Analysis Of The Poem The Yellow Wallpaper - 1332 Words

Another way Gilman enhances unwilling imprisonment is through figurative language. The narrator describes the moonlight metaphorically: â€Å"it creeps so slowly, and always comes in by one window or another† (Gilman 293). The moonlight makes the woman behind the wallpaper become clearer night by night. This personification describes the way insanity is creeping onto the narrator. For a very long time, the moon associates with early fertility-centered societies and female power. In â€Å"The Yellow Wallpaper,† the contrast between daytime with its constant limitations and nighttime with its unpredictable freedoms are symbolized by the alternating effects of sun and moonlight on the wallpaper. During the daytime the freedom of the narrator is†¦show more content†¦It is like a bad dream† (Gilman 294). As this sentence continues, the physical abuse in it gradually gets worse, representing the the constant damage society does to female role. Even if women att empted to get up from a hit, society will just hit back harder. Comparing it to a bad dream, Gilman implies that this pattern is never-ending. For the narrator, it felt like an eternity imprisoned in her bedroom with nothing to think about except for the yellow wallpaper. Through the use of figurative language, Gilman enhances the desire to break free of confinement. Gilbar and Gubar comment upon the story: â€Å"this paper surrounds the narrator like an inexplicable text, censorious and overwhelming as her physician husband, haunting as the â€Å"hereditary estates† in which she is trying to survive†(Gilbar and Guban 125). Gilbar and Gubar uses similes to say that the paper is incapable of being explained, especially towards the narrator. However, because it is very difficult to explain, it gives the narrator and opportunity to work her brain and figure it out herself. The narrator’s husband is described as â€Å"censorious† and â€Å"overwhelming† which also describes men’s role and power, very critical and overpowering. Because her husband resembles men in societal norms, the narrator is forced to bend to his every will. One of which being to stay confined in her bedroom with no workShow MoreRelatedAnalysis Of The Poem The Yellow Wallpaper 1560 Words   |  7 Pages â€Å"The Yellow Wallpaper† provides an insight into the life of the narrator- a woman suppressed and unable to express herself because of her controlling husband- leading the reader down her fall to insanity, allowing for her inner conflict to be clearly expressed. The first person point of the view the author artfully uses and the symbolism present with the wallpaper cleverly depicts the inner conflict of the narrator, losing her own sanity due to the constraints of her current life. 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