A Visual Representation of "The Madwoman"

This is an illustration of the "madwoman" in the short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The image depicts the woman as she spirals into "madness" due to her prolonged enclosure in a room covered in yellow wallpaper. The woman begins to see another woman crawling inside the wallpaper, which is a representation of her own psyche. It is worth noting that she is initially locked in her room by her husband, who believes that she is exhibiting behavior abnormal to the expectations and limitations set for women in the nineteenth century.

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Unknown. “The Yellow Wallpaper.” Google, https://www.google.com/search?q=the+yellow+wallpaper&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUK…. Accessed 16 Dec. 2021.