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A Break from Reality - Term Papers

A Break from Reality

Monier Ziaian
Professor Donna Samet
LIT 2020
5 December 2013
A Break From Reality

Mental illness is a condition that requires much understanding and compassion for those who are affected by this disease. In the late 1800's people who suffered from mental illnesses were mostly cast out from society, ignored, or left to deal with their illness untreated and alone. Between the end of the ninetieth century and through the mid twentieth century mental illness was discussed more and recognized as a treatable condition. Psychiatric medical advancements were made within this time. However, with these advancements came many experimental and painful treatments. In the short story "The Yellow ...

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faced with his disease regardless of his environment. Although this literary work and film are set in different centuries with different societal views of mental disorders, both protagonist face internal and external conflicts in their journey to sanity.
In "The Yellow Wallpaper", which takes place just before the turn of the century, the narrator describes an accelerated decline into psychosis. Her husband, who is also her doctor, brings her to a vacation home in the country to rest after she gives birth to her baby. When she arrives at the home she refers to it as a haunted house and wonders why a house this size would be rented so inexpensively. During her stay in the house she is relegated to a room upstairs that is a former nursery, she describes the room as being "... a nursery first, then a gymnasium, ... the windows are barred for little children, and there are rings and things on the walls" (Gilman 463). Throughout the story she goes into great detail about the room giving ...

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