The Yellow Wallpaper Essays

Upon turning the first page of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s, “The Yellow Wallpaper” the reader is plunged into the mind of an emotionally and mentally disturbed woman through her own written words. As the story develops the reader begins to learn little characteristics concerning the woman’s mental condition given information provided …

Gilman’s perception of her “reality” and Chopin’s Calixta in “The Storm,” are women who just might have been suffering the same feeling’s of depression and routine. The only difference might be how they dealt with this depression. Gilman suffered from depression after the birth of her child, using this depression …

Within “Jane Eyre” and “The Yellow wallpaper”, both female writers themes focus on similar ideas in how women of the 19th century were manipulated and treated inadequately. Both authors’ stories have several similar characteristics brought to life through three female characters within each story including the fight for power through …

In the late 19th Century, America experienced it’s most “gilded era,” so to speak, in non-traditional women’s literature encompassing new inquiries into of gender freedom and equality. A common element of several of the works from this time period focused on themes of the Cult of True Womanhood and non-traditional …