Yellow Wallpaper HD: 2012

Sunday, 6 May 2012

Yellow Wallpaper Poem

Yellow Wallpaper Poem Biography
In the story the Yellow Wall Paper Ostracism occurred when her husband diagnosed her with a illness, when she was just going through everyday problems. So her husband choose to exclude her because of her nervous condition. She really felt as though she wasn't in control. The exclusion often made her lonely and depressed. She wasn't allowed to see any of her family not even her child.
At first she felt like she was lonely and miserable. Her husband took her to a mansion that was far away from civilization and everything she was used to so she could get rest and peace, but everything she gained was desperation and depression. She really didn’t want to be there, and she felt that the only person, who she could talk to, her husband, was starting to ignore her. “I wanted to see my cousins, but John wouldn’t let me” Her initial reaction was to find something to do in the empty and boring room she was put into, and she found the yellow wallpaper.
Her initial behavior was not doing anything because people always had their eyes on her. After a while of not liking the wall paper she found comfort in it. She started to see a lady in the paper, it could have been imaginary or real. The wall paper was obviously real to her and no matter what it was she wanted it to herself. Another method she used to escape/cope with her situation was writing. Wring was one thing that let her express herself and speak freely without being told to rest or not to do anything period. After a certain period of time she did want to leave the room or have anybody come in because she wanted the wall paper all to herself.
She usually spent her time trying to figure out the curious and revolting pattern, which she later described in a journal she kept while staying at that room. Staring at the wallpaper was all she did all day, every day yes, at some point she was aware of the whole situation, and knew that would be staying at that house for a long, long time, and she also knew there was something wrong with her that needed to be fixed. She tried to release all of her anger towards John, her desperation, and her frustration by writing. She thought that he was the one who put her through this and that it was his fault the fact that people actually thought she was going insane. At some points in her writing she admitted that she knew why people would treat her like a child, and she also recognized her condition, which was explained to her by her husband, who would frequently be giving her orders about how to feel, act, and think.
No one should experience this, kind of situation maybe it could make you stronger maybe not. Something you could do is talk to a close person about your situation. Always observe the people around you and see what their actions are. Make sure you have a say so on peoples decisions for you, don't be in a situation you don't want to be in. If others choose to ostracize you continue to be yourself.

Yellow Wallpaper Poem

" A Conservative" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (poetry reading)

Edgar Allan Poe - Descent Into Madness

Wednesday, 2 May 2012

Theme Of The Yellow Wallpaper

Theme Of The Yellow Wallpaper
I define theme to my students as the main idea of a piece. There are many themes present in "The Yellow Wallpaper" depending on one's own interpretation of the work. Many find it to be a descent into madness and the causes behind this descent. I, however, believe it to be a woman's personal fight for freedom within the confines of a Victorian mentality. Women were not granted the right to intellectual pursuits. The narrator clearly separates her identity from her sister-in-law's by claiming that Jenny believes it is the writing that makes the narrator ill. The narrator, Jane, also pities Jenny for having no other aspirations other than that within the domestic sphere. She has clearly placed herself outside the traditional Victorian female role. One who aspires to intellectual activities is looked upon with suspicion. The wallpaper is a metaphor for society's limitations on women. She must break through and tear down this preconceived notion of women to become free. It is only through an escape from the wallpaper, society's expectations, that she can become the woman she wants to be. Theme is defined by the meaning you garner from a story. I feel the narrator longs for freedom and can only attain this goal through a process of disassociation with her former self. Freedom is gained when she tears down the confining role she has been placed in.

