"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman / A HorrorBabble Production
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- "The Yellow Wallpaper" is a short story by the American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century toward women's health, both physical and mental.
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00:00 - Opening Credits
00:49 - The Yellow Wallpaper
38:48 - Closing Credits
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There's no bigger a know-it-all than a Victorian England physician...
The guy that put that wall-paper up wasn't too smart. He accidentally glued down the wife behind the paper? o.o
This guy is the first man's plainer.
I agree but do allow me to point out that he’s an American physician!
@@morganlabatt4543 what i came to say! Ty!
I laughed out loud 😂
My greatest fear is losing my sanity...This was a very chilling tale indeed..thanks for the suggestion you did wonderful with this disturbing telling. Just incredible your narration fit perfectly.
This is one of my favourite readings. Again, I'm really happy you checked it out. Thanks again Myles! Jennifer
This helped me with my reading assignment, thank you!!!
Same, I was sent here by my teacher to do something and didn't want to read the entire thing, so she gave us the audio link
@@tnott_gabee glad to join the team cuz samee
Same
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what she sees in the wallpaper is her shadow and the bars at knight are the ones on the windows.
What a unique perspective.
Woah,, Ive never thought of it that way
"The Yellow Wallpaper" is a short story by the American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century toward women's health, both physical and mental.
Chapters:
00:18 - Opening Credits
00:49 - The Yellow Wallpaper
38:48 - Closing Credits
Bandcamp link: horrorbabble.bandcamp.com/album/the-yellow-wallpaper
Narrated by Jennifer Gill for HorrorBabble
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Your voice is just as I imagined the protagonist's voice is.
I normally don't like audiobooks but I really liked this one. I think it's because the narrator's voice was so calm that it really brought out the slightly eerie feel to the story. Also the narrator is exactly how I would picture the voice of the woman in the story.
I see a suppressed woman whose imaginative and intelligent nature is held down by an overpowering husband.
Unable to express herself without reproach, derision and overwhelming smothering she turners to introspection and imaginative wandering to escape the prison she is forced to endure. The wallpaper with its rot and decay is symbolic of her ever diminishing control over even the simplest things in her life. She is completely overpowered and slowly decays in body and mind. The lady in the wallpaper is a metaphor of herself. Trapped within the intricate patterns of Victorian marriage and its societal mores, where women’s voices and desires could only be expressed within the confines of male acceptance.
Finally her husband is overwhelmed and she creeps over him. A final metaphoric victory.
Awesome! I love your response. I'd like to add..the entrapment of women. How women, in an attempt to meet societal expectations, treat themselves as poorly as the men do. She agreed to stay in that room, she locked herself in that room. She is a victim of internalised mysogyny.
Thanks for sharing your idea. I don’t get that feeling at all from this piece, but that is the great thing about good writing, people get lots of different meanings out of the same piece.
I get the meaning of the protagonist slowly loosing her mind to her illness that no one believes she has. We get a look into the abstraction of her mind.
Perhaps the woman behind the wallpaper was none other than the subconscious of the protagonist herself. The human psyche is a strange thing indeed. Reminds me of what John Milton wrote in paradise lost; "The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."
Another fantastic story. Thank you for recording this.
I feel like a little kid stumbling upon a treasure trove of goodies. It's lovely to know that there is a female narrator with an equally perfect voice for these spooktacular stories. Charlotte Perkins Gilman is one of my favourite feminists/ authors. Thank you for your wonderful narration.
Wow - yep. I read the story in high school - didn't get it, read it in college - sorta' got it, read it in my 50's - got it. Excellent update of the classic. Great quality and sound - love it.
It's a great story. Glad you like the reading, thanks for listening! Jennifer
Could you please explain.
I really enjoy this story! I love how the wife will refer to the wallpaper in various ways - sometimes it comes up in the flow of the narrative, and other times she almost interrupts her train of thought and focuses right back on the wallpaper. The narrative is smooth at times, jarring at times, and unravels toward the end - just like the wallpaper pattern itself. Excellent painting with words to further highlight the lurid effects of the wallpaper.
