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The Yellow Wallpaper By Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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The dignified journey of the admirable story “The Yellow Wallpaper” created by Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s, gave the thought whether or not the outcome was influenced by female oppression and feminism. Female oppression and feminist encouraged a series of women to have the freedom to oppose for their equal rights. Signified events in the story “The Yellow Wallpaper” resulted of inequality justice for women. Charlotte Perkins Gilman gave the reader different literary analysis to join the unjustifiable lifestyle the unidentified woman in “The Yellow Wallpaper” had to go through and escalated to insanity. Therefore, symbolism, irony, and foreshadowing help prove the unequal rights and escalating stigma of her mental disorder. During the era of the late nineteenth century, occurred a diplomatic system of society called patriarchy. The egoistic systematic organization empowered men to move freely while women have no choice but to feel imprisoned in their own household. Therefore, led men to decide what was best for their wives, such as, taking their postpartum wives into a treatment called rest cure. Nadkarni states “the text of women 's struggles against the patriarchal structures that constrict them” (2). The patriarchs strictly forbid any women to express their reliance towards men. However, feminist-identified female novelist heroine, because of their rebellion well to exploit women’s undesirable rights through their signified stories. Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow

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