Comparing The Yellow Wallpaper And A Jury Of Her Peers

Hale, “she was kind of like a bird herself. Real sweet and pretty, but kind of timid and—fluttery” (Glaspell 607). Minnie is full of life; however, just as the bird is small, she is frail compared to her husband. Mr. Wright takes advantage of this size, a parallel to how he feels towards Minnie and her liveliness.

All throughout the story, Minnie Foster was described as a very lively woman with big hopes and dreams before her marriage to Mr. Wright. Glaspell states, “She-come to think of it, she was kind of like a bird herself. Real sweet and pretty, but kind of timid and-fluttery. How-she-did-change” (555). This description of Minnie Foster is crucial to understanding the symbol of the canary to the main theme, which is connections.

Mrs. Peters being the one to say that was intentional because up to this point of the story she had tried to stick by her husband’s side to an extent when talking about Minnie, but now as she and Mrs. Hale realize what led to the murder she is understanding Minnie more. The women make the final decision to hide all of the new information they found from the other men, knowing that they will not understand what Minnie had gone through all those years of psychological abuse (Sara D. Scotland, 53). The women understand Minnie, “We all go through the same things--it's all just a different kind of the same thing! If it weren't--why do you 4

From Yellow to Lunacy “We’re much more controlled now. We were kids back then we each had our own demons. It was insanity.” - Peter Criss. In The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman describes the summer of a woman’s journey to insanity.

Madness is a subjective state, it is based and influenced by personal feelings, beliefs and opinions. Madness can be analyzed in different ways and can be seen in numerous areas in one’s life. Madness could be seen when a traumatic event has occurred and in personal opinions. A book that explains madness well is Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, which includes a traumatic event that causes the protagonist to go mad. In Plato’s Ion, madness could be seen in Ion’s belief that his opinions are sane but for Socrates they seem to be insane.

The dead canary and its cage was a pivotal piece of evidence that the women discovered. The dead bird represents the old Mrs. Wright— Minnie Foster and its cage represents how she was

Defining what is madness and what is considered madness? Is really difficult because what was madness yesterday, is not madness today; and what is madness today, may not be madness tomorrow. With these volatile changes throughout time, it is complicated finding the nature of insanity psychology. Jane Eyre, a novel written in the period of the English Victorianism in 1847 by Charlotte Brontë reflects that any person who adopted an aptitude or attitude outside of the standards of that period was condemned and denominated to be “mad”. The most accurate characterization for the standards of women in that time was having an impeccable moral, being spiritually stimulating, intelligent and impressionably positive, all in the service and favor of men.

How she describes her surroundings and her interactions with her family evolves as her condition worsens. By the end, the reader can truly see just how far gone the narrator has gone. The narrator’s fixation on the yellow wallpaper had gone from a slight obsession to full mental breakdown. As it is with most good stories, the presence of strong symbolism and detailed settings is a very important aspect of the story that helps to draw the reader into the story.

The story “The Yellow Wallpaper” written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1892 shows mental illness through the narrator first hand. The theme in this story is going insane verses loneliness as well as being trapped. These themes are shown through the main character (the narrator of the story) as she works through her own mind, life, and surroundings. First, the theme of the woman’s state of mind is the main focus in this story.

Nikolai Gogol's Petersburg tales give rise to an image of Petersburg as a ghostly and mysterious city inhabited by poor clerks and artists. Among all the aspects of Petersburg myth the author creates, the idea of madness is a prevailing theme. Characters' madness in the short stories intertwines with the demonic elements and constant reference to dreams. Lack of a clear boundary between the reality and fantasy, sleeping and waking create a specific "gogolian" atmosphere of a surrealistic and mystical city. Even the main characters such as Chartkov in "The Portrait", Major Kovalyov in "The Nose" and Piskaryov in the "Nevsky Prospect" themselves do not fully realize whether the action takes place in dream or in reality.

“The Yellow Wallpaper”, a short story written by Charlotte Perkins Stetson, is about a woman with a serious mental disorder. The story shows the decline of the narrator's mental state by the change in her actions throughout the story. The narrator makes an effort to do as she is told to do to try to get better, but unfortunately she just kept getting worse. No matter how hard the narrator tries, she gets distracted and turns away from following the instructions her physician gave her. In the story “The Yellow Wallpaper”, the improper prescription that the physician (who was also her husband) prescribes has a negative influence on the narrator's mental state.

Charlotte Gilman’s short story, ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’, (1899) is a text that describes how suppression of women and their confinement in domestic sphere leads to descend into insanity for escape. The story is written as diary entries of the protagonist, who is living with her husband in an old mansion for the summer. The protagonist, who remains unnamed, is suffering from post-partum depression after the birth of her child and is on ‘rest’ cure by her physician husband. In this paper, I will try to prove that ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ acts as a subversive text by portraying the protagonist’s “descent into madness” as a result of the suppression that women faced in Victorian period.

In the intense short story collection The Illustrated Man, author Ray Bradbury introduces various themes about human flaws in society. Among these themes is the idea of living in a chaotic society, how people are affected by this, and how one can maintain sanity. Bradbury uses a number of short stories to show different perspectives of chaos and its effects on the characters, followed by how each character handles their particular situation. Bradbury uses the theme of living in an insane society to prompt a discussion on modern society and its people’s experiences of similar insanities and the way in which they deal with them.

The Colour Out of Space by H.P. Lovecraft presents a physical monster while The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Gilman represents a mental monster. They each describe a different aspect of a general worldview of weird fiction and allude to a similar take on weird itself. Gothic literature, just before, had a dominant theme of madness, specifically the physical push to madness versus the mental madness of confinement, and thus created a pathway for similarities. Although the approaches are contrasting in the stories through the way they are displayed, they both suggest that weird fiction identifies the world through a theme of madness.

Gothic Horror is a unique style of writing that is “characterized by elements such as fear and death along with romantic themes such as nature, individuality, and extreme emotion” while realism is a writing style that “presents the ordinary, familiar, or mundane aspects of life in a straightforward or matter-of-fact manner that is presumed to reflect life as it actually is.” “The Yellow Wallpaper” written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a short, horror-filled story that vividly describes the mentally ill narrator’s experiences and emotional struggles of loneliness, anxiety, and uneasiness while being locked in a hideous room by herself for a long period of time. The story is definitely an example of realism, but the gothic horror writing style powerfully presents itself throughout the text with the use of eerie descriptions of the yellow wallpapered room, the narrator's