Essays on The Yellow Wallpaper

Both “The Story of an Hour” and “The Yellow Wallpaper” deal with the idea of being trapped, escaping, and oppression of women. In “The Story of an Hour,” Mrs Mallard learns of the supposed death of her husband and she is relieved. In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the narrator is trapped in a room with yellow...

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson and ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ by Charlotte Perkins Gilman are both popular pieces of gothic literature. Both pieces of literature use gothic elements such as but both are similar in the expression of emotions, origins and actions. Both Gilman and Jackson illustrate that destructive impacts of oppression of...

 In “The Haunting of Hill House” and “The Yellow Wallpaper” parallels and “doubling” are key techniques to investigate entrapment and unhappiness. Discuss The Haunting of Hill House and “The Yellow Wallpaper” use parallels and “doubling” to unfold the feeling of entrapment and unhappiness on each character in the story. In The Haunting of Hill House,...

In Charlotte Gilman Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” Gilman introduces the audience to a woman who enjoys writing. In the beginning of the story we find out she is diagnosed with postpartum depression. In this story Gilman uses the narrator’s postpartum depression to narrate the story. It is about a woman who narrates her journey of...

Charlotte Perkins Stetson’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a semi autobiography, telling of Stetson’s experience with depression and rapid descent into madness. The first-person perspective and various shift in tense allow the audience to fully experience and empathize with the narrator’s mental instability and overall deterioration. Through the many details that make up the setting, Stetson...

Written in June of 1890, The Yellow Wallpaper brought to light a woman dealing with nervous diseases. Not only had she encountered a mental disorder but the treatment prescribed to her was just as harsh, if not harsher, than the mental disorder she had faced. The Yellow Wallpaper explores a woman in the late 1800’s...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Betty Friedan are two of the most prominent figures in the American women’s right movement. Both prolific writers, they influenced society by successfully bringing their concerns and criticisms of it to public knowledge. Friedan and Gilman are each represented by numerous books and publications, which cover a wide range of subjects...

The 1989 BBC television film version of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper”, seems to carefully consider the importance of the original storyline while also incorporating some notable differences. There were certain aspects of the plotline which were better represented within the movie and vice versa. Varying elements of the narrative are emphasized...

Both ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ and the play trifles were written during a time when women had totally no say by authors who were really strong feminists with the intention that it would go along way in advocating for these women’s rights. In the nineteenth century the social expectations were such that it encouraged pessimistic selflessness...

It has been argued that, in literature, the alienated perspective is more illuminating than the conventional one. In light of this view, compare and contrast the presentation of main characters marginalised by society in The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson. Protagonists alienated by...