Essays on The Yellow Wallpaper

Name, Identity and Self in Charlotte Perkins Gilmans The Yellow WallpaperCharlotte Perkins Gilman presents in the short story The Yellow Wallpaper a narrator of dubious identity. If a reader infers that the reference at the end of the story to Jane is indeed self-reflexive, a dichotomy between the Jane of which she speaks and the…

At a time where women had little say in how to live their own lives, increasingly more female novelists began to write about gender roles with a critical outlook on the patriarchal structure in society. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is one example of a feminist social criticism from the late 1800’s. In…

How does Gilman’s presentation of the setting foreshadow the narrators madness in the text? “The Yellow Wallpaper” is depicted by the narrator’s sense that the wallpaper is something to interpret, it is a shadow of something that personally effects her. At first it seems merely unpleasant because it is dirty and ripped, and an “unclean…

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and The Mark on the Wall by Virginia Woolf, are two short stories that share the theme of feminism. Feminism is the doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of men(Houghton). In The Yellow Wallpaper, the narrator is suffering from post-partum depression….

A major theme in “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is tha solitary confinement and exclusion from the public results in insanity. The use o imagery and setting helps illustrate this theme throughout the story. The unnamed protagonist in this story suffers from a nervous disorder which i enhanced by her feeling of being…

Analysis of Short Stories, “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “The Tell-Tale Heart” “The Yellow Wallpaper,” by Gilman, Charlotte Perkins short story illustrated the attitudes towards women’s mental and physical health in the 19th century. The story presented in first person is a collection of a woman’s journal entries whose physician husband, John had confined her in…

Post-Partum Psychosis and “The Yellow Wallpaper” “The Yellow Wallpaper,” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, tells the story of a woman’s descent into madness as a result of postpartum psychosis. Postpartum psychosis is a condition that affects between one and two of every thousand live births. The condition of postpartum psychosis usually begins within two weeks of…

Audience: Women who are controlled by men. Purpose: To show how women were treated during this time period. “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell reflected the time period where men dominated women. Over the years the roles that men and women play in society have…

In “The Yellow Wallpaper”, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, thedominant/submissive relationship between an oppressive husband and hissubmissive wife pushes her from depression into insanity. Flawed human natureseems to play a great role in her breakdown. Her husband, a noted physician, isunwilling to admit that there might really be something wrong with his wife. This same attitude…

Descent Into MadnessCharlotte Perkins Gilman’s, “The Yellow Wallpaper” is the story of a woman’s descent into madness as the result of being isolated as a form of “treatment” when suffering from post-partum depression. On a larger scale, Gilman is also telling the story of how women were kept prisoners by the confines of the society…