Peggy Mitchell

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman The story “The Yellow Wallpaper”  is written and told in the first person and is in the form of a journal. The story itself is told from a narrator who remains nameless, and her husband John that have come to vacation in a large house after the birth of their daughter. It seems as though john believes that this getaway would be good for our  narrator, as she has been suffering from hysterical postpartum behaviors. This attitude has led to the result

crippling mental disease. It is important to first note that the rest cure was a medical method used to cure most cases of depression, during the 1800s and early 1900s according to section writing by Welcome Library, London. Created by Silas Weir Mitchell the countries leading nervous specialist at the time, the rest cure was developed to give the patient as much rest without any or little activity. The section would go on to additional add, how some patients and even doctors considered this method

Being fearful about something can manipulate your mind to thinking of things that aren't actually present. Fear can get to the best of us at times and can make a person feel small and alone, even though they’re in a group with others facing the same situation. Shirley Jackson the author of The Haunting of Hill House shows this exact situation of fear taking over a person by showing it in the main character, a young woman named Eleanor, who comes from a small town which who was invited to visit the

In Creela Belle Howard’s article “Legal settlements at Veterans Affairs more than tripled since 2011, many due to medical malpractice,” she argues that VA hospitals, known for having a history of scandals and malpractice, should start terminating staff members for malpractice. Howard presents credible evidence, as well as implementing emotion through heartbreaking examples of veterans who passed away at the hands of shiftless staff at VA hospitals throughout the country. The author also presents

The brain does not always need isolation sometimes it just needs a human touch. This thought is proven in “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. In the story a lady suffering from postpartum depression moves to a creepy old house with her so called husband John. She is isolated in a room with a weird yellow wallpaper. This room eventually causes her to go insane and crawl around the room. The narrator then begins to imagine people behind the wallpaper. On the last day at the house the

Coming-of-age novels focus on the transition from childhood to adulthood, with the main character going through a conflict and maturing from it. In the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, Melinda Sordino a is a high school freshman transitioning from her difficult first year of high school to her second year. Through the novel, readers go through Melinda's freshman year learning about her conflicts, secrets, discoveries, and opinions of the world around her. In this novel Melinda's conflict is

The story “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman explains a woman in the early 20th century suffering from mental illness. The narrator speaks on the constraint of her marriage and the part she plays in the society in the early 20th century. The main characters are described as the narrator and her husband name John. The woman and her husband had recently had a baby and moved into a new house. The woman looks around the house and describes the house as a haunted house. She dislikes everything

The oppression of women was immensely noticeable in the 19th century. The oppression these women suffered wast not only present in their duties at home, but made its way into womens health that caused horrific medical issues to go untreated. In that century, women was constantly misdiagnosed. They suffered from postpartum depression, and postpartum, like any other woman's disease, was treated as “illness of the womb”. Gilmar's story reaffirms the unfair medical treatment these women received, which

I am terrified of clowns, I always have been. But my fear of clowns really started when I was in 6th grade. I went through a haunted maze and a man in a clown mask popped out at me. I screamed and I broke down crying. The man took off his mask and told me he was sorry and I walked out of the maze and I have hated clowns ever since. When I saw the clown, my vision went from color to black and white. That is why my day went from amazing to terrifying. Transformation obviously creates fear. This can

Symbolism is one of the key elements that help signify ideas and qualities by symbolic meanings and their different literal senses. Gilman uses various techniques of symbolism throughout the short story such as “The color is repellent, almost revolting; a smouldering, unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow- turning sunlight.” Gilman here shows u us symbolism by the use of color. When something is yellowed, it is usually due to age and decay. This allows the readers to know the wallpaper has