Much Madness Is Divinest Sense, and The Yellow Wallpaper are similar in the exploration of oppressive reality because Dickinson’s uses the idea of madness to refer to the chains of society placed on women and imposed gender roles. However, they differ as a mental illness in The Yellow Wallpaper acts as an effect of a nonchalant approach towards women, while Madness of Dickinson directly refers to this oppression.
Read “Much Madness Is Divinest Sense” by Emily Dickinson. How does the view of madness in this poem compare to “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Gilman?
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