{"id":7365,"date":"2021-04-14T14:22:13","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T18:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?p=7365"},"modified":"2021-04-14T14:22:13","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T18:22:13","slug":"yellow-wallpaper-blog-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/2021\/04\/14\/yellow-wallpaper-blog-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Yellow Wallpaper Blog Post"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think the story\u00a0The Yellow Wallpaper\u00a0<\/em>was a good example of how entertainment always has a lesson or a deeper meaning within it. In\u00a0The Yellow Wallpaper’s\u00a0<\/em>case, the deeper meaning had to do with the oppression of women in seemingly “happy” marriages and, further, the downplaying and repression of mental illnesses in women and especially women who are supposed to be a part of “high society.” Doctors call the narrator “hysterical” and encourage her husband, John, to almost “capture” her within this room with yellow wallpaper. When she takes a disliking to the wallpaper, he refuses to change it or take it down, believing it would be giving in to her wills and worsen her symptoms. Obviously, the narrator needed much more professional care and was suffering from severe depression and possibly OCD and depersonalization.<\/p>\n

There’s a significant difference between the narrator and her husband in terms of personality; the narrator (the wife) is much more emotional, feeling, intuitive, and she sees things below the surface. John, the husband, however, is much more practical and closed-minded and can’t interpret the things his wife is interpreting and seeing. There’s such a disconnect here that nothing eventually gets resolved.<\/p>\n

I think\u00a0The Yellow Wallpaper\u00a0<\/em>also shows how our narratives and minds can attack themselves, convincing us that we can’t be healed or fixed. And this concept just multiplies as anxiety and depression increase, leading to this constant cycle that, without help, is nearly impossible to escape from. I think this story really showed that descent and what contributes to such a descent, and I think the author did an especially good job of showing it from the perspective of the individual falling into that descent, how helpless they feel when no one around them believes or understands them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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