Yellow Paper Reflection

The yellow wall paper was written in the 1800’s during that time women were vastly expected to serve their husband as housewives, not given the right to vote, make decision for themselves, work and even make enough money to support themselves. The husband is a doctor, while the wife suffers from severe mental illness. This is a husband who loves his wife and taught he was doing what was right to get her in a stable condition but unfortunately he made her become crazier, due to lack of stimulation. The Yellow Wall Paper symbolizes slowly tearing the walls of freedom for women.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman uses her short story “The Yellow Wall-Paper” to show how women undergo oppression by gender roles. Gilman does so by taking the reader through the terrors of one woman’s changes in mental state. The narrator in this story becomes so oppressed by her husband that she actually goes insane. The act of oppression is very obvious within the story “The Yellow Wall-Paper” and shows how it changes one’s life forever.

The geographical, physical, and historical settings in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" were more than the primary character could handle. The geography would lead to think she could enjoy the environment, but she chose not to. The physical setting showed us the reader just how grotesque and unbearable it would be to live a room in which the wallpaper to over the narrators mind. Lastly, we looked at how historically women were not allowed to speak their minds about how they felt. Maybe now that John has seen his wife go completely insane for himself he will finally seek extra attention for

The Yellow Paper is a symbolic story written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It is a disheartening tale of a woman struggling to free herself from postpartum depression. This story gives an account of an emotionally and intellectual deteriorated woman who is a wife and a mother who is struggling to break free from her metal prison and find peace. The post-partum depression forced her to look for a neurologist doctor who gives a rest cure. She was supposed to have a strict bed rest. The woman lived in a male dominated society and wanted indictment from it as she had been driven crazy by as a result of the Victorian “rest-cure.” Her husband made sure that she had a strict bed rest by separating her from her child by taking her to recuperate in

Traditionally, men have held the power in society. Women have been treated as a second class of citizens with neither the legal rights nor the respect of their male counterparts. Culture has contributed to these gender roles by conditioning women to accept their subordinate status while encouraging young men to lead and control. Feminist criticism contends that literature either supports society’s patriarchal structure or provides social criticism in order to change this hierarchy. “The Yellow Wallpaper”, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, depicts one women’s struggle against the traditional female role into which society attempts to force her and the societal reaction

“The Yellow Wall-paper” is an amazing story that demonstrates how close-minded the world was a little over a hundred years ago. In the late eighteen hundreds, women were seen as personal objects that are not capable of making a mark in the world. If a woman did prove to be a strong intellectual person and had a promising future, they were shut out from society. Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote her stories from experience, but added fictional twists along the way to make her stories interesting.

"The Yellow Wall-paper" is an amazing story that demonstrates how close-minded the world was a little over a hundred years ago. In the late eighteen hundreds, women were seen as personal objects that are not capable of making a mark in the world. If a woman did prove to be a strong intellectual person and had a promising future, they were shut out from society. Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote her stories from experience, but added fictional twists along the way to make her stories interesting.

The Road to Brown tells the story of the millions of nameless blacks who faced devastating hardships caused by Jim Crow, which simply robbed them of the rights granted by the 14th and 15th Amendments. Under the "separate but equal" doctrine of the Supreme Court's 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision, black citizens were denied the right to vote, to attend white schools, to be buried in white cemeteries, etc. Those who objected were liable to be lynched. The era of Jim Crow provoked men such as, Charles Houston to fight back for those who were unable.

To begin with, back in the late 1800’s women weren’t necessarily treated equally as men were. They were taught and told that they could not accomplish anything, to give up and surrender themselves to their husbands. It was so corrupt that even their thoughts would be kept to themselves because they were so afraid of their husbands to hear them.QUOTE. In this quote the narrator was ignored and told to stay in bed, regardless of what she thinks because like I said in this time period their opinions didn’t count. Men were over powered, they were the only gender to attend school and work in jobs. The narrator feels the struggle for all the women of where she lives, she notices that women can do just as much as men but the law permits women from doing anything at besides cooking and cleaning, even to fight to break the chain of control. Women were just tools; this is when the yellow wallpaper comes into play because it also symbolizes the mental

While reading one can study the societal and feminist aspects of “The Yellow Wallpaper” and how they have helped change our society in ways like informing people about post-partum depression and its serious outcomes if not treated properly. While reading another thing to aspect to understand is what was happening in the world at the time Charlotte Perkins Gilman published this story that made it so well known.

Since the conception of The Yellow Wallpaper individuals and social groups have gone to great lengths to give this piece of literature meaning to affirm their own ideology or world view. Each with their own reasons literature critics have dissected every word of this story. Reading between the lines to such an insurmountable extent that the core material has been made into a distorted theoretical version of itself. The endless supply of interpretation and application has not ceased to ground this work of fiction in reality. It has no value as a work fiction or a hypothetical situation and may as well be a historical account.

The 1860's-1890's was one of the most corrupted timelines throughout history. Women during that era can be easily compared to slaves and were controlled by the male gender. (Smith). "The yellow paper," was used as a tool for the author charlotte Gilman to express her experience as a female of the 1860's-1890's. She reflects on the oppression and struggles of women seeking freedom through the use of imagery, constant use of self-questioning and symbolism.

In "Monumental Feminism and Literature's Ancestral House: Another look at 'The Yellow Wallpaper'", Janice Peritz takes a deeper and more critical look at the short novel, "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. She argues about the content of feminism in the story and refrains from labeling it as monumental feminism. Some of her arguments include: The narrator's, Jane, co-dependency on her husband, her husband's, John, overwhelming demands of his wife, which she tries to accommodate to, and Jane losing her mind in a cell due to the way her husband treated her. Lastly, Peritz includes her personal opinion on what feminism truly is and encourages readers to cite Gilman as a model of feminism, not the main character. Peritz's point

This shows that Gilman wrote this break of mental health as result of masculine dismissal in order to bring attention to women’s words and understanding that anxiety related diseases must be considered in a different light. In the Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Karen Ford illustrates this, “There can be no doubt that the narrator dwells in the middle of Patriarchy. She is living in ‘ancestral halls’, has just given birth to a boy, is surrounded by men,” (Ford, 309). Even the character of Jennie works as a male force in that she carries out what John says in the caretaking of the narrator. It is important to recognize the isolation of the narrator; the narrator’s isolation kindles from contradictions in her mind between what she wants to do versus what everyone around her wants for her to do. “Every time the narrator speaks, she is interrupted and contradicted until she begins to interrupt and contradict herself. On the opening page she attempts to gain verbal leverage by vigorously

There have been multiple conceptions about “The Yellow Wallpaper” over the true significance of the story and it has been evaluated by many scholarly writers for several generations. The story was written by the poet Charlotte Perkins Gilman in the nineteenth-century and it conveyed ideas about symbolism, feminism and individualism. It provides the reader with her viewpoint on society’s subjugation of women by the patriarchal model that reserved power for men. The gender ideology stressed that women and men were to conform to distinctive roles where males were to handle being the breadwinner of the home and women were to conduct being the housekeeper. Also, women started to rebel against these expected norms of society, it began by women