Prose Court for Female Lead in 'The Yellow Wallpaper'

When asked the question of why she chose to write 'The Yellow Wallpaper', Charlotte Perkins Gilman claimed that experiences in her own life dealing with a nervous condition, then termed 'melancholia', had prompted her to write the short story as a means to try and save other people from a similar fate. Although she may have suffered from a similar condition to the narrator of her illuminating short story, Gilman's story cannot be coined merely a tale of insanity. Insanity is the vehicle for Gilman's larger comment on the atrocities of social conformity. The main character of "The Yellow Wallpaper" comes to recognize the inhumanity in society's treatment of women, and in her

Each scenario given was evidence used on the opposing side of OJ Simpson’s trial to find him guilty. Cochran then uses this to his advantage by refuting the scenarios in a logical way that his audience can make sense of. First Cochran questions the validity in the timeline of the night of the murder given by the opposing argument. He begins by taking a step back and telling the courtroom to “consider everything that Mr. Simpson would have to have done in a very short time under their timeline.” Going on, he lays out the supposed timeline so his audience can decide for themselves that the prosecution’s argument is logically not possible. Within the short time frame, Simpson would have had to do everything from driving to Bundy, to killing “two athletic people in a struggle that takes five to fifteen minutes,” to hiding his bloody clothes all by himself. Along with these few examples, travel time still must be taken into account, putting Simpson over the allotted time it took for the events to take place. Cochran closes this scenario by proving it wrong, even though he structured the entire scenario to prove itself wrong. He explains that the prosecution is having to push back their timeline because “it doesn’t make any sense.” Cochran also talks about the bloody clothes and shoes that Simpson supposedly had on and how “under [the prosecution’s] scenario… [Simpson] goes into the house” in his still bloody clothes and shoes. Questions are fired after proposing this scenario that Simpson is completely covered in blood but leaves no blood trail in a house with carpet that is almost white: “where’s the blood on the doorknob…the light switch…the banister…the carpet?” Question after question being launched, Cochran successfully switches the mindset of the courtroom by creating nonsense out of the prosecution’s evidence. He allows the jury to form their own

From the beginning of their tenure in the summer home, the narrator’s fixation on the wallpaper in her quarters is ever present. She states that it is the worst paper she had ever seen. It is dull with a vague pattern that follows no rules of how it is laid out. The color is “almost revolting; a smoldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight’” (Gilman)

The wallpaper is "repellent, almost revolting; a smouldering unclean yellow strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight" (132). To add to the grotesqueness of the color, the paper was unkept and peeled "in great patches all around the head of [her] bed" (131). It had a pattern that was a flamboyant and through the progression of the story, the protagonist starts to see a woman that seems to be trapped behind

On the afternoon of September 27, defendant and his brother David drove to Ponderosa Sky Ranch where the Figgs’ house was located. While they were passing through, the defendant raised his middle finger at Figgs.

Most women in America nowadays are lucky enough to consider themselves to be an independent individual, but females were not always guaranteed their freedoms. Throughout the early 1900’s, authors would characterize husbands to be controlling figures. In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” Charlotte Perkins demonstrates just how possessive the husband is to his wife in their marriage. This short story shows just how miserable the woman is to be in a marriage with John because John, thinks it would be best that his wife is isolated to get over her postpartum depression.“The Yellow Wallpaper” demonstrates how a male dominated society leads to the woman not being their own individual by using characterization, narrator perspective, and conflict between women and society.

Me: “Well, the first thing they do in a case like this is the plaintiff and defendants both depose.”

As I step into the oversized building, I freeze in my tracks. I start to feel dizzy. I recognize this immediately as the courthouse I was in this summer, in Oconto County. This was the same lobby, I remember passing through it. I suddenly realize how long I’ve been standing there, and almost have to run to catch up with my class. When I catch up, my class is beginning to enter a courtroom, the same courtroom. I continue into the room with the class, and see the judge that I saw this summer. I already know, of course, that his name is Michael Judge, the main judge of this courthouse. He looks me straight in the eye, before turning back to the class. Indeed, he must remember what I said, before I had left this courtroom that day.

The door opened and an old man entered the room. He was going bald and what few strands of hair remaining were silver-gray. His body was lumped in a wheelchair and his face was hidden under a hat and a pair of sunglasses with pitch black shades. The bailiff escorted him to the defendant’s seat/chair amidst a frenzy of camera flashes going off and fervent boos from the crowd.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman begins the story “The Yellow Wallpaper” with the narrator and her husband John going away to the mansion, which the narrator describes as “the most beautiful place!” (552). The narrator is describing the whole mansion with such happiness, until she began to speak of the walls in her bedroom, she says “it is dull”, “the color is repellent, almost revolting; a smoldering unclean yellow” (552-553). The wallpaper will come back into play as the story continues on. Gilman portrays the state of insanity through her character, the narrator, which is why they ended up in this “hereditary estate” (551), because she was not well enough to stay around so many people. As you read above, the description of the wallpaper, which makes

The State calls Jeffery Logan to the stand.” A well dressed man went forward after swearing him in, he sat in the witness chair.

In the final three sentences on “The Yellow Wallpaper” the nameless woman has peeled off all of the yellow wallpaper by biting, tearing, and smudging it. At this point in the story the reader can come to the conclusion that the wife has gone completely mentally insane. When her husband, John, comes into the room he

Not the yellow wallpaper, no, im talking about what’s beneath the wallpaper of course. The bedroom the woman stays in for most her days is the room with the all important and famous yellow wallpaper. In fact, the MOST important part of this room, was the wallpaper. It wasn’t very interesting, no, it was actually quite ugly...Revolting. It was a nasty, unclean yellow. The pattern on the wallpaper wasn’t any better than the color. The woman actually described it as “One of those sprawling flamboyant patterns, committing every artistic sin”. It was this pattern on this very unclean yellow tinted wallpaper that fueled the narrator’s creativity...well, that, and the intense

“The defense tried to say that the suspect had an alabye because he was having lunch with a certain friend who testified to that alabye.”

“I don’t think there is a problem in our legal system. I don’t think we will make anything better by showing a picture of me looking at his picture and tell how devastated I am now. One of the only things I still have is my pride. And as a principle, drama would not make me or my husband proud of myself.”