This story is interesting because it has many depths. This woman is trapped by something… Is she trapped by some illness? Or could it be her husband and those around her? What about her psyche? Or by the tiny room, with the ugly and haunting wallpaper, where she spends the majority of her time in? T...
Es una historia bastante desconcertante sobre la salud mental y la forma en que es vista. Años y años después de que el libro fuera escrito seguimos escuchando, en la vida cotidiana, frases muy similares sobre las personas con problemas mentales.Es una historia tan breve que recomiendo que la revise...
Got to this a little late, but I got there. I thought it was...very good? Writing style grabbed me and kept me engaged. I found the symbolism a little obvious. By comparison, Wilde was writing at the same time and I thought his way of talking about being trapped by society was subtler and weirder. B...
’This paper looks to me as if it KNEW what a vicious influence it had! There is a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down. I get positively angry with the impertinence of it and the everlastingness. Up and down and sideways they crawl, ...
So maybe it's true - most of this story's notoriety comes from it being published in 1892 rather than its subject matter. It is a great story, but vagaries in the story's development, the awkwardness of the journal format continuing after the lady's mind is clearly long gone, and maybe some other ni...
In order to truly appreciate Charlotte Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper," the reader needs to know how psychiatric illness was treated during the Victorian era. Women suffering from any form of mental illness were cautioned against work of any kind (see Women and Mental Illness for reference) because...
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