What Is The Role Of Feminism In The Yellow Wallpaper

Women have been a silent part for the majority of human history, playing on background roles in major events, the credit for their work is given to others, and their thoughts and feelings are not considered to be of importance. This has changed for the better in Western Society with the rise of feminist movements where women studies have become popular in the last few decades. Now at last some light is being shed on women’s active roles. “Feminism is no longer a term that’s used to enable or empower women” by Hillary Clinton. Hillary referrers to Donald Trump who is known for condescending women by criticizing their physical appearance. However, in “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perking Gilman, this is not the case. The story details the breakdown of Else who has placed herself in a weak position in in relation to her dominant husband John. Nevertheless, as her husband and as her physician, John makes all of the narrator’s decisions for her, which really aggravates her, since she wants to be an individual. John treated her this way because that’s how men of the time addressed such problems in their wives. When she lost her outer reality, she gained her inner reality, with her inner reality she figured out the pattern behind the wallpaper.