Susanne & co: The Yellow Wallpaper(1899) The main character: We see a person whose state of mind changes from normal to mad/crazy/insane/ mentally ill. Beginning: After giving birth the main character ends up with a postpartum depression, she is sent to an estate far away from civilization. Something is not right we see that in one of the first lines there is something about the house. She describes it as a haunted house. She is sent to the estate to a rest cure in silence at nothing to distract her. She sees a woman crawling around in the garden, her craziness has begun. The woman comes closer and closer to her room in the attic. The wallpaper and the looks of it changes while her state of mind does the same, it gets worse and worse. Her frustration grows deeper and there is nothing to be done about it, her husband does not listen he is convinced that he does her a favor. Again she mentions that there is something strange about the house. Her mood changes too, P. 1, l, 45: I get unreasonably angry, I’m sure I never used to be so sensitive. And she admits she is nervous. She is better off with nothing to distract her. Which leaves her with all the time in the world to think and fantasies and imagine things, which is not real they only exists in her mind. Now and then she thinks about her Babyboy for whom she has feelings but she is not capable of taking care of him herself. In page 2, she begins to like the room but she also begins to hallucinate. P.2, l. 14: I always fancy I see people walking in these numerous paths.. She is no longer able to sleep at night, but does it somewhere during the day. Her hallucinations becomes scarier, she sees figures and the wallpaper changes character along with her. She likes the room but not the wallpaper, but she is determined to get something out of it. P.5, l. 9: half the time John says I mustn’t lose my strength! The only way to keep strength is to do some activity. There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will. Especially at moonlight, the patterns in the wallpaper freaks her out, in her mind it becomes alive and she wants to find out if it is real, she touches the wallpaper. At the bottom of page 7, the wallpaper even smells yellow. Not a beautiful yellow but like old foul, bad yellow things. It creeps all over the house. And it goes on at page 8(the yellow smell) There are bite marks in a beadstead, she thinks they were made by some children, but as she comes to her censes she tells us that she made them herself, p. 10, l. 10: but it hurt my teeth. In the final page of the story, she is busy tearing the wallpaper down she is out of proportion and her state of mind has grown into insanity, she can’t tell what’s real anymore. By tearing the wallpaper down, she sets herself free from the isolation. Nobody will put her back in. Her husband faints maybe because he didn’t expect to find her in such a condition. Crawling and creeping on the floor. Several times she tells us, that her opinion doesn’t count. It’s like the husband and her brother ignores her, or maybe the problem is that she doesn’t know how to express herself in order to make them understand how she suffers and whatever troubles her. They’re doing it because they think it is the best for her, if they’d known then what we know now, they would probably have chosen another solution. They would have known that if you put a person into isolation, it certainly wouldn’t be any help to cure a depression the person might become a maniac who had to spend what’s left of his/ her life locked away forever. She is isolated in the isolation
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The main character:
We see a person whose state of mind changes from normal to mad/crazy/insane/ mentally ill.
Beginning:
After giving birth the main character ends up with a postpartum depression, she is sent to an estate far away from civilization.
Something is not right we see that in one of the first lines there is something about the house. She describes it as a haunted house.
She is sent to the estate to a rest cure in silence at nothing to distract her. She sees a woman crawling around in the garden, her craziness has begun. The woman comes closer and closer to her room in the attic. The wallpaper and the looks of it changes while her state of mind does the same, it gets worse and worse.
Her frustration grows deeper and there is nothing to be done about it, her husband does not listen he is convinced that he does her a favor.
Again she mentions that there is something strange about the house.
Her mood changes too, P. 1, l, 45: I get unreasonably angry, I’m sure I never used to be so sensitive. And she admits she is nervous.
She is better off with nothing to distract her. Which leaves her with all the time in the world to think and fantasies and imagine things, which is not real they only exists in her mind.
Now and then she thinks about her Babyboy for whom she has feelings but she is not capable of taking care of him herself.
In page 2, she begins to like the room but she also begins to hallucinate. P.2, l. 14: I always fancy I see people walking in these numerous paths..
She is no longer able to sleep at night, but does it somewhere during the day. Her hallucinations becomes scarier, she sees figures and the wallpaper changes character along with her. She likes the room but not the wallpaper, but she is determined to get something out of it.
P.5, l. 9: half the time
John says I mustn’t lose my strength! The only way to keep strength is to do some activity.
There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will.
Especially at moonlight, the patterns in the wallpaper freaks her out, in her mind it becomes alive and she wants to find out if it is real, she touches the wallpaper.
At the bottom of page 7, the wallpaper even smells yellow. Not a beautiful yellow but like old foul, bad yellow things. It creeps all over the house. And it goes on at page 8(the yellow smell)
There are bite marks in a beadstead, she thinks they were made by some children, but as she comes to her censes she tells us that she made them herself, p. 10, l. 10: but it hurt my teeth.
In the final page of the story, she is busy tearing the wallpaper down she is out of proportion and her state of mind has grown into insanity, she can’t tell what’s real anymore. By tearing the wallpaper down, she sets herself free from the isolation. Nobody will put her back in.
Her husband faints maybe because he didn’t expect to find her in such a condition. Crawling and creeping on the floor.
Several times she tells us, that her opinion doesn’t count. It’s like the husband and her brother ignores her, or maybe the problem is that she doesn’t know how to express herself in order to make them understand how she suffers and whatever troubles her. They’re doing it because they think it is the best for her, if they’d known then what we know now, they would probably have chosen another solution.
They would have known that if you put a person into isolation, it certainly wouldn’t be any help to cure a depression the person might become a maniac who had to spend what’s left of his/ her life locked away forever.
She is isolated in the isolation
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