Saturday, February 9, 2019
Charlotte Perkins Gilmans The Yellow Wallpaper -- short story analysis
The short story The Yellow wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman has a very negative tone towards the treatment of noetic patients in the late nineteenth century. One of the first ways Gilman helps to fall the subject about the treatment of mental patients is through irony. So we took the greenhouse at the top of the house. This at first seams very nonchalant when get hold of over, however once the reader READS into it, the irony becomes very evident. How this full cock-a-hoop charr who has recently become a mother, must stay in the nursery, without her nipper because she is mentally ill. The negative tone comes into play when it is realized that she is macrocosm kept in the nursery because John, her husband and doctor, is treating her like a child and is forcing her to stay in the room designated of a child. Gilman also her negative glance on how mentally ill people are treated when she has the woman say No wonder the children I should hate it myself if I had to run low in this room long he hates to have me write a word. This only amplifies her point on how patients are treated because th...
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