Sorry, I'm a word nerd 8-)
I totally agree! One of my favourite stories. Thanks for listening! Jennifer
Beautiful perspective. You've highlighted some of the brilliance of this story beautifully.
I am not picturing a woman going insane. I'm picturing an insane woman who doesnt think she is insane. The description of the room is put into context by her own words, so removing her context leaves the room looking like this...
Ugly yellow wallpaper.
A bed nailed to the floor.
Wallpaper by the bed torn about as far as a person could reach if they were on the bed.
Rings bolted into the walls.
Bars on the windows.
Gouges and scratches on the plaster, floor, and bed.
Canvas mattress.
Does that sound like a nursery/ playpen/ gymnasium? It sounds like a sanitarium cell.
Examine her relationship with... everyone. Her husband, brother, and friend's husband are all doctors? She only mentions "the baby" once, and we assign it to her based our expectations when a woman mentions "the baby." The husband says "our baby" but that is it.
There is a lot more that doesn't jive. I'm fairly certain she talked about more than 4 views from her wall to wall windowed room.
She admits that she had been assigning personalities to inanimate objects before she was married.
Her room is sparsely furnished, so she doesnt have a place to hide a notebook. I believe she is writing on the wallpaper, then tearing it off before John/Jane sees it.
She sounds puzzled when she mentions the bedstead appearing chewed, but she chews it herself later on.
She says that she has to go back into the pattern after she just said that all the paper in reach is off the walls.
The women outside creep on the ground and creep fast, which indicates the women in the wallpaper are all just her shadow as she circles the room.
She was there long enough to leave a permanent shoulder dent, but she doesn't mention anyone taking notice of it? It couldnt have happened over a single night.
She overhears John and Jennie discussing professional questions about her.
The smell that wont leave is the wallpaper as she rubs it on her.
I think she had been having total mental breakdowns, maybe based on night and day cycles, so she doesn't remember what she did. The paper gets removed and put back up by her, which explains the constantly shifting patterns. What would be crazy enough to make John faint? I think she managed to wrap her body in the wallpaper or at least get between the wallpaper and the wall. John faints after she turns her head and addresses him. I think he was startled by the way she would have popped out to him with her movement and voice.
(I'll be back! Maybe im completely wrong or my opinion is old news, but this story is like some clever ass subtleness that plays on stereotypes people had about women like the protagonist. What if the author knew most people would take this story as a commentary on women's lib because she gave them what they expected to see?)
Edit: After looking for and reading several other explanations of the story, my interpretation isnt the commonly accepted interpretation. Adding more above that supports my theory.
I never though I would see detailed literary analysis from a channel named this
Very good!
I have always heard this in reference to Gas Lighting. but yeah, Gates that lock, and lots of houses for the service staff... I’m watching Shudder Island right now, and it’s kind of in the same vain
@@eliquate Exactly! It seems like it is all about managing expectations that apply to multiple circumstances, with a few red herrings from the protagonist's unreliable perspective.
I disagree a little with your analysis, but the great thing about literature is that there's always room for interpretation! I don't think the protagonist was always insane, I think she just liked to personify things as a child. Personally, I think that she was just mentally ill, possibly with depression and/or anxiety, before the events of the story.
I believe that the story's moral is about believing people's mental illness and taking it seriously. If the husband had stopped gas lighting, listened to her problems, and believed her when she said how she felt, her insanity could of been prevented. I think it's definitely also about the problematic way women were treated when you consider the time period it was created.
It's pretty awesome how people can still debate the meaning and interpretation of a story over 100 years after its creation! I think your interpretation is very interesting and it's cool to see other people's analyses. :)
My English teacher in high school showed this story to the class and it’s one I think about constantly
I think my man Lovecraft understood this story best of all. From Wikipedia: Pioneering horror author H. P. Lovecraft writes in his essay Supernatural Horror in Literature (1927) that "'The Yellow Wall Paper' rises to a classic level in subtly delineating the madness which crawls over a woman dwelling in the hideously papered room where a madwoman was once confined." Those rings in the wall and the marks on the wall and floor (scratch marks!!!) are KEY!
oh boy !!! who else drops everything else to hear HORRORBABBLE ???? Hey Ian !! love your voice Jennifer.!!! your a wonderful narrator , too !! always SOO glad to get a New post from y'all . we all need some HORRORBABBLE IN OUR LIVES !! 😸❤❤❤. Everyday ....
