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This is a 3 page paper that provides an overview of Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper". Emphasis is placed on the cultural conditions that enabled the protagonist's captivity. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. The Androcentric World of "The Yellow Wallpaper" , 9/2010
--properly! Charlotte Perkins Gilmans "The Yellow Wallpaper", first published in 1892, tells the story of a woman who is diagnosed with
a psychological disorder and is subjected to the prevailing treatments of the time, an enforced isolation known as the "rest cure". While this seems like a conventional setup, the barbarism
and lack of compassion inherent in that culturally accepted treatment provides for a dramatic narrative in which Gilman, speaking to the reader through a series of epistolary journal entries, slowly
gets worse rather than better, losing touch with reality and fixating on the intricate patterns of the yellow wallpaper that lines the room in which she is kept a virtual
prisoner. At the end of the story, she falls under the sway of a radical hallucination and though she remains stuck in the room, visualizes herself as escaping from her
bonds through the process of destroying the titular wallpaper. The story is thus a highly ironic and tragic narrative: the story of a cure which leaves the patient in worse
shape than the disease, with the responsibility for her predicament lying with the culture she was born into, with its over-reliance on external scientific observation, androcentric medical field, and inculcation
of a culture of domesticity for women. This paragraph helps the student to show the repressiveness of psychological theory at the time of the story. Gilmans protagonist is first shown
to be a victim of her cultural circumstances as a result of that cultures over-reliance upon scientific analysis of psychological behavior. At the time of the story, cognitive psychology was
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