Topic > Internal Conflict in 'The Yellow Wallpaper' - 781

In the story "The Yellow Wallpaper", a woman who lived in the 19th century tells of a summer spent in a house, which turns out to be an eerie and disturbing place. gloomy living room. A woman suffering from depression tells the story from the first point of view. She talks about her experience and how she felt. He even lets us into his thoughts. He eventually finds a way to escape his imprisonment. For starters, the narrator's husband's name is John, who displays male dominance at the beginning of the story when he chose the house they stayed in and the room he kept his wife in, even though his wife felt uncomfortable about the house . He is also her doctor and orders her to do nothing but rest; thinking he's fine. John is the antagonist because he tries to control. It is written in a formal style, using fake words. However, the climax of the story occurs when she peels the wallpaper off the wall, thus freeing her from the prison; the problem is not solved because she is now crazy and has not improved. The external conflict is man against society, the internal conflict is man against himself, and the central conflict is man against man. The external conflict is between man and society because of the way society viewed women at the time as inferior to man, and it showed in the way they were treated. The internal conflict is man against himself because the narrator had to deal with depression and treatment, which made things worse for her. The central conflict is man versus man because the narrator must deal with how her husband treats her as a human being and as a patient. The themes of the story are women's inferiority in marriage, self-expression, and the effects of treatment and are universal. The main theme is the importance of expressing yourself because if you don't express yourself you will lose yourself and therefore you won't be who you really are. An important symbol is the yellow wallpaper, which is found in the room where the narrator spends all his time and is forced to stay there. She has nothing to do but stare at the intriguing wallpaper that has a woman trapped behind a pattern as she is trapped. in his room. Also refers to wallpaper as paper; it then read the background as text that decoded similar images