Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Yellow Wallpaper behind the wallpaper pattern, she becomes more concerned about it and feels like she should help free the woman trapped behind her. Originally, the shadows of many things began to appear to him like the woman behind the wallpaper. She claims to see her in the garden "on that long road under the trees, crawling, and when a carriage comes, she hides under the blackberry vines." She imagines the woman behind the wallpaper able to escape during the day and trapped at night. The fact that she imagines the woman being able to escape during the day seems more to be a reflection of her own desires to go out during the day, to explore her garden even if she will have to hide so people don't see her . The hallucination becomes stronger every day, as does her need to explode to tell her feelings, to wander around as she pleases and not find herself stuck behind the wall of her room. She hallucinates seeing the woman trapped behind the bars of the wallpaper and no matter how hard she tries, she just can't escape, just like the protagonist, because she feels like she's caught trapped in the house and she fights to get out. think we must say, feel or be something other than what we are. We say things we don't mean, thinking it's what others want to hear. We pretend to feel things that seem acceptable to others so that others will approve of us. The protagonist was saying things that she knows her husband her sister-in-law wanted to hear because she didn't want them to think she was going crazy. She would pretend...... middle of paper ......ic and different in our own way. Only we can define ourselves as we want to be. You might easily think that "The Yellow Wallpaper" is about a woman driven to madness by postpartum depression and continued isolation, but it's much more than that. It's about human rights, it's about a woman fighting to find her identity, to be seen as an individual, to be herself and to express herself in the way that seems healthy to him. Sometimes our loved ones, our family may think they know exactly what is best for us, but how can they be so sure if they don't see things from the same point of view as us. Harvey Fierstein once said, “Never be intimidated by silence. Never let yourself become a victim. Don't accept any definition of your life, but define yourself. And the thing is, what's best for someone is usually not what's best for you. Only you can be you.

Essay / Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Yellow Wallpaper behind the wallpaper pattern, she becomes more concerned about it and feels like she should help free the woman trapped behind her. Originally, the shadows of many things began to appear to him like the woman behind the wallpaper. She claims to see her in the garden "on that long road under the trees, crawling, and when a carriage comes, she hides under the blackberry vines." She imagines the woman behind the wallpaper able to escape during the day and trapped at night. The fact that she imagines the woman being able to escape during the day seems more to be a reflection of her own desires to go out during the day, to explore her garden even if she will have to hide so people don't see her . The hallucination becomes stronger every day, as does her need to explode to tell her feelings, to wander around as she pleases and not find herself stuck behind the wall of her room. She hallucinates seeing the woman trapped behind the bars of the wallpaper and no matter how hard she tries, she just can't escape, just like the protagonist, because she feels like she's caught trapped in the house and she fights to get out. think we must say, feel or be something other than what we are. We say things we don't mean, thinking it's what others want to hear. We pretend to feel things that seem acceptable to others so that others will approve of us. The protagonist was saying things that she knows her husband her sister-in-law wanted to hear because she didn't want them to think she was going crazy. She would pretend...... middle of paper ......ic and different in our own way. Only we can define ourselves as we want to be. You might easily think that "The Yellow Wallpaper" is about a woman driven to madness by postpartum depression and continued isolation, but it's much more than that. It's about human rights, it's about a woman fighting to find her identity, to be seen as an individual, to be herself and to express herself in the way that seems healthy to him. Sometimes our loved ones, our family may think they know exactly what is best for us, but how can they be so sure if they don't see things from the same point of view as us. Harvey Fierstein once said, “Never be intimidated by silence. Never let yourself become a victim. Don't accept any definition of your life, but define yourself. And the thing is, what's best for someone is usually not what's best for you. Only you can be you.

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