Of Mice And Men Femininity Analysis
How is the idea of femininity explored in The Yellow Wallpaper and Of Mice and Men?
Throughout Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper and John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men the idea of femininity is mainly explored through protagonists who don’t fit the expected roles of the time. The respective authors provide the readers with an understanding of how women were labelled as crazy or troublesome through the symbolism of colour in both texts. The futility of the women’s dreams and that their only purpose was domesticity; is portrayed through the use of dialogue, and narration. The reader also gains an insight into the isolation that occurs when women felt they did not fit into their traditional idealist roles thrust upon them in their respective societies. This is shown through dialogues and epistolary. Both authors use techniques to communicate the ideas of femininity in each text.
In both texts symbolism displays that women are labelled if they do not fit the domestic sphere. In Of Mice and Men Steinbeck consistently uses the colour red to describe Curley’s wife. In the initial description of Curley’s …show more content…
The perception of women in of Mice and Men is shown through the symbolism of colour red to portray danger, likewise in the Yellow Wallpaper through the symbolism of the colour yellow to show how the narrator was supposed to be happy but was not. Curley’s wives dialogue and the narrator’s narration and symbolism allows us to see how they were both trapped by the confinements of the domestic sphere. The loneliness and isolation these women suffered was shown through the narrators her desperate attempt at communication through her journal entries and Curley’s wives honest dialogue. The overall idea of femininity explored in both texts is that if women do not fit the domestic sphere, they do not have a place in
Throughout Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper and John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men the idea of femininity is mainly explored through protagonists who don’t fit the expected roles of the time. The respective authors provide the readers with an understanding of how women were labelled as crazy or troublesome through the symbolism of colour in both texts. The futility of the women’s dreams and that their only purpose was domesticity; is portrayed through the use of dialogue, and narration. The reader also gains an insight into the isolation that occurs when women felt they did not fit into their traditional idealist roles thrust upon them in their respective societies. This is shown through dialogues and epistolary. Both authors use techniques to communicate the ideas of femininity in each text.
In both texts symbolism displays that women are labelled if they do not fit the domestic sphere. In Of Mice and Men Steinbeck consistently uses the colour red to describe Curley’s wife. In the initial description of Curley’s …show more content…
The perception of women in of Mice and Men is shown through the symbolism of colour red to portray danger, likewise in the Yellow Wallpaper through the symbolism of the colour yellow to show how the narrator was supposed to be happy but was not. Curley’s wives dialogue and the narrator’s narration and symbolism allows us to see how they were both trapped by the confinements of the domestic sphere. The loneliness and isolation these women suffered was shown through the narrators her desperate attempt at communication through her journal entries and Curley’s wives honest dialogue. The overall idea of femininity explored in both texts is that if women do not fit the domestic sphere, they do not have a place in