The Yellow Wallpaper

Background

It is an initially relatively easy-to-text, but already the first reading clear interpretive question. In addition, the story now in the canon of American literature, story a permanent place and plays especially in feminist literature an important role - in many universities it is more popular stock-part of the curriculum. Central character and narrator in "The Yellow Wallpaper" is an unnamed woman who with her husband John, a physician at the Summer spends a secluded country estate to rest, and so their health. She begins to keep the building for a haunted house; especially the yellow wallpaper in her bedroom seems to develop an eerie life of its own. In the course of the story, however, increasing evidence that the ghost only in the mind of the narrator, the more she goes mad. Finally in includes her room in order to continually along the wall on all fours on the circle to crawl. Particularly feminist interpretations indicate that the disease is present in wife because she is completely isolated from her husband and dominated until brought about, and that the withdrawal as in the complete irrationality in the end also.

The book is femine in nature. It revolves around the problem the wife faces when her husband didn't give her the proper attention. This novel rotates around the postpartum depression (known nowadays). The main female character faces very deep-rooted depression after her childbirth. She is in trauma, locked ina room. She thinks that the house is haunted. She fears from the yellow wallpaper, in the room she lives in. The cramped room in wallpaper deadly is the symbol of the place occupéee by women in Victorian society. We required it to be a brainless figurehead, respectable and respected by other community members. The narrator is an emerging young woman behind the wallpaper which is released at night. She would also go behind the wallpaper, free themselves from the obligations imposed on it.

The Yellow Wallpaper, written in California in 1890, received the widest critical acclaim of Gilman's work. Following the birth of her daughter Katharine in 1885, Gilman found herself becoming increasingly depressed. Following the birth of her daughter Katherine in 1885, Gilman found herself becoming increasingly depressed. As Denise D. Knight writes in her introduction to “The Yellow Wall-Paper” and Selected Stories of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 'if Charlotte was ambivalent about jeopardizing her “life's work” as a result of her marriage to Walter, the anger at a more total subjugation, stemming from her impending motherhood, must have been enormous'. Gilman developed neurasthenia, an emotional disorder characterized by depression and fatigue. Gilman developed neurasthenia, an emotional disorder Characterized by depression and fatigue. When the emotional pain became almost unbearable, Charlotte and Walter decided that she would visit her father and brother and stay for several months with her old friend, Grace E. Channing, in Pasadena. However, upon her return home to her husband and baby, the depression also returned. (Gilman 1981, p.2-139).

This is a semi-autobiographical text, written in first person, and ...