The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and The Birth-mark by Nathaniel Hawthorne have two characters with many similarities. The character in The Birthmark is not the main character in the story, but plays an important role is Georgiana. Georgiana is a beautiful women except for the hideous birthmark on her face hence the name of the story The Birthmark. The character in The Yellow Wallpaper is the narrator, whose name we were never given. These two women have such a similar story, but are both so different at the same time. Georgiana and the narrator, women with almost identical stories, were different by minor discrepancies that changed the enter course of their stories.
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In The Yellow Wallpaper, John believes that the narrator is crazy, but she believes that the only thing that could make her happy is something different and exciting. “It is the strangest yellow, that Wallpaper! It makes me think of all the yellow things I ever saw- not beautiful ones like buttercups, but old foul, bad yellow things.” (Mays The Yellow Wallpaper) The narrator is so obsessed with the wallpaper that it is driving her crazy. “[John] does not wish to cater to her growing obsession with the yellow wallpaper.” (The Yellow Wallpaper) She has asked John if they could leave many times, but he will not let her. John believes it is best if she stay at this house and inside where she can eat and get her rest. He believes that the writing was also affecting her, but it was making it easier for her to cope. John kept her in that house and in that room so long that she became crazy. His controlling manner of everything she did drove her insane, not the depression, but, “being confined to her room,” this causes her to obsess over the wallpaper. (The Yellow Wallpaper) The narrator never obtains an identity from anyone especially her husband he calls her by the names, “darling” and “little girl”. (Mays The Yellow Wallpaper) John never gives her name, which makes her feel as if she is locked up and losing herself. In The Birth-Mark Georgiana’s controlling …show more content…
In the Yellow Wallpaper the narrator loves her husband and wants to please him by trying to get better. She stays in the house even after she asks John to leave multiple times. Eventually she also stops writing because John believes it is bad for her. The narrator also knows that John believes she is not sick and does not agree with him. During the story the narrator does disagree with John multiple times, but “what can [she] do,” she tries to convince him to leave or at least let them switch rooms because she is going crazy being stuck in the room with the Yellow Wallpaper. (Mays The Yellow Wallpaper) The narrator tries so hard to be a good wife and get better because she knows that will make John happy. In the Birth-mark Georgiana loves her husband so much that she would do anything that made him happy. Georgiana knows that the birthmark to Aylmer is a horrible mark on her face. The birthmark is so horrible that, “[she] can never forget that convulsive shudder.” (The Birth-Mark) Aylmer’s shudder makes Georgiana feel even worse but she knows that if she does this it will make Aylmer