This adaptation takes unnecessary liberties with its source material. In the event, I was somewhat disappointed. What a wonderful visual image for mounting insanity! 'This will be ace!' I thought, in eager anticipation. She appears to be running away from us at superhuman speed, her legs contorting wildly.
#YELLOW WALLPAPERY MONKEY TV#
The opening teaser for 'The Yellow Wallpaper' (no hyphen in the tv version) features a shot of a woman in a Victorian maid's uniform, with her back to us, on a stark moonlit road. This sort of internal drama is difficult to depict visually. Gilman's story, in first-person narration, places us inside the mind of the woman descending into madness. but it's very nearly a tie.) I was eager to view this television dramatisation of 'The Yellow Wall-Paper', partly because the original story is a favourite of mine, but largely because I was curious to see how this material would be adapted for the screen. ('The Man with the Nose', by Rhoda Broughton, is scarier. I was not surprised to learn that this story was based on Gilman's own experiences: it is an extremely convincing and harrowing narrative, and - with one exception - 'The Yellow Wall-Paper' is the most frightening horror story I've ever read. Pent up in a room wallpapered with an intricate arabesque pattern, the unnamed woman begins to hallucinate. Gilman's female protagonist descends into dissociative schizophrenia as a result of her husband's insistence that she avoid all mental stimulation. by far the best and most convincing fictional depiction of a mental illness ever written to date. Gilman's best and most important work is her 1899 story 'The Yellow Wall-Paper'. A sequel, 'With Her in Ourland', is less effective. 'Herland' (narrated by a male protagonist) could easily have become a male-bashing screed, but Gilman makes her feminist points with satire and wit, and this novel remains impressively readable. Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a Victorian American feminist who is now best known for writing 'Herland' (1915), her self-published novel about an all-female utopian society.
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