Examples Of Characters In The Yellow Wallpaper By Charlotte Perkins Stetson

The vivid descriptions in “The Yellow Wallpaper” help to bring the reader along in the narrators decent into a kind of psychosis. It starts mildly, with her describing the color of wallpaper as “repellant, almost revolting; a smoldering unclean yellow” (Gilman 528). As more time passes she begins to see more things in the paper such as “a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and two bulbous eyes start at you,” and for it have “so much expression in an inanimate thing” (Gilman 592). As the pattern and descriptions get more twisted, we get visual clues of the madness that is slowly consuming the narrator. The color of the paper even begins to become a physical thing she can smell descried as, “creep[ing] all over the house...sulking...hiding...lying in wait for me…It gets into my hair” (Gilman 534). In the end we get a graphic visual representation of her full psychosis

The wallpaper is beginning to take on the role of controlling her life. As the days proceed on and she continues to sit in this isolated room, she begins to notice objects incorporated throughout the patterns. Every day the shapes become significantly clearer to her until one moment it appears to be a figure trapped within the walls (734). This aversion to the color completely shifts at this point toward hallucination. The wallpaper now has complete control of the narrator’s mind and sanity.

There are many different events in a person’s life that could lead them to insanity. In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” you are dealing with a woman who is a victim of male over-protectiveness and isolation that eventually leads to her insanity. In William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” you are dealing with a man who has to deal with his father’s death and rejection from the love of his life that eventually leads him to a form of insanity. Each character handles their situations differently, but it could have gone the other way had they chose to make different decisions.

In the story, John does not let the narrator do many things in the story. Whenever the narrator wants to do something different such as live in one of the nicer rooms on the lower level of the house, “John would not hear of it” (par. 26). This leaves the narrator with no mental stimulation or pleasant living situation. Because of this lack of entertainment, the narrator’s only thing to focus on becomes the wallpaper. The paper annoys her and bugs her, but “John laughs at [her] about [it]” (par. 48).

Insanity, the true definition is doing something over and over again expecting the same result. It is a thing, that can affect a person and make them slightly off their rocker. The landlady seems like a sweet old lady until we find out that she takes her victims and stuffs them in her free time. While the narrator from the “Tell-Tale Heart” does nothing like this. He only kills his victim, and they may both kill someone, but the landlady kills multiple people. They may both be insane but the landlady is more so, because she poisons as well as stuffs her victims, kills more people than the narrator, and she keeps trophies of the people she kills and leaves them out in the rooms that they stayed in.

When people think of insane people, the image of a person strapped down to a chair and not being able to move might pop in to their head. Although that is a form of insanity, that’s not the case in The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Insane thoughts come to a person out of the blue, and to them those ideas are no different than normal thoughts. They are sometimes small but can grow into larger ideas which can be bad in some situations. The Yellow Wallpaper is a great example of how a normal person can slip slowly into madness and insanity.

Sometimes people go insane when they’re too hurt or some are just born like that. In the memore”Night” there's a lot of characters go insane because of the type of life they had. Most of the times the life you live causes you to go crazy. The tough life they had to go through was a pretty horrific time.

Her descriptions and obsessions with the wallpaper as viewed from her perspective, truly draw readers into her downward spiral to ultimate insanity. Readers follow her in her mind from a nervous condition through her mild subsequent pleadings for alternative treatment to eventually "creeping" through the wallpaper with her--experiences which readers grasp within a powerful narration indeed. Through her, and only her is precisely how readers clearly knew how she felt at the end when she says, "I've got out at last in spite of you and Jane. And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back!" (330). Husband John fainted, he had no idea she had gone that far, but readers did.

Insanity means being really crazy,foolish and possibly having dementia. An example of a fictional insane person is the Joker. In fact the Joker put Harley quinn in a pool of poison and made her insane like him. Madness is another word to describe insanity. Insane people are in mental hospitals.

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Stetson has a simple beginning and a vivid, tremendous conclusion resulting in the most prestigious theme. Although, without the overall setting the document implies readers wouldn't be able to depict why things make such a drastic turn throughout. Being placed in a room known as, from the narrator's perspective, “dull enough to confuse the eye, … repelling in color, … and torn off in spots” (Stetson 650). viewers are able to begin to understand the basis of what life was like in the main character’s environment. Two important reasons as to which the setting influences the stories theme and point of view would involve its influence on the narrator and how it altered the moral of “The Yellow Wallpaper.”

The recurring conflict in the short story, leading to the narrator losing her insanity, can be seen in the beginning of “The Yellow Wallpaper”, with the narrator’s point of view illustrating her restricted, mundane life and the misunderstanding of her condition that causes her mental health to deteriorate. The narrator clearly depicts the heavy constraints limiting her from expressing herself through her very first diary entry, in which she says “John is a physician, and perhaps-- (I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind)--perhaps that is one reason I do not get well faster. You see he does not believe I am sick! And what can one do? Personally, I disagree with

In the beginning of the story she clearly states how much she dislikes the “horrid paper.” She does not interact with the wallpaper much at the beginning but as the story progresses she becomes more attuned to the wallpaper and even more intrigued by it. After she is staring at the wallpaper for so long she starts to see shapes and weird things in the design of the paper. She states that “there is a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down.” This is when one can start seeing the symptoms caused by the wallpaper.

Throughout history madness has always existed. People are oblivious to the actuality of mental illnesses and in most cases ; often women cases, do not take the person seriously. It exists In William Shakespeare’s tragic play “Hamlet” through multiple characters. In one, Ophelia, It exists after her Father dies and her lover, Hamlet, begins to act neurotic and temperamental towards everyone including her. Similarly; “The Bell Jar” a book by Sylvia Plath also contains a female named Ester who loses her mind. Both Ophelia and Esther struggled with mental illness in un-accepting worlds only deepening their illnesses.

In the first few paragraphs of the story, the narrator makes a point of rejecting the idea that he is mad. It almost seems as if he goes out of his way to reassure readers that he is indeed sane. It was at this point that I first got an inclination that the narrator was unreliable, either because he is insane, or just lying. The average person who

"A strong woman understands that the gifts such as logic, decisiveness, and strength are just as feminine as intuition and emotional connection. She values and uses all her gifts” This quote by Nancy Rathburn states that women should utilize their inborn characteristics to elevate themselves in society. Two short stories, “Sanctuary” by Nella Larsen and “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman closely relate to the quote said by Rathburn, focusing on the importance of being decisive. In both stories, the difference of each characters’ traits is demonstrated by how they can make decisions without the influence of a male figure or cannot. The characters of the two short stories, “Sanctuary” and “The Yellow Wallpaper”, qualifies Rathburn’s quote because their decision making, shown through their dialogue, illustrates the duality of being a woman, a strong figure in society that is to be looked up to to or a weak one that is oppressed by her counterpart.