Thursday, January 15, 2015

John is to blame

In "The Yellow Wallpaper" a woman seems either be insane already or is losing her sanity rapidly. The woman goes to a house on vacation to rest and relax in order to get well, and she goes with her husband, John. The existence of John is questionable because we do not know whether the woman is already insane or not, but in either case I believe John is the cause of her insanity or the cause of worsening her insanity. In the case of her not being insane already, I believe John is to blame because he does not see the signs that his wife is not getting better, and he keeps her in the room with the yellow wallpaper. He is a physician, and he is also said to be a very practical man. I believe he should have realized his wife was getting worse, not better, and he should have removed her from the house at once. In the case of John not existing, I believe he is still at fault because he is a delusion of her madness. Even though he is a delusion he is making it worse, so one can not place blame completely on John in this case seeing how he is created by the woman. His creation however, does not aid in her recovery, so in this way he is causing her to get worse.

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