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    society? Charlotte Perkins-Stetson’s short story The Yellow Wallpaper illustrates how trapped women felt in the oppressive society they lived in. The narrator lived in a haunted house setting and got through it by writing in a symbolic journal‚ but eventually went a little mad and started seeing a symbolic woman behind the wallpaper. By examining the setting of the ‘haunted house’‚ the symbolism of her journal‚ and the symbolism of the woman behind the wallpaper one can see that the narrator feels

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    room and the foreboding mood implied by the language used to describe it‚ clearly points out isolation as the cause to instability. Jane‚ the mentally unstable narrator of the story‚ is forced to stay in a vacation home in order to get better or so her husband hopes. Jane hates the room she stays in and especially the wallpaper‚ being left alone by her husband she just stares at it‚ “The color is hideous enough‚ and unreliable enough‚ and infuriating enough‚ but the pattern is torturing”. This figurative

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    is a much bigger issue than most realize in the world and needs much more focus than it is being given. The short stories‚ “The Yellow Wallpaper”‚ along with “The Story of an Hour”‚ and the “Ray Rice Articles”‚ all give examples of how feminism writing has impacted the world. These writings compose a story of how the women were treated and still are treated today. As stated in the stories by Gilman and Chopin‚ their feminist writing emphasizes on the fact that women are being treated inhumanely by

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    The storyYellow 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‚

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    “The Yellow Wallpaper”‚ elaborates on this idea of how mental health is correlated to a provocative environment. She writes about a woman who had been kept in solitude to cure her postpartum depression and through this she loses her wellness. The story demonstrates how‚ oftentimes‚ intellectual progression keeps us grounded and stable giving us the ability to be aware of ideas beyond ourselves. Gilman presents that a strictly consistent schedule can not only

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    before themselves. The threes stories “The Yellow Wallpaper”‚ “The Story of an Hour”‚ and “Silk Stockings” are all examples that reveal some of the sexism during this time. The three stories compare and contrast in many different ways. Each story expressed how life was as a woman‚ their struggles‚ and even what was going on in their minds. Each story has a different perspective and the readers may have a different perspective as well‚ but this essay will be about the stories comparisons from a girl’s

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    The Haunting In the “The Yellow Wallpaper‚” Charlotte Gilman writes about a woman who sees herself in a haunting wallpaper and she wants to be free‚ and the struggle between her and John. John treats her like she is his child instead of his wife. By any man treating their wife like John does will drive her insane. That is exactly what John did‚ drove his wife crazy enough to make her want to stay in her room‚ lay in the bed‚ and stare at the wallpaper. Her husband does not treat her right‚ talks

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    husbands and times of the women in ìThe Crysanthemumsî and ìThe Yellow Wallpaper.î The wife‚ Elisa‚ in ìThe Crysanthemumsî‚ reflects an internal struggle with herself to find her place in a world of definite gender roles. ìThe Yellow Wallpaperî traces the treatment of a woman who descends from depression to madness in the male-imposed psychiatric confinement of her room. The mirror-like situations that hinder the protagonists in both stories call the women to conduct themselves in demeanors drastically

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    as viewing women as objects‚ property and “do alls” for men‚ was exhibited in the literature of that time. In the short story‚ “The Yellow Wallpaper”‚ by Charlotte Perkins Gilman‚ she shows the views of women in her time period by; her explanation of undiagnosed postpartum depression‚ views of isolation‚ and the showing the men in her main character’s life. Throughout most of the story the audience witnesses‚ the daily struggles the main character faces in the point of her life that she is in‚ what

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    Charlotte Perkins Gillman’s gothic tale of “The Yellow Wallpaper” took nearly a century to finally find an understanding audience. Initially‚ readers at the time were struck by its grisly tale of a story; however it was not until years later that the story was recognized for its thematic societal undertones hinted with feminist connotations underneath its façade. Written in first person‚ the reader gets to witness first-hand through the eyes of the narrator in her path to insanity‚ rather than from

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