“The Yellow Wallpaper”: Solitary Confinement And Exclusion From Public
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A major theme in “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
is that solitary confinement and exclusion from the public results in
insanity. The use of imagery and setting helps illustrate this theme
throughout the story.
The unnamed protagonist in this story suffers from a nervous
dis ....
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.... nursery room wallpaper with “sprawling, flamboyant patterns committing
every artistic sin” (64). Her days and nights are so uneventful that she
finds relief in writing a journal which becomes more tiresome as her
sickness progresses. In every few paragraphs in her journal, she analyzes
the wallpaper. Through the imagery she evokes from the wallpaper, it can
be seen that she is really analyzing herself and her illness subconsciously.
For example, she begins to see “a strange, provokin ....
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Word count: 512
Page count: 2 (approximately 250 words per page)
