Being driven down a lonely road were the only exit sign reads "Lunacy" is the fate of both Emily and Charlotte. The stories were told of two women who were controlled by the men who were supposed to love them the most. Both story's "A Rose for Emily," by William Faulkner, and "the Yellow Wallpaper," by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, were set in the turn of the century; containing protagonists who were victims of family and society. In the story "A Rose for Emily" Miss Emily spends a great deal of time in her house alone and has no one to talk to. She, like the wife of "The Yellow Wallpaper" does not have any friends. Both protagonists are lonely, and crazy, because of the men in their lives. .
The characters of both Miss Emily Grierson and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's are forced into solitude by societal conventions. William Faulkner describes Miss Emily as a proud woman that was from a family that was well-know at one time. Her father is the person that she looked up. He was also the one who headed her down the path that lead to murder. He was an extremely overprotective man who controlled her. He thought that no young man is good enough for her daughter, keeping her away from society facing down the road of loneliness. Likewise, Charlotte Perkins Gilman is the wife of a prominent physician; she has suffered from nervous breakdowns for many years because she can't control her emotions and her guilt for not being able to care for her child. Her husband controls her and decides everything for her, including what room she will stay in and who she will be allowed to see turning her world into a world of loneliness "by keeping her underemployed and isolated, John effectively ensures his wife dependence on him". Both Emily and Charlotte face lunacy and despair brought on by men.
In both stories the men, in the main characters lives, played the role in driving the women to lunacy. Emily Griesan was sheltered from the outside world and denied a chance to establish a life, get married and raise a family; her father believed "none of the young men were quite good enough for Miss Emily.
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Snider then goes on to say that Hamlet resorts to avoiding "detection" and that he "throws over them the night of lunacy." On the contrary, many people believe that Hamlet's "night of lunacy" isn't a mere projection put on by Hamlet, but an actual sign of his true colors. ...
There are three main images that occur in this theme, the image of sleep, because once Macbeth and Lady Macbeth realize what they have done they begin to lose sleep over it, hallucinations, because the Macbeth's start seeing things, whenever they are doing something that involves violence, and lunacy, because Lady Macbeth has gone insane, after feeling so incredibly guilty for what she has done. ... Lastly, the image of lunacy occurs quite often with Lady Macbeth. ...
