The Yellow Wallpaper - Journey Into Insanity
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In "The Yellow Wallpaper", by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the
dominant/submissive relationship between an oppressive husband and his
submissive wife pushes her from depression into insanity.
Flawed human nature seems to play a great role in her breakdown. Her
husband, a noted physician, is unw ....
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.... the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight
hysterical tendency -- what is one to do?" (Gilman 193). These two men -- both
doctors -- seem completely unable to admit that there might be more to her
condition than than just stress and a slight nervous condition. Even when a
summer in the country and weeks of bed-rest don't help, her husband refuses to
accept that she may have a real problem.
Throughout the story there are examples of the dominant - submissive
rela ....
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