Do You Think The Husband Tried To Drive His Wife Insane

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.

    Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s "The Yellow Wall-Paper," does more than just tell the story of a woman who suffers at the hands of 19th century quack medicine. Gilman created a protagonist with real emotions and a real psych that can be examined and analyzed in the context of modern psychology. In fact, to understand the psychology of the unnamed protagonist is to be well on the way to understanding the story itself. "The Yellow Wall-Paper," written in first-person narrative, charts the psychological state of the protagonist as she slowly deteriorates into schizophrenia (a disintegration of the personality).

Women in the eighteenth century were confined by their husbands, and imprisoned in their own homes. Women had no rights to their own lives, or a say so in how to live it. Women at this time struggled for equality, and they were unable to think or live for themselves. If they showed any signs of being unhappy they were condemned by society and their master. In this process many women transcended into severe nervous depression. In the story “The Yellow Wallpaper”, we observe a woman’s descent into madness, and we can better understand how women of this time suffered with oppression. This story is a glimpse of Gilman’s real life struggle with gender roles, inner conflict,

Not too long ago, a male-dominant society considered women as property and did not allow women to think or speak with freedom. In the short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the protagonists lack of control is symbolized through elements in wallpaper, which inevitably results in her growing hysteria/paranoia.

Until the medical breakthroughs that we have made in the modern day, psychology as a science was not fully understood. Modern technology has given us a clearer idea of psychology, but in the past there was less known about the science. This alongside a predominantly male medical discourse led to a medical diagnosis in many women called hysteria. Female hysteria was a medical diagnosis given to specifically women as far back as the ancient Greek civilization. Hysteria started as a supernatural phenomena, but as medicine evolved it would be described as a mental disorder, (Tasca). Hysteria. in actuality, is an absurd and fabricated diagnosis that institutionalized and discriminated countless women. The way it makes a women feel, and the fact that it strips a woman of any sort of free will is a sickening display of blatant misogyny. “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman perfectly displays not only the misogyny, but the torture a woman must face trapped under a hysteria diagnosis. Hysteria as a diagnoses fails to effectively treat many women, instead leading to the mistreatment and wrongful institutionalization of women.

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Although they are both having trouble with the marriage they are in they cope with it differently. In The Yellow Book, the wife is fighting mentally with herself telling herself over and over that she is not crazy. “I've got out at last, […] in spite of you and Jane. And I've pulled off most of the wallpaper, so you can't put me back” as much as she says that she is not free because she is still confined in the same room and most readers can assume that her mental condition only got worse from time to time of being stuck inside that room staring at the hideous wallpaper where she pictured herself in. “She not only grows to like it, but goes so far as to become, in her mind, literally one with it. Her relationship with the wallpaper, in part, reflects Lacan's mirror stage, albeit in an unusual, psychotic way. The mirror stage “manufactures for the subject […] the succession of fantasies that extends from a fragmented body-image to a form of its totality” (Lacan 4).” As stated by the author Suess, Barbara says that unknown crazy wife from the short story was not only a piece of wallpaper that she would see but it was something she saw herself becoming and could see herself in it but by tearing that wallpaper down she, unlike the others she saw stuck in it, was free and did not have to

In "The Yellow Wallpaper," by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the protagonist symbolizes the effect of the oppression of women in society in the Nineteenth Century. In The Yellow Wallpaper, the author reveals the narrator is torn between hate and love, but emotion is difficult to determine. The effects are produced by the use of complex themes used in the story, which assisted her oppression and reflected on her self-expression.

“The Yellow Wallpaper,” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, depicts a young woman’s gradual descent into insanity due to her entrapment, both mentally and physically, in the restrictive cult of domesticity. Through the narrator’s creeping spiral into madness, Gilman seeks to shed light upon the torturous and constraining societal conditions in which women are expected to live, that permeates throughout all aspects of their lives. At first glance to an average reader unfamiliar with Gilman’s history, “The Yellow Wallpaper” seems to just provide a tale about the oppressive relationship between the man and the woman in a domestic environment, however, once Gilman’s own personal life is uncovered, the story takes on a new level of depth.

In Charlotte Gilman’s short story "The Yellow Wallpaper," Jane, the main character, is a good example of Sigmund Freud’s Studies In Hysteria. Jane suffers from symptoms such as story making and daydreaming. Jane has a nervous weakness throughout the story.

The women in Faulkner's and Gilman's stories are victims of male over-protectiveness.  The men that rule their lives trap Emily in "A Rose For Emily" and the narrator of "The Yellow Wallpaper". Each character must retreat into their own world as an escape from reality.

In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” Charlotte Perkins Gilman uses symbols to portray recovery from the depth of mental illness. The main character, Jane, struggles throughout the story with severe depression. She is constantly haunted by the room she has to occupy during her stay. Yet despite it all, Jane sets herself free from her illness’s grasp. Gilman employs the symbols of the yellow wallpaper, the ripping of the yellow wallpaper, and the beautiful door to depict Jane’s journey out of her depression.

The Yellow Wallpaper develops a mysterious imagery to heighten the senses of its readers. For example, the setting involves “a colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicit” that seems to be abandoned and isolated from all society, providing for an eerie mood to settle. The story’s imagery and enhanced detail is focused mostly around the narrator's obsession with the yellow wallpaper. Even though, this obsession might be alluded to from the title, it is demonstrated when Perkins states that “the color is repellant, almost

Throughout time there a has been a trend where women are seen as the lesser gender. Their thoughts and opinions are not taken into consideration even when discussing themselves. In the 19th century women’s mental health was a joke. Most times they were just said to have hysteria (a mental disorder which had a plethora of symptoms ranging from fatigue to depression) and were prescribed to simply rest. A mental disorder is a clinically significant behavioral or psychological syndrome and should not be taken lightly, but in that time there were many misconceptions.

Self-Inflicted Madness Charlotte Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”, portrays both a good plot structure and setting. The plot explains the struggles within the character and shows how the character was driven to madness later in the story. Following that, the setting doesn’t just give the reader a vivid picture of where the story is taking place, but it also plays a key role in the story because the wallpaper (A setting detail described vividly) was a main reason why the narrator was driven to madness as she saw herself inside the wallpaper. Throughout the whole story, she suffers from multiple internal conflicts.