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Literature
First, and most simply, we have a protagonist, an antagonist, and a conflict in this story: these are all conventions. The protagonist is the narrator, a woman who has recently had a baby. We might...
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The Yellow Wallpaper
Gilman's period and the cultural assumptions about women in the nineteenth century greatly influenced her creating the narrator in the story. She used herself, a woman who suffers from a mental...
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The Yellow Wallpaper
In this story, mental illness is represented as something that is improperly understood, diagnosed, and treated. To suggest that a woman who suffers from postpartum depression, for which they did...
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The Yellow Wallpaper
"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is not an example of crime fiction or a crime story. First, one should note that crime fiction is a genre defined by far more than the simple...
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The Yellow Wallpaper
In "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Stetson, it is clear by the end of the story that the main character has gone insane. There are several key phrases in the woman's journal that point...
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The Yellow Wallpaper
Though first published in 1892, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" is still relevant today. It depicts the assignment of rigid, gender-defined roles to the main character...
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The Yellow Wallpaper
"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a quasi-autobiographical story about a rest cure prescribed for what was diagnosed in her period as a "nervous disorder". The protagonist of...
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The Yellow Wallpaper
In the short stories "The Yellow Wallpaper" and "The Cask of Amontillado," both authors, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Edgar Allan Poe, respectively, create narrators the reader can empathize with....
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The Yellow Wallpaper
In the beginning of the narrative of "The Yellow Wallpaper," the narrator is suffering from what is now referred to as postpartum depression. This develops because of hormonal changes in women...
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The Yellow Wallpaper
The revelation of the narrator's name in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" is very subtle. Her name does not appear until the very end of the story, but there is a gradual process...
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The Yellow Wallpaper
This short story is set in the United States. The narrator describes the home her husband, a physician, has rented as a "colonial mansion," and says that it "makes [her] think of English places"...
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The Handmaid's Tale
To appropriate a text is to adapt a text in a way that we make it our own. We change the original text in such a way that the new version adds further creativity and insight. If Margaret Atwood's...
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The Yellow Wallpaper
Most scholars agree that "The Yellow Wallpaper" is a thrilling psychological story. It becomes clear over the course of the story that the unnamed woman is suffering from Postpartum Depression,...
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The Yellow Wallpaper
The narrator certainly does not feel that her husband understands or believes her when she describes her feelings of illness. She says, "John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in a...
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The Yellow Wallpaper
The narrator first describes the wallpaper as irritating and provoking, "and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide -- plunge off at outrageous...
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The Yellow Wallpaper
The answer is definitely (d). When we say that the narrator is unreliable, we mean that she doesn't have the cognitive or emotional ability to notice the exact, full truth of what's going on and to...
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The Yellow Wallpaper
Jane's husband, John, is a physician and yet he does not believe that Jane has a legitimate illness. He thinks that Jane's problem is a "hysterical tendency." Such a flippant diagnosis reveals a...
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A Pair of Silk Stockings
Both Chopin and Gilman present their female protagonists as victims of a male-dominated, patriarchal society that severely curtails women's freedom and limits women to traditional gender roles....
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The Yellow Wallpaper
It's clear that the speaker's husband, John, thinks her writing is silly, unhelpful, and worthless, even that it's a weakness. Although we know that the speaker's writing is something she enjoys,...
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The Yellow Wallpaper
Day after day, the narrator watches the wallpaper, and she realizes that there is a figure, "like a woman, stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern." At first, she hates the wallpaper...
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The Yellow Wallpaper
Writers create parallel structure when they intentionally repeat word patterns and grammatical structures within sentences. Asyndeton is a form of parallel structure in which a writer deliberately...
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The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote "The Yellow Wallpaper" in a narrative style known as epistolary fiction. This type of fiction unfolds via the writings of one or more characters. In this case, the...
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The Yellow Wallpaper
The primary theme of "The Yellow Wallpaper" is that women who are suffering from post-partum depression, or any kind of depression, should be respected and allowed to make decisions regarding their...
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The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gillman's story "The Yellow Wallpaper" is an overlay of the story of so many repressed women during the Victorian era as it presents the medical and professional dominance of...
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The Yellow Wallpaper
I think you are on the right track and I agree with your thinking so far. I would go on to argue that the setting of the story is the driving force of the protagonist's character change and descent...