I love the symbolism in this piece! It's so creative that the figure trapped in the wallpaper is really her trapped by her husbands tyrrany :D
This is perfect. I'm an old timey horror fan but I've never heard a story written by a woman in the Era. An excellent portrait of postpartum and the lack of voice for women in Healthcare especially mental
I read this story in a horror anthology when I was 11 or 12 and I just couldn't appreciate it at the time. So glad this channel reminded me it exists. Thanks for the read.
Thank you for listening Annoyed Platypus. I'm glad it brought some memories back. Jennifer
This story perfectly captures the feeling of madness!
Is your picture an image of Asimov's incredible sideburns?
Opium abuse.
I studied this story in college, so it is a joy to hear it read properly.
That was great! Thank you so much for recording this!!
You're welcome Jessica!
Thanks for recommending this story! it was definitely a chilling tale and thank you Jennifer for reading it!
I read this two decades ago.It caused me to have nighmares. This robotic reading has added a level of creepiness that shouldn't exist.
UseLess Lass only thing I read that actually scared me. Steven King does nothing for me, but this subdued and tension building is just so creepy.
Such an amazing audiobook production. The voice is exactly as I imagined the protagonist to speak. Just fantastic. This really helped me in doing my assignment for university. Thank you so much!
Thank you for posting this, it adds another dimension with the narrative.
Great story and narration! Fantastic job, Jen! Your voice adds to the story.
Thanks!
speaking for myself, this has occurred or it may have happened to others. Will being on in the room and being aware of the surroundings sometimes someone's imagination could run away from themselves, and if there is a noise or Creek and if it would happen repetitively you may think there could be something of it. Someone's imagination is a very strong thing.
Awesome! I remember reading this in high school. I love your channel.
Thanks Anita - I'm thrilled you're enjoying the content. Ian
What an amazing story! Beautifully written, very smart and deep metaphors, creepy as heck, what else can one ask for? Thank you for this wonderful channel
Thank you for all your work. I really treasure this channel.
I've been subscribed for a moment and never realized you already did one of my most favorite short stories!
I really did enjoy this story. The way you expressed the way the woman spoke about her illness, and her obsession with the wallpaper. That her husband as the doctor , totally disclosed his wife way of thinking and Imagination which could have developed her psychological improprieties
So you see this story could have went a little further and the wife could have begun to go insane because at night in the wee hours of the morning she began to see a figure in that are orange and yellow wallpaper. The nights went in two weeks into months.. But you see it really was not the wallpaper it was The Apparition that would visit her every night. The Apparition would enter the room from the wall that had the orange and yellow wallpaper.
So finally the husband so distressed and upset about his wife he had to admit her to a Sanitarium, he told the servants that they were coming but he made sure that no one in the household would speak of it until that day that they are to come and take her there, but when they were taking her out of the room she was kicking and screaming no, no no, I will not leave my friend and it turns out that the friend was buried in the wall from 50 years ago he was murdered. And yes 12 they put his body in the wall and his remains were found right behind the orange and yellow wallpaper
So her husband a doctor should have listened to his wife and her obsession with the wallpaper, and it turns out that she wasn't crazy it was the dead body in the wall.
So you see imagination can go pretty far when someone17 just thinks as I just added this little piece to the story. Now no, low I'm no great writer but I've got a good imagination.
So once again, a grand thank you to ;
Ian from horrible - and your wonderful imaginative story..
What there was a dead body in the wall
There are a few people in the thread here that seem co fused by the ending/meaning of this story. I highly recommend looking up the author and learn a little about what she actually went through. It's a big help in understanding this story.
Glad she told her old doctor to shove it once she published it
Excellent! I read this at A level and I've never forgotten it! Thankyou for reading it
Thank you! This story is far more enjoyable than I thought it would be.
