ethical theory

In Charlotte Perkins Gillman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” the author writes about the narrator’s descent into madness. In this story the main character is a women whose reality is twisted by mental illness. Her mental state grows increasingly unbalanced as the story progresses. Her focal point is the disturbing yellow wallpaper that lines her bedroom wall. The narrator’s descent into madness is shown by her transformation from an ordinary optimistic woman into a …

…with rope as she comes out of the paper but unknowingly ties herself up. In the beginning of the story this house seemed like it was the best thing for the narrator but as the story progressed this clearly wasn’t the case. The narrator has gone from a hopeful recovery in the beginning of the story to a person who has lost all her sanity. In the end, the narrator has become completely insane.