She demands society to regard women as strong emotional and intellectual creatures who should be allowed the same freedoms as men.

Following on from above, the diary entry is written from Jane’s perspective, however, Stetson has successfully used this to inject John’s voice even into his wife’s most intimate thoughts, emphasising the conflict between them. “ The color is repellant, almost revolting.”(Gilman 306). She subtly demands society to find another approach in viewing women, which in her view is strong, capable creatures who are entitled to creative capacity through writing and stimulating discussion. We can start to conclude from research the Character later starts to become a little insane due to the oppression her husband John was giving her.

She writes it in the first person so that readers can experience a piece of her situation and be drawn to care. Isolation is another symbolic representation of the ugly wallpaper that has Jane in a ruckus. The countryside of a peaceful, yet sensible treatment scene for postpartum depression is the elite setting. Author Bintas Zorer Pelin, makes a claim in his article, “It has been determined that social support is a very important and protective factor in postpartum depression”. ©2020 eNotes.com, Inc. All Rights Reserved. In this era women tended the home, the kids, and cooking; while the men hunted, built things, and took charge of the household.

From the beginning, Jane does show an unusually strong distaste towards it, describing its color as, “repellant, almost revolting; a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight.

The implication elaborates that one cannot hide mental illness for eternity since a moment will arrive when the condition will reveal itself (Beer 198).

They work effortlessly to achieve freedom but their naivety causes them to fail eventually. Unlike the evolving medical practice, the society remains obsolete in its perception of mental health conditions as victims are still met with stigmatization and rejection. Jane continues to see the imaginary woman more frequently, describing her as, “always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight” (Gilman 654). This topic could take at least two different approaches. Personally, I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change, would do me good.” (74-75), “I never saw a worse [wall]paper in my life. This list of important quotations from “The Yellow Wallpaper” will help you work with the essay topics and thesis statements above by allowing you to support your claims.

Another common way for mood to be created in a story is through the overall theme. The color yellow is used as a sign of insanity of how a color that is so bright and so colorful can actually cause more pain to someone that has nothing to do but sit around and stare at the wall while the mind plays games on them. Research suggest “that the nursery room, with its barred windows and rings in the wall, was designed for the restraint of mental patients, but other critics assert that these were in fact common safety precautions used in Victorian nurseries and that such interpretations are extreme”. In conclusion, Jane knows for sure that she is not at a vacation home, but a place for medical discernment with isolation. Body and soul free!” (Chopin 68). This treatment only allows the narrator to sit around, think, and obsess it eventually just causes her to become more anxious and leads her mind further towards madness. Research indicated that “There is a dramatic shift here both in what is said and in who is speaking; not only has a new “impertinent” self-emerged, but this final voice is collective, representing the narrator, the woman behind the wallpaper (P. Treichler).

Children suffering from the condition usually have an introverted personality and relate better with animals and other inanimate objects than with fellow humans. She states, “I can see her [the woman behind the wallpaper] out of every one of my windows! Does not read like a moral or like conventional wisdom.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman uses different types of symbolism, foreshadowing and irony to get her point across on female oppression in the early 1900. But after Louise confines herself in her room, she has a different reaction to the loss of her husband. In "The Yellow Wallpaper," is the narrator reliable or unreliable? As we can see, there are many different methods within prose narration that can be used in order to bring the issue of female marginalisation to the attention of the reader.

Rather, their relation is cause and effect; Jane’s time alone in the room is the cause, and her mental break is the effect. Women during this time period had minimal rights, even concerning their own mental health” (Pouba and Tianen 95). The Color Purple (1983) Penguin Classics. The repetition marks the importance of this statement and suggests that the narrator does not have the freedom to make her own decisions; that John is the controlling and deciding factor in their relationship. The mental condition is intrinsic meaning that a child is born with it, but it stays hidden only to manifest itself later on in life (Gilman 265). He does show a lot of affection towards Jane; she shares an interaction she had, stating, “He said I was his darling and his comfort and all he had, and that I must take care of myself for his sake” (Gilman 652). While “The Story of an Hour” is arguably less detailed, there is no doubt that the main character, Louise Mallard, is also oppressed by her husband. Obviously, the colour purple is a key symbol in The Color Purple, representing the beauty and love of god in a less than perfect world. Similar observations may be attested in the modern society as the community refuses to be informed and instead maintains an unwelcoming attitude.

Jane being a new mom, now suffering from postpartum depression, is not able to continue her role as woman of the home. Foreshadowing occurs later in the story as John tried to be a “helpful” husband and a great physiologist thinking he is giving his wife everything she needs. Thesis Statement/Essay Topic #5: The Symbol of the Yellow Wallpaper.

(Chopin 67). However, pleas for removing stigmatization from the midst of the society have fallen on deaf ears. 6th ed. If Celie did not have this freedom of thought (and expression through her letters) then she may never have gradually freed herself from reliance on men in a healthy manner (as opposed to the freedom born of madness that Gilman’s narrator finds). These two sentences destroy any doubt that Jane still has a sliver of sanity left. It does not do to trust people too much.” (86). The setting can provide a background of the character or the events which take place. JSTOR. Just this nervous weakness I suppose.” (80), “There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will.” (81), “It is so hard to talk with John about my case, because he is so wise, and because he loves me so.” (81), “I really have discovered something at last….Sometimes I think there are a great many women behind [the wallpaper], and sometimes only one, and she crawls around fast, and her crawling shakes it all over.” (85), “I have found out another funny thing, but I shan’t tell it this time!