I just realized she colored herself yellow with the wallpaper to blend in like camouflage so she could "creep" as opposed to when she was outside and didn't blend in
hi Jennifer - great reading: your interpretation, your "acting", your voice modulation - all really good. thanks so much. already having read this story a while ago, i wasn't sure i wanted to hear it again, but i was busy and it came up, so i just let it go. glad i did. :}
I had to read this for a class but haven't had time. Audio stories are a life saver. Very well read. Thanks!
Great read Jen ! having a diagnosed mental disorder, although high functioning, 90% normal, I can understand how the lady seems to go further and further off kilter, seen it other ppl who can't self re-align like I can after a bad day. the 19th century was terrible for mental issues, not too great in the 20th and I'm not impressed w 21st century psych care in the US. Weird wallpaper would be terrible for some. Little trivia, bubblewrap was originally planned as wallpaper so kids wouldn't get hurt, no shit feel free to look it up, thankfully that didn't work but someone realized it would be great for packing and shipping, and as you and Ian have prob seen online, some use in erotic photography, also great for window insulation, keep the hot or cold air out and lets light thru as well as limiting what ppl can see one doing inside. Keep up the good work across the pond !
Listening to this against my better judgement -
This was amazing! It helped me with my English project
As a mental health professional, the treatment from her husband is pretty heartbreaking
Amazing narration!
This story gets to me like almost no other. Truly one of the creepiest stories I’ve ever heard.
One of my faves!
Thank you very much!
Great story. Love your narration my dear
That was amazing thank you
I first read this story in A Level some 20+ years ago and it's still one of my favourite stories to this day.. sooo creeepy!! XD
well this took quite a turn
that payoff about the low scrape mark around the room is amazing
Beautiful. Terrifying. The story is obviously excellent, and your reading is perfect. Feels like a descent into hell. Good god. Amazing
Just wrote my paper on John's POV. Thank you for your help!!
Ohhhh man!! that old radio program "Suspense" adapted this one with Agnes Moorehead
That was a fun one
This was really fun to hear in its original form
This tale has no dislikes for a very important reason. I shall say no more..
The really awesome aspect of this story is that you never really figure out if the woman is going insane or if there really was some supernatural element present in the house. A truly nice piece of writing this is.
Amazing,classic,and very sneaky horror story! What about ending? It was the something else!
Somehow this really reminds me of Shutter Island and Platos Allegory of the Cave
An outstanding reading of a genuinely creepy story. Full marks.
The real horror in this story is how women were treated- in general, but particularly by the medical community- until quite recently. (And vestiges of this misogyny still remain...)
This author does an excellent job describing both going insane, and the woman's conditioning. Like how she thinks her husband is just showing his concern when he is actually being massively condescending and patronizing. I mean, he's told her there's nothing wrong worthy of consideration (she just has "hysterical tendencies" and needs to control herself) while simultaneously telling her she's too sick to write, see her family, or leave that room. It seems to me it was his "treatment" that led directly to her going so crazy.
It's funny because I was just thinking about this story yesterday. When will you be reading a story about people on the internet who can hear people's thoughts?
Harry Conner 😁
That's an interesting concept right there Harry.
And not half bad.....Ian, you could really write a good one....❤😯. Or you Harry...
Well done!
great reading🤘🏾
Your voice is perfect!
I looking for a story similar to this where a physician is trying to fix his wife birthmark but end up killing her
That was a creepy little number, well done.
I love this one
What a superb reading. The only suggestion I would make is to leave a gap of a few seconds where time has passed in the narrative.
this one was really good yo
I consider this a backrooms crossover(backrooms/Cthlulu mythos)by the title alone..and the feel of it, its quite singular.
I watched a short film based on this story during the Midnight Hour on ShortsTV
I did a paper on this in my historical fiction class.
19:34 is where the story begins
Yellow wallpaper?! Yikes! Im terrified already, but Im going to listen anyway.
Can somebody explain this to me? I listened to it, but don't understand the ending.
