Gender inequality and biases have evidently impacted the fundamentals cultures globally, hindering women and girls from reaching their full potential in society. It is through networking that people are able to connect with influential leaders who inspire others with their strong opinions to opt for a change in order for women to be recognized in society. Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an early feminist, author and sociologist, born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1860, who encouraged women to gain independence, after suffering acute post-partum depression. Gilman was raised by her mother, Mary Perkins, and her influential aunts, after her father Frederic Beecher abandoned her at a young age. Gilman was adamant not lead the life of traditional women
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Gilman’s education at a designer school made her capable to secure a job as a commercial artist as established, “she attended the Rhode Island School of Design in 1878–79 […] enabled her to earn money as a commercial artist […] Charlotte agreed to marry him [Charles Walter Stetson a young artist]” (Edles and Appelrouth, 196). Gilman was equally capable of securing a role as an artist, a position as good as her husband’s. Gilman, solely practiced the suffrage movement, as a role model for women to comprehend that women can also have an education, be involved in politics, hold male equivalent occupation and play active sports. Women were able to demonstrate characteristics common in men such as being courageous, liberated, coherent and forceful. In the “The Yellow Wallpaper”, the main character Jane who was always socially isolated and subdued to her husband control, finally breaks free of the traditional values, compliance, and obedience that has shaped the women’s role in a traditional society. Jane used the wallpaper’s image to show the behavior of the indistinct figure that, “seemed to shake the pattern, just as if she wanted to get out […] then I peeled off all the paper I reach standing on the floor” (Gilman). Gilman emphasizes that the further …show more content…
The Victorian era was structured that women were to equate their marriage as a fulltime career, handle their motherly duties as well as be able to look after their husband’s needs, without having the right make choices or voice opinions. Any women who failed these responsibilities were punished and had to suffer in silence instead of being given the opportunity to cure themselves. In the “The Yellow Wallpaper”, Gilman illustrates the gothic elements, motifs through the setting and madness of staying confined to one room. The protagonist Jane states, “[the] ancestral halls […] a colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house […] at night in any kind of light, in twilight, candle light, lamplight, and worst of all by moonlight, it becomes bars! The outside pattern I mean, and the woman behind it is as plain as can be. […] The only thing I can think of that it is like is the COLOR of the paper! A yellow smell. […] I kept on creeping just the same, but I looked at him over my shoulder. ‘I've got out at last,’ said I, ‘in spite of you and Jane. And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back!” (Gilman). Thus, the gothic elements emphasize the troubled heroine trapped in a world of her own suffering in silence under her
Gilman’s education at a designer school made her capable to secure a job as a commercial artist as established, “she attended the Rhode Island School of Design in 1878–79 […] enabled her to earn money as a commercial artist […] Charlotte agreed to marry him [Charles Walter Stetson a young artist]” (Edles and Appelrouth, 196). Gilman was equally capable of securing a role as an artist, a position as good as her husband’s. Gilman, solely practiced the suffrage movement, as a role model for women to comprehend that women can also have an education, be involved in politics, hold male equivalent occupation and play active sports. Women were able to demonstrate characteristics common in men such as being courageous, liberated, coherent and forceful. In the “The Yellow Wallpaper”, the main character Jane who was always socially isolated and subdued to her husband control, finally breaks free of the traditional values, compliance, and obedience that has shaped the women’s role in a traditional society. Jane used the wallpaper’s image to show the behavior of the indistinct figure that, “seemed to shake the pattern, just as if she wanted to get out […] then I peeled off all the paper I reach standing on the floor” (Gilman). Gilman emphasizes that the further …show more content…
The Victorian era was structured that women were to equate their marriage as a fulltime career, handle their motherly duties as well as be able to look after their husband’s needs, without having the right make choices or voice opinions. Any women who failed these responsibilities were punished and had to suffer in silence instead of being given the opportunity to cure themselves. In the “The Yellow Wallpaper”, Gilman illustrates the gothic elements, motifs through the setting and madness of staying confined to one room. The protagonist Jane states, “[the] ancestral halls […] a colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house […] at night in any kind of light, in twilight, candle light, lamplight, and worst of all by moonlight, it becomes bars! The outside pattern I mean, and the woman behind it is as plain as can be. […] The only thing I can think of that it is like is the COLOR of the paper! A yellow smell. […] I kept on creeping just the same, but I looked at him over my shoulder. ‘I've got out at last,’ said I, ‘in spite of you and Jane. And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back!” (Gilman). Thus, the gothic elements emphasize the troubled heroine trapped in a world of her own suffering in silence under her