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'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Gilman Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper", is the story of a woman who suffers from post-partum depression during the late 1800s. The story takes place in the country in a colonial mansion, where John who is a physician and her husband has taken her to cure what he calls "temporary nervous depression". John forbids her to write because he says it worsens her condition. Throughout the story, the patient sees the mansion more as a haunted house and a prison rather than a place to help her heal. Gilman sustains many themes throughout the story; she firstly describes the patient's decent into insanity, she then goes on to explain about how it was brought on by the dominance of her husband in the typical Victorian household. The contrast between sunlight and moonlight is also brought up regularly to portray her sickness and her marriage. However, Gilman...

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