The Yellow Wallpaper is a great example of writing from the Victorian era. The author, Charlotte Gilman uses some of the best literary techniques to convey several themes, including that of oppression. This theme is quite prevalent all throughout the story. The use of oppression as a theme helps magnify and express her feelings on border- line depression and insanity. The unnamed main character in the story is being affected by an unreal sickness that …showed first 75 words of 684 total…

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