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"The Yellow Wallpaper," first published in 1882, is largely based on the personal experience of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Like many women of that era, Gilman was subjected to the "rest cure" for postpartum depression. The cure, pioneered by Silas Weir Mitchell, forbade reading, writing, socializing, exercise, and thinking in general. For many women, the treatment was worse than the cure. The story chronicles the story of a women diagnosed with a "slight hysterical tendency" and shut up in a wallpapered yellow room in an old mansion over the summer. With no intellectual stimuli other than the wallpaper, the narrator becomes increasingly intrigued with its intricate pattern, twisting and turning it in her mind until she sees a woman on all fours crawling creeping behind the pattern. Believing she must free the woman in the wallpaper, the narrator secretly begins stripping it from the walls. Tension mounts between the characters in the story, right along with the narrator's increasing derangement. The story reaches its peak as the narrator increasingly identifies herself as the trapped old woman. When her husband finally discovers her in this sorry state, he faints on the spot. The narrator, unfazed, continues creeping over his body each time she circles the room, trying to free the old woman-and ultimately herself, from the wallpaper's deeply disturbing pattern.The book's indictment of the "rest cure" contributed, eventually, to its discontinuation. The patronizing attitudes and actions of the narrator's husband, combined with her childish position, drove her to retreat into the only place she was allowed to actively use her mind or exercise the slightest bit of control over her life-the yellow wallpaper. Forced to pretend that her marriage was happy, forced to pretend that she was overcoming depression, and restricted from any form of self-expression, the narrator was eventually driven insane. The importance of patient input into their treatment, as well as of self-expression, are important themes of this classic feminist work.

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ISBN9781611047196
PublisherCedar Lake Classics
Publication Date07/18/23
Pages36

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  • sophre
    sophre

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    3.0

    Durchmischtes Leseerlebnis.

    Die Sammlung „The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories“ von Charlotte Perkins Gilman zeigt vor allem welche Erwartungshaltungen gegenüber Frauen vor ca. 100 Jahren üblich waren. Neben „The Yellow Wallpaper“ thematisiert sie auch Probleme wie beispielsweise Selbstbestimmung und Abhängigkeit zu dieser Zeit. Ein kurzer und interessanter Read (100 Seiten), jedoch hat mich nicht jede Kurzgeschichte vom Hocker gehauen, wobei es allgemein gefühlt schwer ist auf so wenig Seiten einem komplexen und vielschichtigen Thema gerecht zu werden. Daher eher oberflächlich interessant.

    Mar 25, 2026

  • cheap.and.cheerful
    cheap.and.cheerful

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    "The mad woman has been used as a trope for centuries by writers, but more often as a walk-in part: we are allowed short, horrifying glimpses of the mad Ophelia and the hallucinating Lady Macbeth; before they are hurried to their deaths (..). What 'The Yellow Wallpaper' does is give the mad woman pen and paper, and ultimately a voice of her own." Das erste Mal habe ich 'The Yellow Wallpaper' in der Uni gelesen und ich war damals so begeistert von dem Text und der anschließenden Analyse, dass ich noch einige Gedichte von Perkins Gilman gelesen hatte. Nun bin ich wieder auf das dünne Büchlein gestoßen und hatte beim Reread nach einigen Jahren wieder genauso viel Freude. Die Autorin hat auf wenigen Seiten eine patriarchaler Unterdrückungsgeschichte verdichtet - oder eine feministische Befreiungsgeschichte. Es geht um eine junge Frau, der wegen ihrer 'Hysterie' im Sommerurlaub strengste Bettruhe verordnet wird, unterstützt von ihrem Ehemann. Aus Langeweile weiß sie sich nicht anders zu helfen, als sich intensiv mit der gelben Tapete in ihrem Schlafzimmer zu beschäftigen - bis sie meint, nicht nur ein Muster, sondern auch eine darin gefangene Frau erkennen zu können, die Nacht für Nacht versucht, auszubrechen. Wenn ihr den Text noch nicht gelesen habt, solltet ihr das unbedingt noch nachholen. Charlotte Perkins Gilman war eine feministische Aktivistin zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts, sie war ihrer Zeit voraus und hat ihr Leben lang dafür gekämpft, dass das nicht so bleibt. CN: Depr3ssion, Su1zid

    Apr 10, 2025

  • fazialisknie
    fazialisknie

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    5.0

    Gelb.

    Das G in Gilman steht für Genius, absolute Avantgardistin ihrer Zeit. Eine schöne, ein wenig herzzerbrechende Kritik an der männlich gemachten Welt, die sogar >130 Jahre später noch erschreckend wahr geblieben ist. Starke 9/10.

    Mar 24, 2025

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