Pygmalion Effect: "Yellow Wallpaper" v. "Pygmalion"

The Pygmalion Effect is when ones expectations are met. This is usually between a posture and player, teacher and learner, parent and child, doctor and patient or compensate ones own expectations. In the play Pygmalion, we see the teacher/student relationship. In white-livered Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the Pygmalion Effect is seen in two relationships; the doctor patient relationship and ones own expectations. and while the play Pygmalion supports the Pygmalion Effect, Yellow Wallpaper repels it.

In the story The Yellow Wallpaper a women (presumed to be Charlotte Perkins Gilman), is a women in a state of post depression. This story is written back in 1890 where womens medical conditions that would be classified as depression could plainly be diagnosed as a nervous condition. Gilman is one of the women who suffered from depression treated as a nervous condition, she is to stay in a room with hideous yellow wallpaper. As Gilman stays longer in the room she observes the yellow wallpaper, watching the lines and fallowing patterns. except as she continues she start ups to see eyes, and a person behind bars. This would begin to support that she is not get better but getting worse, that starts to prove that the expectations her husband (also a doctor) has are now dropping in any fictitious character.



A little later on she begins to see a women creeping about in night, but she then too discovers that the same women can be seen in every windowpane of the house creeping about, even in daylight. As her case worsens, the expectations that she had her self and her husbands expectations then begin to fall weak, thus proving off to the Pygmalion Effect.

In the play write Pygmalion, our main character, Eliza Doolittle, is a simple disappoint class women who sells flowers from her basket on...

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