Use Of Setting And Symbolism Of The Works Of Charlotte Perkins Gilman And Robert Frost

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s story, The Yellow Wallpaper, portrays the life and mind of a woman suffering from post-partum depression in the late eighteenth century. Gilman uses setting to strengthen the impact of her story by allowing the distant country mansion symbolize the loneliness of her narrator, Jane. Gilman also uses flat characters to enhance the depth of Jane’s thoughts; however, Gilman’s use of narrative technique impacts her story the most. In The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman uses interior monologue to add impact to Jane’s progression into insanity, to add insight into the relationships in the story, and to increase the depth of Jane’s connection with the yellow wallpaper it self.

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 geographical, physical, and historical settings in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" were more than the primary character could handle. The geography would lead to think she could enjoy the environment, but she chose not to. The physical setting showed us the reader just how grotesque and unbearable it would be to live a room in which the wallpaper to over the narrators mind. Lastly, we looked at how historically women were not allowed to speak their minds about how they felt. Maybe now that John has seen his wife go completely insane for himself he will finally seek extra attention for

            “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is an example of how stories and the symbolism to which they are related can influence the perspective of its readers and alternate their point of view. In the “Yellow Wall-Paper”, the unknown narrator gets so influenced by her surroundings that she starts showing signs of mental disorder, creating through many years several controversies on trying to find the real causes of her decease.

   In the disturbing novel, The Yellow Wallpaper, the setting in which the action takes place is extremely important. The author uses setting to focus the reader’s attention into the story in a gradual manner. Also, the manipulation of setting allows the author to subtly introduce symbols in the text. These symbols represent Gilman’s view on the status of women in the patriarchal society of the nineteenth century.

The Yellow Wallpaper is a story, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Although the work is short, it is one of the most interesting works in existence. Gilman uses literary techniques very well. The symbolism of The Yellow Wall-Paper, can be seen and employed after some thought and make sense immediately. The views and ideals of society are often found in literary works. Whether the author is trying to show the ills of society of merely telling a story, culture is woven onto the words.

In "The Yellow Wallpaper," Gilman showed how women had to listen and obey men. With the use of auditory imagery in, "John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage," it reveals how men treated women and women could not do anything about it. Men were superior to women. Men can do anything and if women complained they were the ones at fault. Gilman also used symbolism in

After learning of Gilman’s personal story, it becomes apparent that “The Yellow Wallpaper,” and the struggle of its narrator, carries a distinct message. Gilman grew up in an unhappy and impoverished family with a brother, a single mother, and no father figure. She later went on to marry Charles Stetson (whom she later divorced) and had a daughter with him. After the birth of her daughter, Gilman fell into a deeply depressed state, indicating the relevance of postpartum depression. When she consulted Dr. Weir Mitchell about it, she was prescribed a “rest cure.” It was this event that inspired Gilman to write “The Yellow Wallpaper,” and many similarities can be drawn between

The emotions inside of her need to get out and her so called psychologist is forcing her to keep them in. The men in this time did not understand why a woman would ever want to do anything but stay in the home and the fact that she didn’t meant she was going or already insane. They forced her into domesticity until it eventually drove her mad. She begins to obsess over the wallpaper and the woman trapped inside. While no one is watching, for fear of getting into trouble for her foolish actions, she peels the wallpaper slowly to help the woman escape. She acts so normal when the husband is around just like a puppet. Pretending to be the prefect housewife and mother he has expected her to be all along. The wallpaper design is a metaphor for the men in society keeping women in their accepted role in life in the nineteenth century. Gilman especially wanted out of this role and wanted to show the way for the rest of women who were stranded in these roles, like she was.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman “The Yellow Wallpaper” shows the journey that the main character goes through. Oppression, madness, and freedom are the three main things that Gilman’s character goes through. She described the way those three things signified the main themes in the story. Therefore, Gilman uses the themes to describe how the main character, describes her experience with the wallpaper. Therefore, Gilman uses three types of themes in this short story.

