The Yellow Wallpaper By Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“The Yellow Wallpaper” is a semi- autobiography by author Charlotte Perkins Gilman who composed it after going through a severe postpartum depression. Gilman became involved in feminist activities and her committal to writing made her a great figure in the women's movement. Books such as “Women and Economics,” written in 1898, are cogent evidence of her importance as a women's liberationist. Here she states that women who learn to be economically independent can then create equality between men and women. She wrote other books such as “His Religion And Hers” which comprises around a religious belief liberated from the orders of oppressive patriarchic instincts. She also wrote “The Man-Made World” which is a feminist classic that contemplates
In 1886, early in her first marriage and shortly after the birth of her daughter, Gilman was struck with a severe case of depression which became her breaking point. In her 1935 autobiography, "The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman", she describes her weakness and her misery and how her condition was only made worse by the presence of her husband and her baby. She was referred a country’s greatest medical specialist in neurological disorder, who thought that such postnatal depressive disorder was contributed from immoderate mental activity and not sufficient care to home-style functions. Her Dr's treatment in this specified event was a “rest cure”. Gilman then wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper” to change society's mind about the purpose of women in society. She exemplifies how women’s lack of self-direction is damaging to their mental, emotional and even physical well being. This narration was revolutionized by her treatment from her first husband. The narrator in the story must do as her husband John, who is a physician, demands, although the treatment he orders counterpoints directly with what she truly needs (Moynihan
In her time, Gilman was known as a agitating diarist and women's rightist intellect. Gilman was concerned with governmental inequality and social justice as a whole, but the principal focal point of her writing was the unequalized status of women inside the foundation of marriage. In such works as “Women and Economics” “His Religion and Hers”, “The Man-Made World” and “Herland”, Gilman argued that women’s imprisonment to the domestic sector deprived them of the utterance of their entire abilities of creativeness and intelligence, while at the same time depriving society of women who were capable of having a professional and public life. A crucial component of her analysis was that the conventional hierarchy of the family made no one content, not the woman who was made into an amateur, not the husband who was made into a headmaster, and not the children who were subject to both. Her most aspirant work, Women and Economic), examined the buried value of women’s confinement within the competitive economic system. She debated, as she would throughout her influence, that financial independency for women could alone benefit society in general (Moynihan