Theme Of The Yellow Wallpaper

Yellow Creep Around (from 1991's 'Circa') - Mary's Danish *Audio + Lyrics*

Sarah Fimm - "Yellow" Sarah Fimm Music

Tuesday, 1 May 2012

The Light Yellow Wallpaper

The Light Yellow Wallpaper Biography
"The Light Yellow Wallpaper" was clearly heavily computer manipulated. I'm neither settled on this version, nor on the title. But with all that, there's still something I like about these shapes and colors. So I'm sharing it anyway.
It also illustrates something I'm questioning more and more that's actually a combination of varying factors: camera and computer screen resolutions, printer quality, my eyesight (cataract concerns), etc. How much of what I like in the "artsy" effects I create post-production are truly effective, when viewed on better computer screens/systems and by younger eyes, and when printed by a better quality printer? (And this doesn't begin to address the problem of color inconsistency.) Sigh. I'll just have to hope something of what I see comes across, won't I?
As to that title, it's from a horror story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Here's a plot summary if you're interested in knowing more. I read it the first time decades ago, and it still chills me on reading even this summary.
P.S. at 6:00pm -- I just now read in Yahoo news that we were "hit" by a solar storm yesterday and will feel the effects for another day maybe. As these solar flares go the report said it teeters on the edge of being a major one, a "space hurricane." Relevance here? I initially had thought to name this photo either "Solar Storm," or "Corona." The first thing I saw (and still see) was the suggestion of pictures I've seen of the sun's coronal flares, especially at the top of my photo. This may also explain my awful headache now for two days and even worse mood. There may be no scientific proof that such phenomena effect humans this way. I can only say I appear to react to certain of both Moon and Sun changes, based on hind sight without foreknowledge. Which of course, is not proof but does give me pause.

The Light Yellow Wallpaper

Hatsune Miku - Yellow (mp3, Wallpaper And English Subs)

Yellow Super Nova

Bright Yellow Wallpaper

Bright Yellow Wallpaper Biography
Download Bright Yellow Sunflowers HD & Widescreen Wallpaper from the above resolutions. If you don't find the exact resolution you are looking for, then go for 'Original' or higher resolution which may fits perfect to your desktop.

Bright Yellow Wallpaper

The Yellow Wallpaper- A Sims 2 Interpretation

"More Females Of The Species" By Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Poetry Reading)

Yellow Wallpaper Full Text

Yellow Wallpaper Full Text Biography
Wednesday nights required perfect silence and perfect darkness. Each week, my roommates and I sat still for the one-hour mind-fuck that is FX’s horror television program American Horror Story. The suspense, the character development, the flashbacks all allowed for a scary, unique viewer experience. One of the most intriguing characters was Moira, the maid who always had something poignant and sobering to say. She proved herself as a tough, strong woman who will never let a man take control of her… again. In fact, she has learned to control them herself.
In the eight episode of the season, “Rubber Man”, Moira explains to Vivien that men have always tried to control women. This monologue BLEW ME AWAY. Talk about feminism at its finest, if not a bit bitter. (Who could blame her? She was raped by her boss in his home. During the rape, she was killed by the cheating jerk’s wife.) Anyway, the monologue is as follows:
Haven’t you read “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman? Her husband—a doctor—locks her away in the upstairs bedroom to recuperate from a slight hysterical tendency. Staring at the yellow wallpaper day after day, she begins to hallucinate that there are women trapped in the pattern. Half mad she scrapes off the wallpaper to set the women free. When her husband finally unlocks the door, he finds her circling the room, touching the wallpaper, whispering “I finally got out of here.” Since the beginning of time, men find excuses to lock women away. They make up diseases, like hysteria. Do you know where that word comes from? The Greek word for “uterus.” The only possible cure was hysterical paroxysm. Orgasms. Doctors would masturbate women in their office and call it medicine.”
OH. MY. GOODNESS. I cannot love this any more than I do. The tone of her voice, mixed with a quick history of female oppression, equals a very happy feminist. Women’s rights have come a LONG way, but there are still inequalities and some men trying to control women in any way they can.
If you have all not been exposed to the Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1899), I highly suggest it. The full text can be found here! It speaks volumes about how mental illnesses were treated, and in turn, how it affected women.
Also, if you haven’t watched American Horror Story, I would recommend watching it, legally, of course.

