The Yellow Wallpaper Published for the first time on 1892 The Yellow Wallpaper is written as a private diary from a woman whose desire to pursue a happy marriage or maternity is gone She is obligated to heal from her nervous condition resting isolated Her nervous condition is probably just a post partum depression In this story madness represents an escape from unbearable oppression caused by the privation of contact with society or external stimulus This oppression also creates isolation This
CHAPTER I INDRODUCTION ALDOUS HUXLEY AND THE MODERN NOVEL It is rightly said Aldous Huxleys writings express the disillusionment of the 1920s the cynicism of the 1930s and the questioning of the 1940s 45 Paul W P S Huxley was the product of the times and his novel and essays are the expression of his beliefs and concerns Huxley was twenty when the First World War began in 1914 His book of stories Limbo was published in 1920 and his last novel Island in 1962 His work covers forty there years whi