Emily Dickinson and Charlotte Gilman Perkins characters in their poems are both being challenged to keep forces out and away from others so they can be alone with their thoughts and secrets. However, they both differ in their reasoning, motives and strategies. The study of these to works will reveal the differences in their methods to achieve their goals.
At first glance, Dickinson and Perkins are both capable of having and keeping secrets in common. They both revere their independence and have a love for writing for pleasure as well as therapeutic reasons. Dickinson starts off by declaring she’s nobody as if she’s neither here nor there, but either way she is not pleased about what is happening in society or with the people who are trying …show more content…
Dickinson is mocking public figures who likes the notoriety and wants to benefit from this and the people who encourage them to do so. Her motive is she wants the readers to be in favor of her way of thinking because she has made the choice not to be like the others and exploit her works. Her strategy was to write and publish her works she chose anonymously so she would not be well known and can continue to be a free thinker and keeping the nobodies from advertising and talking about her. Perkins husband placed her in the room with yellow wallpaper due to her mental health after having a baby. He pacified her with things but was mostly absent. At first she hates the room and the wallpaper patterns and bars on the windows representing confinement, but as time passes she becomes obsessed with the wallpaper patterns and begins to try to find this woman in the midst of the disturbing patterns. This activity gave her purpose a reason to get up each day. Perkins felt lost and did not feel like herself. Her motive for following the patterns on the wall and peeling the wallpaper was to get back a piece of herself each day without her husband knowing what she was doing. Her strategy was to continue ripping away as much of the wallpaper as possible until it was all gone. This was her way of symbolizing peeling away the layers of unhappy her life allowing her to seek her true identity, freedom and destroying
At first glance, Dickinson and Perkins are both capable of having and keeping secrets in common. They both revere their independence and have a love for writing for pleasure as well as therapeutic reasons. Dickinson starts off by declaring she’s nobody as if she’s neither here nor there, but either way she is not pleased about what is happening in society or with the people who are trying …show more content…
Dickinson is mocking public figures who likes the notoriety and wants to benefit from this and the people who encourage them to do so. Her motive is she wants the readers to be in favor of her way of thinking because she has made the choice not to be like the others and exploit her works. Her strategy was to write and publish her works she chose anonymously so she would not be well known and can continue to be a free thinker and keeping the nobodies from advertising and talking about her. Perkins husband placed her in the room with yellow wallpaper due to her mental health after having a baby. He pacified her with things but was mostly absent. At first she hates the room and the wallpaper patterns and bars on the windows representing confinement, but as time passes she becomes obsessed with the wallpaper patterns and begins to try to find this woman in the midst of the disturbing patterns. This activity gave her purpose a reason to get up each day. Perkins felt lost and did not feel like herself. Her motive for following the patterns on the wall and peeling the wallpaper was to get back a piece of herself each day without her husband knowing what she was doing. Her strategy was to continue ripping away as much of the wallpaper as possible until it was all gone. This was her way of symbolizing peeling away the layers of unhappy her life allowing her to seek her true identity, freedom and destroying