Feminism Isn’t a Bad Thing? Joanna Rowling wrote the infamous Harry Potter books under the name “JK Rowling.” She did this because she felt young boys would not want to read her books if they knew it was written by a woman. Women have lived with this scourge since the dawn of time, with evidence slipping into American literature in the eighteenth century with letters written from Abigail Adams to John Adams, requesting to “remember the ladies” when applying rights to the people of the USA. Feminism is the tenet of women’s rights on social, political, and economic issues. Feminism in Literature has an emphasis on gender roles, and women being “weak” or “dumb” and not qualified for having an opinion. Feminism has evolved in society, with once
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John moves her into a bedroom with a repulsive yellow wallpaper, and rubs off any thoughts of uneasiness given from his wife, as their young child has taken the other room, and it would be too much of an inconvenience to supply the wishes of the wife. Eventually, the yellow wallpaper disturbs the narrator enough to where a woman is now visible, taunting the wife of the freedom she doesn’t have. The wife determines that the woman is inside the wallpaper, and by freeing the woman, she will be freed of her captivity. At the end of the story, the wife destroys the wallpaper, and “creeps” around the room, scaring John to the point of fainting, and is freed. Gilman writes “Still I will proudly declare that there is something queer about it… John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage” (ll 5-7). John demurred the comment of uneasiness, blaming the illness as the culprit of the absurd thoughts the narrator has. Throughout the story, John dismisses his wife’s thoughts and actions. The wife pities herself more, as she is unable to please her husband. The husband felt as though he knew more about the wife than the wife did, and refuses to accept the wife’s insight on getting better. Feminism isn’t a topic open for discussion during this time period, as the woman is left to her own thoughts, receiving ineffective help, and becoming mentally insane. “The Yellow Wallpaper” is an example of feminism in the late 1890’s, as it provides understanding with what happens when women are told to keep their thoughts to
John moves her into a bedroom with a repulsive yellow wallpaper, and rubs off any thoughts of uneasiness given from his wife, as their young child has taken the other room, and it would be too much of an inconvenience to supply the wishes of the wife. Eventually, the yellow wallpaper disturbs the narrator enough to where a woman is now visible, taunting the wife of the freedom she doesn’t have. The wife determines that the woman is inside the wallpaper, and by freeing the woman, she will be freed of her captivity. At the end of the story, the wife destroys the wallpaper, and “creeps” around the room, scaring John to the point of fainting, and is freed. Gilman writes “Still I will proudly declare that there is something queer about it… John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage” (ll 5-7). John demurred the comment of uneasiness, blaming the illness as the culprit of the absurd thoughts the narrator has. Throughout the story, John dismisses his wife’s thoughts and actions. The wife pities herself more, as she is unable to please her husband. The husband felt as though he knew more about the wife than the wife did, and refuses to accept the wife’s insight on getting better. Feminism isn’t a topic open for discussion during this time period, as the woman is left to her own thoughts, receiving ineffective help, and becoming mentally insane. “The Yellow Wallpaper” is an example of feminism in the late 1890’s, as it provides understanding with what happens when women are told to keep their thoughts to