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1. Nowadays there are counsellors and even medicine which can treat some mental illnesses such as anxiety or depression. However there are a variety of mental illnesses and they all have to be dealt with in a completely different way. The best way for one to be cured is by changing their attitude and mindset, if they cannot change their lifestyle, then they can never fully be cured. Even if their condition becomes better, they may not be fully cured, they may have anxiety attacks once in a while, even if the amount of anxiety attacks they have are lessened. In the book there were many things that John told his wife to do, such as rest more, which shows how society back then did not have a proper understanding about how mental illnesses work or how to treat or deal with them.

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I believe this book shows gender stereotypes through the controlling nature of John towards his wife, and how she felt imprisoned and unable to find herself and be free. When the protagonist says that John is "very careful and loving, and he hardly lets me stir without special direction", it can be shown how possessive and the authority John has over her life. Since she had depression, a "nervous condition", rather than a physical injury, it is quite questionable that John did not allow her to move, do anything or make her own decisions. All over the world, stereotypically it is the husband who has more authority whether it is directly seen or not, since sexism is always there, no matter if people deny or hide it. This shows gender stereotypes quite well since many people around the world stand by these sexist stereotypes because it has been engraved into the minds of many humans for generations, which makes it harder for people to change.

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nu_LeEKe1Ne8cds2SCwkEhbc_NwthJ_rMaMyrmGexEM/edit?usp=sharing

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I believe that the protagonist is now satisfied and in a way, happy. At least, she thinks she is satisfied. However, her mind is still unclear. I still believe that her mental state is outside of the boundaries of what other people consider normal. Her behaviour is now eccentric and her eyes are misleading, making her see things that cannot possibly be there. Other times, her eyes made her see from another fused perspective. e.g. seeing the woman creeping outside, even though I think that was her. The mismatched eyes are intentional.

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1. Mental illnesses in general can be cured by therapy, medication or even just time. These include the much more common examples like depression and anxiety. These conditions are almost always caused by external influences so removing these influences or learning how cope with them theoretically cures you. There are always exceptions - ones which cannot be cured. These include conditions like PTSD which are much more deeply rooted into a person's psychology and the more terminal ones like Bipolar and Autism.

2. I think that the story represents the gender stereotype that women are weak and don't know what's best for them which was widespread in the 19th century which is when the novella is set. The theme of the protagonist being locked up by her husband to cure her illness represents this very concept.

Gender stereotypes, even derogatory ones, still exist today. This is often to do with stuff like blue is solely a boy color and pink is solely a girl color. I believe that the main reason is ignorance and acceptance. Although these societal customs are mostly minor, they can lead to the larger issues of abuse and domestic violence. This is why that sometime in the future, uprooting these stereotypes once and for all would be optimal for our civilization.

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Is mental illness curable:
Nowadays, mental illness is curable, and many patients recover well. Mental conditions such as anxiety and depression can be 'cured' through therapy and gentle help over sometimes lengthy periods of time. However, in the time of this text, people were not as educated to these methods, and tended to rely on prescribing 'bed-rest' or similar which often made the condition worse.
Gender stereotypes:

I think the initial condition our protagonist was experiencing, was post-partum depression due to the birth of her child, but I think the condition is worsened by the lack of given independence and isolation. With further research, I found an article that pointed strongly to the protagonist suffering from postpartum. At the start of the novella, the protagonist is described as having an active imagination, as she says she used to find faces in plain furniture and wished the house was haunted. During the research process, I found evidence that suggests her madness and obsession with the wallpaper may be her active imagination reacting to the ban on her writing. Being a woman in the 19th century was difficult and they were not given much independence or trust, which is may be why John did not believe that she was sicker than he saw, and prescribed her with bed rest which was cruel in cases like hers and caused her to withdraw into her own head and become obsessed with freeing the woman in the wallpaper. I think gender stereotypes have considerably lessened since the time of this book, but some distrusts may still be there, as they were so tightly woven into past society.

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https://skemman.is/bitstream/1946/16449/1/BA-ElisabetRakelSigurdar.pdf

talks about oppression and gender etc

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This mischievous face shows how the protagonist does things behind John's back and wants to break free from his control.

