The Yellow Wallpaper Male Dominance Essay

In “The Yellow Wallpaper” Charlotte Perkins Gilman depicts an anonymous woman whose role in society is limited. During the time period Gilman wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper” women roles in society were limited due to male dominance. Male dominance had a negative effect on women. Since males were the dominant leaders of this time period women did not have a voice. The voice of women was allocated through the mouth of males due to the male dominance. In the story “The Yellow Wallpaper” imagery, allegory, symbolism, and irony, Gilman expresses how a woman’s role in society is restricted and her ability to express herself has limitations due to male dominance. In the story Gilman speaks out on the excessive power that men have over their wives. Male dominance played a vital role in what women could and could not do. In the story Gilman portrays the limitations that a woman to keep them at a constant state. The authority that men had placed women with a
“Don’t like to look out of the windows even there are so many of those creeping women, and they creep so fast. I wonder if they all come out of that wall-paper as I did?” (Gilman 653). In this quote the wife wonders if the woman in the wallpaper that were trap faced the same struggles that she faced. In order for the wife to be content she continued to rip and peel the wallpaper to find out the mystery and wondered if the women trapped in the wallpaper did the same. By questioning if the women trapped behind the wallpaper faced the same struggles she faced, the wife comes to realization that the women trapped was just an image of herself. The wife and the women that were trapped behind the wallpaper represented a home in which they were prisoners. The women are considered prisoners in their own home because they had no say so or a way to be themselves. By peeling the wallpaper and creeping it allowed the women to be