How is mental illness represented in "The Yellow Wallpaper?"
How is mental illness represented in "The Yellow Wallpaper?"
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The main character in "The Yellow Wallpaper," Jane, is mentally ill. The...
The main character in "The Yellow Wallpaper," Jane, is mentally ill. The story, written in first person epistolary style, is rife with dramatic irony because of its unreliable narrator. Readers have to ferret out the true psychological condition from what Jane says and from what she doesn't exactly say. At the beginning of the story, Jane suffers from what today's mental health professionals would term post-partum depression. The baby isn't...
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Read "Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper" and at least one additional...
Read "Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper" and at least one additional article from the literature resources center about Gilman. How much do you think Gilman's period and the cultural assumptions about women in the nineteenth century were responsible for her creating the narrator in the story? How much is simply due to her creativity? To her own feminist agenda?
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After reading "Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper," and taking note of the...
After reading "Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper," and taking note of the fact that Gilman's short story is a fictionalized memoir, I'd have to say that the narrator in "The Yellow Wallpaper" is based on Gilman herself. Gilman clearly states that the story is an embellished version of her own experience, and that her purpose in writing it was to convey to the mental health professionals of her day the damage that the "resting cure" was...
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This is a fun and interesting question. When you read a work narrated by...
This is a fun and interesting question. When you read a work narrated by an unreliable narrator, you can't trust what he or she says. This means that as you go through the story, doubts arise and you find yourself re-examining what he or she said in the past, checking it against more recent statements. The narrator never tells you the narration can't be trusted. You have to look at clues and decide that for yourself. That being said, all of...
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What is the theme of "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman?...
What is the theme of "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman? Does it have a motif of creativity vs. insanity?
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"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a...
"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a quasi-autobiographical story about a rest cure prescribed for what was diagnosed in her period as a "nervous disorder". The protagonist of the story is portrayed as undergoing such a cure and going slowly insane over the course of the story. As we read it, though, we begin to understand that the so-called cure resembles something like the solitary confinement of prisoners or sensory...
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As the "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman was published...
As the "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman was published in 1892, it was written before the beginning of "high modernism", but it is within a transition period between the Victorian and the modern. Its treatment of the struggles of a women to define her own place as a creator within a patriarchal society was typical of both late Victorian treatments of the "new woman" and such modernist figures as Virginia Wolf. On a technical...
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What are some gender issues around the world addressed in "The Yellow...
What are some gender issues around the world addressed in "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman?
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Though first published in 1892, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story...
Though first published in 1892, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" is still relevant today. It depicts the assignment of rigid, gender-defined roles to the main character and her husband, John. She is the emotional, fragile member of the pair, and her husband, a physician, is the rational, practical one. He and her brother, also a physician, believe they can decide what is best for her. They prescribe a rest cure,...
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What diction in the story "The Yellow Wallpaper" relates to the theme:...
What diction in the story "The Yellow Wallpaper" relates to the theme: "When one is held in confinement against his/her will, the inability to properly channel one’s creativity can lead to insanity"?
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In "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Stetson, it is clear by...
In "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Stetson, it is clear by the end of the story that the main character has gone insane. There are several key phrases in the woman's journal that point to the idea that being kept in confinement is what made her crazy. For example, the couple leases a house in the country, remote and isolated. The woman is not allowed the room she wants, but is instead put in the old nursery, where "the windows are...
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Most scholars agree that "The Yellow Wallpaper" is a thrilling...
Most scholars agree that "The Yellow Wallpaper" is a thrilling psychological story. It becomes clear over the course of the story that the unnamed woman is suffering from Postpartum Depression, which is a condition that sometimes occurs in women after they've had a baby. Symptoms, according to Mayo Clinic, include excessive crying, fatigue, depression, irritability, decreased appetite, and anxiety. If left untreated, postpartum depression can...
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Is "The Yellow Wallpaper" crime fiction? If yes, what was the crime?
Is "The Yellow Wallpaper" crime fiction? If yes, what was the crime?
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"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is not an example of...
"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is not an example of crime fiction or a crime story. First, one should note that crime fiction is a genre defined by far more than the simple occurrence of a crime. Although crimes occur in many novels and plays, including Crime and Punishment, Oedipus Rex, and Hamlet, these are not considered crime stories because the main focus of the stories is not on the crime itself or its solution, but...
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How is mental illness represented in "The Yellow Wallpaper?"
How is mental illness represented in "The Yellow Wallpaper?"
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The main character in "The Yellow Wallpaper," Jane, is mentally ill. The...
The main character in "The Yellow Wallpaper," Jane, is mentally ill. The story, written in first person epistolary style, is rife with dramatic irony because of its unreliable narrator. Readers have to ferret out the true psychological condition from what Jane says and from what she doesn't exactly say. At the beginning of the story, Jane suffers from what today's mental health professionals would term post-partum depression. The baby isn't...
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Read "Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper" and at least one additional...
Read "Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper" and at least one additional article from the literature resources center about Gilman. How much do you think Gilman's period and the cultural assumptions about women in the nineteenth century were responsible for her creating the narrator in the story? How much is simply due to her creativity? To her own feminist agenda?
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After reading "Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper," and taking note of the...
After reading "Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper," and taking note of the fact that Gilman's short story is a fictionalized memoir, I'd have to say that the narrator in "The Yellow Wallpaper" is based on Gilman herself. Gilman clearly states that the story is an embellished version of her own experience, and that her purpose in writing it was to convey to the mental health professionals of her day the damage that the "resting cure" was...
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This is a fun and interesting question. When you read a work narrated by...
This is a fun and interesting question. When you read a work narrated by an unreliable narrator, you can't trust what he or she says. This means that as you go through the story, doubts arise and you find yourself re-examining what he or she said in the past, checking it against more recent statements. The narrator never tells you the narration can't be trusted. You have to look at clues and decide that for yourself. That being said, all of...
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