The Yellow Wallpaper And The Rest Cure - 820 Words

â€Å"The Yellow Wallpaper† and The Rest Cure The rest cure was one of the treatments given to women with hysteria. The narrator in â€Å"The Yellow Wallpaper† by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, experienced the treatment and the outcome of the treatment. In my belief, the rest cure was somewhat a form of punishment toward the narrator and other women in the Victorian Era, in the 1900s. From the beginning of the short story, the narrator stated that her husband John was a physician of high standing and that he prescribed her rest, the rest cure. (Gilman 553) Her condition was hysteria a very common diagnosis in women in the 1900s. The rest cure was the one of the preferred treatments in that era. The rest cure meant that she had to stay isolated from family and friends for three months, placed on a fatty, milk-based diet, and forbidden to work. (Gilman 553) I believe all of these things led her to go insane. â€Å"The Yellow Wallpaper† took place in the late 1900s. In t he Victorian Era, a woman’s sole purpose in life was to bear children and make their husbands happy. Also, women dressed in very tight corsets which would sometimes cut oxygen and women were fainting. Women also, could not show their ankles, and if they did, they were considered a prostitute. Where exactly did the rest cure come from and is it used today? Silas Weir Mitchell created the rest cure in the 1900s to treat hysteria and other nervous depression conditions. The cure was worse than the so called disease itself. The restShow MoreRelatedThe Rest Cure In The Yellow Wallpaper1570 Words   |  7 Pages The short story The Yellow Wallpaper, was used by the author Charlotte Perkins Gilman to bring awareness of the experiences of depression and the rest cure both mentally, physically, and socially in the 1800s and early 1900s. Suffering from post-partum depression herself, Gilman also went under treatment of the rest cure. 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