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The Yellow Wallpaper
These are two very disparate pieces of literature. Aside from the former being a short story and the latter a novel, both take place within two very different times: The Scarlet Letter is a novel...
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The Yellow Wallpaper
Although John thinks that he is helping his wife, Jane, by keeping her isolated and inactive, this is actually an imprisonment and leads to Jane's breakdown. The yellow wallpaper lines the wall of...
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The Yellow Wallpaper
To start, "pathos" and "ethos" are essentially types of "appeals" or arguments meant to play to specific features of the audience to achieve the desired persuasion. Pathos are expressions that...
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The Yellow Wallpaper
The patient in this story is the narrator, so the perspective we get in this story is clearly biased: we only know what the narrator reports. We learn from the patient, a young female who has...
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The Yellow Wallpaper
This is an interesting set of questions. Let us tackle the trickiest one first: some aspects of format are beyond Gilman's control, or beyond the control of any author. She did not, for example,...
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The Yellow Wallpaper
The unnamed narrator's husband John is to blame for his wife's breakdown because he has repressed his wife, and he lacks any understanding of her feelings. John has accepted the medical theories of...
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The Yellow Wallpaper
Both Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" and Susan Glaspell's Trifles share the themes of the dangerous nature of repression, the treatment of women, and alienation. Repression and...
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The Yellow Wallpaper
The husband in “The Yellow Wallpaper” called his wife, the narrator “a blessed little goose” and a “little girl.” These “terms of endearment” showed how the narrator was treated...
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The Yellow Wallpaper
This is a question with many interpretations. I think you have to specify what success means in the context of the story, as it could mean many things. Certainly, the narrator is not successful at...
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The Yellow Wallpaper
In Charlotte Perkins Gilman's story, "The Yellow Wallpaper," the narrator is a woman who is traumatized by postpartum depression, and confined to a room with distressing wallpaper, spirals into...
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A Doll's House
Main Theme The most salient common theme shared among the female characters found in the short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the play A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, and...
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The Yellow Wallpaper
While the main character justifies John's methods of treatment for her condition at times in the beginning, she does also repeatedly state that John is not aware of the full extent of her suffering...
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A Rose for Emily
The primary common theme in the stories "A Rose for Emily", by William Faulkner, "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and the poem "Daddy", by Sylvia Plath, is the feeling of...
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The Yellow Wallpaper
In the short story "The Yellow Wallpaper", the word "behind" is used nine times. In all but one of these times, the word describes the position of the mysterious woman-shaped figure that the...
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The Yellow Wallpaper
The women in both "The Yellow Wallpaper" and "Roman Fever" are repressed and restricted in their lives in an era greatly dominated by males. Nevertheless, the main character and narrator of...
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The Story of an Hour
Both of these stories, Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper," offer a chilling view of the treatment of women, most especially during the...
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The Yellow Wallpaper
Jane's (the narrator's) husband and brother are physicians. She believes that the best thing for her condition is to work and have some excitement in her life. But her brother and husband tell her...
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The Yellow Wallpaper
The short paragraphs in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's story, "The Yellow Wallpaper," are important to understand the narrator's state of mind. When paragraphs are shortened and sentences repeat...
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The Yellow Wallpaper
"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a story focused on the disintegration of the narrator's mind. The point of the story, which reflects the author's own experience, is that the...
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The Yellow Wallpaper
The greatest source of irony in "The Yellow Wallpaper" stems from the negative impact that the narrator's treatment has on her well-being. Medical treatment is very much intended to make a patient...
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The Yellow Wallpaper
As the "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman was published in 1892, it was written before the beginning of "high modernism", but it is within a transition period between the Victorian...
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The Yellow Wallpaper
“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, overall, is a fictional symbolic representation of how oppressive a patriarchal system is specifically towards disabled females. Gilman's...
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The Yellow Wallpaper
By "Jane," I'm assuming you mean the main character who tells the story in first person. As to why she feels lonely and empty, a modern answer would be that she is probably suffering from...
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The Yellow Wallpaper
Oh, but there are so many great conflicts! Let's look at three of them distinctly - the idea of what's "main" really is going to have to come from you. Person vs. Society: In the Victorian era,...
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The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's story "The Yellow Wallpaper" was written in response to Gilman's own experiences after having a baby and suffering from postpartum depression. At the time, 1892, there...