She tells us how she writes when John isn't around and creeps during the day since she will be caught if she did it during the night.

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This emoji, in my point of view, sums up how the protagonist feels and what is going though her mind.
She wants to do everything her way, as she locks her room and creeps, not letting anyone come in, and not caring about the outside world.
Also, the frown shows that she is not necessarily happy with the situation she is in, so she gets her way by ripping the wallpaper off.

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The protagonist is shown to slowly grow increasingly insane throughout the story, demonstrated by her erratic thought and her hallucinations. She stays up at night, staring at the wallpaper; she is obsessed to the point of it ruining her mental health.

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This represents the protagonist because she was told what to do and what not to do, her husband was incredibly controlling and 'shut her up'. But she frees herself, and is happier for it, but there is still an undertone of uncertainty and instability, which can be seen in the colours and eyes.

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I believe that the protagonist may have been experiencing post-partum depression. I conducted some further research to find out more about post-partum depression. I found that some of the symptoms are depressed moods, excessive fatigue, and feelings of helplessness.

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The emoji I have drawn to represent her mindset demonstrates her side 'obsessed' with the wall-paper, as I believe this is one of the main factors that caused her decline into depression, not so much focusing just on her depressed and confused phase. (Hearts as eyes were the closest representation to obsession I could think of, they don't necessarily mean she 'loves' the wallpaper)

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This emoji is very accurate of the protagonist's mindset. She is afraid to speak up but has loud opinions on the inside. She is also dying to go outside and experience the world but she is too fatigued to this.

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Isabella- This is not part 2 this is just interesting, pls read

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Isabella- This is not part 2 this is just interesting, pls read

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So I was reading the book and I noticed a phrase, delirium tremens, I didn't know what it meant but is sound like it relates to delirious tremors, so I looked it up. It is a " a psychotic condition typical of withdrawal in chronic alcoholics, involving tremors, hallucinations, anxiety, and disorientation. " Then I looked up why alcoholics experienced this because , we don't know if our protagonist is an alcoholic or not. Probably not. Then I found out that alcoholics often experience this because when the alcohol is withdrawn they experience a 'biochemical regulation cascade' which essentially means that the body has to rewire itself to cope.  Women who have just given birth, (whether they have postpartum or not) also experience a biochemical regulation cascade because their body has to change to cope with the baby. Delirium tremens causes hallucinations, extreme mood swings, losing touch of reality and other  dissociative  behaviours.
Just thought y'all might be interested.

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I chose to draw this emoji to represent the character's mindset because I feel like she is happy that she has finally 'freed' herself from John, but is also a bit crazy, and has kind of lost the plot. This is why I chose to make her eyes all black, to represent creepiness or the fact that something isn't right.

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I think emoji represent the protagonist's mindset toward the yellow wallpaper, her life, and eventually her husband, because it shows resentment and distaste, but also confusion and wariness. I chose this expression in particular to show the resentment she has toward John toward the end of the text because he does not allow her any independence, which means she cannot 'creep' at night as she wills, and to show her initial resentment and distaste toward the yellow wallpaper she later becomes obsessed with.

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I chose to draw an emoji with an exploding head because I think that her condition seemed to be a sudden release of tensions that may be stored inside her mind for a long time. She started to develop a mental illness once the pressure and tensions inside her reached a point where she could no longer take it.

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I drew this emoji because it represented both sides of her. The suspicious smart side, that planned to lock the door whenever she crept by daylight, and the overly focused and obsessed side that crawled along the floor. On the right her eye is yellow, it is filled with her obsession and is all that she sees.

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I think that the protagonist suffers from postpartum depression as she states she 'cannot be with the baby', possibly due to her self-described 'nervous depression', which may indicate that she has difficulty feeling close to or bonding with her child, a common trait in sufferers of PPD. I think that her goal in pulling the wallpaper off the wall is to 'set the women' (the figures created by the gaps in the wallpaper) 'free', which may be linked to how she feels trapped by her husband's strict control and dismissing of her. I think that her rubbing against the wallpaper aims to join the women, by becoming a part of the wallpaper.

