. Authors Charlotte Gilman and Jhumpa Lahiri explored the psyche of two women who were facing very stressful situations. Gilman’s The Yellow-Wallpaper, introduces her readers to an unnamed nineteenth century woman who is slowly falling into madness. The protagonist must endure the “rest cure” where she must live without artistic expression, human contact, or

It is necessary to add some elements each other that led to the narrator of The Yellow Wallpaper to madness. First, although the narrator has discrepancies, “Personally, I disagree with their ideas. Personally, I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change, would do me good. But what is one to do?”(7, 250), is trying to fit into a “normal” life, for a woman by being obedient, submissive, getting married, and having a baby. Second, according to the chronology on The