THE NARRATOR’ S MADNESS IN CHARLOTTE GILMAN’ S THE YELLOW WALLPAPER
Keywords:
лудило, наратор, жуте тапете, нервна поремећеност, неурастанијаAbstract
The paper depicts the effect of confinement on the narrator’ s mental health, and her descent into psychosis. With nothing to stimulate her, she becomes obsessed by the pattern and color of the wallpaper. The narrator is forbidden from working, and has to hide her journal entries from her husband, so she can recuperate from what he calls a “temporary nervous depression–a slight hysterical tendency”, a diagnosis common to women in that period. The windows of the room are barred, and there is a gate across the top of the stairs, allowing her husband to control her access to the rest of the house. In the end, the narrator imagines there are women creeping around behind the patterns of the wallpaper, and comes to believe that she is one of them
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