Feminism In Charlotte Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper
The Charlotte Gilman’s short story book, “the Yellow Wallpaper,” is published 1892, is the diary of the protagonist, Jane. Her husband locks her in the yellow wallpaper room, which she does not like. By she is locked in the room, her madness is developing, even she creates the women, and Jane thinks that women is the great women, but could not unfold her power because of blockaded in wallpaper. So Jane rips the wallpaper to escape it. In this book, it contains many sources of the Gilman’s feminism. Gilman, who is the American feminist author, puts her mind and ideas into her books by the symbol. In her book, “the Yellow Wallpaper,” Gilman uses the feminism by symbolizing the protagonist, Jane, and the environment, especially the yellow wallpaper.
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As it was during her life and writing, the book could contain the first feminist wave of the United State. According to “United States History,” before this movement, the result of the Civil War gave African-American right to vote and also gave citizenship to African-American by the fourteenth and fifteenth Amendment during the Reconstruction, but, the women did not get anything from that, and it was the beginning of the first wave feminism in the United State (Lapsansky-Werner 293). As the African- American got their citizenship as the United States citizens, and the political power, voting right, after the Civil War, the women also wanted their political power as men. However, the women got any rights or other advantages, and it brought up that the women made the first wave feminism in the United States. In “Religious Thought: Feminist,”Saylors and Fulkerson notes that “while first wave feminism is characterized by its de jure approach to advocating for women's rights to citizenship and space in the political arena”(3), which meant that the first feminist wave of the United States was the Women’s right movement for the women’s right to citizenship and political power. The African- American wanted their rights so that became the part of the reasons of the
As it was during her life and writing, the book could contain the first feminist wave of the United State. According to “United States History,” before this movement, the result of the Civil War gave African-American right to vote and also gave citizenship to African-American by the fourteenth and fifteenth Amendment during the Reconstruction, but, the women did not get anything from that, and it was the beginning of the first wave feminism in the United State (Lapsansky-Werner 293). As the African- American got their citizenship as the United States citizens, and the political power, voting right, after the Civil War, the women also wanted their political power as men. However, the women got any rights or other advantages, and it brought up that the women made the first wave feminism in the United States. In “Religious Thought: Feminist,”Saylors and Fulkerson notes that “while first wave feminism is characterized by its de jure approach to advocating for women's rights to citizenship and space in the political arena”(3), which meant that the first feminist wave of the United States was the Women’s right movement for the women’s right to citizenship and political power. The African- American wanted their rights so that became the part of the reasons of the