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I think that this emoji describes her condition because she has a mental condition and was worsened by the wallpaper became she became obsessive with the patterns and trying to decode the patterns in the wallpaper. The reason that she may have got her condition was probably because of her husband, who was overprotective of her and seemed to have her under his control. The emoji represents being mentally ill and the eyes are going in different places because she gone crazy and started hallucinating things that weren't real.

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Throughout the text, the protagonist often made statements about how she felt upset or anxious, and then disregarded these feelings because she was dismissed by John, and told how she felt was not 'real' or 'correct'. She begins to internalise this and believe John over her own negative feelings. I chose an upset and confused face, because it shows how she felt  

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I believe these two emojis symbolise the protagonist's emotions well since on the outside she seems normal, and she listens to what she is told. However, on the inside she is broken, and she hides these feelings inside her as she is not at liberty to speak her mind. Bottling up all these emotions and thoughts inside her caused her nervous condition to be worse. John tells her that her condition is getting better, which proves that one does not understand what is happening inside a person's mind.

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I believe that the protagonist was suffering from postpartum depression since there was mention that they had just had a baby, and the she had been suffering from "nervous depression" which would be considered a correct diagnosis in the 19th century. However, we now know about the occurrence of postpartum depression and how to properly cure it. I believe what happened at the end of the book was that she suffered from a "psychotic break" which becomes more common when the person suffers from postpartum depression. When this happens the person can lose touch from reality; they can hear, see, and feel things that aren't there. An example of this could be the hallucinations of the woman in the wallpaper and the final stage was when she began creeping on the floor, at this point there is a possibility that she would not stop until her body shut down or until someone stopped her.

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I believe that the protagonist is still suffering from the "nervous depression." In fact, I believe that the depressions has become worse, causing her to imagine things. She says things like: "securely fastened by my well-hidden rope" when she also said that "I've got a rope up here.. if that woman does get out... I can tie her!" This shows that she thinks the woman within the wallpaper is actually her. She also says "() " and later says "I suppose I shall have to get back behind the pattern." She even says: "I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back!" These all demonstrate that she was really the woman within the wallpaper. Since there cannot actually be a woman inside the wall paper, I believe it is her mental state that is changing her perception. She also saw the woman creeping around at daylight and she starts creeping around too. Because she is the woman, she is not actually seeing anyone creep around outside, rather, she is seeing herself! It demonstrates that her mental state has caused her to have a split conscienceness.

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I think that this emoji describes her condition because it is slightly suspicious and looks vaguely fed-up. I believe that the protagonist felt annoyed and suppressed when she had to stay in her room all the time.

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I think that the emoji that I drew summarises the protagonist's mindset as it shows someone who is stressed, frustrated and confused. I think that because she is unable to express her imagination through her writing she turns her imagination to the yellow wallpaper, causing her to confuse her imagination and reality. This emoji also shows frustration as the story progresses she becomes increasingly frustrated with the yellow wallpaper and when breaks the wallpaper she feels free from her obsession and frustration with the wallpaper.

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The two main details which I incorporated into my emoji are the eyes and the mouth. The mouth is mostly free of expression with a small hint of a smile. This represents how her mindset during the end of the novella was calm and at peace despite a lot of deeper stuff going on and the excitement of the other characters. The yellow eyes represent how her mind was being dominated by the yellow wallpaper.

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An anguished face.

I believe that the protagonist feels controlled and afraid of the husband, but at the same time she is not going to give up on her goal of freeing the woman in the wallpaper. She is frightened and under constant stress by her husband, but that does not stop her from  strugguling through and breaking from the grasp of the wicked pair.

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I chose this face because, I think that part of her madness comes from the fact that she believes that she is suppressed by John. Despite this, at the end of the book when her last shred of sanity is gone, she remains eerily calm.

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I believe that the protagonist is still suffering from the "nervous depression." In fact, I believe that the depressions has become worse, causing her to imagine things. THe

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This face is determined, shown by the expression and sweat droplets. She is very determined throughout the story, firstly to get away from the wallpaper and later to free the woman in the wallpaper. She probably could have left it alone and dealt with it, but she instead does everything she can to rip it down, becoming almost obsessed with the paper.

