The Yellow Wallpaper By Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The story “Yellow Wallpaper” very strongly confirms to the restricted position of women in patriarchal society. It clearly depicts how women are subjected to the male oppression within the very household. They have been kept away from any intellectual activity, like writing, for males do not believe in the genius of female authorship. By the ending of the story Gilman aims to present that how in the male-dominating system there is no satisfying place for women to live. As a result of her gender, she has to be submissive to male’s wishes and orders. Charlotte Perkins Gilman presents the heroine who cannot find her own role within society created by men. She presents her heroine within the same surroundings where she is forbidden to write in
She takes a mad heroine whose insanity gives her the strength to assert herself which in turn sanity would not ever be able to give her. Gilman's proposes that women can achieve such status that they deserve, but that they must first see truthfully their “restricted” surroundings, unlike Jennie, and then drive into “madness” to overcome it. Society says that the narrator of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" is mad, but it is exactly this madness that gives her the strength to destroy her husband's authority over her. She knew her voice would not find its way in sanity as it will be shut down by the society, but ‘madness’ is something that people would not dare to confront with. Though the narrator drives completely to insanity at the end but her insanity brings success to her. It clearly justifies the statement that ‘insanity demonstrates rebellion’. Thus, Gilman showcases the situation and predicament of 19th century women through the “creeping women” who had to creep in daylight in secrecy so that no one sees them and makes an attempt to free herself at night. The narrator in@her/ creeping! state@would not be# accepted *by society, %it is $true, but &she is*creeping #towards freedom,&and ?society is