Tiêu đề Notes- The Yellow Wallpaper ✅

LL.B Part-I (5 Years Program) Course: English I Course Instructor: Ms. Hafsa Qadir Characters: 1. Narrator (Jane – wife of John) (Protagonist): A young woman suffering from a nervous disorder because she has no outlet for her active and highly creative mind. 2. John: Narrator's husband, a physician/Doctor. He prescribes rest for his wife and forbids her to engage in any kind of activity, including her favorite pastime, writing. Unfortunately, she follows his orders without protest. 3. Jennie: John's sister, the housekeeper. 4. Mary: caretaker of baby boy/ Nanny 5. Baby: Infant child of the narrator and John. 6. Henry and Julie: Relatives Themes: 1. Control, freedom and Powerlessness 2. Physical health 3. Psychological health 4. Madness 5. Personal Isolation 6. Social Isolation 7. Reason Vs. Emotions 8. Human companionship Summary: At the beginning of the story, Jane, John, Jennie, their maid Mary and their infant son leave for a beachside mansion, to spend their 3 months vacations there because John’s wife is going through worst psychological breakdown (confusing depression) and John feels that she needs to spend some time away from home. Hence, they have shifted to this huge, old abandoned and forest like mansion to spend summer. All day long, John (husband as well as her Physician/doctor) goes out for work while his wife sits alone inside her bedroom, looking at the peeled off, faded yellow wallpapers on her bedroom’s walls. Even her child is kept away from her, as the maid or John’s sister (Jennie) look after the child and keep him and themselves mostly. All this is being done on John’s order which does not understand his wife’s psychological confusion but only consider her physical weakness (and for that limits her inside the yellow walls of this bedroom). John’s wife repeatedly asks him to stay home and spend time with her, to let her spend time with her baby, to let her go to her cousin’s house. But John refuses all these requests and asks his wife to stay inside the bedroom. In the meantime, John’s wife stays alone inside her yellow wallpapered bedroom. She develops a habit of forming patterns about yellow wallpaper in her mind. For instance, while in her bedroom, she would look at the yellow wallpaper on the wall and assumes that a lady was imprisoned behind the pattern (bars) of the wallpaper and she only came out at these bars or pattern at night time. Such thinking about the wallpaper further added to her mental confusion which wasn’t decreasing but growing worse because of her loneliness and the patterns in the wallpaper. John’s wife once asks him if they could shift downstairs (to a room without the yellow wallpapers) but John ignores her irritation with the wallpaper and orders that the bedroom would not be changed. In the next few days, John’s wife fascination with the wallpaper (and the imagined lady behind it) is so increased that she starts looking the wallpaper whole day long and studies the wallpaper pattern in isolation. Stories of Ourselves: The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman