Comparing Trifles And The Yellow Wallpaper
Women's equality is an ongoing social issue plaguing interpersonal relationships. In response to the injustice, authors Susan Glaspell and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, created stories that show how women are belittled and restricted of freedoms and decision making. Glaspell's play, Trifles, and Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper", are two comparative examples. These works show how females are tolerated only for their gender stereotyped tasks, and how their identities are contingent on their relationships to men, despite the male character's negligence.
• Brief Summary of trifles
• Brief summary of The Yellow Wallpaper
The female characters in these two works were restricted of their rights for identity freedom. The 19th century was renowned for …show more content…
There is a strong depiction of irony regarding this ideology in both works. Glaspell makes a clearly ironic jab at this patriarchal belief with Mrs. Peter's and Mrs. Hale's husbands, the sheriff and the _, whose sole responsibility it was to find Mrs. Wright's motive for the homicide had no significant role in the resolution. Glaspell makes a point to elaborate on what clearly differentiated women from men in the male depiction of gender roles in Trifles.
It could be seen as ironic that the narrator of The Yellow Wallpaper is well aware of the cure for her depression while her physician husband is who ultimately drives her into her psychosis. The narrator secretly journals and finds ways to creatively express herself to help ease some of her illness' burden. [Insert quote "secret journal"]. The narrator is well aware through the entirety of the story that her husband's treatment is in fact not a treatment at all.
As both literatures come to a close it becomes very clear that the conclusion both these women come to is the need to escape from being trapped in these marriages and would require means of some extremity. For Mrs. Wright it was the murder of her husband after she found that he had snapped the neck of the songbird, the only remaining piece of her he had yet to take
• Brief Summary of trifles
• Brief summary of The Yellow Wallpaper
The female characters in these two works were restricted of their rights for identity freedom. The 19th century was renowned for …show more content…
There is a strong depiction of irony regarding this ideology in both works. Glaspell makes a clearly ironic jab at this patriarchal belief with Mrs. Peter's and Mrs. Hale's husbands, the sheriff and the _, whose sole responsibility it was to find Mrs. Wright's motive for the homicide had no significant role in the resolution. Glaspell makes a point to elaborate on what clearly differentiated women from men in the male depiction of gender roles in Trifles.
It could be seen as ironic that the narrator of The Yellow Wallpaper is well aware of the cure for her depression while her physician husband is who ultimately drives her into her psychosis. The narrator secretly journals and finds ways to creatively express herself to help ease some of her illness' burden. [Insert quote "secret journal"]. The narrator is well aware through the entirety of the story that her husband's treatment is in fact not a treatment at all.
As both literatures come to a close it becomes very clear that the conclusion both these women come to is the need to escape from being trapped in these marriages and would require means of some extremity. For Mrs. Wright it was the murder of her husband after she found that he had snapped the neck of the songbird, the only remaining piece of her he had yet to take