Descent into Madness The descent into madness takes place in both story's the Tell Tale Heart and The Yellow Wallpaper. ... The Yellow Wallpaper deals with a women who is experiencing psychological difficulties. ... This denial of stimulus and her obsession with the yellow wallpaper in the room which she is confined eventually takes its toll on the women and her journey to madness begins. ... In the Yellow Wallpaper he women becomes so disillusioned and obsessed with the wallpaper that objects begin to appear. ... The Yellow Wallpaper. ...

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The classic tales "The Cask of Amontillado", by Edgar Allan Poe, and " The Yellow Wallpaper", by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, have strong gothic horror elements. ... The point of view is almost always in the first Person and the narrator is the protagonist. ... In Charlotte Perkins Gilman's " The Yellow Wallpaper", the narrator and protagonist, an unnamed woman is suffering from a mental illness. ... The bedroom also has yellow wallpaper that the woman describes as the worst paper she has seen in her life, "committing every artistic sin"(451). ... "The Cask of Amontadillo" and "The Yel...

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Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher", and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" are two quite incredible short stories of madness, though they are both different in scenario. ... Temporary madness can lead to permanent madness, as was shown in Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper". ... Usher displays all these traits, and we are shown this through Poe's metaphoric description of the house, and the ways in which the scenes are portrayed in a dream-like state by the narrator, and through the interactions between the three main characters, (The twin siste...

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While mental illness may be a little subtler in Montressor's case, it is a prominent theme in Charlotte Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper. ... We see the narrator, while being kept in isolation, slowly lose her mind over time. ... Because her husband is condescending to her, she is not able to confide in him about her obsession with the wallpaper, ultimately leading to her psychotic break. The bedroom the narrator was staying in – with bars on the windows and a chained-down bed – resembled a prison. ... In the end we see the narrator believe that she actually came from the wa...

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