The Struggle for Freedom in Yellow Wallpaper and Story of an Hour

The final similarity these two women share is the wanting to feel free. The woman in “The Yellow Wallpaper” feels that she is capable of doing what she wants to do when she says “Personally, I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change, would do me good. (Gilman)” With this she shows that not being able to work and have excitement would help improve her condition more than rest and medicine would. She also shows she wants to be free, with multiple examples of her seeing a woman “trapped” behind a wallpaper

  “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a symbolic tale of one woman’s struggle to break free from her mental prison.  Charlotte Perkins Gilman shows the reader how quickly insanity takes hold when a person is taken out of context and completely isolated from the rest of the world.  The narrator is a depressed woman who cannot handle being alone and retreats into her own delusions as opposed to accepting her reality.  This mental prison is a symbol for the actual repression of women’s rights in society and we see the consequences when a woman tries to free herself from this social slavery.

The stories of the Yellow Wallpaper and Story of an Hour are both stories that have deep meaning, and many hidden symbols. In both stories there is a woman who in some way is oppressed by some outside force and must find a way to overcome this oppression. While in both stories the main charcter goes through a different ordeal, The main theme behind these events are the same and the two experiences can compare to eachother. the events match in both women we oppressed by men and portrayed

Throughout history, women have struggled to be seen as equals and have had to fight for their freedom from the roles society placed upon them. Kate Chopin and Charlotte Perkins Gilman both use their literary works to show the challenges women went through, and how they battled for the freedoms they desperately wanted. “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a short story about a woman that goes to a summer home to rest and get well under the supervision of her husband who is also a physician. Her husband decided it would be best if she sat in a room alone and did nothing. In the end, she becomes insane and finally finds her freedom. “The Story of An Hour” is about, Mrs. Mallard, a woman who has just found out her husband has died. Mrs. Mallard

One similarity between the two works is the that we are limited on where we get our information. Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper,” we see everything through the eyes of the narrator. The entire story is told from her secret diary when she has the time to write as shown in the line, “I did write for a while in spite of them; but it does exhaust me a good deal-having to be so sly about it” (Gilman 527). Due to this, we can only make assumptions based on the information we get from her. She tells us she is in “A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate” (Gilman 526) and that she stays in “a big, airy room…It was a nursery first and then a playroom and gymnasium” (Gilman 527). However, once we reach the end of the story, with the

The story "The Yellow Wallpaper," by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is a story about control. In the late 1800's, women were looked upon as having no effect on society other than bearing children and keeping house. It was difficult for women to express themselves in a world dominated by males. The men held the jobs, the men held the knowledge, the men held the key to the lock known as society . . . or so they thought. The narrator in "The Wallpaper" is under this kind of control from her husband, John. Although most readers believe this story is about a woman who goes insane, it is actually about a woman’s quest for control of her life.

"The Yellow Wallpaper", by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and "The Story of an Hour", by Kate Chopin are two very similar stories. Both women were controlled by their husbands who caused them to feel an intense desire for freedom. However, the women in the stories had different life experiences and different reactions to their own freedom as a result of their different personalities.

The similarities that both showed how the women were under the complete control of their husband and had no property, money, or jobs. In the yellow wallpaper, the woman was suffering from post-partum depression or nervous condition how the author describes it. Her husband just wanted her to stay in bed all day

When comparing “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Stetson and “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin, many similarities are present between them. For example, both key characters are being faced with a struggling situation. In the “Yellow Wallpaper” the protagonist is a female as in “Sonny’s Blues” the protagonist is a male. Within both stories one of the main characters are being faced with neglect, being misunderstood, and a constant theme of the character feeling trapped in some situation in their life.

‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ is centred in the writer’s narration, by setting the narrator to be not entirely reliable and an oppressed woman. The character are showed to be feeling trapped and unhappy with

In “The Yellow Wallpaper”, “Story of An Hour” and “The Three Faces of Eve” the central theme is confinement by marriage and illness but freedom through unexpected ways. In these two stories the women are challenged by their husband's, friends, and trials that life throws at them. Eventually though they have their freedom.

When we compare contrast the two stories "The Yellow Wallpaper" vs. "The Story of an Hour”. If we first look at the similarities that they have, they are both about women who are controlled by their husbands, and who desired freedom. But both women had different reasons for their freedom. It sounds as though both husbands had control over their lives and both women had an illness. But I don’t believe the husbands knew their wives were so miserable. So as we look at the lives of women back in the 19th century time they have the stereotypical trend of being a house wife, staying at home taking care of kids, the house, and aiding the husband in his work. Being in charge of the household makes women have many responsibilities to take care of

In “The Yellow wallpaper”, the wallpaper is a metaphor that expresses women’s protest against the repression of the society and their personal identity at the rise of feminism. During the Victorian era, women were kept down and kept in line by their married men and other men close to them. "The Yellow Wallpaper", written By Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is a tale of a woman, her mental difficulties and her husband’s so called therapeutic treatment ‘rest cure’ of her misery during the late 1800s. The tale starts out in the summer with a young woman and her husband travelling for the healing powers of being out from writing, which only appears to aggravate her condition. His delusion gets Jane (protagonist), trapped in a room, shut up in a bed making her go psychotic. As the tale opens, she begins to imagine a woman inside ‘the yellow wallpaper’.

Narrator and Point of View in The Yellow Wallpaper and The Story of an Hour

According the Oxford dictionary liberation is defined as the action of setting someone free from imprisonment, slavery, or oppression; release. This word can be best represented in the symbolism in both short stories, Story of an Hour by Choppin and The Yellow Wallpaper by Gilman, but freedom for both the protagonist have very different meaning for what it means to be free is a very subjective term based on the cage in which restricts oneself to fill one 's desires. The two stories are similar in the way both women are oppressed by their husbands and how they both find a way to escape but both characters are being oppressed and different ways and I will be analyzing what means they are being oppressed and how they both find a way to escape their oppressors along with how this can be related in a lot of real life examples.