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The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and its Themes

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but other themes also emanate that are neutral as they pertain to sex. When listed in the Modern Language Association International Bibliography, the Yellow Wallpapers themes were said to be  madness and sanity (Hulseberg 13). Still, themes of this work permeate other areas in addition to mental function and gender. Other themes are marriage, the aura and arrogance  of the physician in society, and inner human strength. The themes are exemplified through the protagonist, and her physician husband John. Themes are also shown through symbolism. For example,  the use of yellow in the work is symbolic. Yellow is symbolic of cowardice. When Gilman wrote the Yellow Wallpaper, certainly the  fact that the wallpaper was yellow has a multitude of meanings. Perhaps the narrator is a coward at first, but gradually as she tears away the wallpaper, she gains inner  strength. By the end the cowardice changes and she changes. Some might suggest that yellow is symbolic of light and life. Yellow is the color of the sun and it  is a bright and cheery color, but this wallpaper is not. This is how the wallpaper is described: " The color is repellent, almost revolting; a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely  faded by the slow-turning sunlight" (Gilman PG). Obviously, the wallpaper is not soothing and so the wallpaper, its color, and its condition, is rather disturbing. She adds: " Theres one  comfort, the baby is well and happy, and does not have to occupy this nursery with the horrid wall-paper" (PG). But the color does bother her, and while the baby  and everyone else involved is protected from its wrath, Jane is not. According to Lanser, the color used in Gilmans cultural