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I think that the protagonist is still suffering from the "nervous depression" (page 2) but the case has been heightened due to Johns controlling manner and forcing her into isolation. I think that the wallpaper symbolises her life. The bars across the wallpaper is representative of John. This is because it only appears at night and that is the only time that John is home and able to fully control her. The unending pattern represents her confusion and the woman behind it represents herself. She is trying to break free from the nervous depression controlling her and from John as he is also controlling her.  I think that when the wallpaper is torn down it represents that she has finally gone crazy from being controlled by John and the isolation. This is because the action of tearing down the paper in such a manner is not something she had done before. It also shows that she has finally torn and as she is no longer on the wall and so at night the bars cannot appear across her and trap her. In the end when she says, "I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back!" (page 25) shows that she felt so much like the woman in the wallpaper being trapped that her nervous depression got the better of her and she finally believed that she was the woman from the wallpaper. I also think that the women in the garden are hallucinations. The quote, "I've got out at last," shows that she finally doesn't feel trapped any more and that she has broken free from the controlling ways of John.

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I believe this was her mindset, very secretive, yet she knew what was happening and did not want the others to find out before she did. I believe this caused her to act more suspiciously and become obsessed with the wallpaper.

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I believe that the protagonist is suffering from an extreme case of postpartum depression. This is demonstrated by her being diagnosed with a "nervous depression". When Gilman wrote the book, doctors knew little about postpartum and many other metal illnesses, treating people with Silas Weir Mitchell's rest cure. This consists of living as domestic a life as possible and limiting mental stimulation to 2 hours per day. In fact, the author was also 'treated' with this type of cure and her experiences were reflected in the short story. The failing treatment led to an intense psychotic break, characterized by hallucination and delusion, which the protagonist displays throughout the text when she sees the women in the wallpaper and outside her window.

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I think the protagonist was driven insane by the prescribed bed rest, isolation, and lack of independence, and I think the wallpaper, including the woman she sees behind it, is a reflection on how she feels about her life. She often describes the wallpaper as 'torturous' and 'infuriating', which I think is an indirect reference to how she feels about her life. She also mentions how each day she sees 'new shoots on the fungus' of the wallpaper and 'new shades of yellow all over it' which I think represents her steady descent into madness and the new realizations of how controlling her husband (John) is. She says 'I always lock the door when I creep by daylight, I can't do it at night, for I know John would suspect something at once!' proving that she feels trapped at night when John is there, as does the woman in the wallpaper when she shakes it at night, which is why I think the 'woman in the wallpaper' is a reflection of what she feels. I also think this is why she eventually 'becomes' the woman and goes mad.

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I believe the protagonist was 'trapped' by her husband and that she was seeing herself as the woman behind the wallpaper. I think that at the end, she could not tell the difference between the person she imagined and herself. She believed that she had escaped the wallpaper, much like she had escaped the instructions from John. I also had a thought that perhaps at the start the condition it was Hypochondriasis Syndrome (I think that is the right term) which means her husband was making up the slight medical condition to control her. This thought came from the fact that John, "does not believe I am sick!" Yet she is, "absolutely forbidden to 'work' until I[She] am well again," presumably banned by John.

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I think that perhaps the wallpaper is symbolic of the protagonist's mental state as a whole. I think this for many reasons. For one,  the protagonist's mind, as we are shown, does not  follow a particular pattern or set of rules, and just when people may think they know what is going on inside of it, it "slaps you in the face, knocks you down, and tramples upon you."
The fact that she is seeing bars across the walls in the nighttime, is because that is when John is home, and when John is home she feels trapped. I think that John may also be representative of all men at the time, and the fact that they had more power over the women of the time, what with John, "hardly (letting her) stir without special direction".
The woman inside the wallpaper is symbolic of women in general, as well as the woman she is on the inside. The fact that this woman (or women) inside the wallpaper are constantly trying to break free, symbolises the time when women were trying to break free from societies values of men over women.
In the end of the book, when the wallpaper is destroyed, this may symbolise the fact that the woman has gone completely crazy, what with wallpaper, symbolic of her mind being 'destroyed'. I then believe that the woman who was within the wallpaper, or the protagonist's head, has broken free and actually taken over the protagonist. This is why she has tied herself up using the rope at the end, to show that the lady who has escaped the wallpaper has actually become her. This would also explain the comment she made in the end, of '"I've got out at last", said I "In spite of you and Jane", with Jane being the name of the protagonist, and the protagonist referring to herself in the third person.

