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Male View of Hysteria Presented in The sensationalistic cover Charlotte Perkins Gilmans short story The xanthous cover has been viewed as either a work of supernatural horror or as a libber treatise regarding the role of wowork force in society. A close analysis of Gilmans use of symbols reveals The discolour paper as her response to the male view of hysteria from antediluvian times through the nineteenth century. In The colour Wallpaper Gilman questions the hardihood of Hippocratess theory of the wandering uterus and Weir Mitchells rest cure. As she wrote in her essay Why I Wrote the scandalmongering Wallpaper?, the story was not think to drive people crazy, but to save people from being control crazy (107). By her own account, Gilmans purpose in writing The chicken Wallpaper was to educate and inform the public of the misinterpretation of hysterical symptoms. The demarcation of the word hysteria expresses the belief in the inferiority of wo manpower. As jam Palis w rites in The Hippocratic Concept of Hysteria A Translation of the accredited Texts Etymologically, the term usteria (hysteria) derives from ustera (hystera), the Greek word for uterus, which means an inferior position. Thus, usteria denotes suffering of the uterus, the about inferior organ in the female (226). The fact that the literal commentary of hystera is inferior position reinforces the fact that from old-fashioned times women were viewed as physically inferior to men. Since the one major physical difference between women and men is the presence of the uterus, psychological problems that were considered to be strictly female were attributed to some misfunction of the uterus. Hippocrates first proposed in his work The Art of Healingthat hysteria wa... .... ---. The Yellow Wallpaper. American Realism Reader. Ed. crowd Nagel and Tom Quirk. recent York Penguin Books, 1997. 254-269. Hothersall, David. record of Psychology. 3rd Ed. unfermented York McGraw-Hill Inc., 1995. Meyer, Cheryl L. The Wandering Uterus Politics and the Reproductive Rights of Women. New York New York University Press, 1997. Mitchell, S. Weir. Fat and Blood The Yellow Wallpaper. Women Writers Texts and Contexts. Ed. Thomas L. Erskine and Connie L. Richards. New jersey Rutgers University Press, 1993. 105-109. ---. Wear and Tear. The Yellow Wallpaper. Women Writers Texts and Contexts. Ed. Thomas L Erksine and Connie L. Richards. New jersey Rutgers University Press, 1993. 109-111. Palis, James., et al. The Hippocratic Concept of Hysteria A Translation of the pilot light Texts. unifying Psychiatry 3.3 (1985) 226-228. Male View of Hysteria Presented in The Yellow Wallpaper -- Charlotte PMale View of Hysteria Presented in The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilmans short story The Yellow Wallpaper has been viewed as either a work of supernatural horror or as a libber treatise regarding the role of women in society. A close analysis of Gilmans use of symbols reveals The Yellow Wallpaper as her response to the male view of hysteria from ancient times through the nineteenth century. In The Yellow Wallpaper Gilman questions the hardihood of Hippocratess theory of the wandering uterus and Weir Mitchells rest cure. As she wrote in her essay Why I Wrote the Yellow Wallpaper?, the story was not intend to drive people crazy, but to save people from being dictated crazy (107). By her own account, Gilmans purpose in writing The Yellow Wallpaper was to educate and inform the public of the misinterpretation of hysterical symptoms. The occupation of the word hysteria expresses the belief in the inferiority of women. As James Palis writes in The Hippocratic Concept of Hysteria A Translation of the Original Texts Etymologically, the term usteria (hysteria) derives from ustera (hystera), the Greek word for uterus, which means an inferior position. Thus, usteria denotes suffering of the uterus, the almost inferior organ in the female (226). The fac t that the literal interlingual rendition of hystera is inferior position reinforces the fact that from ancient times women were viewed as physically inferior to men. Since the one major physical difference between women and men is the presence of the uterus, psychological problems that were considered to be strictly female were attributed to some conk out of the uterus. Hippocrates first proposed in his work The Art of Healingthat hysteria wa... .... ---. The Yellow Wallpaper. American Realism Reader. Ed. James Nagel and Tom Quirk. New York Penguin Books, 1997. 254-269. Hothersall, David. tarradiddle of Psychology. 3rd Ed. New York McGraw-Hill Inc., 1995. Meyer, Cheryl L. The Wandering Uterus Politics and the Reproductive Rights of Women. New York New York University Press, 1997. Mitchell, S. Weir. Fat and Blood The Yellow Wallpaper. Women Writers Texts and Contexts. Ed. Thomas L. Erskine and Connie L. Richards. New island of tee shirt Rutgers University Press, 1993. 105-109. ---. Wear and Tear. The Yellow Wallpaper. Women Writers Texts and Contexts. Ed. Thomas L Erksine and Connie L. Richards. New Jersey Rutgers University Press, 1993. 109-111. Palis, James., et al. The Hippocratic Concept of Hysteria A Translation of the Original Texts. compositional Psychiatry 3.3 (1985) 226-228.