A Critical Analysis of The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A Critical Analysis of The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Yellow Wallpaper written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a riveting storey of a dejected woman locked a centering as if she were insane. Her passion is to write and by doing so we are sufficient to follow her on a journeying in which she is victimized by those closest to her. The significance of the fib is wondrous as it delves into the underlying issues of a womans place and feminism in the 19th century. The story not only gave an insight into the public perception of mental illness that it later caused a famous psychiatrist, Silas Weir Mitchell to alter his treatment of neurasthema. As the story begins, the woman-whose name we never learn-tells of her depression and how it is dismissed by her husband and associate who are both medical practitioners. You see, he does not believe I am sick And what can one do? We are able to see that the narrator has maintained the traditiona l patriarchal feelings, as many a(prenominal) women and men did in 19th century, where women are discouraged from venturing out of their abandoned sphere, collectable to the political makeup of the era. It becomes apparent that her mind was alluding to this point by the way she speaks about her husband, John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that. The structure of this execration highlights the male laughing and the woman acquiescing, showed by the short sentence and the plenteous stop - silencing any of her thoughts and opinions. An example of the dominant submissive relationship betwixt them. He treats her as if she was a child and he was the controlling, domineering, yet good-natured parent. What is it, little girl? h... ...d self-analysis, and was symptomatic of the degeneration rife in society. This illustrates the protagonists falsify head state as although yellow is associated with negativity, she craves it. This is portrayed when th e protagonist claims that everything outback(a) is green instead of yellow. Her mind is so twisted that she feels everything outside of her sphere is evil. The ending of the story is open to a variety of different interpretations. She feels victorious for escaping from her husbands grasp even in reality she is now trapped within herself. We feel that she whitethorn commit suicide due to her frustration, however the situation was reversed, and I was given the impression that she may have tried to murder her husband, in an commence to free herself. However what ultimately happens we are never able to learn.