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I think that the protagonist feels "trapped" by her supposed mental state.
She describes how "sometimes I think there are a great many women behind, and sometimes only one." This may suggest the fact that she started to imagine women like her, trapped within the walls, suffering from oppression faced by the society around them. Seeing as this text was written in the 19th century, this highlights when women's rights were very bad and were essentially treated as second-class citizens. The protagonist describes the wallpaper and how "it sticks horribly and the pattern just enjoys it." When she pulls off the wallpaper  "in spite of [John] and Jane," this is symbolic of her ending the pattern of being restricted from doing anything by John.

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I think that the protagonist of this novel was suffering severe mental illness, possibly post-partum depression after giving birth to her baby. I don't think she knew what was happening to her, why she saw what she believed was a woman behind the wallpaper, and other women creeping around the garden. The wallpaper which was driving her mad and her controlling husband John completely worsened her condition. At first, she seemed quite cautious about the women she was imagining, "I don't like to look out of the windows ... there are so many of those creeping women," but suddenly she talks about herself AS one of them, "I wonder if they all come out of that wall-paper as I did?" This could mean she imagined her own self in the back of her mind without realising, and then the women became clearer as her condition got worse, until she sees herself as what she has become. The bars trapping the woman behind the wall-paper were broken as she ripped back the paper, the bars were significant of John and his control over her, she was finally released from her prison, "you can't put me back!"

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The emoji that I think represents the protagonists mindset in "The Yellow Wallpaper" is a confused face. I believe that this is because she could no longer tell what was real and what wasn't as she believed herself to be the woman in the wallpaper. She is also confused as to why John and Jennie are attracted to the wall paper and why John is controlling her life and giving her treatments that she does not think will work. This affected her actions as she did things that she would not normally so but thinking that she is someone else made her do it. The different sized eyes are representative of her constantly watching the yellow wall paper and her confusion of it. The gray bars across the emoji show that she feels trapped by John and the wallpaper.

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I believe that the protagonist descended into madness, due to her nervous condition and John's continuous belief that there is nothing properly wrong and all she needs is a lot of rest. She begins to obsess over the wallpaper, since it is one of the few things that she has in her room which she can "control". I think that the women she was seeing trapped in the wallpaper were figments of her own imagination, possibly projections of her own frustration with being cooped up.

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Personally, I theorize that the protagonist was mentally and psychologically "assimilated" into whatever the "women" in the wallpaper were. This is because prior to the ending, she was exhibiting signs of obsession with the wallpaper, examining it's every detail and eventually rubbing her shoulders over and over again in circles for some reason. The concept of mental instability and obsession is further reinforced by how before the events of the novella, she had some sort of nervous condition. I hypothesize that the protagonist lost her mind and thought that she was one of the "women" because towards the end, she begins talking as if she was one of them, and not herself. For example, expressing how she did not want to go outside because she felt that the background being green instead of yellow was unnatural and using her name as if it's another person.

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I think that the protagonist, because of her "nervous condition" and John's repeated enforcement of her mental state, eventually become one with the people in her imagination. What I mean by this is that the women she saw in the garden and other places were only something her mind made up, and she began to believe in them as though they were real. She used to describe them as if she was afraid of them, and say that they always "creep so fast" that she finds it hard sometimes to see them.
But in the ending, she begins to talk as if she is one of them, and she keeps "creeping just the same," not noticing the world around her.

