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The Yellow Wallpaper
- Narrateur(s): Rosy McEwen
- Durée: 39 min
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Description
A timeless piece of feminist literature, this classic follows a series of journal entries made by a woman diagnosed with hysterical tendencies by her doctor husband. Barred from working or writing she is confined to the nursery of an old New England Colonial mansion to recuperate. Trapped in this room with barred windows and sickly yellow wallpaper, the narrator begins to feel the room come alive and mutate around her.
The wallpaper is animate, shifting and writhing, changing before her in the moonlight. There is someone in the walls, she knows it.
This classic has gone on to inspire numerous plays, films and T.V adaptations such as an episode of the Twilight Zone "Something in the Walls". This story demarcates the struggle women face in a male dominated world, where their few rights can only allow them to write. It is a story perfect for any fans of Sylvia Plath's work, as the themes of struggle, identity and self are readily apparent.
Feminist icon Charlotte Perkins Gilman, paved the way for women writers such as Alice Walker and Sylvia Plath, with her thought provoking and descriptive work. Appreciated as a feminist writer for tackling women's issues of the day, but also as an accomplished horror writer. Her subtle themes and ability to guide the reader through her characters, at times, crumbling psyche, earned the respect of pioneering horror writer H.P. Lovecraft, among others.
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- Margaret Jean Adam
- 2022-03-05
Yellow: the Colour of Madness
Yellow is a colour I often think about;
Where other colours whisper, Yellow wants to shout!
This quote from a poem by Margaret Jean Adam speaks to the colour of the wallpaper in the room in which an intelligent woman finds herself mostly confined, It is in the late 19th century that American author Dorothy Perkins Gilman puts pen to paper to write a compelling story of a young mother suffering post-partum depression. With skill and compassion, Gilman draws her protagonist gently down into madness, a journey we share through journal entries. For the unnamed narrator of this tale, the bars on the windows of her bedroom, and the metal rings in the wall do not alarm her , although they may infer to the reader that the room perhaps did not, as represented by her husband, serve as a nursery.
Partly due to her depression, and partly due to limitations placed on her activity by her husband, a doctor, she spends far too much time in this "atrocious nursery", concentrating on the only notable feature in the room--the yellow wallpaper.
When asked why she wrote it, Gilman confessed that she had once come near to a complete breakdown and contrary to the doctor's orders of bedrest and no work of a creative sort, wrote herself out of it. She wanted to change how women in depression were treated and to some extent, she believed she achieved that purpose.
Brilliantly conceived and written, this book is enhanced by the reading of Rosy McEwen, whose mildly British accent lends an air of times past to the story.
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