In early centuries the society was patriarchal. Women were housebound. They were expected to stay home, take care of the children, and teach the children. The males had jobs, they took care of the financial needs, and was the head of the household. Mental illness was seen as a sign of weakness. Men were hardly ever diagnose with an illness. Women were the ones who were more prone to assimilate mental illness such as depression. Mental illnesses were not taken seriously. The treatment was usually bed rest. Men are strong headed and when making diagnosis they do not take emotions ever so slightly. The difference between men and women when it came to mental illness was their standing in values. Because of women being home all the time and giving
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Cruea once stated “’Feminism,’ as we know the term today, was nonexistent in nineteenth-century America” ("Changing Ideals of Womanhood during the Nineteenth-Century Woman Movement", 187). In today’s society, the word feminism gets thrown around every which way. It has become a very populace word. Women in early centuries did not have many rights; however, today’s women have many rights. In “The Yellow Wallpaper” it states “If a physician of high standing, and one’s own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression- a slight hysterical tendency- what is one to do?” (Gilman, 956). What should one do if a physician convinces that there is nothing wrong? Between a man and a woman, the man has always seem as the stronger and smarter beings. That is why the women usually stayed home doing the house work. Men went on to school and finding jobs because they were superior to …show more content…
Bak stated “[She] is successful in freeing herself from her male-imposed shackles” (Escaping the Jaundiced Eye: Foucauldian Panopticism in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”, 39). The woman in “The Yellow Wallpaper”, at the end of the story she found her sanity; even though, she had been given the wrong treatment (Bak, 39). Later we found out that she came back to sanity with the help of her friend (Why I Wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper”, 968). The friend told her to live a normal life, go explore, go back to work, and do normal everyday activities. Unlike this friend, the physician before had her on a tight schedule of just bed rest (Why I Wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper”, Charlotte Perkins Gilman,
Cruea once stated “’Feminism,’ as we know the term today, was nonexistent in nineteenth-century America” ("Changing Ideals of Womanhood during the Nineteenth-Century Woman Movement", 187). In today’s society, the word feminism gets thrown around every which way. It has become a very populace word. Women in early centuries did not have many rights; however, today’s women have many rights. In “The Yellow Wallpaper” it states “If a physician of high standing, and one’s own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression- a slight hysterical tendency- what is one to do?” (Gilman, 956). What should one do if a physician convinces that there is nothing wrong? Between a man and a woman, the man has always seem as the stronger and smarter beings. That is why the women usually stayed home doing the house work. Men went on to school and finding jobs because they were superior to …show more content…
Bak stated “[She] is successful in freeing herself from her male-imposed shackles” (Escaping the Jaundiced Eye: Foucauldian Panopticism in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”, 39). The woman in “The Yellow Wallpaper”, at the end of the story she found her sanity; even though, she had been given the wrong treatment (Bak, 39). Later we found out that she came back to sanity with the help of her friend (Why I Wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper”, 968). The friend told her to live a normal life, go explore, go back to work, and do normal everyday activities. Unlike this friend, the physician before had her on a tight schedule of just bed rest (Why I Wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper”, Charlotte Perkins Gilman,