" However, the narrator eventually secretly disobeys John by writing a journal, which awakens her realization that she desires escape from her husband and the room. ... As a physician, John tells his wife to stay in bed, suppress her imagination, and discontinue her writing in order to improve her fragile mental condition. ... As the narrators need for a creative outlet grows, the yellow wallpaper becomes her outlet. ... The narrator unable to express her creative and intellectual capabilities eventually begins to associate herself with the woman inside the wallpaper. The bars that cont...

• Word Count: 1068
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Imagine being diagnosed with a disease which forbids you from any creative activity, stops you from going out, and limits your forms of expression. ... She hides her desire to write or do anything creative because as her husband claims, it would worsen her case. ... Instead, she is quiet and sneaky with her attempts to do anything which is slightly creative or expressive. ... Writing in her journal helps the narrator clear her mind or at least allows use her time to do something other than sit in a closed room and stare at the ceiling. ... Not only does he barely spend any time with her and di...

• Word Count: 1134
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

"The Yellow Wallpaper" written in 1890 by Charlotte Perkins Stetson tells the story of John's wife, a woman without a name, she is simply her husband's property and he believes her to be suffering from a nervous condition. They rent a mansion for the narrator's well-being and she is kept in almost t...

• Word Count: 518
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Sure, there is a lot of medicine being prescribed, and numerous treatments; however, it is often seen that the use of art therapy or writing therapy is very beneficial to patients with anxiety and depression disorders (such as postpartum depression/OCD). ... Her husband believes that her writing is unhealthy, and that she should not give in to her "foolish fancies ". ... When she explains her imagination as a child on page 465, it is evident that she is naturally a very creative and self-expressive individual. By keeping her from expressing herself through her writing, her husband and her fami...

• Word Count: 1130
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The wife is a creative spirit with her own ideas and thoughts, which she tries on numerous occasions to express to the husband only for him to view the ideas as insignificant and reply "blessed little goose." ... The husband disapproves of her writing because he feels it is her creativity of thought that is the cause of her depression. ...

• Word Count: 831
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

As this for some would be portrayed as a thriller, it is clearly a standpoint on the limits and holds women faced when not in the norm, and finding herself in a creative way. ... So then by John not being there she found herself not being alone by writing and expressing her thoughts and ideas. ...

• Word Count: 870
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This creative approach stresses that the exterior of the individual is non other than a facade. ... She states a rather domino effect that not only affects women but also in writing fiction. ... The education Judith receives is minimal compared to her brothers and due to society's standards she is forced to conform and deprive herself of writing, which eventually leads to the cause of her suicide. ...

• Word Count: 1227
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate