Amazing animation about The Yellow Wallpaper

THE END - IT'S ONLY A NEW BEGINNING

    Finally, I come to the end of my analysis. I'd like to say that I'm very pleased to have such a chance to work with such interesting story and especially in such online way)) I never ever work with blog, but frankly speaking I'd rather like it than hate, and in future I continue practice doing it. 

        If talking about my impression, well I really really like it. The story is definitely my coupe of tea, I couldn't stand from reading . The author depicts not only the horror effect but also point out the social problem and discrimination women in the society. 

     Without a doubt the publication of The Yellow Wallpaperhad both immediate and long-term effects on women’s issues. Gilman writes in her essay “Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper” that the story was meant to save women from further suffering under the rest cure, and that her plan was successful. She says that after her former physician, Weir Mitchell, read a copy of the story that she had sent to him, he altered his treatment of women with nervous disorders. Therefore, the novella served an immediate purpose in the real, everyday lives of late nineteenth and early twentieth century women.  

What effects create the expressive means and stylistic devices used in the story??????????

 First of all, it's interesting to mention, that the whole story is really difficult to analyze, because the author has his own individual style, which makes the story unique. “The Yellow Wallpaper” is enormously rich with stylistic elements. This is obvious in the layout, the text form and the text type. Gilman’s text is a short story, written in prose, consisting of 83 lines which are divided into 39 paragraphs and is structured like a journal, written in an informal, impressionistic style.We are dealing with a 1st person narrator, the given point of view is limited and unreliable. 

The story also contains several symbols. The yellow wallpaper itself symbolizes the psychological state of the narrator. The nursery is also a symbol of society's treatment of women as juveniles. The barred windows symbolize entrapment, or the prison of the room or mind.  

In order to emphasize the atmosphere of the story and described the setting the author used EPITHETS: “physician of high standing”, “a delicious garden”, “sprawling flamboyant patterns”, “The colour…repellent, revolt…”, “a smouldering unclean yellow”, “atrocious nursery”, “blessed little goose”, “riotous old-fashioned flowers”, “velvet meadows”, “optic horror”  SIMILES: “lie awake as a child”, “chair that always seemed like a strong friend”, “it as good as gymnastics” 

To show that the main character suffers from illnesses the author used OXYMORON: “positively angry”. 

In order to show the complete insensitivity of her physician husband; he has marginalized her suffering by claiming that she is not sick at all, the author used POLYSYNDETON: So I take phosphates or phosphites—whichever it is, andtonics, and journeys, and air, and exercise, and am absolutely forbidden to "work" until I am well again.

To show a strong emotional effect, the author used ANAPHORA: "Personally, I disagree with their ideas. Personally, I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change, would do me good." "I don't know why I should write this. I don't want to. I don'tfeel able."

PARENTHESIS used to show the main character mental suffering and emotional anguish.we almost hear her desperation at being labeled 'hysterical.' She is also suspicious of the house and how her stay there will affect her.: "If a physician of high standing, and one's own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendency—what is one to do? I am afraid, but I don't care—there is something strange about the house—I can feel it."

To show fundamentaly contrasting ideas the author used ANTITHESIS : “That spoils my ghostliness, I am afraid, but I don’t care” A very striking antithesis is about John’s profession: “John is a physician and perhaps … that is one reason I do not get well faster.”

In the description of the house or the area, or when John is described, we see the PARALLELISM : “but John says”, “but John would not”; “he said”, “He is”, “he takes” 

Furthermore, I'd like to mentioned that ASSONANCES ( “and am absolutely forbidden”,  “there is something queer about it”, “get well faster”, “whichever it is”, “write for a while in spite”, “standing well back”, “take pains”, “paint and paper”, “head of my bed”, it gives the reader chance to remember some phrases.), and ALLITERATIONS (a hereditary estate, a haunted house height of”, “phosphates or phosphites”, “society and stimulus”, “paint and paper  in great patches”, “curves  commit suicide”, “repellent, almost revolting”, “sickly sulphur”.) occur very often and helps to remember some phrase, to show the inner world of the main character 

To believe or not to believe???The question which the MAIN CHARACTER ask himself

The protagonist (from Ancient Greek πρωταγωνιστής (protagonistes), meaning "player of the first part, chief actor") or main character is a narrative's central or primary personal figure, who comes into conflict with an opposing major character or force (called the antagonist. 

   If talking about the main character of the story, I'd like to say that the author is the protagonist. The narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a young wife and mother who has recently began to suffer symptoms of depression and anxiety.However, the reader never learns her name. To my mind it's very symbolic, because Gilman has cleverly taken the reader into the inner-most realms of a woman’s mind and experiences, yet the woman in “The Yellow Wallpaper” remains anonymous, a reflection of her status in society.

To describe the character of the story the author used inderect characterization. In the such example we get to know that the woman is really very nervous: "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 one reason I do not get well faster. You see he does not believe I am sick!  And what can one do? If a physician of high standing, and one's own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression - a slight hysterical tendency - what is one to do?” From this words we can imagine how difficult this woman is, and I don't know if it's her temporary emotional state or it by her illness. 

The main charecter tries to be the perfect wife, but she always disagree that she has a problem, I think she doesn't trust her husbend “So I take phosphates and phosphites—whichever it is, and tonics, and journeys, and air, and exercise, and am absolutely forbidden to ‘work’ until I am well again. Personally, I disagree with their ideas. Personally, I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change, would do me good". 

