Back to category: English Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper. “The Yellow Wallpaper” A theme of Inequality. Cynthia Welman 3rd June 2003 “The Yellow Wallpaper” A theme of Inequality. In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story, The Yellow Wallpaper, the theme of social inequality for women, is further developed when the main character slowly goes from post partum depression to severe manic depression, directly resulting from the treatment prescribed by her husband physician. At the time the story was written Ms.Gilman had herself recovered from a depression despite the advice from a well noted physician, as she notes in her response to critics in her article entitled, Why I Wrote "The Yellow Wallpaper", which appeared in the October issue of the Forerunner. (Gilman 1) “For many years I suffered from a severe and continuous nervous breakdown tending to melancholia--and beyond. During about the third year of this trouble I went, in devout faith and some faint stir of hope, to a noted specialist in nervous diseases, the best known in the cou... Posted by: Angelia Holliday Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper. |
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