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Yellow Wallpaper 8 Research Paper Lukowkim

the bars on the windows and the bed secured to the floor . The different stages of her insanity are clearly shown by her descriptions of the yellow wallpaper . In the beginning she says the color is repellent , almost revolting a smoldering , unclean yellow , strangely faded by the slow turning sunlight . Later she claims the paper has a sub-pattern in the differing shades , but it can only be seen in certain lighting . She is thinking she likes the room better as time goes by and thinks it is because of the wallpaper . The shapes get clearer to her day by day

. She thinks she sees and hears the woman in the paper shaking the bars that contain her . In the end she displays the final stage of insanity by stating I don t like to look out of the windows even , there are so many of those creeping women . I wonder if they all came out of that yellow wallpaper as I did . In truth , the woman is better off being insane as this allows her to express herself in any manner she chooses without the fear of ridicule or c quot The Yellow Wallpaper The yellow wallpaper is the story of a young woman s mental deterioration into insanity . Because of the prescribed rest with no intellectually or stimulating activity , she examines the wallpaper in her room and imagines seeing a woman trapped in it . The woman trapped in the wallpaper in reality represents her own repressed potential . Her efforts to release the woman from the wallpaper are her attempts to free herself The woman in the yellow wallpaper is repressed to the condition that she may not engage in the stimulating company of others . She states I want to go to visit my cousins Henry and Julia but she is...

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