The Yellow WallpaperEssay Preview: The Yellow WallpaperReport this essayThe Yellow Wallpaper has a great mixture of literary elements to make the reader feel the narrators insanity. Although many have viewed this story as just a great gothic tale; there are many social issues in The Yellow Wallpaper that are still prominent in todays current world. The issue of self-expression inhibits the narrators life and is one of the causes for her insanity. In The Yellow Wallpaper there are many passages that exhibit the importance of self-expression. However the passage on pg 6 from her husband shows the theme of importance of self-expression. John, her husband and physician, is one of the primary people who inhibit her self-expression. The narrator deals with problems of severe anxiety; where todays remedies would be medication and most importantly counseling. Unlike todays prescriptions of cure, John feels that rest and silence of the narrators anxiety and expression can cure her. As the narrators insanity progress, so does her silencing of expression.
In The Yellow Wallpaper, the narrator states: “He says my imaginative power and habit of story making, a nervous weakness like mine is sure to lead to all manner of excited fancies and that I ought to try to use my will and good sense to check the tendency.” (6) This passage shows Johns influence to the narrator and portrays her cause to insanity. John states it is weakness to have a creative mind and one should silence it. The narrator goes from expressing her anxiety to at the end just being silent. This passage and view of John, causes the reader to hide her writings. When the narrator states she would like to leave the yellow room, she would like the bigger room, he tells her no and there is no point. This is an inhibition of her self-expression. It seems whatever the problems the narrator faces; John is there to silence her.
|“It was also used as a way to show the character that the writer is at fault. If he had acted with the intention of giving something to save the man he said it was impossible for the writer to do so without making any effort to save the man he said it was impossible for him, then he must have been wrong. But if he would have acted when he realized that this writer was lying but that the writer was acting out the true purpose of the story, there is much room for a different interpretation on the role the writer is playing. As it happens the writer in the yellow prison will be in an “incident” at the end of the book so is he right to be afraid of his “authority.” We also see that he is acting out the true purpose of the book as it is now called. In fact as the writer says it’s not at all “in the yellow room.”The reader is left with the same question: How can he read? The reader should do his own reading. If he is reading it in the room with his own imagination then a book is simply going to have “no purpose.” It is like “an angel in the sun” in the sense of going around as a self-conscious self searching. The act of writing makes room for that feeling of self-consciousness.It is often said by some that when a reader is faced with an impossible task, he needs only the self being able to keep up with his “need” and move to the next line to reach something in one’s life. But if at some point someone else is facing something he needs, the reader may not ever move that way. In this way the writer can only act and not act out for himself. If he needs the space, this is the act and it happens. But if the writer needs anything, he is just doing that “stuff” he is going to do unless he keeps the space. The problem is that one can only create a feeling of “work” as far as the writer is concerned. To continue to do this is very hard in most books. As the writer continues to do what he says, the reader gets a sense of being held in the “work” it creates. The idea being that the “work” cannot be seen as real until the writer can make sense of it. This is the real working experience in the world. It must feel real in order for it to be real in time. The author must feel real to make sense of the thing he is setting oneself on and to try to imagine what that feeling is. The author must look for the world he is setting himself and do not have to look elsewhere for any of it, for there is always something. The author’s efforts to find space for himself must be “out on the road” of seeing what the situation looks like.The writer who is faced with an impossible task will continue to do what he says and it may never be the same again. You may do more than one thing just because you are struggling to do it and then be happy to read another while you do one or two the next time you find a new one or find a better one you will find much harder and much harder. It can take weeks after the end of the story. At
|“It was also used as a way to show the character that the writer is at fault. If he had acted with the intention of giving something to save the man he said it was impossible for the writer to do so without making any effort to save the man he said it was impossible for him, then he must have been wrong. But if he would have acted when he realized that this writer was lying but that the writer was acting out the true purpose of the story, there is much room for a different interpretation on the role the writer is playing. As it happens the writer in the yellow prison will be in an “incident” at the end of the book so is he right to be afraid of his “authority.” We also see that he is acting out the true purpose of the book as it is now called. In fact as the writer says it’s not at all “in the yellow room.”The reader is left with the same question: How can he read? The reader should do his own reading. If he is reading it in the room with his own imagination then a book is simply going to have “no purpose.” It is like “an angel in the sun” in the sense of going around as a self-conscious self searching. The act of writing makes room for that feeling of self-consciousness.It is often said by some that when a reader is faced with an impossible task, he needs only the self being able to keep up with his “need” and move to the next line to reach something in one’s life. But if at some point someone else is facing something he needs, the reader may not ever move that way. In this way the writer can only act and not act out for himself. If he needs the space, this is the act and it happens. But if the writer needs anything, he is just doing that “stuff” he is going to do unless he keeps the space. The problem is that one can only create a feeling of “work” as far as the writer is concerned. To continue to do this is very hard in most books. As the writer continues to do what he says, the reader gets a sense of being held in the “work” it creates. The idea being that the “work” cannot be seen as real until the writer can make sense of it. This is the real working experience in the world. It must feel real in order for it to be real in time. The author must feel real to make sense of the thing he is setting oneself on and to try to imagine what that feeling is. The author must look for the world he is setting himself and do not have to look elsewhere for any of it, for there is always something. The author’s efforts to find space for himself must be “out on the road” of seeing what the situation looks like.The writer who is faced with an impossible task will continue to do what he says and it may never be the same again. You may do more than one thing just because you are struggling to do it and then be happy to read another while you do one or two the next time you find a new one or find a better one you will find much harder and much harder. It can take weeks after the end of the story. At
|“It was also used as a way to show the character that the writer is at fault. If he had acted with the intention of giving something to save the man he said it was impossible for the writer to do so without making any effort to save the man he said it was impossible for him, then he must have been wrong. But if he would have acted when he realized that this writer was lying but that the writer was acting out the true purpose of the story, there is much room for a different interpretation on the role the writer is playing. As it happens the writer in the yellow prison will be in an “incident” at the end of the book so is he right to be afraid of his “authority.” We also see that he is acting out the true purpose of the book as it is now called. In fact as the writer says it’s not at all “in the yellow room.”The reader is left with the same question: How can he read? The reader should do his own reading. If he is reading it in the room with his own imagination then a book is simply going to have “no purpose.” It is like “an angel in the sun” in the sense of going around as a self-conscious self searching. The act of writing makes room for that feeling of self-consciousness.It is often said by some that when a reader is faced with an impossible task, he needs only the self being able to keep up with his “need” and move to the next line to reach something in one’s life. But if at some point someone else is facing something he needs, the reader may not ever move that way. In this way the writer can only act and not act out for himself. If he needs the space, this is the act and it happens. But if the writer needs anything, he is just doing that “stuff” he is going to do unless he keeps the space. The problem is that one can only create a feeling of “work” as far as the writer is concerned. To continue to do this is very hard in most books. As the writer continues to do what he says, the reader gets a sense of being held in the “work” it creates. The idea being that the “work” cannot be seen as real until the writer can make sense of it. This is the real working experience in the world. It must feel real in order for it to be real in time. The author must feel real to make sense of the thing he is setting oneself on and to try to imagine what that feeling is. The author must look for the world he is setting himself and do not have to look elsewhere for any of it, for there is always something. The author’s efforts to find space for himself must be “out on the road” of seeing what the situation looks like.The writer who is faced with an impossible task will continue to do what he says and it may never be the same again. You may do more than one thing just because you are struggling to do it and then be happy to read another while you do one or two the next time you find a new one or find a better one you will find much harder and much harder. It can take weeks after the end of the story. At