Symbolism in The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Gilman

 

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Symbolism in The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Gilman

In The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, several symbols are used to show the oppression of women by men and the struggle against that male dominated society. While numerous symbols could be cited from the text to support this, there

 are three predominant symbols throughout the story that lend credence to the woman’s suffrage theme. The yellow wall-paper itself is symbolic of the mental screen that men attempted to place on women during the 1800s. The color yellow is often associated with sickness or weakness, and the writer’s mysterious illness is a symbol of man’s oppression of the female sex. The two windows from which the writer often peers out of, observing the world but apart from it, is representative of the possibilities of women if seen as equals by the opposite sex.

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The story “The Yellow Wallpaper,” written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, was interesting with deep symbolic undertones. The story starts out with John and his wife moving to a colonial estate for the summer. Meanwhile, the woman finds the mansion to be “a haunted house” and still she thought it had something “queer” about it. This estate and her environment have much to do with this woman’s fate. The woman just had a baby, so most of her depression could come from this big event in her life but the baby is only mentioned a few times near the beginning of the story. After she settles in the new house, the yellow wallpaper starts to bother her, which is a key turning point in this woman’s life. “The Yellow Wallpaper” is symbolic for the main character’s sanity and her entrapment, physically and mentally.

As the story progresses, so does the main character. The main character that speaks in first person, believes that she is sick. John, her husband, as well as her brother are both physicians. They two believe she is sick. John on the other hand treats his wife with an almost demeaning attitude, calling her “little girl” and “little goose”. He treats her as a child at times, plus doesn’t really listen 

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