I also feel the protagonist, in her manner of speaking through the book, suffered from post-partum. Perhaps that is why John kept her separated from the baby. It may have reminded her of something that could have gone wrong during childbirth, causing her tremendous pain. John is a physician and he would know if she is suffering from depression of some other illness. Despite this, she says that because she "cannot be with him (the baby), it makes [her] nervous"

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1. I believe the protagonist felt nervous and had that condition because of her controlling and oppressive husband. She felt lost and her "condition" became even worse since she was not allowed to be free or express her opinions. I believe the woman behind the bars that she kept seeing, was how she saw herself; it was a reflection on her life. She felt like she was imprisoned and trapped as she was not allowed to do whatever she wanted, because her husband and other people kept controlling her actions and told her what to do all the time. When she describes the wallpaper to be "infuriating", and "torturing", I believe she is speaking about how she feels about her own life, indirectly. Although she finds it infuriating when her husband dominates and demands her to do what he wants, she is still afraid and helpless, although it is torturous. When she calls herself a "burden" to John, it is shown how many women around the world are treated as or made to feel as a burden to men and other people. In my opinion, this book showcases the imprisonment and oppression towards women, from the past, until now and how it still happens all around the world.

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I think that the protagonist was mentally unbalanced and the constant ill advised smothering of her husband added to that. Then came the wallpaper, which is a sulphuric yellow and orange. Yellow and orange are usually symbols of vitality, orange symbolising heat, sunshine, joy and enthusiasm. Yellow represents joy, intellect, happiness and energy. However this is at odds with the wallpaper itself, as it is torn and peeling with a revolting pattern. The protagonist at first found it disgusting, but soon became obsessed with it, seeing at first, one woman 'creeping' behind the pattern, before noticing more and more women. The other women represent society's oppression of women in general, while the first woman the protagonist notices represents herself. The wallpaper is a representation of her mental, emotional and physical state. The whole story follows her descent into madness. Her seeing the other woman in the paper and around the estate is likely a hallucination, or she just doesn't realise that she is describing herself. At the end of the book, the other woman transitions from being a separate entity to becoming the protagonist. She rips the wallpaper away and 'frees' the woman trapped behind it, which could be a metaphor for her own situation, exclaiming that she 'got out at last' of oppressive life she led.

This text can be interpreted in many different ways, this is only one.

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I think our protagonist did in fact have a mental illness. Her seemingly becoming the person in the wallpaper and breaking free symbolises her breaking free from the controlling nature of her marriage, and the dead heads stuck in the bars represent all the other women who are also trapped, since this was the 1900s and men were controlling. She denounces the green gardens at the end because it represents the old life she used to live, as she praised the garden in the start but started detesting it during the 'transition' from her to the trapped woman. At the start of the book, she interprets her husband's control as simply 'love', and hates the wall paper, calling it 'repellent' and 'almost revolting', but eventually grows obsessed with it. As she creeps around the room in the end, she has been freed from this control.

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Throughout the text, the protagonist often makes statements about how she feels upset or anxious, and then disregards these feelings because she is dismissed by John, and told how her feelings are not 'real' or 'correct'. She begins to internalise this and believe John over her own negative feelings. I chose an upset and confused face, because it shows how she feels

unable to escape her own pain, but confused in her internalization of the lack of value John assigns to her, all contributing to her eventual spiral into madness.

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I think that the protagonist was suffering from a form of mental illness that was caused or worsened by her husband's strict control over her activities and routines. I think the woman she saw trapped in the yellow wallpaper was symbolic of herself in the real world. Her roots of her condition could be traced to isolation, as demonstrated by her quote "if I had less opposition and more society and stimulus -" indicate that she was probably isolated from the rest of the society for a period of time. As her tone shifted towards the end of the story, she began to perceive her isolation as imprisonment. She started to perceive John as someone "pretending to be a very loving man". She started to believe that John's 'care' of her was actually controlling her. The origins of the problem could therefore be traced to her isolation, which escalated into mental illness.

