Yellow Wallpaper film analysis

At the beginning of the movie, the narrator gives logical illustrations of the environment of the countryside. Charlotte somehow seemed unconvinced with the choice of the house to the point of asking her husband why he chose to rent unappealing apartment despite numerous good homes. As the story unfolds, the audience begins to notice that the narrator, Charlotte, is mentally ill. She does a couple of suggestive things regarding her mental issue such as following the patterns of the wallpaper why she lies in bed. The rationale of this paper is to uncover the marriage issues that faced women of the 19th century, the theme of isolation and as well as the meaning of the symbols. By ignoring her, she continued being delusional and alienated. Although she was already physically isolated, she now became emotionally as well as mentally alienated.

The husband who also happens to be her doctor should have listened to what she was complaining about. Her situation became worse because she started to link her situation with the woman behind the wallpaper. She started believing that the woman behind the wallpaper was her only companion since her husband refused to play his role. “She is no longer Jane. She writes, “I am securely fastened now by my well-hidden rope” (Gilman 20). Although it is unclear what the writer meant by saying that she was secure in her well-hidden rope, a lot of scholars argue that she hanged herself. The promise that the husband had made regarding treating Charlotte of her depression was never accomplished since she killed herself. It can be concluded that the victim felt that the only way to rescue herself is through taking away her own life.

Women were only viewed as people who are only supposed to be submissive and that they should never question their husbands regardless of the good or poor decisions that husbands make on behalf of the entire family. Charlotte’s hallucinations regarding the woman that is trapped behind wallpaper are that she was associating her circumstances with the woman that was hind the wallpaper. She was pitting the trapped woman because she knew the pain of being isolated. The idea of her tearing the wallpaper is to symbolize how women longed for the freedom they were being denied by their husbands. Sexism and Patriarchy “The Yellow Wallpaper,” tale portrays how patriarchy and sexism had dominated in marriages of the 19th century. When the narrator says she is free by doing unexpected thing means that she was better off dead than continue facing unending depression.

In connection to that, bigotry and patriarchy are the main factors that dictated how women were supposed to be treated. Additionally, some weak traits were associated with femininity. For example, one of the research critics argues that John demonstrated a female character when he fainted. Passing out was associated with femininity, and it was uncommon for men to faint according to social norms of the 19th century (Aguilar, Inmaculada, and Antonio11). In fact, she argues that the room looks like it had been through the war. In respects to that, women of the 19th-century mental challenges due to alienation by those people that were supposed to take care of them. Roles of married women According to the research, the novel also reveals the roles of women in marriage. The readers can see through Jane that no matter the desires of a woman, the head of the family had the final say regarding what the woman was supposed to contribute to the marriage.

For example, Jane wanted a good house which is a sensible request, but John made the decision of renting the house without considering the opinion of his wife (Gale 13). Even though women still suffered before they were married, marriage was like the final nail on the coffin because a woman would be subjected to a lot of unimagined challenges. Marriage was like a prison to a woman because she not only lost her freedom through marriage but also social life (Gilman 23). In most cases, a married woman would talk to either the husband or her children because it was hard to engage with family members of relatives. The husband owned the wife such that he could control people that her social circle. For instance, when watching, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the audience tends to think that Jane does not have family members because she hardly has the conversation with them.

The main character loses her mind because the husband isolated her from the rest of the society. Moreover, the woman is also incapable of providing for herself because she is unemployed. Presumably, she would have managed to hire a psychiatrist if she was engaged in a competitive and gainful job. Another significant deduction is that the tale is mirroring the problems that the majority of women faced in the 19th century. Work cited Aguilar, Inmaculada Torres, and Antonio Hernández Fernández. The yellow wallpaper. North Charleston, South Carolina: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015. Print. Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. WOMEN & ECONOMICS: A Study of the Economic Relation between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution: From the famous American feminist, social reformer, sociologist and the author of The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland.