A Comparison of The Yellow Wallpaper and The Darling -- comparison com

In Charlotte Perkins Gilmans, The colour cover, and Anton Chekhovs, The Darling, we are introduced to main characters with lives surrounded by control. In Gilmans, The xanthous Wallpaper, the main character, which remains nameless, is controlled by her husband, John. He tells her what she is and is non bequeathed to do, where she is to live, and that is she is non permitted to see her own child. In Chekhovs, The Darling, the main character, Olenka, allows her own opinions and thoughts to be those of her loved ones. When John commits the fibber into the room, she writes in despite of him telling her that she should not. At the end of her first passage, the narrator tells us, There make senses John, and I must put this away - he hates to have me write a word. The narrator was told that writing and any other intellectual activity would exhaust her. The only if thing that exhausts her ab pop out it is hiding it from them. The narrator tells us, I did write for a while in spite of them but it does exhaust me a beloved deal - having to be so sly about it, or else light upon with heavy opposition. Conrad Shumaker suggests that John believes that if someone uses too much idea then they will not be able to figure out reality. He fears that because of her imaginative tempera custodyt she will create the fiction that she is mad and come to accept it despite the evidence - color, weight, appetite - that she is well. Imagination and art are subversive because they threaten to undermine his materialistic universe In Gilmans why I Wrote the Yellow Wallpaper, Gilman tells us that when she was sent home from the domiciliate cure, Dr. Mitchell gave her solemn advice to live as domestic a life as farthermost as possible, to have but two hours intellectual... ...lf. Her thoughts were always for someone beside herself. When Olenka was alone she had no opinions of any sort. She saw the objects about her and understood what she saw, but could not work out any opinio n about them, and did not know what to talk about. Olenka had zip to make conversation and if she would make conversation, she could not give her opinion. In conclusion, both women had a strong control factor in their life. In The Yellow Wallpaper, the main character makes no decisions of her own. Her husband, John, controls everything she does. In The Darling, the men surrounding her life control all of Olenkas opinions. The men do not mean for it to be this way but that is just how Olenka is. She allows herself to not be able to think on her own. These characters have similar personalities. They both allow themselves to be controlled throughout their lives.