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The protagonist seemed to have a mental issue and is starting to imagine things that aren't real. This could have happened from the husband's control over her.
It states at the start of the book that she has 'nervous depression' and that the wallpaper really tortured her until she had a breakdown at the end of the book where she acts really strangely. She believes that her husband loves her and that he protects her a lot and forbids her to do a lot of work. She also seemed to hat the wallpaper by calling it 'hideous' and describes the pattern as 'torturing'. she also comments on the color of the paper which was yellow. She says that it is 'revolting' , a 'smoldering yellow'.
Then she becomes obsessive over the wallpaper and says that the only person that solves the pattern or touches the wallpaper should be her only. The wallpaper tortured her and made her condition a lot worse and that's when she starts seeing things like the woman in the paper.

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1. I think that the protagonist was suffering from a mental illness, possibly postpartum depression. The protagonist states that the baby "makes [her] so nervous", suggesting that her "nervous condition" is enhanced, or perhaps caused by the baby. Towards the end of the book, I think that the woman experiences some kind of mental breakdown/goes somewhat insane, driven mad by the "infuriating" and "torturing" pattern of the wallpaper. I think that this strangling pattern, and the fact that the protagonist sees a woman trapped behind it, represents the fact that the woman is unable to express her thoughts and opinions about her own health. Whenever she questions her husband's opinions, or speaks about her own, her husband silences her, calling her thoughts "fancies", as though they are insignificant and undeserving of consideration.
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I believe that the protagonist's mindset was both very focused, angrily so at times, yet also quite confused. The woman was very determined to hide her 'creeping' habit from her husband and sister-in-law, but her mental illness impacted her thought processes, clouding over her reason or sense. This confused state made her quite aggressive at times, but also made her perform acts she wouldn't usually partake in, i.e creeping along the skirting board of a wall.

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I think that the protagonist lost her grip on reality. This is proved by the fact that the narrative shifts from her perspective to the perspective of the woman in the wallpaper. I don't think that the woman in the wall is real but the protagonist seems to believe that she is that person, proving her descent into madness. She also ends up tying herself up and continuously crawling around the room. Is is another sign the she is not completely sane, it's as if she is looking for an exit/escape but she has tied herself up, meaning she can't get out. On top of this, she starts hallucinating and seeing women everywhere, creeping around the garden. If the garden is representative of reality and the wallpaper/room represented madness, the fact that the creeping women have gone into the garden displays and overlap in reality and her insanity. Thus proving that she has in fact lost her grip on reality.

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The protagonist is likely to have a range of mental problems. The protagonist most likely has OCD(obsessive compulsive disorder). The fact that the protagonist had frequent and repetitive thoughts and feelings about the wallpaper, a common symptom of OCD. She mentions, 'the only thing I can think of that it is like the colour of the paper'. This quote demonstrates that the most common thing in her mind is the wall paper. The woman also gives a detailed description of the wall paper in multiple pages showing that she is obsessed with this item. At the end of the book, she said, 'I kept on creeping just the same'. Suffers from OCD usually are driven to act a certain way again and again. In the Yellow Wall Paper, the protagonist creeps around her room continuously probably because of her OCD.

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I think that the protagonist was suffering from a mental illness and her condition only worsened when her child was born as she claims that the child makes her 'nervous'. Her mental state also seemed to deteriorate as she stopped writing as this was her only creative outlet and release of her thoughts and feelings that her husband did not understand.
This caused her to feel trapped with her thoughts and imagination. She eventually sees a woman in the wallpaper as well as a woman creeping around the garden. After some time she seems to see the woman in the wallpaper and then tears up the wallpaper to 'escape' and free herself, causing her husband to faint. This shows how she has gradually been driven to a point of insanity and her tearing of the yellow wallpaper seems to be her breaking point.

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I think that the protagonist was suffering from a mental illness that was enhanced by the yellow wallpaper. I also believe that the women she saw behind the wallpaper was herself, as it represented her being controlled by the husband. An example of this can be the description of the women behind the wallpaper. She states this when she narrates, "I am quite sure it is a woman," and often notes that the woman looks like she is "creeping." Later on in the text, she states that, " I always lock the door when I creep by daylight." This is implying that she is the person behind the wallpaper, who always creeps. She has lost all sence of reality, which can be shown through the way she changes the perspective of the novel, as well as constantly changing between topics, and along with her mental state this is no surprise.