WRIT39B UCI The Yellow Wallpaper rhetorical analysis

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Rhetoric of Literature About Gender

Length: 1500-1800 words, typed, double-spaced, and presented in MLA format.

A minimum of two (2) secondary sources, not including the primary text being analyzed, must be used to develop the essay. A works cited page with source annotations will be required as part of the final draft.

Thesis statement should include an arguable claim. You should choose specific rhetorical strategies and/or genre conventions to connect to specific aspects of the novel's rhetorical situation--particularly audience and/or context.

Each body paragraph should start with a specific claim and then provide evidences from texts to support it. Then analyze the relationship between rhetors, writers, and audiences based on your evidences and claim.

Questions you may need to consider:

At the beginning of The Yellow Wallpaper, it is not actually clear whether or not the protagonist is insane. Like many symptoms (classified as illness) thought to be specific to women of the era, the symptom she is said to experience — "hysterical tendencies," is something of a restatement of a perceived, undesirable quality. The yellow wallpaper serves as a catalyst for her descent, but the reader can't be sure if her feelings toward it are a symptom of her mental state, or the cause of it.

What messages about mental illness and marriage does the story convey? Take a closer look at the language of illness of this era: how does the story engage with this rhetoric? What does the plot suggest about the way the writer has responded to the "rest cures" commonly prescribed by psychiatrists of the era? How does Gilman linguistically model the protagonist's descent into madness? What does the protagonist know about her state, and what does she believe will help her? What messages does the text have for each of Gilman's audiences?

Specific emotions that readers experience at specific moments in the story (how is a word, an image, a plot twist intended to make us feel?)

Reader's identification with a character or situation (how is the reader invited to imagine themselves in the story and to what purpose?)

Reader's agreement/disagreement with specific values, principles, or other ideas (how is the reader invited to judge the characters and their actions?)

Tutor Answer

School: UIUC


Student’s Name
Professor’s Name
The Yellow Wallpaper
In literature, women are occasionally portrayed as weak, compliant and inferior
compared to men. The nineteenth century was a timeframe where ladies were curbed and
constrained by their spouses and other male figures. Charlotte Gilman, stated "The Yellow
Wallpaper," demonstrating her conflict with the constraints that society set on ladies amid the
nineteenth century (Gilman). As indicated by Edsitement, the story depends on an occasion in
Gilman's life. Gilman experienced despair and depression, and she went to see a doctor name,
Silas Weir Mitchell. He endorsed the rest fix, which at that point drove her into craziness and
insanity. In this rhetoric essay, we will base the analysis on the novel ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’
and discuss the themes in the novel.

The structure of The Yellow Wallpaper makes a feeling of promptness and closeness.
The story is written in a diary style, the first-individual account which incorporates nine short
sections, every passage is shown by a little space among it and the last. The diary sections range
three months amid which John endeavors to fix his husband’s apprehensive condition" through
the rest fix of Weir Mitchell, which accepts that scholarly incitement harms a lady physically and
mentally. In the start of the story, the storyteller seems rational and acceptable, however as the
story proceeds with, the reader understands that she is untrustworthy in light of the fact that she
retains and befuddles data. Before the end, the little structure passages, divided and disconnected
idea designs mirror the storyteller's psychological issue. Through the disclosures contained in the
diary, the reader is permitted a cozy perspective of the storyteller's progressive mental
In the story, the nursery symbolizes the way women were dealt with like kids. In the
story, the storyteller's significant other spots her in a nursery room, since she was experiencing
post birth anxiety, and he felt she shouldn't almost certainly observe her youngster while she was
debilitated ("Women’s Encounters with the Mental Health Establishm...

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