Depression or Schizophrenia within “The Yellow Wallpaper” Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” is essentially a diary of the life of a woman who suffered from a nervous breakdown and was ordered Rest Therapy by which to cure her mental illness. The reality off the wallpaper is not only her obsession but it is transposed from the diagnosis of her husband and the wallpaper represents the criteria which women are supposed to fit into and Gilman was not able to adapt to who society thought she should be and therefore she perceived as a lunatic. “The Yellow Wallpaper”, although perceived as fictional is partially Gilman’s own autobiographical portrayal of her own fight to regain herself as a woman who has been dominated and oppressed by her environment and thus, the wallpaper is the way women were expected to be like.

In the story “The Yellow Wallpaper,” Gilman creates a character of a young depressed woman, on the road to a rural area with her husband, so that she can be away from writing, which appears to have a negative effect on her psychological state. Lanser says her husband “heads a litany of benevolent prescriptions that keep the narrator infantilized, immobilized, and bored literally out of her mind. Reading or writing herself upon the wallpaper allows the narrator to escape her husband’s sentence and to achieve the limited freedom of madness which constitutes a kind of sanity in the face of the insanity of male dominance” (432). In the story both theme and point of view connect and combine to establish a powerful picture of an almost prison-type of treatment for conquering depression. In the story, Jane battles with male domination, because she is informed by both her husband and brother countless brain shattering things about her own condition that she does not agree with. She makes every effort to become independent, and she desires to escape from the burdens of that domination. The Yellow Wallpaper is written from the character’s point of view in a structure similar to a diary, which explains her time spent in her home. The house is huge and old with annoying yellow wallpaper in the bedroom. The character thinks that there is a woman behind bars in the design of the wallpaper. She devotes a great deal of her

The characteristics of the yellow wallpaper symbolize the narrator’s inability to escape from the oppression and survive on her own in the society. During her “solitary confinement” in her room, she begins to visualize her suffering in the faded wallpaper. In the beginning, she cannot control the images appear on her mind. These images are a reflection of her own feelings, but she does not know how to figure out of them. She not only sees herself behind the paper, trapped, trying to escape, but another woman as well. Gilman’s attempts at creating another woman in Jane’s subconscious help create the central theme of oppression on women. These women are experiencing the same cruelty as Jane; it is the reason why the reader does not see this through words, only through the images in Jane’s subconscious. “Sometimes I think there are a great many women behind, and sometimes only one, and she crawls around fast, and her crawling shakes it all over.”(654) The image of the women crawling represents women in that society in

In her short story “The Yellow Wallpaper,” Charlotte Perkins Gilman addresses the theme of when people try to take away parts from others that do not need to be taken away, through literary devices such as: symbolism, characterization, and conflict. In 1899 Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the short story is about a woman with an illness that is slowly taking away her sanity. The woman suffers from nervous depression and the husband, John, takes her to the countryside to relax in an old, hereditary estate, which only makes her condition worse. The author, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, suffered from nervous breakdowns and this led to the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper.” Gilman uses symbolism, characterization, and conflict to express her theme of how people try and take special parts away from others that does not need to be taken away.

In the next section of the story, Gilman shifts from direct narration to a symbolic one. In this phase, the aspect of the yellow wallpapers emerges. This aspect is complex for ordinary readers to comprehend and requires sufficient knowledge of stylistic devices to derive its meaning. According to the way the narrator describes the yellow wallpaper, she illustrates the conflict that exists between her inner and outer self. In fact, this is the part that explicitly brings out the aspect of women 's limited freedom in the society. Firstly, the narrator laments that her husband would not allow her to write (Gilman 6). In these early days, writing was a common approach that the oppressed used to bring out their frustrations. Therefore, the narrator 's husband never wanted her to explore her inner self through writing as this would enlighten her about her condition.