The Yellow Wallpaper And A Doll 's House

Today after much progress and contributions in history, Women are still struggling to be equals to her male counterparts. Often judged and seen as second-class citizens. The struggle continues still till this day. Two short stories that I have read that seem to have the same conflict that women struggle with everyday are “A Dolls House” by Henrik Ibsen and “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The stories are both similar in the sense of coming from a women’s perspective, as she finds herself through tribulations. The story also involves manipulative and controlling men who assert their so called assumed role as head of the family. However, perception comes into play when comparing and contrasting stories and in my opinion with regard to the overall impressiveness, effectiveness and distinctive merits the better story is “A Doll’s House.”

She has been trained to trust in her husband blindly and sees no other way. He calls her “little girl” (352) and “little goose” (349) and states “She will be as sick as she pleases!” (352) whenever she tries to express her issues. Instead of fighting for what she thinks will make her better she accepts it and keeps pushing her feelings aside, while he treats her like a child. We get an instant feel for her problem in the first page when she says, “John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that” (pg 346). A woman shouldn’t expect her husband to laugh at her concerns. Even after briefly writing about her condition she remembers her husband telling her the very worst thing she can do is think about it and follows his instructions. This is when she begins to focus on the house instead of her problems and the obsession with the wallpaper starts. She has nothing else to think about alone in the home; they don’t even allow her to write, which she has to do in secret.

Feminism has always been a highly feuded topic. The fight for equal rights began with the vote, and then went on to challenge systematic sexism women face in everyday life, and due to this many authors have set out to tackle this complicated, controversial topic. However, there were some that wrote about feminist issues without realizing it, such as Henrik Ibsen. In his play ‘A Doll’s House’ Henrik approaches the topic of marriage, gender roles within marriage, and whether a not a women becomes an extension of her husband once she is married; it brings about an interesting debate about women individuality in marriage. And by writing this, he caused a spark a debate that is still being held today. Henrik Ibsen’s ‘A Doll’s House’

While reading the Doll's house Henrik Ibsen by poem it had a strikingly similar theme to "the Yellow wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It was quite shocking that Doll's house was written by a man since the story seems to be told from the wife's point of view how she feels about how her husband value treats her. Both poems is about women rights but during this time period women's didn't have rights and was subject to their husband

In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the narrator, already suffering with Post-Partum Depression, is further constrained when her husband John prescribes her resting treatment for her illness. John clarifies that she must lie in bed in the same, enclosed room, refrain from using her imagination and especially abstain from writing. This, in turn, forces the narrator deeper into her

Throughout the madness displayed in “The Yellow wallpaper” and the disappearance of Nora at the end of “A doll’s house”, we could see both women are confined and controlled by their marriages, Nora from Henrik Ibsen's play “A Doll's House” and the narrator from Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" portray the negative treatment of women throughout society during the 19th century. These women long for the activity and stimulation, which they have been deprived of as the product of a society that puts women in the lowest division, and they resolve to triumph over their husbands and free their souls. Therefore, seeing these vast similarities’ in these stories when it comes to the husbands John from “The Yellow

In “The yellow wallpaper” the narrator described the condition of a woman that is a wife and a

In society, there has always been a gap between men and women. Women are generally expected to be homebodies, and seen as inferior to their husbands. The man is always correct, as he is more educated, and a woman must respect the man as they provide for the woman’s life. During the Victorian Era, women were very accommodating to fit the “house wife” stereotype. Women were to be a representation of love, purity and family; abandoning this stereotype would be seen as churlish living and a depredation of family status. Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" and Henry Isben’s play A Doll's House depict women in the Victorian Era who were very much menial to their husbands. Nora Helmer, the protagonist in A Doll’s House

Both the 1892 short story, ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ by Charlotte Perkins Stetson and the 1879 Norwegian play ‘A Dolls House’ by Henrik Ibsen, explore how the female protagonists are products of and are influenced by the harsh social conventions and expectations of their time. Both protagonists are constrained by the patriarchal society and the expectations of the wife of the late 1800s. Stenson challenges the audience’s response through the use of literary techniques including symbolism, to enhance the submission of the unnamed female narrator dealing with nervous depression. Conversely, Ibsen, through the use of theatrical techniques predominately stage directions and dramatic irony, to provoke audiences discuss the women’s abandonment of her marriage and motherly duties, something that still shocks contemporary viewers today.

The narrator in the novel “The Yellow Wallpaper ” and the main character, Lily, in the novel “The House of Mirth” are both women in the 19th century. They both face the gender roles driven by the society they live in. The gender politics imprison the women physically and mentally. While both women struggle to find their place in their gender roles, only the narrator survives, whereas, Lily falls victim to society and perishes.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wall-paper” serves as a perfect example of how women are treated in the 19th century. The distracting details both surrounding and filling the new house that the main character and her husband move into haunt her. Throughout the story, the main character, as she observes the house while in isolation, notices the true meaning in life, specifically for women. Gilman’s piece unveils the unfortunate requirements that women must meet in order to become accepted into society. The imagery and description of the house mentioned in “The Yellow Wall-paper” holds a much more symbolized sense reassuring the main character about women’s roles in life, according to humanity.

The nineteenth century revolutionized the roles of women by allowing them to further their education and contribute to literature. Feminism is seen in many classic literary works in the nineteenth century. The role of female characters has always been questioned in the male dominated world, which took females to serve as inspirations rather than creators. In Kate Chopin 's, The Awakening and Henrik Ibsen 's, A Doll House, the authors use their main characters to show the occurring changes of females in a male dominated society. Edna Pontellier and Nora Helmer explore their desires to find independence and live fully within themselves. The two housewives experience their awakenings similarly through their repressive husbands, their lack of motherliness, and their ultimate decision to leave their families. Although created by different authors, the two stories share many similarities implying feminism that are easily comparable through their sudden awakenings resulting in the independence of the women. They are both married, trapped by society’s rules rather than their own. Each has a distinct relationship with their family, yet their lack of devotion and true compassion towards their families parallel each other. This parallel is seen when both characters ultimately leave their families to start anew. Edna and Nora are both women ahead of their time that symbolize the few women that were capable to triumph over social standards to reach a life of greater fulfillment.

Henrik Ibsen's 1879 drama A Doll's House reflected the reality of "domestic isolation" a reality which, in 1959, would be portrayed in a televised adaptation across America. Ibsen's drama centered on a wife's isolation in the domestic sphere and her attempts to break out of that isolation. When compared to "A Nineteenth Century Husband's Letter to His Wife" (1844), which bears at least in essence the form of a real-life Nora-Torvald type of husband-wife relationship (one in which the husband fails to follow the Golden Rule or the Pauline principle, "Husbands, love your wives") Ibsen's stage drama may be seen as an accurate representation of an actual real-life drama unfolding around the world. Indeed, the cultural shift in 1960s America (which followed the 1959 televised production of the play) was rooted in the kind of isolation drama Ibsen depicted and in turn inspired the feminist doctrine of Betty Friedan. From Ibsen to Friedan, the end of "domestic isolation" may be traced, revealing a number of historical developments that presented new opportunities for women in society. This paper will examine how women's domestic isolation changed radically in the 20th century because of these various factors.

Henrik Ibsen’s, playwright, play of “A Doll House” is constructed around the view of feminism, woman’s rights. Joan

“The Yellow Wallpaper” is written from the perspective of a woman who is diagnosed by her physician-husband as having “a slight hysterical tendency.” The story is from her first-person perspective of this “temporary nervous depression.” Her husband John loves her, but is condescending: “He is very careful and loving and hardly lets me stir without special direction” (648). He calls her