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The Yellow Wall-Paper
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I read this for my coursework and honestly I loved it.
Gilman appears to criticise medical care that ignores the patient, and views them as an object of treatment rather than a person. In doing this she also critiques the subordination of women to their husbands, their role as an accessory, and an inferior other. Gilman exaggerates how easily authority can be abused, and how this almost always leads to further deterioration (of health, or relationships), rather than curing, maintaining, or bettering them.
It attacks S. Weir Mitchell’s “resting cure” for depression, as she was subject to, and almost became a victim of it herself. The Yellow Wallpaper appears to display how a mind filled of anxiety could only deteriorate if forced into a state of inactivity, and cut off from a healthy world
Gilman appears to criticise medical care that ignores the patient, and views them as an object of treatment rather than a person. In doing this she also critiques the subordination of women to their husbands, their role as an accessory, and an inferior other. Gilman exaggerates how easily authority can be abused, and how this almost always leads to further deterioration (of health, or relationships), rather than curing, maintaining, or bettering them.
It attacks S. Weir Mitchell’s “resting cure” for depression, as she was subject to, and almost became a victim of it herself. The Yellow Wallpaper appears to display how a mind filled of anxiety could only deteriorate if forced into a state of inactivity, and cut off from a healthy world