Comparing Jane Eyre And The Awakening

barren window. She says “The windows are barred for little children, and there are rings and things in the walls” (4). Here rings seems to be some type of game which is played by children. Like children women were also considered to be nonsensical, irrational whose mind is thought to be in knee. The rings in the window seems to be like the bars of the prison in which women are captivated so that women could not be able to escape. They should remain trapped in the patriarchal prison because according to society the women are actually born to remain trapped whole of her life in a male-dominated prison. To her bedroom is like a nursery to her in which children are captivated. She is treated like a small kid who has no sensibility by her husband. The whole day she is captivated in that room like a bird who is captivated in the cage and desire to fly. Similarly, Jane and Edna of The Awakening both are portrayed as a bird who are bound in the cage by the patriarchal society. The so much societal boundaries seems like a prison to women in …show more content…
This wallpaper has been torn from many sides and this thing worries her the most. She states, “I never saw a worse paper in my life” (4). And further says that, “no wonder the children hated it! I should hate it myself if I had to live in this room long” (4). Next she tells about children who used to live in this room before she shifted here. In the yellow wallpaper she sees an image of a lady who is completely like her. Like her she is also trapped in the prison. Though these all are the result of her depressed situation. And for all this her husband is fully responsible for it. I feel, though by profession he might be a doctor but what he did to her wife is an act of monster. She made a lively cheerful lady a patient of hysteria. And for it, the all thanks goes to the mentality of patriarchal society. Jane find the the pattern of this yellow wallpaper