Digital Story of Woman Character in Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper

Abstract

This article aims to describe the performance of the woman character as shown in the story and to reveal the achievement of obsession that the woman has obtained in the story. The analysis of the work has been carried out by using structuralism and a psychoanalysis approach from Freud’s theory and collaborate with creative digital illustration can be helped the readers understanding the story on digital illustration. The result of this analysis shows that woman character may appear to hold a less powerful role in society throughout Gilman’s work. The Yellow wallpaper is locked in a room by her ‘loving’ spouse, as a physician. The story centers on her need for an escape as the kind of remedy that is needed to cure her illness. She expresses her desire for an escape and hides from her spouse. In creative digital illustration of the story concept can be appeared into plot stories. The woman character can be shown on illustration using graphic design.