ANALYSIS OF “THE YELLOW WALLPAPER”
1.
Characters
a)
Major
character
·
Narattor,
as protagonist; the narrator (anonymous), main role.
·
John
(the narrator’s wife) as antagonist, He's is the antagonist
cause he never quite believes that there is something wrong with narrator “conflicted the protagonist”.
b)
Minor
character
·
Jennie,
·
Henry
and Julia, cousin to John
2.
Characteristics
-
Round
(the narrator; she could be angry with his husband, she could be spoiled
because she could not sleep without husband’s hug)
-
Flat;
John (unremittingly be patient)
-
Life-like
character (the protagonist)
3. Characterization
I think writer uses mixing method in
writing the yellow walpaper, it means writter use both discursive and dramatic
Writter uses discursive when she
decribes john characteristic
Writter uses dramatic when decribe
herself as one of characters in the storry, she does not give any explanations
about her characteristic.
-
Mixing
method
When
the writer wrote this short story, he used both discursive (direct) and
dramatic (indirect) method as in; (a) the narrator (dramatic) and (b) John
(discursive).
4. Theme
Feminism : criticize
about gender refractive
and also symbol of the oppression of women in a
paternalistic society
5. setting
·
setting: SOCIAL
SETTING (conflict against husband and herself ), PHSYCAL SETTING (wallpaper)
·
the actual geographical location: wallpaper,
imprisoned room
·
time: during three month in summer when they
rent the house, morning (daylight), night/midnight (moonlight)
·
place: colonial mansion; ancestral hall (inside
the colonial hall)
6. plot
plot:
closed plot (with ending )
a)
Exposition
·
The
introduction of the house (colonial mansion)
·
Characters
of John
·
John’s
occupation
·
The
narrator (John’s wife)
b)
Rising action: social and psychological
conflict
The rising action is when the narator moves to
a room in the second floor, that room is like a nursery with with a yellow
wallpaper inside, she feel there is something wrong with the wallpaper. She imagines a woman trapped within
the paper.
There are several conflict in raising action:
·
Social conflict (against person; her husband); you
see he does not believe I am sick
·
Person
against herself; I don’t know why I should write this
·
Person
against nature; wallpaper. I suppose John never was nervous in his life. He
laughs at me so about this wall-paper!
·
Person
against fate; what a fortunate escape! Why I wouldn’t have a child of mine,
an impressionable little thing live in such a room for world.
c) Climax; I really have discovered something at last.
One
day before they go home. At night the avidity of narrator to know and
understant about oddity of walpaper is
culminate. She want to know how those children do tear about here, and also she
want to know the woman inside the walpaper. Finnally, the narrator strips off all the wallpaper in her room
d) Falling action;the key is down by the front steps, under a
plantain leaf.
The
falling action is when she tells him where the key.
e) Denouement; “I’ve got out at last”
Denoument
is when John finally unlocks the room and sees what she has done
7.
Elements
of plot
-
Unity
-
Suspense
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Possibility
-
Foreshadowing
-
Surprise
Summary
The yellow wallpaper is a sort story that symbolizes feminism,
women struggling to get equality with man. The story actually criticizes social
system at that time, where the woman freedom is isolated. There are two main
figures in the story they are narrator and her husband. The narrator as protagonist
character is a woman who get sickness who may not to do any activities, and has
to stay in locked house, suppress her
imagination, and most importantly to discontinue her writing. Her husband
(John) as protagonist character is a doctor who never quite believes that there
is something wrong with narrator. In the introduction, she introduces her
husband, jennie, and henry characteristic. she also talks about feeling off and her
husband tells her she has a nervous condition. Because of her nervous condition
she must stay in bed and stop all of her activities. The rising action is when
she starts to tell the reader that there is a woman creeping behind the
wallpaper. She must stay in a room everyday because of her depression. She stays
in a room that like nursery with a yellow wallpaper. She feels strange with the
wallpaper, she assume there is something wrong with the wallpaper. She sees a
strange, provoking, formless sort figure, that seems to skulk about behind that
silly and conspicuous front design. The climaks is when she locks herself in
the room, so that she can creep freely. One day before they go the narrator strips off all the
wallpaper in her room home. At night
the avidity of narrator to know and understand
about oddity of wallpaper is culminate. She want to know how those
children do tear about here, and also she want to know the woman inside
the wallpaper. Finally, The
falling action is when she tells her husband where the key is and he goes to
get it. Denouement is when John finally unlocks the room and sees what she has
done
To sum up the story, all of the narrator experiences related with
strange wallpaper that there is a woman figure inside wallpaper actually just
her imagination. The strange pattern, and the strange figure actually the symbolization of herself that represent all of women at that time. At that time
women had very defined domesticated roles and their husbands were the dominate
force. In this story women who are trapped
and prohibited from doing any activities described the position of women, where
their the mind, creativity, and intellect are very
limited. While the figure of John that always dominated describe the
position of men that have the freedom to think and work. As the ending and
conclusion of the story she locks
herself in the room and strips
off all the wallpaper in her room
home then her husband unlocks the room and sees what she has done. It means
that It indicates a state of mind and imagination of the
narrator is at a the top of
saturation. And she wants to get out of the immediate confinement
of gender. Finally, he could
get desirable freedom.
It also marking the end of the dominance of men over women