Moreover, as the one thinks which helps her to feel better was writing she feels really angry with husbend, because he can't understans her: “It is so discouraging not to have any advice and companionship about my work.” From this misunderstanding with husband and all people in general, the narrator  begins to find comfort in the hideous yellow wallpaper that covers the walls of the nursery:“I have found out another funny thing, but I shan’t tell it this time! It does not do to trust people too much.” She gradually begins to see a female figure trapped behind the bar-like pattern of the wallpaper and realizes that both she and the figure are suffering from oppression and imprisonment. In oder to show growing insanity with each passing day, the author used choppy prose and disjointed stream-of-consciousness. Eventually the narrator becomes a "creeping woman." The first indication is when she says, rather startlingly, "I always lock the door when I creep by daylight." Later, the narrator and the creeping woman work together to pull off the wallpaper. The narrator writes (or perhaps says -- there's some debate about this), "T  here are so many of those creeping women, and they creep so fast." So the narrator is one of many, she losses her face, she losses herself......

    The other main character is  more indroduced to us. His name is Jone. As for me, I think he  does not take her illness seriously. John treats her like a child, calling her diminutive names like "blessed little goose" and "little girl." He makes all decisions for her and isolates her from the things she cares about. His actions are couched in concern for her, a position that she initially seems to believe herself. "He is very careful and loving," she writes in her journal, "and hardly lets me stir without special direction."  her words also sound as if she is merely parroting what she's been told, and "hardly lets me stir" seems to harbor a veiled complaint. To my mind Jone doesn't love her, because he speaks to her as if she is a whimsical child, imagining her own illness. "Bless her little heart!" he says. "She shall be as sick as she pleases!" He does not want to acknowledge that her problems are real, and so he silences her." Her wife understands it and maybe even eccepts his position : "John does not know how much I really suffer. He knows there is no reason to suffer, and that satisfies him."John can't imagine anything outside his own judgment". So when he determines that the narrator's life is satisfactory, he imagines that the fault lies with her perception of her life. It never occurs to him that her situation might really need improvement.

Before we are going to speak about the characters, draw you attention to the plot of the story and types of speech employed in it

Speaking about the types of speech, which employed in the text, I'd like to emphasized that we have a mixture of narration, description and dialogue. I think this mixture gives us detailed image of the setting, the events and the characteristic of the main character.

   
      

Do you remember what the term "the PLOT of the story" means?

Plot is a literary term used to describe the events that make up a story or the main part of a story. These events relate to each other in a pattern or a sequence. The structure of a novel depends on the organization of events in the plot of the story.

Plot is known as the foundation of a novel or story which the characters and settings are built around. It is meant to organize information and events in a logical manner. When writing the plot of a piece of literature, the author has to be careful that it does not dominate the other parts of the story.

It's high time to introduce the plot of "The Yellow Wall-Papper"

It goes without saying the plot of the story shows the conflict between the main character and her husband, but I think it conflict with her imagination and reality. This woman is really mentally ill and her illness grow up day after day.

   So, the plot of the story consist of:

Exposition - "It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral hall s for the summer. A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity-but that would be asking too much of fate!" Here, we get to know about the main characters and their new house.The developmet of the plot - "We have been here two·weeks, and I haven't felt like writing before, since that first day. I am sitting by the window now, up in this atrocious nursery, and there is nothing to hinder my writing as much as I please, save lack of strength. John is away all day, and even some nights when his cases are serious. I am glad my case is not serious! But these nervous troubles are dreadfully depressing. John does not know how much I really suffer. He knows there is no reason to suffer, and that satisfies him. Ofcourse it is only nervousness. It does weigh o"n me so not to do my duty in any way" Here, we got acquainted with probles which are at family and with the main charecter's illness .The climax - " I really have discovered something at last. Through watching so much at night, when it changes so, I have finally founu out. The front pattern does move -and no wonder! The woman behind shakes it! Sometimes I think there are a great many women behind, and sometime;, only one, and she crawls around fast, and her crawling shakes it all over." We can see, that the main character completely identified with the woman in the wallpaper.The denouement - ""What is the matter?" he cried. "For God's sake, what are you doing! " I kept on creeping just the same, but I looked at him over my shoulder. " I've got out at last," said I, " in spite of you and Jane? And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back! " Now why should that man have fainted? But he did, and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time" 

For which purpose the author used the 1st person narrative?

It's an open secret that  from the point of view of presentation the text is the 1st person narrative. The author is the main character of the story. Charlotte Parkins used such kind of presentation to make the story more subjective and true-to life. When you read the book you feel, as you read the woman's thought, you are afraid ,you are laugh, you doing everything what the main character does. 

Where did it happen?

Is it really necessary to know about the setting? Well, I guess "yep".That house!!! ....something strange is in that house, mysterious, unpredicted

One the one hand, for the main character this place is something beautiful, this place reminds her little paradise."The most beautiful place! It is quite alone, standing well back from the road, quite three miles from the village. It makes me think of English places that you read about, for there are hedges and walls and gates that lock, and lots of separate little houses for the gardeners and people." She likes the garden, she is really happy to have it "There is a delicious garden! I never saw such a garden -large and shady, full of box-bordered paths, and lined with long grape-covered arbors with seats under them."

On the othe hand she is afraid about the house: "There was some legal trouble, I believe, something about the heirs and coheirs; anyhow, the place has been empty for years."

It's interesting to mention, that the author gives a deep description of the room in which the main character constantly is:"It is a big, airy room, the whole floor nearly, with windows that look all ways, and air and sunshine galore. It was nursery first and then playroom and gymnasium, I should judge; for the windows are barred for little children, and there are rings and things in the walls. The paint and paper look as if a boys' school had used it.  It is stripped off--the paper--in great patches all around the head of my bed, about as far as I can reach, and in a great place on the other side of the room low down. I never saw a worse paper in my life"The description of this room shows us that woman easily going crazy day after day when being at the room.