Theme Of Yellow Woman

In her book, “Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit”, the author clearly tells about how the culture of the Laguna Pueblo Indians were so different from that of the Western culture. For example, in Laguna Pueblo, there is no different class or social status. I find this very interesting. They also do not place too much value on one’s outward beauty as well. Instead, women were more attractive if they are strong, even stout, which is a great contrast to today's –Western definition: skinny and thin, flawless face etc. They are more interested in beauty within. How one is at peace with nature, his or her surroundings. It is more of having a good character, being selfless, and courageous at any age.

In the essay of Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit, Leslie Marmon Silko uses flashbacks, reflection, and details to enhance the points and to make the clear and convincing. An example of structure, though reflection is how Silko switches between the non-recent and recent past to give the reader an engaging experience. Therefore, Silko is able to use structure ti make her points clear, convincing, and engaging.

After reading “Yellow Woman” a sense of mystery is imposed on the readers. The story itself is very short and dreamlike. It is as if there is no beginning to the story. The narrator wakes up on the sand of a river bank next to a man she does not know. The man known as Silva acts very strangely towards her throughout the entire story. He is always laughing and smiling while at the same time forcing the narrator to do what he wants. By the same token, the narrator never puts up any sort of a fight to leave. The Narrator in the story knowingly follows Silva’s every word even knowing deep down she knows that she probably shouldn’t. She uses her time with him as an escape from her own

  The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman can by read in many different ways.  Some think of it as a tragic horror story while others may find it to be a tale of a woman trying to find her identity in a male-dominated society.  The story is based on an episode in Gilman's life when she suffered from a nervous disease called melancholia.  A male specialist advised her to "live a domestic a life as far as possible.. and never to touch a pen, brush or pencil..."   (Gilman, 669).   She lived by these guidelines for three months until she came close to suffering from a nervous breakdown.  Gilman then decided to continue writing, despite the physicians advice, and overcame her illness.

The narrator of The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman discovers that the woman trapped in the yellow wallpaper is really herself and reflects that there are countless other women trapped and oppressed by society just as she is. Through her descent into madness, the narrator is able to finally free herself, but not without losing her sanity in the process.

Silva’s obscure identity is questioned by Yellow Woman throughout the story. The reader doesn’t exactly know who he really is and he gives Yellow Woman vague answers to her simple questions: “Little Yellow Woman”, he said, “you never give up, do you? I have told you who I am. The Navajo people know me too” (Silko 765). Silva was the one who addressed the narrator as Yellow Woman giving her a sense of identity and confusion because of the myth she remembered her grandfather told her. Silva could possibly be the ka’tsina spirit that lives in the mountains or just a stranger she met, the readers will never know for sure and neither will Yellow Woman. Later in the story, Silva and Yellow Woman both take meat that Silva claimed he stole to sell to the Mexicans. Silva informs Yellow Woman about the limitations and boundaries that are set upon the Native Americans:

In the story, “The Yellow Wallpaper”, the narrator’s husband has rented an old mansion in the country for the summer. John is relying on this getaway as time for his wife’s nervous condition to resolve itself with rest and medicines. As the story unfolds for the readers, it becomes apparent her husband, John, is dominating, and controlling. She feels somewhat doomed that she is unable to change her circumstances and she ends up as a victim, thus confirming the dominance of men over women during that period. Between the narrator’s controlling husband and the deterioration of her mind, she snaps and becomes completely delusional.

Throughout Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit, Silko appoints to the reader several key events that expressed her point of view on her appearance and how the stories helped Silko reach to an eventuality of accepting her difference. Silko’s interaction with her grandmother, aunts, and the tourist shaped her character throughout the story. The author uses beauty, harmony, cultural inheritance, and identity to assist the reader in understanding the power and beauty of the text and indicate the author’s point of view expressed in the

In “The Yellow wallpaper”, the wallpaper is a metaphor that expresses women’s protest against the repression of the society and their personal identity at the rise of feminism. During the Victorian era, women were kept down and kept in line by their married men and other men close to them. "The Yellow Wallpaper", written By Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is a tale of a woman, her mental difficulties and her husband’s so called therapeutic treatment ‘rest cure’ of her misery during the late 1800s. The tale starts out in the summer with a young woman and her husband travelling for the healing powers of being out from writing, which only appears to aggravate her condition. His delusion gets Jane (protagonist), trapped in a room, shut up in a bed making her go psychotic. As the tale opens, she begins to imagine a woman inside ‘the yellow wallpaper’.

The yellow wallpaper is symbolically attempting to cover up the true situation of women during the nineteenth century. The story conveys that restraining women from the working world and forcing them to remain at home, cooking and cleaning, will cause women to behave ignorantly and act immaturely. John, the narrator’s husband, believes he knows more than his wife could possibly know about her health and method for healing. The “resting cure” he prescribes for the narrator places her in a situation where she has no contact with the outside world, and she must not engage in any processes that require significant brainpower, similar to what women were subjected to throughout the nineteenth

She straddles one of the horses, grabs the other by its lead, and goes back to where she left her sleeping partner. After she wakes him up she tells him that she is leaving, but he has other plans saying,”You are coming with me, remember?”(2543). He then calls her Yellow Women which she seems to disagree with him saying that, “I only said that you were him and that I was Yellow Women… I have my own name… Your name is Silva and you are a stranger I met by the river yesterday afternoon”(2543). They go on like this for a little while until the narrator flashes back to the story her grandfather told her about a girl and a coyote, and the story of the Yellow Women. She tells Silva that she doesn’t have to go with him because that’s what happens in the stories and this isn’t a story. Eh tells her to go with him and she does. They continue to walk until the sun is high in the sky. The narrator tries to

“The Yellow Wallpaper” provides an insight into the life of the narrator- a woman suppressed and unable to express herself because of her controlling husband- leading the reader down her fall to insanity, allowing for her inner conflict to be clearly expressed. The first person point of the view the author artfully uses and the symbolism present with the wallpaper cleverly depicts the inner conflict of the narrator, losing her own sanity due to the constraints of her current life. However, while it seems that the narrator in “ The Yellow Wallpaper” succumbed to her own insanity, the endless conflict within herself and her downward spiral to insanity is seen through a different light, as an inevitable path rather than a choice taken as the story develops.

Unlike usual folktale, which begin with long time ago, Silko starts Yellow Woman as it is a contemporary romance. She begins the story with a noticeable scene that a woman wakes up and finds herself surrounding by the beautiful wilderness and a man who is covering with a red blanket. The woman, who is also the narrator, discovers herself being recognized as Yellow Woman, which is her grandfather’s favorite story, later on. The method of using a narrator, who has already heard about the folktale of Yellow Woman, as a storyteller to tell her personal experience and perspectives of being Yellow Woman makes this story even more appealing to readers. Therefore, the story uses a female narrator, whose identity is unclear, to narrate the legend of

There are problems regarding sexual and racialsm problems in every society. The story of yellow women is written by Lesile Marmon Silko. Silko is a young women who have troubled after she awakens by her sexuality identity and discovers that she is the yellow women that her grandfather was talking about. The stranger she is with is the coyote, and her family is the badger. The yellow women often showed up as silko’s writing as both a traditional figure , strongly connected with nature heterosecuality and as a female charachter awakening to her cultural and sexual identity”

The theme of oppression is evident in Woman at Point Zero. Firdaus the narrator of the story narrates what she has gone through in her life until she is about to be convicted. Through her narration, the reader is able to know the forms of oppression that Firdaus has gone through.