The Yellow Wall-paper

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English

 

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Debbie C

 

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September 29, 2013

 

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Even our judicial courts do not hold people criminally responsible for heinous acts, such as committing murder, if insanity at the time of the act is proven beyond a reasonable doubt. The short story, "The Yellow Wall-paper," by Charlotte Gilman, is a captivating work that gives an intimate look of one woman's desperate struggle to hang on to any thread of sanity, only to succumb to the inevitable downward spiral of her fragile mind...
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By combining an analysis of the S. Weir Mitchell's "rest cure" prescription for the woman and the vivid description given in "The Yellow Wall-paper," the journey of this woman's fall into insanity can be dissected and analyzed to better understand why Gilman chose to write a work such as this. The literary symbolism which is prevalent in this story is also very important in understanding this work, as is Gilman's own history of mental instability...
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