#charlotte perkins gilman

[w0rld0fbeauty]

[caffeinatedcatlover]

❝I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind❞

The Yellow Wallpaper is one of my favorite short stories. I highly recommend it! It’s only 10 pages and it’s in the public domain, so you can read it for free.

[malachitebeck]

Sofia Falcone in Cent'anni (dir. Helen Shaver) | The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

[wallacepolsom]

Wallace Polsom, Why All This Fuss about Death? (for Charlotte Perkins Gilman) (22 Aug 2024), paper collage, 24.9 x 28 cm.

[newvision]

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the Yellow Wallpaper // skeleton pleading (c. 1600s) // Bob Dylan, Idiot Wind on Blood On The Tracks (1975)

[academic-vampire]

I am always astounded when I ask a male literature major which writers they like, and they don’t name ANY women …

(Like dude you say you like fucking HEMMINGWAY???? But not, like, oh I don’t know, Rossetti or Plath or Bradstreet or O’Connor or Welty or Woolf or Austen or Alcott or the Brontës or Shelley or Hurston or Dillard or Dickinson or Jackson or Chopin or Gilman or Atwood or Wharton or Angelou or Stowe or Sappho or E. Browning or…—????)

Don’t even get me started… (too late)

[ibrithir-was-here]

Apotheosis of the Queen of Carcosa

[hagumiki]

absolutely fell in love with this story after reading it

[leiathejules]

©️ Abigail Larson

[goddess-of-silvers]

The Penguin - Ep 4

Just need to scream into the void for a hot second about this episode and specifically Sofia Falcone and the wallpaper in Arkham Asylum and how its a direct reference from Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”.

For those unfamiliar “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a gothic short story about an unnamed woman (debatable) who is essentially trapped in a house and living in this old nursery that is covered in this hideous yellow wallpaper. And after spending weeks there she becomes obsessed with it and the woman she believes is trapped behind it, until finally she gives in and “releases” her by ripping all the wallpaper off the wall. And the ending is a bit unclear on what exactly was in that wallpaper, if she becomes the woman in the wallpaper or if she really just went crazy. But one of the more important things to keep in mind is that she was being kept there by her doctor husband who ignored her pleas to leave and insisted this was for her own good.

Now going to episode four of The Penguin and finally getting Sofia’s backstory in Arkham I immediately clocked the yellow wallpaper that Sofia was slowly peeling back and revealing on the walls after every one of her electro shock therapy sessions. It is such a genius move to reference Gilman’s short story when talking about another woman whose agency was stripped from her and forced to endure endless rounds of torture in a madhouse to keep her quiet. It’s just too perfect. She goes into Arkham in this beautiful black and YELLOW dress and is stripped of it, put through the demeaning inpatient process of Arkham and then stuck trying to prove she is innocent and sane to doctors who have already condemned her. Not to add her therapist Julian who is essentially the doctor husband in “The Yellow Wallpaper”, who is sexually attracted to his patient but still conducting inhuman practices and refusing to listen to his patient because “it’s for her own good” and “we’re just trying to help her”. And then when Sofia is fully surrounded by the yellow wallpaper of her parents’ bedroom and sees her mother’s corpse hanging is so horrifying and bleeds into one of the many interpretations of the ending of “The Yellow Wallpaper” that involves the main character also hanging herself. But finally, finally the last part of the episode when we see Sofia in the yellow dress, stepping into herself and giving herself her freedom is just a perfect way to close her character arc and the literary reference, where she has ripped off the wallpaper and set the woman/herself free.

This show has exceeded my expectations for what I thought it would be as a spin off show. But this isn’t the Penguin’s show anymore it’s Sofia Falcone’s. I could write a paper on just this literary reference but take this instead. My English Major ass couldn’t help but geek over the use of one of my favorite short stories. Anyway go watch The Penguin, if anything just episode four because they did their big one with this one.

[melanovia]

[oonaluna-art]

My book club read the Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and we had a challenge to draw the wallpaper.

This wasn't 100% how in envisioned it, as I imagined the paper's appearance warping throughout the reading.

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[poniatowskaja]

We have before spoken of the peculiar position of our race in that the woman is the only female creature who carries the burden of sex ornament. This amazing reversal of the order of nature results at its mildest in a perversion of the natural feminine instincts of love and service, and an appearance of the masculine instincts of self-expression and display. Alone among all female things do women decorate and preen themselves and exhibit their borrowed plumage (literally!) to attract the favor of the male. This ignominy is forced upon them by their position of economic dependence; and their general helplessness. As all broader life is made to depend, for them, on whom they marry, indeed as even the necessities of life so often depend on their marrying someone, they have been driven into this form of competition, so alien to the true female attitude.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 'Our Androcentric Culture, or the Man-made world' (1911)

[shortstorytournament]

SHORT STORY TOURNAMENT - FINALS

THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO by Edgar Allen Poe (1846) (link) - tw: death

“I drink,” he said, “to the buried that repose around us.”

THE ONES WHO WALK AWAY FROM OMELAS by Ursula K Le Guin (1973) (link) - tw: child abuse

Do you believe? Do you accept the festival, the city, the joy? No? Then let me describe one more thing. In the basement under one of the beautiful public buildings of Omelas, there is a room. It has one locked door, and no window. ... In the room a child is sitting.

THE YELLOW WALLPAPER by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1887) (link) - tw: depression, insanity

John is so pleased to see me improve! He laughed a little the other day, and said I seem to be flourishing in spite of my wall-paper. I turned it off with a laugh. I had no intentions of telling him it was because of the wall-paper — he would make fun of me. He might even want to take me away.

[dharmaart]

An illustration I made for The Yellow Wallpaper as part of a university applicant assignment. This is a bit outside of my wheelhouse but of the five illustrations I made for the novel I quite like this one. 

[the-merry-otter]

Reading 1 star reviews of The Yellow Wallpaper to amuse myself, and I’m giggling at every one that is like “1/5 stars, they kept talking about the wallpaper” like my bestie in christ did you not read the title??