Revolt Of A Mother Analysis

The Revolt of a “Mother” and the Yellow Wall-Paper contain an identical underlying theme — repression of women during the late 1800s and early 1900s. The Yellow Wall-Paper is written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and was originally published in 1892. Gilman’s novel represents the repression of women during the late 1800s. Next, the Revolt of a Mother is written by Mary E. Freeman, and was originally published in 1914. Freeman’s novel represents the repression of women during the early 1900s. The Yellow Wall-Paper tells the story of a woman who is diagnosed with a “nervous” disease. Because of the woman’s disease, she was locked in a room by her husband and was stripped of any outside activities. The Revolt of a Mother tells the story of an elderly wife, who lives in a rundown farmhouse. Her husband, a successful farmer in …show more content…
In the line, “Lucky that John kept me here after all, I can stand it so much easier than a baby, you see,” it is easily inferred that the narrator received minimal help with the baby. Now that narrator doesn’t have to care for the baby anymore, she is slightly more relaxed. After the narrator became ill, John, her husband, hired a nanny to watch the baby. Clearly, John didn’t want to watch the baby, so he hired another woman to care for the baby. During the late 1800s, men wanted to restrict women to certain roles, which also led to the mistreatment of many women. Third, the Gilman placed examples of mistreatment in her novel the Yellow Wall-Paper. An example of mistreatment follows:
“That was clever, for really I wasn 't alone a bit! As soon as it was moonlight and that poor thing began to crawl and shake the pattern, I got up and ran to help her. I pulled and she shook, I shook and she pulled, and before morning we had. peeled off yards of that paper. A strip about as high as my head and half around the room” (The Yellow Wall-Paper