“The Yellow Wallpaper”: Liberation In Madness

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“The Yellow Wallpaper”:  Liberation in Madness

English 102

November 10, 2002

Outline

Thesis:  In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” Jane’s role conflict as a result patriarchal oppression is resolved when she foregoes the roles of mother, and woman for that of madwoman.

I.                     Introduction

II.                   Hysteria was as common in the Victorian era as its definition was broad, and treatment narrow.

a.      Hysteria was a common ailment, epidemic in ambitious women.

b.      Dr. S. Weir Mitchell’s rest cure was commonly applied in these cases.

III.                  Sufferers of hysteria and neurasthenia are unable or unwilling to resolve their role conflict as women, mothers, and whatever else the affected aspires to be.

a.      The prescribed role as woman is in conflict with the expectations of motherhood.

b.      Jane is conflicted with her roles as a young wife, a new mother, and a writer.

IV.               ...

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