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Marvin Falastin

English Composition 102

Professor Cirilo

25 September 2020

The Psychotic Wallpaper:

The prison within the home

Living and staying at home can be tough at times, sometimes you are desperate for a breathe outside, a whiff of fresh air, or even to step outside and see the squirrels run around and hear the birds chirp. Nobody can stay home for longer than a few hours after they have woken up, it’s simply natural. Now imagine being trapped at home, not by a superstorm nor severe weather but your husband! Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote a story of her breathtaking life titled “The Yellow Wallpaper” Gilman is a middle-aged woman diagnosed with a “nervous disorder” forcing her to live a domestic life, only allowing for 2 hours of intellectual life as possible and not being able to touch pencil or pen again for the purpose of saving herself from being driven crazy.  However, in actuality, her doctor who was also her husband drove her insane after taking complete control over her life and her body. Another short story titled “What if Shakespeare had a sister?” by Virginia Woolf draws the image of how a woman’s life is arranged in the 1800s. Additionally, reading “The Yellow Wallpaper” from Virginia Woolfe’s point of view you can imagine that the “mansion” which Charlotte Gilman was trapped in acted as a mirror for her psychological stress after analyzing her degraded lifestyle due to the fact that she was trapped mentally, physically, and emotionally.

Living with an amputation may be troubling due to the fact that your physical ability is now limited rather than be free, as you may imagine having a physical limitation takes a huge toll on you trapping you in your own body and environment. Gilman was physically trapped,  however, Gilman was physically healthy… due to her physiological stress disorder, her husband John took complete physical control over Gilman not giving her the privilege to leave the room causing her to be trapped. Gilman is stuck admiring the ironically viscous wallpaper, as she visualizes the wallpaper as a mirror to her psychological stress as Gilman states, “It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide – plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions” (Gilman 648). After reading this quote from Woolfe’s perspective it is safe to assume that Gilman visualizes the curves in the wallpaper has herself opening suicidee as an option. In Woolf’s short story she states, “any woman born with a great gift in the sixteenth century would certainly have gone crazed, shot herself, or ended her days in some lonely cottage outside the village” (Woolf 2269). Clarifying the assumption that charlotte has suicide as an open option.

Gilman was mentally trapped… What this means is that Gilman was completely brainwashed by her husband,  John. Gilman is so mentally trapped to  the extent that she  is truly frightened by her husband.  Gilaman only does what he orders of her having  the mindset that he knows her body better than herself. Charlotte explains this by stating, “John does not know how much I really suffer. He knows there is no reason to suffer, and that satisfies him…There comes John, and I must put this away, – he hates to have me write a word” (Gilman 649). As the quote presents Gilman showing that she believes her husband John knows better than her about her own body but she is too frightened to speak up for herself… In the second part of the quote Gilman presents her terror as her husband walks into the room and quickly acts accordingly to his expectations and standards. If this were looked at from Woolfe’s point of view you can greatly see how  the yellow wallpaper was mirror to  her psychological disorder,mentally being trapped and only following orders that were demanded, Woolfes preaches, “…The daughter who refused to marry the gentleman of her parents’ choice was liable to be locked up, beaten and flung about the room, without any shock being inflicted on public opinion” (Woolf 2). From this quote Woolfe explains that back  in  the 1800s time era women were freed from their parents straight to the “gentlemen of her parents’ choice”. This quote indirectly shows how little freedom women have causing them to be brainwashed mentally following their husband’s orders just as the lines in the yellow wallpaper would follow certain patterns.

Charlotte Gilman was emotionally trapped by her husband John. John trapped his  wife emotionally. He did not allow his  wife to have an intellectual life, write her work. Gilman describes the wallpaper that she constantly stares at as ripped, broken,or that the wallpaper is old  and ruined. Gilaman explains, “The Wallpaper as I said before is torn off in spots, and it sticked closer than a brother, they must have had perseverance as well as hatred”(Gilman 650). At this  point Gilman is emotionally tortured by  her husband John, Gilman visualizes herself as the wall paper being “torn off” and feels a sense  of hatred. In Woolf’s point of view you can imagine that the yellow wallpaper acts as a mirror to Gilmans psychological stress as Woolfes states, “a highly gifted girl …would have been so thwarted and hindered by other people, so tortured and pulled asunder by her own contrary instincts, that she must have lost her health and sanity to a certainty.”(Woolf 2269) After acknowledging this quote we understand that Gilman is a  wonderful and very talented woman that is completely limited and trapped. As Woolfe says, “most her health and sanity to a certainty” this corresponds to Gilman stating how the yellow wallpaper  was torn off in spots. At first the perfect good wallpaper was ruined more and more as it was starred constantly at.

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