At the end, the wife says to her husband “I’ve got out at last, in spite of you and Jane! And I’ve pulled off most of the paper, so you can’t put me back!" (Jane might be herself) This indicates she has become totally insane. Her husband as her doctor first finds she creeping in the room, then hears this, no wonder he faints. However, she does not stop creeping, but creeps over his body every time. The ending of the story is hopeless.
I was looking over your channels older videos and I think some are missing, the creepypasta “Love” is gone even though I know I listened to it on here
Here you go: horrorbabble.bandcamp.com/album/love
Lots of readings had to be removed - but it's a long story.
The entire time I'm listening to this (very excellent) recording, I have to remind myself that the husband is a man of his time. My modern feminist ideals, they burn!
Mine too! It is definitely of its time! Thank you for the compliment :) Jennifer
OH MY GOD!!! SCARY CREEPY
Maybe the greatest short ghost story of ALL TIMES.
I don’t get the end
Horror outlined in 1 minute - being a woman under patriarchy. Dying under paternalism.
Nice 1 Jess
Is it Ian’s wife doing this narration ? I had a really hip way of asking that question in emojis but didn’t wanna risk getting banned from my favorite channel lol
Who directed this (asking for a project)
Bookmark: 15:00
26:03
"Round and round and round... ...round and round and round"
TY for your most excellent reading *Jennifer Gill* I think it needs a female voice👍👍👍👍👍😊
Don't think this is about a haunted house at all. For one, I don't hear any anxiety in the narrator's voice. She is talking about something else
She had one helluva case of postpartum psychosis, the poor woman. I was confused as to why her hubby fainted though.
Yeah I admit I didn't really get the ending either.
Not sure either. People back in the Victorian era (I'm assuming this is when the story took place?) seemed more prone to fainting at things. They were a lot more upright in general. Either John fainted at the mere idea of seeing his beloved wife crawling on the floor uttering mad things, or - as the story might imply - the wife had somehow become one of the women in the wallpaper. Perhaps the story keeps it vague on purpose.
I think she was probably sinking into the wallpaper, haunting the semi-hidden background pattern. He caught a touch of her psychosis. This story has haunted me for years. It's got a certain something. It's terribly disturbing upon repeat listen. You really have to wonder about the "rings set into the walls" (for chains?!) and the locations of the scratch marks on the wallpaper and the floor, which indicate some poor desperate soul being chained up and madly clawing at the walls and floor. It's only hinted at, but still...
Imagine going into the room and seeing your wife creeping around on all fours against the wall, she looks back at you with madness in her eyes and says " its okay, i got out" and and then continues to scuttle and creep around the room. I suppose not everyone would faint but it would be disturbing as hell.
I think one of the most terrifying things about listening to this is remembering my own episode with a psychotic break back in 2002.
Who else is here because of online school
Creeepy!
Huh... The ending 🤣🤔
The echo.. ugh its driving me bonkers
Read/listen to for the first time. Im in 11th grade. This is pne wacko story
Read it again in 5 or 10 years and then again in 5 or 10 more years. You will pick up on details that you missed previously. I think as we grow older and experience more it changes the way we feel about this story.
Can you please do The Penelopid by Margaret Atwood
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Seems to me like a woman who has been suffering from anxiety and post partum depression (if the baby is still alive) her husband is making things worse by keeping her locked up. It is about gaslighting, it's also about the ignorance to mental health. The mindset that the mentally ill should be locked up is very unhelpful.
Every time I listen to this the story gets more and more disturbing.
Jennifer has an innocent form of narration that adds to this poor blameless woman who only wants someone's love to her. Locked away so her husband can havw an again yet she still trusts him completely.
I am convinced she sees herself creeping and creeping outside with some other part of her consciousness acting the fool to distract from the truth.
Creeping and creeping outside - how disturbing.
I tried to listen again right now but there's some incredible sadness listening to this poor woman go mad that I just dont want to deal with.
All she needed was her and a longing husband who wont forsake her. I hope he goes mad as well when he sees her creeping about.
I dont like this story but I like video cause ur voice was nice
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