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This is the first 1,000 characters of 2384 words (9.54 pages) in the essay titled Yellow Wallpaper A descriptive descent into madness The Yellow Wallpaper”- A Descriptive Descent Into Madness in the Nineteenth CenturyWomen in literature have often been portrayed as submissive to men. Literature of the nineteenth century often characterized women as oppressed by society, as well as by the male influences in their lives (Dock 52). Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” presents a descriptive journalistic/clinical account of a woman’s gradual descent into madness at the hands of her domineering husband (Bak 39). Gilman once wrote, “Women’s subordination will only end when women lead the struggle for their own autonomy, thereby freeing man as well as themselves, because man suffers from the distortions that come from dominance, just as women are scarred by the subjugation imposed upon them” (qdt. in Gardarowski 2). “The Yellow Wallpaper” brilliantly illustrates this philosophy. The narrator’s declining mental health is reflected through the characteristics of the house she is trapped in and her husband, while trying to protect her, is actually destroying her. The narrator of the story goes with her doctor/husband to stay in a colonial mansion for the summer. The house is supposed to be a place where she can recover from severe postpartum depression. She loves her baby, but because of her depression she is not able to take care of him. “It is fortunate Mary is so good with the baby. Such a dear boy! And yet I cannot be with him, it makes me so nervous” (Gilman, “The Yellow”... |
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Keywords: yellow wallpaper, postpartum depression, nineteenth century, descent into madness, gilman, narrators, domineering, narrator, literature, husband john, charlotte perkins, colonial mansion, dear boy, story goes, subjugation, subordination