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Treatment for mental illness by the British medical unit in the 19th century sounds foolish to our modern day society. Today we know little about mental illnesses and how to treat people who suffer from these diseases. Now go back a hundred years and doctors knew nothing and it seems like in some cases they were just making up ridiculous things that they thought were cures. “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is a story of a woman who suffers from postpartum depression, her husband John, happens to be a doctor. He puts her in a house isolated from the world and demands she does nothing with her time. Upon reading the story, I realized that John had his best interest at heart but did not know how to treat her. In this essay I will argue these translations were successful.

The Yellow Wallpaper is a story that was written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, In the story a woman is suffering from postpartum depression and her husband John who is a doctor thinks the most efficient way to help her is to lock her away at this empty house demanding she lies down all day for weeks on end denying her from simply tasks such as writing. The situation only seems to escalate until the woman completely loses herself. In the story Gilman writes,
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In the article Nadkarni explains the similarities between “Jasmine” a women migrates from the Punjabi Village to the United States after her husband was killed. To seek freedom after being abused and raped. And “The Yellow Wallpaper”. These two stories are completely different, but Nadkarni argues that feminist progress was secruced in both. Jasmine who pursues to find freedom and start her life as an independent woman after a harsh life across seas and In The Yellow Wallpaper a woman who rebels against orders given to her by her

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