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This 3 page paper discusses the theme of insanity in Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper. Specific cause and effect are addressed and supported with examples and quotes from the text. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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watches with horrible fascination while one woman is driven insane by a number of factors beyond her control. The Yellow Wallpaper stands as a classic study in character psychology because
in the short span of a few pages the dark side of the human mind comes out to play. Charlotte Gilmans story, The Yellow Wallpaper, is
the study of a woman slowly descending into a world of insanity. However, it must be stated that Gilmans story also shows the oppression of women by the men in
their lives. The feminist overtones cannot be ignored, as they are so intricately interwoven into the major theme of the story. The narrator becomes insane because the men in her
life, for one reason or another, hold ultimate control over her basic development as a human being. In The Yellow Wallpaper, a young mother sinks into
a deep depression after having her child. Lectured by her husband and forced to abandon all other pursuits than that of wife and mother causes the intellectual part of her
mind begins to recoil in horror(Lawall). The effect is terrible. "You see, he does not believe I am sick! And what can one do? If a physician of high standing,
and ones own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hysterical tendency -- what is
one to do?" (Gilman 193) As she sits in the nursery with the child she begins to notice and become transfixed on the yellow wallpaper which is slightly
curled and frayed. She sees images of faces in the wallpaper of her room. She believes the images are of women creeping behind the paper and she cannot
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