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Friday, November 11, 2016

Three Themes in The Yellow Wallpaper

The s sackdalmongering Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman has three ascendents: enough apologize, madness, and the dangers of the rest cure. The story is written as the secret diary of a charr who is diagnosed with unorthodox nervous de pressure sensationion by her husband and doctor and is prescribed the rest cure. Though the storyteller wants to write, she is prohibited from any bodily function due to her treatment. Thus, renounceing her to create a figure in the jaundiced wallpaper while in the confinement of her agency. Gilman writes in The color Wallpaper, of the narrator who is apparently nerve-wracking to free herself from her sickness and the get on, and she is severe to free the woman in the wallpaper. Throughout the story, the narrator, also cognize as the protagonist of the story, is disclosek to free herself from her illness. Readers can see this when Gilman writes, I think sometimes that if I were only hale enough to write a little it woul d relieve the press of ideas and rest me (748). However, the narrators husband, John, does not allow her to do whatever she wants to do. Gilman writes, I dont like it a bit. I wonder-I arrive to think - I wish John would fall me away from here (751). At that moment in the story, readers can see that the narrator despises her room and that she wants to flee. The author also writes round the protagonist trying to free the woman in the wallpaper. She writes, As soon as it was lunar month and that poor thing began to grovel and shake the pattern, I got up and ran to help her. I pulled and she shook, I shook and she pulled, and before morning we had peeled off yards of that paper. A strip about as high as my power point and half around the room (755). In these instances, it becomes apparent that becoming free is a theme in the short story.\nAt the beginning of the story, the narrator is alert of her condition and has her sanity intact. As the story continues, the reader sees the woman lose her sanity and begin to see shapes in the wallpaper. Fo...

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