Monday, February 11, 2019
The Narrator of The Yellow Wallpaper -- The Yellow Wallpaper
The Narrator of The Yellow paperIn The Yellow Wallpaper the vote counter becomes more depressed throughout the story because of the recommendation of isolation that was made to her. In this short story the narrator is detained in a lonesome, drab room in an attempt to free herself of a scatterbrained disorder. The narrators husband, a physician, adheres to this belief and forces his wife into a intercession of solitude. Rather than heal the narrator of her psychological disorder, the intercession only contributes to its effects, driving her into a severe depression. Under the orders of her husband, the narrator is moved to a firm far from society in the country, where in she is locked into an upstairs room. This environment serves not as an inspiration for mental health but as an gene of repression. The locked door and barricaded windows serve to physically restrain her the windows are barred for little children, and there are rings and things in the walls. The narrator is stirred not only by the physical restraints but also by being exposed to the rooms yellow wallpaper is grievous and fosters only negative creativity. It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to uninterruptedly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the spunky uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit felo-de-se plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in inaudible of contradictions. All through the story the yellow wallpaper acts as an obstructionist causing her to become very annoyed and disturbed. There is nothing to do in the secluded room but stare at the wallpaper. The narrator tells of the haphazard pattern having no organization or symmetrical plot. Her constant examination of and reflection o... ...reep over him every time Clearly this treatment is issued with good intentions but fails to bring about positive results. Gilman tries to show that consort to her husband, the narrator continually brings her great depression upon herself. The author, Charlotte Perkins Gilman also attempts to show that the omit of social exposure, physical repression, and ugly wallpaper cause the treatment to be extremely ineffective and detrimental. The disorder which is being treated is actually reinforced to the point of a serious mental illness. Similarly in todays society, medical and psychological advice may have the same effect. checkup technology and practice have progressed considerably since the time of the Yellow Wallpaper. This is not to say that todays physicians are infallible. Perhaps some of todays treatments are the Yellow Wallpaper of the future .
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