Compare And Contrast The Barbie Doll

First we are going to talk about the story, “The Yellow Wallpaper”. Everyone who has read this story by Charlotte Gilman knows about the “crazy” wife. If anyone has read the poem “Barbie Doll” by Marge Piercy, you will understand that the girl was getting brainwashed by society which was making her go a little crazy. Lastly the film Shutter Island, starring Leonardo DiCaprio of also ended up being crazy in the end of the movie. Many people have different thoughts of the word crazy. So I feel that between these characters they are all part of the “Reality vs. Fantasy” because they are all simply in there own world and blocking out reality. They all have something that shows us how our imaginations or even thoughts can make you do some hectic

things or even just make people your “crazy”.
Starting with the wife from “The Yellow Wallpaper”. The story starts when John and the narrator move into a temporary home John has secured to give the narrator the break from schedule that he believes what's best for her rest and recovery. She, then again, questions the need of such a move and thinks about whether the strange house they were at was haunted. John uncovers his superior state of mind toward his wife by giggling at her "fancies," a reaction which the narrator finds quite normal because, as she clarifies, one must expect such treatment in marriage. She even proposes that his lack of concern to her opinions on the house and her illness keeps her from getting well quicker. Her suggestion ends up being a game-changing forecast. Against her desires, John decides that he and his wife will be sleeping in the attic room of the house, which at one point may have been a nursery. Really, the room seems to look a lot like a jail than a room for kids to play. The windows have bars on them, and the bed is nailed to the floor. There is even a door at the highest point of the stairs. Even more disturbing to the narrator, however, is the yellow wallpaper, peeling or pulled off the walls in strips. Before, the paper's pattern would annoy the narrator's sensibilities, but later on her attitude has quite a change.

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The narrator's interest with the yellow wallpaper is the primary piece of information of her degenerating sanity. She starts to describe exact qualities to the paper, saying that it knows how it influences her and that its eyes stare at her. She even starts to believe that the paper has two levels, a front pattern and a shadowy figure caught behind its bars. The narrator double-crosses the movement of her disease when she starts to trust that the figure behind the wallpaper is a lady, trapped like her. The lady behind the wallpaper becomes an obsession. The narrator starts to creep, similar to the lady behind the paper, around the edge of the room, making a mark or "kiss" on the wall. The narrator starts to catch glimpses of the lady out the windows, crawling around the garden on her hands and knees. She additionally begins peeling off the wallpaper with a goal to totally free the woman trapped in that second layer. John and his sister, Jennie, start to suspect that something is horrendously wrong, but then they are satisfied with her apparent progress. She seems more ordinary to them now because she is saving her energy for the nighttime, when the woman behind the paper is most active.
The story's climactic scene happens as their stay in the rented house is coming to an end. On their last night, John is at the end of the day nearby taking care of a patient, and the narrator requests that Jennie not aggravate her. She wanted to be left alone; the narrator secures herself in the nursery to permit continuous time for peeling wallpaper and in this manner liberating the shadowy lady. As the narrator works, she recognizes all the more nearly and seriously with the trapped lady until, eventually, she loses her feeling of individual character and merges with the lady behind the wallpaper. John breaks down the door to get into the room to find his wife slithering in the midst of the torn paper, declaring that she is free finally, and nobody can return her behind the wallpaper. John passes out, and his wife proceeds with her creeping over his fallen body.

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Next we’re going to talk about is the poem “Barbie Doll” by Marge Piercy.

So there is this little girl recieves gifts, for example like, dolls, home appliances, and some makeup. Later, is when puberty hits her and a classmate remarks unflatteringly on her appearance, taking note of her "big nose and fat legs." From the second stanza the reader finds out about the youthful juvenile's insight, physical ability, and sexual drive. She appears to be healthy, strong, and capable, although she ignores these qualities, rather going "back and forth apologizing." "Everybody" considers her to be just "a fat nose on thick legs." As she grows and matures, she gets counsel from others. The third stanza lists to aim at her promoting her happiness not only with herself but also with life and achievement. In time, her common goodness separates like a ragged out vehicles part. At last, as a grown-up, she for all time frees herself of her apparent deficiencies by means of a sacrificial offering. In the last stanza, the reader finds the now-deceased woman showed in her casket. She has been falsely manufactured by a funeral director, with a "turned-up putty nose,/wearing a pink and white nightie." Onlookers locate her pretty. The last two lines of the sonnet resolve the poem: "Consummation at last. /To every woman a happy

ending."

Last thing we’re going to talk about is the film “Shutter Island”. Shutter Island is genuinely a tragedy of how one man can't accept his reality, in a year where Leonardo Dicaprio played a man desperate to keep up his existence in Inception, Shutter Island is an odd sidekick piece to that film. In Shutter Island we are persuaded that Leonardo Dicaprio is playing a U.S Marshall under the name of Teddy Daniels. Daniels alongside his new partner Chuck (played by Mark Ruffalo) has been sent to Shutter Island to do an investigation on the mysterious disappearance of Rachel Solando. The movies enormous turn is that Teddy is in fact a patient of the mental office who executed his wife after she suffocated their three kids in the lake. The main conflict of Shutter Island is the story of one man and his
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refusal to accept reality. All through the film Teddy is tormented by visions and dreams of his dead wife, and also appalling flashbacks to his encounters in the Second World War. This is a man who has seen unpleasant things and is attempting to cover them away by trying to be somebody else. “There’s something going on here but nobody will talk…its like their scared of something” (Teddy,film)
There is another conflict blending under the surface of Shutter Island, the conflict of how the mentally unstable should be dealt with. In a scene from the get-go Dr. Cawley (Played by Ben Kingsley) comments "We drew screws into their eyes… as if whipping them bloody would dry the remarks out of them" the 1950's is seen as a transition period as far as how the crazy were dealt with. Forward scholars who appropriately suspected that putting an ice pick into some person’s eye would not legitimately cure their madness were eliminating the old school of lobotomies. Dr. Cawley is a character who speaks to this groundbreaking; he is edgy to get past to Teddy by each methods conceivable instead of a lobotomy. In fact the end of the story is both Teddy's resignation and acceptance as much as it is Dr. Cawleys; he also lost a personal and professional battle.
In the end I feel like all three of these individuals have no fault in the way they ended up. One was seeing herself on the wallpaper because she felt trapped, another was bullied for something that she was simply born with which made her do something tragic that could’ve easily been ignored if someone nice enough would simply look beneath her flaws and see what a remarkable girl she was and tell her she was beautiful from the inside which makes you even more beautiful from the outside and the last one was simply ill in the mind because he had hated how his reality was so it was easier for him to just live in his fantasy.