Yellow Wallpaper Full Text

The Yellow Wallpaper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman - The Yellow Wallpaper

Yellow Wall Paper

Yellow Wall Paper Biography
I'll get back to that later. I was thinking about the story some more, and considering the various topics which have to be included and I got to thinking, What is The Yellow Wallpaper really about? The general concensus being reached in class is that the story is a social commentary about womens' rights, the social inequalities between men and women, and the suffocating nature of the heteronormative lifestyle in the Victorian era.
But for me, there were always a lot of metaphors and story elements that didn't add up. For example, a chunk of people in class agreed that Jennie, in the story, was meant to represent the ideal Victorian woman. While she may or may not have been that, the story didn't treat her ideal status if it was important, and that didn't add up to me. If this is a social commentary, and Gilman meant to be taking shots at the prim and proper housewives of the period, Why didn't she further examine the character that is the ideal housewive? The character of Jennie ought to have been picked apart in a social commentary, but Gilman doesn't do that.
Another example, the presumed 'Writing metaphor' in the story. If the story were a feminist social commentary, then I should expect those actions which somehow further a woman's independence-like writing, even when told not to by your husband- should be extolled as virtuous. But writing isn't really extolled as anything. It's just there. There's an assertion made by Jennie in the story that writing causes the narrator's sickness; If 'writing' was meant to serve as a sort of code-word for independence, you would expect such an assertion to be clearly refuted, but it is not. In fact, in line 16, "I did write for a while in spite of them; but it does exhaust me a good deal..." In the words of our reverant Commander in Chief, there's some mixed messages here.
Finally, there's gender roles. If the story were a social commentary about women being dominated by their husbands, then it would logically follow that John, the narrator's husband, should be villified. But John is not villified. In fact, the more vocal elements in class seem to agree that he means well. Furthermore, if the story were feminist social commentary, you might expect the main character to develop a feminist mindset. The narrator, at one point, would have to come out and make some motion for her own independence. But the end result of the story is that the narrator just goes crazy. It seems to me that at no point does the author attempt to espouse any feminist mores.
Now, I'll get back to that "why I wrote the yellow wallpaper" thing. It's pretty clear that Gilman intended her story to be an attack on the Rest Cure, and not on the mores of her society. She mentions in her article that the story was considered to have some value amongst Alienists, (psyhologists) and then says: "But the best result is this. Many years later I was told that the great specialist had admitted to friends of his that he had altered his treatment of neurasthenia since reading The Yellow Wallpaper. It was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked."
That pretty much seals it for me- The Yellow Wallpaper was intended, and more importantly, IS, an attack on the rest cure. Now, I don't mean to say that it can not be interperted as social commentary; readers may interpert stories as they please, but to me interpertations of stories are of secondary importance to True Meaning. When I set forth to read a book, story, or article, it's the least I can do to try and understand what it is the author is truly attempting to convey.

Yellow Wall Paper

Tim Burton Master Class: YELLOW WALLPAPER by Anne Koizumi (York)

The Yellow Wallpaper: An 18th Century Account of Bedrest

The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman Biography
In the early- to mid-nineteenth century, “Such "separate spheres" ideals suggested that a woman's place was in the private domain of the home, where she should carry out her prescribed roles of wife and mother. Men, on the other hand, would rule the public domain through work, politics, and economics.
By the middle of the century, this way of thinking began to change as the seeds of early women's rights were planted. Specifically, over 300 early feminists such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton convened in Seneca Falls, NY, for the nation's first convention to discuss and promote women's rights and roles. By the end of the 1800s, feminists were gaining momentum in favor of change. The concept of "The New Woman," for example, began to circulate in the 1890s-1910s as women pushed for broader roles outside their home—roles that could draw on women's intelligence and non-domestic skills and talents. This push for change was not without backlash. Adherents of "separate spheres" ideology turned to popular media such as magazines, advertisements, advice literature, and political cartoons to retain the image of women as the queen of the home.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's story "The Yellow Wall-paper" was written during this time of great change.
This lesson plan, the first part of a two-part lesson, helps to set the historical, social, cultural, and economic context of Gilman's story (please note that the lesson is also appropriate as a stand-alone lesson or as a compliment to studying pieces of literature by women during the same time period). Students will examine advertisements, images, magazine articles, and other primary source documents to gain an understanding of the roles of American middle-class women in the mid- to late-1800s. Lesson Two requires a close reading of "The Yellow Wall-paper" itself within the context of students' research and analysis in this first part of the full lesson.

The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Yellow Wallpaper (Charlotte Perkins-Gilman)

"THE YELLOW WALLPAPER" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman