... by their male influences. In "The Yellow Wallpaper", Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the dominant, submissive relationship between the oppressive husband John and his submissive wife Jane pushed her from depression to insanity. John, who is a physician, cannot admit that there might be something wrong with his wife. In addition, ... also a physician carries the same attitude. This attitude along with the actions taken contributed to her breakdown. Further, as the story opens, Jane speaks about her depression and how her husband and her brother dismiss it. However, her husband and brother refu...

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... , and that she should not do any work or take part in any stressful activity. She is taking phosphates and tonics under her husband's advice. Jane enjoys her writing, but is told not to continue. Throughout the story she continues to write, hiding the writings from her husband and only working when ... of rest. She is told that she should not leave the room, which in actuality, only makes her true condition worse. As the story progresses Jane's actions and thought patterns become stranger and stranger. Her hatred for the yellow wallpaper continues to grow and her husband still sees no po...

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... other women. The wallpaper basically enhanced the overall theme of depression and everything that went into it, repressed sexuality being one. The reader generally feels sorry for Jane, and the wallpaper is a big reason why. The fact that she has somewhat of a friendship with the wallpaper is somewhat disturbing. It is often documented ... began to crawl and shake the pattern And then the sun came up and that awful pattern began to laugh at me- (Gilman 1142-1143). Jane mentions how different shades of light during the day coming through the window yield different images in her mind and c...

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... to decipher its? meaning (1151). John's repression results from the absence of his feminine side. Spirituality, a part of the human psyche of which John lacks, accounts for his repression. Jane feels that Johnhas no patience with faith,? justifying his stubborn behavior and the detraction of his masculinity (1148). An ideal attribute for one attempting to obtain self-individuation is a concern ... for faith, which is not present in John (1148). John's scarcity of feminine emotions accounts for his repression. John shows no understanding of Jane's need for an intellectual stimulus, signi...

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... sees to everything now" and the narrator seems to almost take this for granted when she says, " OF COURSE I didn't do a thing". Jane has made herself completely reliant on John. Her dependence is made very evident judging by the number of times she says his name. It is as ... abruptly breaks off and goes to rest, a kind of behaviour familiar in children. However this behaviour could be attributed to John's babying of Jane. John coddles Jane, calling her "his darling", and as she mentioned, "gathered me up in his arms" just as an adult would a child. This ... she has to use her "will a...

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... sees to everything now" and the narrator seems to almost take this for granted when she says, " OF COURSE I didn't do a thing". Jane has made herself completely reliant on John. Her dependence is made very evident judging by the number of times she says his name. It is as ... abruptly breaks off and goes to rest, a kind of behaviour familiar in children. However this behaviour could be attributed to John's babying of Jane. John coddles Jane, calling her "his darling", and as she mentioned, "gathered me up in his arms" just as an adult would a child. This ... she has to use her "will a...

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... that she has no sickness, and she has to accept it, because he is a man of high standing. This assumption does not help her sickness, in fact, Jane, the narrator believes that it's the reason why she cannot get better. But it is pointless for her to argue, since her brother, also a physician of high ... husband is wrong about her sickness, as she "take pains to control myself - before him at least, and that makes me very tired."" (Gilman 432). Jane has her opinions, but to no avail, she has to take her husband's orders. The story goes on to show the control the husband has over ... but ...

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... not only still does not realize what this room is for; to imprison her, she has turned into the woman that was imprisoned here before her. She is no longer Jane, she is also the woman that is escaping from behind the wallpaper, which is a symbol of her psychotic mind trying to escape her sane one. In "The Yellow Wallpaper ... overcome by her husband and society's views, which drives her from depression to insanity. "I've got out at last," said I "in spite of you and Jane. And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back!" The end is the only time that John gets a peek of ...

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... of the twentieth century. Gilman published in 1892 while Frost published in 1923. Moreover, both stories begin with the narrator describing the house, its location and the nature around it. Jane, in Gilman's story spends three quiet months locked up in a yellow room. Similarly, Frost's narrator spends a quiet night in dark woods with white snow. Both characters also feel isolated from ... surroundings and bothered by someone close to them. Furthermore, women's condition seems like an important subject for both authors, raised by single mothers. In Gilman's story, for example, John contr...

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... unconsciously built her own inability to connect with others, including her own child. This uneasiness or nervousness is not only expressed throughout Gilman's diaries, but through Jane, the narrator of the story who has a baby boy. Jane, who is honestly portraying Gilman, remarks, "[I]cannot be with him, it makes me so nervous"(Other 5)(Yellow 336). I do believe, however, that this unavailability gave ... time executing the rest-cure. The most notable similarity between Charlotte Perkins Gilman's life and her incredible story The Yellow Wallpaper, is the medical treatment given to both...

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman's story "The Yellow Wallpaper" is an account of a mentally disturbed woman, Jane, and her husband's attempts to help her get well by convincing her that continual seclusion and constant bed rest is the only way to cure her psychological condition. The woman ... of hysteria and is insane. But, the narrator sees it differently. She declares that she is now free by saying "I've got out at last,..in spite of you and Jane. And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back" (588)! The theme that restrictive societal cause insanity is clearly represented by th...

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... of the twentieth century. Gilman published in 1892 while Frost published in 1923. Moreover, both stories begin with the narrator describing the house, its location and the nature around it. Jane, in Gilman's story spends three quiet months locked up in a yellow room. Similarly, Frost's narrator spends a quiet night in dark woods with white snow. Both characters also feel isolated from ... surroundings and bothered by someone close to them. Furthermore, women's condition seems like an important subject for both authors, raised by single mothers. In Gilman's story, for example, John contr...

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... wanted to escape, she would tie herself. In the denouement, John faints and she creeps over him and says, "I've got out at last,"" said I, "in spite of you and Jane. And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back!...Now why should that man have fainted? But he did, and right across my path by ... the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!- Gilman is showing the discovery of feminism by society. The husband and Jane were symbolic of society. Jane is the representation of a typical woman, and the husband symbolizes the men in the society. When the wallpaper is ...

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... to all manner of excited fancies." John is away most of the time during the day, and sometimes overnight when his medical "cases are serious," so it is his sister Jane who attends to the narrator and, as if policing her, keeps an eye on her activities and progress which she then reports to the doctor. "I must not let her find ... me writing," says the narrator. "I verily believe she thinks it is the writing which made me sick!" Setting the example of the conventional woman of her time, Jane, herself, the narrator says, "Is a perfect and enthusiastic housekeeper, and hopes for no better ...

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... the wallpaper, and she says "I've got out at last" (260), Although she believes that she has gotten out of the wall, she says that her husband and Jane cannot put her back. Jane is the narrator and she knows that she will no longer allow herself to be oppressed. Regardless of the fact that she thinks she is free, she has ... ...

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... quote spoken at the end of the story, and it offers us one final look into her mystifying mind. "I've got out at last," said I "in spite of you and Jane. And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back!" (481) The end is the only time that John gets a peek of the disturbed narrator's imagination ... . She finally expressed herself without regard to her husband's wisdom or the fact that he is a doctor. Her use of the name Jane in this final quote shows the use of her name in the third person, which depicts the conflict between the heroine's two selves. It also shows subcon...

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... only one who knows where the key is, and decides that she wants to surprise her husband by showing him how she has finally escaped "in spite of [him] and Jane!" (Page 844) Any key can signify the key to freedom, but in the narrator's case, the restrictive confinement of her husband was escaped by pulling off all the wallpaper that ... has been repressing her. She also breaks free from the societal standards by losing her true identity as a wife and mother by blaming "Jane" for keeping her shut in also. Her husband then takes on a feminist characteristic of fainting, at the sight of her ...

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... , she escapes through the wallpaper and begins creeping around the room. Once free, she says to her husband while creeping, "I've got out at last, in spite of you and Jane. And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back!'" The narrator has broken free from the restrictions of her husband and society. By saying she ... 's free from "Jane," she is referring to her freedom from society's image of the perfect woman. Once free, the narrator keeps creeping because now no one can hold her back. In the late ... ...

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... what happened in this entire story is nothing more than a sick narrator babbling on and on about her wallpaper. "'I've got out at last,"" said I, "in spite of you and Jane. And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back!'- This line is not the epitome of closure; it does nothing other than to confuse the ... to both Norma Jean and Leroy. The Yellow Wallpaper's ending does nothing but confuse the reader even further. The narrator finally acquires freedom in her terms. Did the narrator kill Jane and John? That seems to be the only explanation if the reader follows precise...

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... a better way to live. One can only have as much control over another insofar as the other allows it. "I've got out at last, "said I, "in spite of you and Jane. And I pulled off most of the paper so you can't put me back!- Now why should that man have fainted? But he did, and right across my path by the ... I had t creep over him every time! In the end, she gives herself a name. She has found herself in the rubble that was others' expectations and her past confusion of identity. Jane might have to creep over the things she has experienced each time she finds herself in a position in whic...

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... for her husband to come to confront him, to reach her goal of freedom, to not be subdued anymore. "I've got out at last," said I, "in spite of you and Jane? And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back!"...

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... husband is startled at the appearance of the room, "For God's sake, what are you doing!"(481 Gilman). The narrator states, ""I've got out at last, . . . inspite of you and Jane. And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back" (481 Gilman). At this point John faints and the narrator continues to "creep" around the room ... ...

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... tries to get in, but she won't admit him without the key. He retrieves the key and opens the door. "I've got out at last, in spite of you and Jane. And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back- (685)! Her metamorphosis to psychosis was complete. ...

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... her husband to come home to confront him, to reach her goal of freedom, to not be subdued anymore. "I've got out at last," said I, "in spite of you and Jane? And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back!"(516) ...

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... floor. On page 380 she says, I kept on creeping just the same, but I looked at him over my shoulder. I've got out at last, said I, in spite of you and Jane. And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back!" In this preceding quote, the narrator is seemingly referring to herself. What this quote is really ... ...

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