Treatment of Mental Disorders Exposed in The Yellow Wallpaper

The scandalmongering Wallpaper is the story of a woman descending into psychosis in a creepy tale which depicts the disability of an old therapy called rest cure. This therapy was used to treat women who had slight hysterical tendencies and depression, and basically it consisted of the inhibition of the rational processes. The label slight hysterical tendency indicates that it is non seen as a very important issue, and it is taken rather lightly. It is overly ironic because her illness is obviously not slight by some(prenominal) means, especially towards the end when the images painted of her are reminiscent of a psychotic, insane person, while she aggressively tears off wallpaper and confuses the real origination with her alternative world she has fabricated that includes a woman trapped in the wallpaper. The narrator of this story grows obsessed with the wallpaper in her room because her economize minimizes her exposure to the outside world and maximizes her res t. Academic essayists such as Susan M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar, and Elaine Showalter perk up a feminist reading of the story, however, this is not the well-nigh important reading. The reason experienced the turmoil of the rest cure personally, which means that the story is most likely a comment on the great mistreatment of depression, hysteria and moral disorders in oecumenic. Despite the claims of Gilbert, Gubar, and Showalter that The Yellow Wallpaper is solely feminist propaganda, their psychoanalysis is often unnecessarily deep and their claims are often unwarranted, resulting in an away description of a story that is most importantly about the general mistreatment of psychosis and the descent into insanity regard little of gender. When things are stretched too thin, they become less sturd... ...show that it is a feminist reading, which is unconvincing. In the end, there is more information living the fact that it is not about women, and is about all people dealin g with this issue. The message of the The Yellow Wallpaper is concerning the unfair and wrongful treatment of mental disorders. Works CitedCharters, Ann. The Story and Its Writer. capital of Massachusetts Bedford/St. Martins, 2011. Print.Gilbert, Sandra M. and Susan Gubar. A Feminist Reading of The Yellow Wallpaper. The Story and Its Writer. Ann Charters. Boston Bedford/St. Martins, 2011. 1629-1631. Print.Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. The Yellow Wallpaper. The Story and Its Writer. Ann Charters. Boston Bedford/St. Martins, 2011. 462-473. Print.Showalter, Elaine. On The Yellow Wallpaper. The Story and Its Writer. Ann Charters. Boston Bedford/St. Martins, 2011. 1631-1636. Print.