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... In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” by Charlotte Perkins Gillman, the protagonist is
oppressed and represents the effect of the oppression of women in society. Their effect is created by the use
of complex symbols such as the window, the house, and the yellow wallpaper. ...
The house in “The Yellow Wallpaper” is described in the beginning as, “haunted. ...
In the story, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the window symbolizes the possibilities as
well as the narrator’s entrapment. ... The women creep out of the wallpaper, they creep through the
arbors and lanes and along the roads outside of the house. ...
The most symbolic element of insanity in “The Yellow Wallpaper,” astonishingly is the wallpaper
itself. ... The more she studies
the wallpaper the more the narrator drives herself to insanity. Slowly, the wallpaper becomes something
more than an object for the narrator. ... “Seeking a human with whom to interact, she finds heads in the wallpaper, sees
them move as if behind undulating, almost-imperceptible bars” (Goldman, The Captive Imagination 139). ... As the narrator’s insanity matures the
rescue of that woman becomes her one object, and the wallpaper becomes at once the symbol of her
confinement and of her freedom. ...
Charlotte Gillman uses symbols like the window, the house, and the wallpaper in such complexity to
help depict the oppression and reflection of women’s roles in the nineteenth century.
Approximate Word count = 1019
Approximate Pages = 4.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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