Nicole Poirier English 102-004 Dr. Bruce Magee February 7, 2014 The Yellow Wallpaper: Oppression of Women in the Nineteenth Century The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is an American short story written at the end of the nineteenth century. This is a story of a woman who has been shut off from the rest of the world as a cure to her neurasthenia, a disease relatable to what is known as depression today. The Yellow Wallpaper was written as an attack on the ineffective cruel treatment of the “rest cure”, which the author had to suffer through herself. The parallels between Gillman’s experience and the narrator’s, as women of the nineteenth century, are evident in this story. Women’s reality, such as Gilman’s, in this time period was being a submissive wife with few rights in society.
Carol Becker Sociological Criticism 2/11/13 Transformation of a Woman The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is all about the oppression of women, how to overcome it, and become an individual with a voice. This story takes us on the journey of a young, child-like woman diagnosed with a "temporary nervous depression" who is "absolutely forbidden to work." Of course when speaking of "work", it is not the typical idea we think of today. Women during that time were to be domestic types, take care of the husband and house. Be seen, but not heard.
She took tragidies in her life, and turned them into great literary peices of work. As the same with Shirly Jackson. She expiernced hear break at a young age. Thats why many of her literary works were often dark and moody. She often exprienced "periods of unhappiness and questioning the loyalty of her friends" witch became her motivation to really begin writing.
Rick James Donna Tantalo English 101 6 Dec 20 Research Paper Why Hall’s written Burdens Benefit her and her Readers Meredith Hall embeds unpleasant experiences, unhealthy relationships, strenuous moments of transition and the insight she has acquired onto her autobiographical narratives. Hall discloses private pain in her narratives in order to cope with horrid recollections and keep them from jarring at her memory. Hall’s writing does not only empower herself but the reader as well. Halls written memories relate situations in which she has felt lost and alone. Readers, particularly women of all ages feel encouraged because Hall’s narratives are relatable.
The Use of Feminism in the Yellow Wallpaper “I don't like to look out of the windows even – there are so many of those creeping women, and they creep so fast. I wonder if they all come out of that wallpaper as I did?” the woman she was seeing behind the wallpaper was herself. She was the one “stooping and creeping.” The Yellow Wallpaper was written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. In the story, three characters are introduced, Jane (the narrator), John, and Jennie. The Yellow Wallpaper is story from the mind and emotions of a woman suffering from a mental illness.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper,” using the unreliable narrator which makes the story more engaging. Gilman’s famous short story had a lot to do with her own personal life and how she suffered from postpartum depression. The setting and theme of Gilman’s story were unbelievable and makes the short story more exhilarating. The narrator in the short story was unreliable. Gilman told the story from her own point of view; the reader cannot trust what to believe.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman was active in several feminist and reformist organizations in the late eighteen hundreds: “she proposed revolutionary rearrangements of domestic life to free women for work outside the home.” (p.204), she was truly a brave woman of her age. Gilman reflects her own mental illness and domestic imprisonment through the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper”. At the beginning of the story, the wife and husband’s relationship seems normal and appealing, but then you learn about the woman’s sickness. This implies that their relationship and husbands support may not be as wonderful as it first seems, because having a good social support from family and friends increasingly helps reduce the seriousness of postpartum depression. Although ten to fifteen percent of women can suffer from postpartum depression the eighteen nineties was an age in which men would normally see women as hysterical and nervous; therefore when a woman claimed to be very ill after having a child, men would simply tell them to sleep it off and dismiss them for “there is really nothing the matter” (p.205).
In “Pathedy of Manners” by Ellen Kay, the character seems to represent lack of satisfaction, lost opportunity and regret. The poem paints for the readers, an image of a girl that had it all. She was Phi Beta Kapa in college, smart, pretty and sought after by men. She even went on to get married, “They had an ideal marriage and ideal but lonely children in an ideal house.” This shows that the children were not given much attention. Not even the children are happy in the “ideal house.” Later the poem says: “I saw her yesterday at forty-three, her children gone, her husband one year dead, toying with plots to kill time and re-wed illusions of lost opportunity."
It isn’t an easy ride to get a job or just live a normal life. But in the story “Papa Who Wakes up Tired” the little girl realized that her father isn’t as strong as she thought. She saw him crying and she was confused because she always thought that he was a big, tough guy who would protect her, but instead he was crying because of his fathers’ death. Their similar because in both works their both going through some type of pain or struggle in their lives. Well, in the story it was accidental that the little girl saw her father crying, but on the
She longs to have someone to talk to, yet she gets restricted by her brutish husband. She does not love her husband, but she appears to be looking for him most of the time in the novel, because it is her only excuse for going to the bunk