Ignorance In 'The Yellow Wallpaper'

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Ever wonder how if there was such option, would humans in the world tend to have knowledge of their death and plan out their last days or rather not know and face a sudden death?Ignorance is defined as lack of information or knowledge. Knowledge is defined as facts, information, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education in life. Many in the world are unaware of information either because they are too innocent or naive to understand and process the information or are considered a minority in the society. Jane, the narrator of the “Yellow Wallpaper”, was an unaware woman because of both of the conditions. She is trapped by the symbolic hell that is society, treated as a child, and suppressed against her will .In 19th century, …show more content…

Jane just watching and observing John laugh at her opinions/beliefs represent her as powerless to attempt to gain the respect of others and lack of decision-making ability to take a stand for herself. As the story continues Jane notices a woman in the wallpaper in the room, John had placed her,being trapped and struggling to escape to which she soon realizes to be herself. Jane mentions how after being the room for a while she starts to"see her...creeping all around the garden ... I don't blame her a bit. It must be very humiliating to be caught creeping ... I always lock the door when I creep.... I can't do it...I know John would suspect something at once (Gilman 54-55).Jane sees her own self in the woman she imagined in the wallpaper. Her humiliation of creeping is having the freedom to think for herself and holding desires to which John has made her believe it as “wrongdoings”.The fact that she says she must “lock her door” shows that she is afraid of her husband finding her out and putting a stop to what she feels is her only comfort. She notices the women struggling to escape the prison that seems bright and colorful from outside but in reality is a dark prison trapping her to touch freedom.

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