yellow wallpaper and feminism
Ladan Abdullahi
“The Yellow Wallpaper” and Feminism
Feminism is a movement in which women fought for equal social, political and economical rights as men. A feminist text usually has a woman in a male dominated society struggling against misogynistic ideologies and social norms in a patriarchal society. ‘’The Yellow Wallpaper’’ is an archetype of a feminist text. ‘’ The Yellow Wallpaper’’ is about a woman’s journey slowly descending into madness by her controlling physician husband. The story is told through the main character, who is never named. The main character develops a morbid obsession with the wallpaper in her room. She starts dissecting the patterns she sees in the wallpaper, and discovers the presence of a woman that is trapped inside the wallpaper. The main character, whilst suffering from a nervous breakdown, tears down the wallpaper in her room. The expectations and limited resources women were given during the nineteenth century were among the influences that led Charlotte Gillman to write this text. Charlotte Gillman’s personal experiences and the time period in which she lived influenced her to write ‘’ The Yellow wallpaper’’ in which she communicated the universal truth that women were not considered equal in society during the nineteenth century.
The societal expectations set for women at the height of the Victorian era influenced Charlotte Gillman to convey the universal truth that women were not considered equal in the nineteenth century. During her lifetime, the author suffered from post partum depression as well as a nervous condition. The author wanted to protect her daughter, and did not feel as if she would be the kind of mother her child deserves. As a result, Charlotte Gillman deviated social standards that women upheld. ‘’ She divorced her husband in 1894, and, after his remarriage shortly thereafter to one of her close friends, she sent her daughter to live with them. The entire affair was the subject of scandalized public
“The Yellow Wallpaper” and Feminism
Feminism is a movement in which women fought for equal social, political and economical rights as men. A feminist text usually has a woman in a male dominated society struggling against misogynistic ideologies and social norms in a patriarchal society. ‘’The Yellow Wallpaper’’ is an archetype of a feminist text. ‘’ The Yellow Wallpaper’’ is about a woman’s journey slowly descending into madness by her controlling physician husband. The story is told through the main character, who is never named. The main character develops a morbid obsession with the wallpaper in her room. She starts dissecting the patterns she sees in the wallpaper, and discovers the presence of a woman that is trapped inside the wallpaper. The main character, whilst suffering from a nervous breakdown, tears down the wallpaper in her room. The expectations and limited resources women were given during the nineteenth century were among the influences that led Charlotte Gillman to write this text. Charlotte Gillman’s personal experiences and the time period in which she lived influenced her to write ‘’ The Yellow wallpaper’’ in which she communicated the universal truth that women were not considered equal in society during the nineteenth century.
The societal expectations set for women at the height of the Victorian era influenced Charlotte Gillman to convey the universal truth that women were not considered equal in the nineteenth century. During her lifetime, the author suffered from post partum depression as well as a nervous condition. The author wanted to protect her daughter, and did not feel as if she would be the kind of mother her child deserves. As a result, Charlotte Gillman deviated social standards that women upheld. ‘’ She divorced her husband in 1894, and, after his remarriage shortly thereafter to one of her close friends, she sent her daughter to live with them. The entire affair was the subject of scandalized public