The Yellow Wallpaper Analysis

   The Yellow Wallpaper 

      Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the author of the book, is one of the effective names of American literature. She also has contributed significantly to American feministics. So, what to purpose did he write this book? The work of Gilman, ''The Yellow Wallpaper'' was the community was affected by developments such as technology in the nineteenth century. In this period, the contribution of women in society, so it was limited due to their second position. The psychiatrists of the period were for women in the second plan, women were absolutely taken care of motherhood and home work. She had dreamed of women's home jobs and a world to take care of different experiences. In fact, he had given this in another work that carries the Utopia feature, but this story told the opposite of the opposite of this appearance. This story addresses the prejudice and destructive problems applied to a default woman in the spiritual disease. At the same time the story carries autobiographical elements. What is this? The author formed from the implementation of such treatment in its own life. The writer has written this story after it heals. As we mentioned at the beginning, Gilman is a feminist writer. This story is highly obvious with gender connection. At the same time the venue in the story is an element that attracts our attention to the venue is a symbol of the individual's place in the society. The story is actually an intimidating mystic when he looked like a terrible story. 

         If we will examine the book more closely; The book is told by the primary mouth. This story can be seen daily that the narrator secretly writes from other characters. In the story, it tells the relationship between the male dominant culture by degrading the silence of the woman. In the nineteenth-century America, the society that is strictly sexist; It reveals that life has created a social mistake, because the woman with the head character of the story is to lose mental health. The colonial mansion, which is the venue in the story, in fact, the story is a history of a closure. Because the narrator's husband John remains here with his family and is trying to improve his wife's mental health. Outdoor depictions in the story; It sets up with dualism and evokes the distinction of male / female rende in gender. 

Speaking of colonial mansions, what kind of place is this? In fact, he first included this in the book;''There was some legal trouble, I believe, something about the heirs and co­ heirs; anyhow, the place has been empty for years. I get unreasonably angry with John sometimes. I'm sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition. But John says if I feel so, I shall neglect proper self-control; so I take pains to control myself-before him, at least, and that makes me very tired.''(p.2) In these words, we understand that; This house and the rent, which is empty for a long time, the house, the narrator approaches suspicion. The imaginative narrator reminds people of this as a haunted pavilion. Despite the fear of the narrator and uncomfortable, her husband is not heard by John. There is a saying that tells this manor in the story:  

''Fences, walls, locked the door, and the gardeners have been many small outbuilding for employees reminds mansion in the English novel.''  

       To the slavery order, referring to discrimination. In this host, they came on John's request, but we see that the stem without improvement are in fact in which one restricts the autonomy of one's views to the other. We can evaluate the mansion as a patriarkal in the context of the slavery. We know that the mansion is covered with fences, walls, and this indicates that the narrator is limited under the control. At the same time, in these confinement, it also restricts the freedom of the contents. 

John determined the room in which the narrator spent the most time. The narrator wants to live in the room where he can see the flowers in the garden from the window near the ground. He finds the yellow wallpapers in the room very ugly and becomes uncomfortable. Although the narrator does not want to change the room, he wants to change the wallpapers. John perceives this as a caprice and the wallpaper remains the same. While the wallpaper is anger for the narrator at first, it later turns into curiosity. Being arrogant to the eyes he sees among the patterns actually reflects the characteristics of the narrator. What we call arrogance is actually likened to the narrator's stubbornness, which does not completely surrender despite all these restrictions. The patterns on the wallpaper represent the male world. It reflects the narrator's desire to exist outside of the traditional female role. Wallpaper becomes more and more meaningful. The more the wallpaper comes alive, the less the narrator writes in his diary. The female figure trapped inside the wallpaper reflects herself in her restricted life. In short, we can see this wallpaper as a mirror. Imprisoned between the patterns, the woman tries to get out by hitting it and creeps helplessly. This part is the narrator himself, who is imprisoned, whose activities are restricted, and who is prevented from living a social life. This situation is unbearable for the narrator and he wants to save the woman. In fact, the woman he wants to save is himself. The room that the narrator does not want is located on the top floor. This room was previously used as a nursery. This symbolizes the narrator's position in the community. Because the narrator, who is almost a child, is guided by an adult. The narrator's writing, working, gaining adult consciousness; it means that he will no longer be like a child. The bars in the window are like the narrator being imprisoned in his childhood. The diary that the narrator writes is his step towards existence as an adult. In addition, it is not overlooked that the only item in the room is the bed nailed to the floor. Why would a bed be nailed to the floor? Because to ensure that children do not move. The bed in the story is associated with the gender of the woman, as well as her sexuality. The fixed bed symbolizes the narrator's limitation, inability to reach another person, and inaction.  

    Another character in this story is John. Our character setting the place, john, is an important character in the context under discussion. John symbolizes patriarchy as a husband and patriarchal medicine as a doctor. His relationship with the narrator is like a parent-child relationship, not as an adult. This situation actually reflects on us as a gender. John calls the narrator "little girl", "cute thing", hugs him when he cries and takes him to bed and determines the narrator's daily life. 

      The narrator perceives him as an adult, not as a child. We perceive it not as equality, but as strong-weak. As we read the story, we see the character John love the narrator and strive for his recovery. However, since the women of the period are always in the background, he is so prejudiced that he does not care about the wishes of the narrator in his own life, because he is sure that he knows what is good for him. He does not anticipate the constraints he imposes on the narrator and reaches a frightening end. 

As a result; We see space and social gender in Gilman's "yellow wallpaper".