What Effects Does Charlotte Perkins-Gilman Challenge Patriarchal
Subject: English A
In What Ways And With What Effects Does Charlotte Perkins Gilman Challenge Patriarchal Society In “The Yellow Wallpaper”, “Turned” And “If I Were A Man”?
Name: Roxana Aig-Bogun
Candidate number: 0018
Supervisor: Ms. Lambert
Word count: 3929
In What Ways And With What Effects Does Charlotte Perkins Gilman Challenge Patriarchal
Society In “The Yellow Wallpaper”, “Turned” And “If I Were A Man”?
This essay explores the ways in which Perkins-Gilman challenges patriarchal society in “The Yellow Wallpaper”, “Turned”, and “If I Were a Man” and the effects created. Perkins-Gilman was writing at a time when the early Suffragist movement was just starting up in 1892. Her collection of stories went against codified social conventions and her writings created awareness of female independence which called for emancipation from the male -dominated society as well as uproar in the establishment. By using the images of overlooked and everyday items and the motifs such as the wallpaper, allows the reader to get further insight to how women were restrained. Perkins-Gilman’s work was peculiar because she uses dramatic and situational ironies, to gain emotional sympathy …show more content…
Marroner, Mollie, the protagonist in “If I Were A Man”, does not have an education. She, unlike the other women, had an unusual experience of actually being a man. Her lack of academia, nonetheless, confirmed how men viewed women and how freedom was wanted by even a “true to type… woman… [who] was wishing heart and soul to be a man.”28 Whilst Mollie is indulging in her freedom, Perkins-Gilman uses another aspect of clothing- to reflect the social and physical restraints caused by patriarchal society that women were held bound in. As Mollie is transformed into a man (her husband, Gerald), she noted “At first it was a funny sense of size and weight an extra thickness, the feet and hands seemed strangely large, and her long straight free legs swung forward…”29
In What Ways And With What Effects Does Charlotte Perkins Gilman Challenge Patriarchal Society In “The Yellow Wallpaper”, “Turned” And “If I Were A Man”?
Name: Roxana Aig-Bogun
Candidate number: 0018
Supervisor: Ms. Lambert
Word count: 3929
In What Ways And With What Effects Does Charlotte Perkins Gilman Challenge Patriarchal
Society In “The Yellow Wallpaper”, “Turned” And “If I Were A Man”?
This essay explores the ways in which Perkins-Gilman challenges patriarchal society in “The Yellow Wallpaper”, “Turned”, and “If I Were a Man” and the effects created. Perkins-Gilman was writing at a time when the early Suffragist movement was just starting up in 1892. Her collection of stories went against codified social conventions and her writings created awareness of female independence which called for emancipation from the male -dominated society as well as uproar in the establishment. By using the images of overlooked and everyday items and the motifs such as the wallpaper, allows the reader to get further insight to how women were restrained. Perkins-Gilman’s work was peculiar because she uses dramatic and situational ironies, to gain emotional sympathy …show more content…
Marroner, Mollie, the protagonist in “If I Were A Man”, does not have an education. She, unlike the other women, had an unusual experience of actually being a man. Her lack of academia, nonetheless, confirmed how men viewed women and how freedom was wanted by even a “true to type… woman… [who] was wishing heart and soul to be a man.”28 Whilst Mollie is indulging in her freedom, Perkins-Gilman uses another aspect of clothing- to reflect the social and physical restraints caused by patriarchal society that women were held bound in. As Mollie is transformed into a man (her husband, Gerald), she noted “At first it was a funny sense of size and weight an extra thickness, the feet and hands seemed strangely large, and her long straight free legs swung forward…”29