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The Yellow Wallpaper By Charlotte Perkins

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"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins is an intriguing story that set my mind of to wonder. Told by the first person narrator point of view and the way the story is describe puts me in the narrators shoes, in a way that I can feel what she experienced. As the story takes place around the Victorian era, the protagonist gets lost and asphyxiated in her own prison within the walls of a nursery scheme that created a creepy and dreadful feeling. The main character who pertained anonymous, was diagnostic by her husband of a nervous condition, more probably was postpartum depression. However, back then post partum depression was not yet discovered. Her husband John who was her doctor as well, felt the need to take control of her life and her decisions for she was not well. Her husband locked her away temporary for three months in a big beautiful mansion that was three miles away from the nearest village. She was advise to lose contact from the outside world and was forbidden to express and fantasize about her feelings, she was not allowed to writ. because this supposedly would deteriorate her nervous condition. …show more content…

It is only nervousness" (Rathus pg. 309) . Nothing around and nothing to write about her thoughts became intensively dreadful and depressing for her. Except for the horrid nursery yellow wallpaper in her big bedroom, which brought her relief in some way. She yonder off fantasying about some weird shapes, "There is a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down" (pg.311). The wall paper had some torn off spots, she was able to "see a strange, provoking, formless sort of figure, that seems to skulk about behind that silly and conspicuous front design" (pg.

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