Leseprobe
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: The final scene of „The Yellow Wallpaper“ – controversially discussed since 1973
2. Body: Madness or liberation of self? Victory or defeat?
An analysis of the ending of „The Yellow Wallpaper“
2.1. Gilman’s employment of Gothic conventions: The setting as a letter of indication for the narrator’s breakdown
2.2. The cause for the narrator’s mental derangement
2.2.1. The author’s intention: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s purpose in writing “The Yellow Wallpaper
2.2.2. John and Jennie as the embodiments of Victorian gender roles
2.2.3. Deciphering the yellow wallpaper: The narrator’s fragmentation of self due to the patriarchal system
2.3. The narrator’s attempt at constituting an intact and autonomous personality
2.3.1. Comparison of the earlier and the final entries in the narrator’s diary: significant changes in language and style
2.3.2. Jane’s failure
3. Conclusion:
Defeat and descent into madness due to a dispartment of identity
Works cited
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- Elisabeth Würtz (Autor:in), 2009, Descent into Madness or Liberation of Self? An Analysis of the final scene of “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, München, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/173745
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