HAIG DIDIZIAN
“It’s not your fault.”
With reference to ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’, my piece presents a young girl with a mental illness, and portrays the dramatic consequences of her condition by focusing upon one very memorable day. A technical decision I made was to have an unreliable narrator and so the young girl, who acts as the central consciousness, does not understand the full significance of her behaviour. Her limited perspective is implied from the start. Charlotte Gilman establishes a contrast between the cold rationalism of the husband and the woman’s wild imagination in her story, however, I made my narrator an actual girl, rather than an infantilised woman, fully exploiting the stereotypes of both age and gender.
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