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  • Essay / The Yellow Wallpaper - 1522

    With a sarcastic, monstrous and angry tone combined with strong emotion and sentimentality, Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote the short story The Yellow Wallpaper in order to help oppressed women find their voices, their rights, and their freedom. She cleverly grabbed the reader's attention from a gruesome little introduction; then, a curious feeling about Jane's life immediately turned to anger due to the unexpected climax of the narrator's own recognition in the yellow wallpaper. The author tried to show that women would stand up and do whatever they could, even if they lost something to escape the control of male domination, as the narrator did in the story. This story succeeds in depicting its authorial purpose because of its setting, types of conflicts, character development, and effects of language. A story will become unreliable and lose the reader's interest unless its author knows how to draw an exquisite circumstance and organize the information. . The story has demonstrated the descriptive scenes, even if it is a small detail. The powerful descriptive information and symbols in the story contributed to the success of the story. This process is called mise en scene, which is the idea of ​​the overall picture of the story. At the beginning of the story, we can see the house that the narrator and her husband are renting for their summer vacation. This is the main and only location where the story takes place. It was a colonial mansion filled with romantic love and happiness. First glancing at his handsome form and outward appearance, the narrator then described: “He is quite alone, well back from the road, three miles from the village. This makes me think of the English places one reads, because middle of paper...... an overview of the events of the story is necessary for a short story. A short story is good, interesting, factual. The meaning or not depends on its setting, the way of using language to express oneself, the conflicts, the images and the emotions of the characters. This story is successful because it sends a significant message to readers that it is necessary to respect the injustice of women. If male domination gets out of women's control, they will defend themselves and fight against men like the narrator of the story did. Charlotte Perkins Gilman's yellow wallpaper leaves a deep impression on me about the lesson of women's rights. As a woman who grew up in Asia, where you can clearly see the man being dominant towards the woman, I know that I cannot lose my personal position or blur my personality under the man's control. Women have their own rights because they are the same human being as men..