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How did the writers in the stories you have studied represent madness? I have been studying 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and 'The Tell Tale Heart' and 'The Black Cat' both by Edgar Allen Poe. In this Essay, I am going to explore the ways in which the writers portray madness. Madness is "The quality or condition of being insane." Or "Fury and rage." Both meanings are displayed in different ways in each story. In all three stories, the writers use obsession and possessiveness to portray madness. In The Yellow Wallpaper, the narrator becomes obsessed with the yellow wallpaper pasted in the room that she has been kept within. She was made to rest in a room at the top of the house. This was called "The rest treatment" and was Weir Mitchell's cure to hysteria before Post Natal Depression was discovered; this is what the narrator is actually suffering...

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