Sunday, August 18, 2019
Madness and Insanity in A Rose For Emily And The Yellow Wallpaper
Insanity in A Rose For Emily And The Yellow Wallpaperà à à à à à Many of the upper class women in the Victorian era were assumed to be weaker than men, prone to frailties and ââ¬Ëfemale problemsââ¬â¢ and unable to think for themselves, valuable only as marriage bait. The two women in Faulknerââ¬â¢s and Gilmanââ¬â¢s stories are victims of such assumptions. Emily in ââ¬Å"A Rose For Emilyâ⬠and the narrator of ââ¬Å"The Yellow Wallpaperâ⬠are driven insane because they feel trapped by the men in their lives, and they retreat into their own worlds as an escape from reality, and finally rebel in the only ways they each can find. Emily and ââ¬ËJohnââ¬â¢s wife,ââ¬â¢ the woman in ââ¬Å"The Yellow Wallpaperâ⬠who is never named, both feel stifled and suppressed by the men in authority over them. Emily, as a ââ¬Å"slender figure in white... ...he trap that society has placed them in. Works Cited Faulkner, William. ââ¬Å"A Rose For Emily.â⬠The Norton Introduction To Literature. Eds. Jerome Beaty and J. Paul Hunter. 7th Ed. New York, Norton, 1998. 1: 502-509. Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. ââ¬Å"The Yellow Wallpaper.â⬠The Norton Introduction To Literature. Eds. Jerome Beaty and J. Paul Hunter. 7th Ed. New York, Norton, 1998. 2: 630-642.
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