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Essay / Internal conflict in "The Yellow Wallpaper" - 781
In the story "The Yellow Wallpaper", a woman living in the 19th century recounts a summer she spent in a house, which turns out to be a strange place and dark stay. A woman suffering from depression tells the story from the first point of view. She talks about her experience and what she felt. She even shares her thoughts with us. She eventually finds a way to escape her imprisonment. To begin with, the narrator's husband's name is John, which shows male dominance at the beginning of the story as he chose the house they stayed in and the room he kept his wife in, even though his wife felt uneasy about the house. He is also his doctor and orders him to do nothing but rest; thinking she is doing just fine. John is the antagonist because he tries to be controlling. It is written in a formal style, while using feigned words. However, the climax of the story occurs when she peels the wallpaper off the wall, freeing her from imprisonment; the problem is not resolved because she is crazy now and not getting better. The external conflict is man against society, the internal conflict is man against himself, and the central conflict is man against man. The external conflict is man versus society because of how society viewed women at that time, as they were seen as inferior to man, and this was reflected in how they were treated. The internal conflict is that of the man against himself because the narrator wanted to deal with depression and treatment, which made the situation worse for her. The central conflict is man versus man, as the narrator must deal with the way her husband treats her as a human and as a patient. The themes of the story are women's inferiority in marriage, self-expression and the effects of treatment and they are universal. The main theme is the importance of expressing yourself because if you don't express yourself, you will lose yourself and you will no longer be who you really are. An important symbol is the yellow wallpaper, which is in the room in which the narrator spends all her time and is forced to stay. She has nothing to do but stare at the intriguing wallpaper which shows a woman trapped behind a pattern like her in the trap. in his room. She also refers to wallpaper as paper; so she read the wallpaper as a text decoding the images as