Society or the wallpaper: Social/connections

           Many people discuss the discrepancy between if the wallpaper in The Yellow Wallpaper (1899) is about Jane going insane. The wallpaper is connected to society in a way and the hose that they are living in could connect to being a sanitarium. A sanitarium is a place where mentally insane people go. The social connection could be that women's rights are out of everyone's control. The women inside of the yellow wallpaper is a connection to all the women at this time being imprisoned. Having to stay in or nearby their homes was okay for them but Jane was in that room for too long looking at the same yellow wallpaper getting aggravated that she had to be in there but she couldn't say that so she got made at the wallpaper. Sooner or later she began to be obsessed with this wallpaper, she says "That is why I watch it always."(7) making it clear she doesn't want to take her eyes off of it until she figures it out, obsessed. She feels imprisoned and society is doing nothing about this because they are all behind these bars too being help captive with nothing for the women to do but house work, and Jane cannot even do that because her husband says "Can you not trust me as a physician when I tell you so?"(7) making his point that he is a doctor and she should believe him.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/social?s=t this website helped me find the definition of social.


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this linked helped me find the picture below



This is what Jane is with the wallpaper.

connection: a relationship in which a person, thing, or idea is linked or associated with something else.

social: of or relating to society or its organization

 

Yellow wallpaper the representation of Charlotte Gilman/Jane.

           In The Yellow Wallpaper (1899), Charlotte Gilman (Jane) goes mentally insane because of a yellow wallpaper. The yellow wallpaper is symbolizing society of men and women and the women inside is Jane/Charlotte/the society of women. They are all being imprisoned from not being able to do the many things that the men can do. They do not have rights so men are in charge of them. The whole story she has been going insane trying to figure out what is wrong with this wallpaper that she hates it so much, suddenly she becomes obsessed with it and loves it so much that no one else can touch it until she figures it out. Society in general is the wall because it is ugly and is distorted but on the inside is a women who is locked up in this ugly and distorted society and cannot do anything about it because she is a women. I think that the windows symbolize the future because they say "I am angry enough to do something desperate. To jump out of the windows out be admirable exercise, but the bars are too strong even to try"(11). I predict that the windows are future because she thought the future would be strong especially with women's right, they wont have any. She says "There is a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down"(3). I came to the conclusion that this part of the wallpaper is the messed up men in this world that don't think women should have the same rights that they do.

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/composition/liselle.htm Here are some of the same ideas that I had.

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this picture is representing her behind the bars of society.

symbolism:the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities.

Jane; protagonist or antagoist against herself

          Jane (Charlotte Gilman) is the protagonist in the story but not only is she the protagonist but she is the antagonist also. Jane is locked in the room with the yellow wall paper all day because her husband, John, says she shouldn't work she should just rest. John is making her do this so he is also a antagonist. Jane is the antagonist because she is against herself, she basically goes insane because she has too much tie on her hands. For example, she sees her own reflection during the daytime and says "I think the women gets out in the daytime"(9). "I can see her out of everyone of my windows"(9). She is really seeing her own reflection in the windows and she s so fast because she turns with her, in the reflection. She is going against herself because her mind is going crazy because she wants the same rights as men but the men will her have them. She and every other women are afraid of sticking up for themselves. John is holding her back from sticking up for women's rights.

http://www.shmoop.com/yellow-wallpaper/protagonist-antagonist.html
Some of the same ideas I came up with are in here.
http://parrishco.com/academic/a-literary-analysis-of-the-yellow-wallpaper/
Some of my ideas I said repeat in this link.

This is Jane seeing her reflection (the women).

Protagonist: the leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text.
Antagonist: a person who is opposed to, struggles against, or competes with another; opponent; adversary.