Jane's Addiction In The Yellow Wallpaper

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Drugs Can drive the human mind into chaos and can make people do unbelievable things. In the Yellow Wall Paper, the narrator whose name might or not be Jane is going through a lot of bizarre things during her stay at her new home. She can be walking across the room one second and then crawling next to the wall like something from paranormal activity the next second. What is making her go insane during her stay at her new home? Is it the ridiculous drugs she takes on the regular or Her isolation from society? As usual, the beginning of stories is happy, Except for this one. In the beginning, the narrator seems skeptical about her new home. She starts questioning things for instance during the beginning she mentions the house might be haunted …show more content…

There are times in the story when John wakes up to Jane wide awake because John makes Jane take the tonics during the day so when its night time she’s awake for instance the things John gave her made her not want to sleep at all that’s why she was acting weird and not sleeping during the story John points out that Jane is looking worst and Jane suggests that she feels fine but little does she know that she is always high and on all kind of drugs. Jane is given phosphates which makes her thirsty which causes her to drink the drugs that John wants her to take. Jane notices that sometimes she feels that the drugs are not necessary, but she does not question John because he knows he is a high-class physician. All these things make Jane hallucinate she starts thinking about why the wallpaper moves and she start seeing people and one day Jane thinks she saw someone in her room, so she gets a rope and ends up tying it on her self because she is so drugged she doesn’t even know what’s going on. Jane also notices that the lower part of the wallpaper is all ripped off and scratched but the wall next to the bed is normal, little does Jane know that all those things were created by her. Whenever John was gone she would crawl all over the floor next to the wall that’s why it ripped off but the only reason the wallpaper was intact next to the bed was that the bed was nailed to the floor so when Jane wanted to move the bed when she was crawling Jane

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