The Cause Of Oppression In The Yellow Wallpaper (Gilman

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“The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Stetson (Gilman)” embodies the idea that imprisonment in the “yellow wallpaper” room was the cause of the narrator’s absolute madness, as seen how her character changes and at the end and she no longer addresses her husband as John but “that man”. When reading the story we can see the narrator is being oppressed by her husband, “John is a physician, and perhaps – (I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind) – perhaps that is one reason I do not get well faster” (p.g.1). This quote shows us how the narrator is trapped and can’t express her feelings fearing her husband. The helpless sensation of oppression and being trapped leads the narrator to madness and we can witness the whole scene unfold. From her change in attitude to obsession with the wallpaper and the illusion of herself as the woman behind the wallpaper. Since this story is written as a diary, it allows us to feel close to the narrator and connect our inner thoughts. John loves his wife, but by trying to hide his wife’s mental illness by referring to it as temporary nervous depression, which shows us a glimpse of how the women and the mental issue were seen in the nineteenth century. It displays John being a dominant figure and how the narrator …show more content…

By the time she is dwelling on an unformed shape that is present in the wallpaper her madness is vague, she no longer despises the colour as it becomes an object of fascination for her. “The only thing I can think of that is like is the color of the paper” (p.g.12). She has hopelessly become obsessed with the wallpaper, spending her whole day and night trying to reveal the meaning and being able to stay awake the whole night precisely looking for the significance of the wallpaper becomes her

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