Human Beings In The Yellowpaper By Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Human beings are some of the most complex living things on earth. So advanced that without some of the natural survival traits such as, the speed of a cheetah or the strength of a bear, we can still remain on the top of the food chain. This is quite remarkable. In this paper I will cover what I feel are 3 necessary distinctions which make humans uniquely different from all other living things on earth. These include, our unique biology, our superior mental capacity, and most definitely our cultural needs which all humans are known to require to one extent or another. I will begin by talking about how the human physical biology is different from that of most other species on earth. Modern day humans fall under the homo sapiens sapiens category,

I am referring to our social, cultural, and societal needs. For instance, the need to feel included, this in itself is not very scientific but every human has experienced once in their life the want to be involved in something more, whether it be a group function or a popular trend people are following. Humans need social interaction to survive and if they do not get this there can be negative implications on their health. In the book The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a woman is left alone locked in a room because it is thought that she had a mental disability, this isolation the women received in turn became the cause for her own mental disability. I chose to use this as an example because it shows the affects isolation can have on the human brain if it is not allowed to interact and be social with other living things. Humans feel the need to fit in socially and if not able to do that often times they will adapt and for themselves in a way that they can fit in with the culture they are a part of. Another piece of information I found interesting was the need for babies to be cared for by their parent years after they are born. It is seen other places in the animal kingdom where mothers give birth and abandon their young to fend for themselves, seen frequently in sea turtles, often having a low survival rate. This is another example that humans are a species which requires social interaction and depends on it to survive in the case of newborns at