The Yellow Wallpaper: Repression
"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Gilman is sad story of the
repression that women face in the days of late 1800's as well as being
representative of the turmoils that women face today. Gilman writes "The
Yellow Wallpaper" from her own personal experiences of having to face the
overwhelming fact that this is a male dominated society and sometimes women
suffer because of it.
The narrator, being female, is suffering from a "temporary
depression". She states right from the beginning that "John is a
physician, and perhaps--(I would not say it to a living soul, of course,
but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind)-- perhaps that is
the one reason I do not get well faster." The narrator sets up the story
to convey a certain opinion of the repercussions a woman faces in the care
of a man. She obviously loves her husband and trusts him but has some
underlying feeling that maybe his prescription of total bed rest is not
working for her. The story mentions that she has an older brother who is
also a physician and concurs with her husbands theory, thus leaving her no
choice but to subject herself to this torment of being totally alone in
this room with the yellow wallpaper.
She stares at this wallpaper for hours on end and thinks she sees a
woman behind the paper. "I didn't realize for a long time what the thing
was that showed behind, that dim sub-pattern, but now I am quite sure it is
a woman." She becomes obsessed with discovering what is behind that
pattern and what it is doing. "I don't want to leave now until I have
found it out". The narrator with absolutely nothing else to do is reduced
to staring ...
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... indeed imprison the woman because you have no way of knowing what has
happened before or what is to come. We imprison her more because we make
judgments of a thirty second clip that could possibly affect our bias for
the movie or the story itself before we have a chance as an individual to
read the story or watch the movie.
As a female in 1995 reading this story, I had this overwhelming
desire to free this narrator from her husband and the rest of the males in
her life. She wanted company, activity and stimulation. Which any woman
of that time or this time should be freely allowed to have. Gilman did an
outstanding job of illustrating the position that women of that time, and
to an extent, of this time as well, hold in their society. This story
should hold a place in every woman's heart who is struggling to find her
place.
Often, when a story is told, it follows the events of the protagonist. It is told in a way that justifies the reasons and emotions behind the protagonist actions and reactions. While listening to the story being cited, one tends to forget about the other side of the story, about the antagonist motivations, about all the reasons that justify the antagonist actions.
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Can a story contain more than one antagonist? In “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman there is an overwhelming amount of conflict the unnamed narrator must endure. The protagonist of “The Yellow Wallpaper” is the narrator who is suffering from depression and is taken to a house for the summer to rest. In “The Yellow Wallpaper”, the wallpaper is the antagonist because it causes the narrator to have a breakdown at the end of the short story; John, the narrator’s husband, cannot be the antagonist because he is doing what he believes is best for her, and the narrator cannot be the antagonist because she wants to improve her mental state.
“The Yellow Wallpaper” tells the story of a woman who is trapped in a room covered in yellow wallpaper. The story is one that is perplexing in that the narrator is arguably both the protagonist as well as the antagonist. In the story, the woman, who is the main character, struggles with herself indirectly which results in her descent into madness. The main conflicts transpires between the narrator and her husband John who uses his power as a highly recognize male physician to control his wife by placing limitations on her, forcing her to behave as a sick woman. Hence he forced himself as the superior in their marriage and relationship being the sole decision make. Therefore it can be said what occurred externally resulted in the central conflict of” “The Yellow Wallpaper being internal. The narrator uses the wallpaper as a symbol of authenticy. Hence she internalizes her frustrations rather then openly discussing them.
Mirriam, S. B., Caffarella, R. S., & Baumgartner, L. M. (2007). Learning in adulthood: A
Knowles collected ideas about a theory of adult education from the end of World War 2, when he was introduced to the term “androgogy”. In 1966, Knowles meet Dusan Savicevic in Boston, U.S.A. Savicevic shared the term androgogy with Knowles and explained how it was used in the European context. .In 1967, Knowles made use of the term “Androgogy” to explain his theory of adult education. Then after consulting Merriam-Webster he converted the spelling of the term androgoy to andragogy and continued to make use of the term to explain his collection of ideas about adult learning. (Sopher 2003).
One theorist that is relevant to this study is Malcolm Knowles’s theory of adult learning. Though Malcom Knowles may not be the first one to introduce adult learning, he was the one that introduced andragogy in North America. (McEwen and Wills 2014). Andragogy means adult learning. The core concept of Knowles’s Adult learning theory is to create a learning environment or awareness for adults to understand why they learn .Knowles developed six main assumptions of adult learners. Those assumptions are the need to know, self- concept, experience, readiness to learn, orientation to learning and motivation. (McEwen and Wills, 2014)
Hiemstra, R., & Sisco, B. (1990). Moving from pedagogy to andragogy. Foundations of Adult Education: Critical and Contemporary Issues, Retrieved from http://www-distance.syr.edu/literature.html
Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” explores how a loss of freedom affects one’s sanity. Through John’s treatment of the narrator and the narrator’s resulting thoughts and actions, the short story suggests that denying others their freedom is disastrous to their mental health. Ultimately, John contributes to this theme by assuming absolute control of the narrator’s life, which eventually drives her insane.
Zhao, Y., (1998), Media, Market, and Democracy in China - Between the party line and the bottom line (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press).
This paper will review Hase, S., & Kenyon, C. journal “From andragogy to heutagogy.” They discussed Knowles (1970) suggestion an important change in the way in which educational experiences for adults should be designed. They demonstrated the difference between the notion of andragogy and heutagogy. Furthermore the transformation from the theory of pedagogy to andragogy and now towards truly self-determined learning called heutagogy. This paper will exemplify the many benefits of both andragogy and heutagogy.
As we know, human being keep learning though all their lives, Sometimes I am thinking how we adult learning. In this book, I found them--some related concepts about adult learning and ways to Self-Direct Learning(SDL). Before reading this book. I already knew what is the adult learner is. In China, students who are over 18 years old are the adult in General Principles Of the Civil Law. In some perspectives, University education can be called adult education. It is new for me to learn this knowledge, so I chose the first eight chapters of the textbook.
Prior Experience- Adults have a lot of previous experiments which may help them understand situations better, or it may make them biased toward learning new material, ideals or strategies.