Feminism In The Yellow Wallpaper By Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Feminism is defined as women have the same human, and social rights as men. In other words that women should have the same opportunities and chances as men in their choices with their career, and most importantly back in the day politics.
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is telling a story about a women struggling and going psychosis in a room. The book is happening during the time where men was known as better than women. The book uses metaphors to explain what’s being told. Charlotte Gilman used objects in the book (especially the wallpaper) portraying men, women, in 19 century time. In the story the women is kept in a room and supposedly sees another women trapped in the wallpaper but her husband (John) doesn’t believe her
Knight she writes "Every morning the same hopeless waking," she wrote in her diary, "the same weary drag. To die mere cowardice. Retreat impossible, escape impossible." Her dark thoughts turned to self-accusation and self-mortification. "You did it to yourself! You had health and strength and hope and glorious work before you--and you threw it all away," she angrily reproached her objectified "normal" self. "You were called to serve humanity and you cannot serve yourself. No good as a wife, no good as a mother, no good at anything. And you did it yourself!" Meanwhile, she nursed the baby ans, for five months, "instead of love and happiness, she felt "only pain...Nothing was more utterly bitter than this, that even motherhood brought no joy." (Knight, 85) After reading that passage you can see that Gilman did go through pain growing up. And maybe that’s the reason to writing The Yellow Wallpaper. Her life wasn’t easy at all, Charlotte and her sibling grew up in small/little home. They were poor, and it even says that in 18 years, Gilman and her family moved 19 times to 14 different cities. After she had married her husband Charles Stetson and gave birth to her daughter, she went into deep depression and the doctors told her to take the Rest Cure. And because of that treatment it led her to writing the Yellow Wallpaper. Gilman was known as a feminist, and her books had one thing in common,
The women behind the wallpaper is behind metal bars, meaning she is trapped and the bars are blocking her from her freedom. There were certain parts in the story where the women’s life was explained. The part when she didn’t understand the word phosphate, which shows that she was uneducated, in other words, women didn’t go to school and weren’t as educated as men were. “So I take phosphates or phosphites—whichever it is,” (Gilman, 648). The women in the story is known as a nice wife, who obeys everything the husband tells her to do. It is when the wallpaper was mentioned, the oppression of women was being explained. It is through small ways of wording she tries to tell us the wallpaper as a sign of authority. The bars are really what the woman wants to break open of. The light that shined through the window onto the wallpaper most likely represents the power of men. You can say that the without light there will be darkness, meaning without men women are nothing and can’t survive without men in their life. Women weren’t strong enough to voice their own opinion, and they’re mostly under the control of