Stripped of Freedom
Many Feminist writers during the Progressive era often wrote about gender equality. During the Progressive era many women found freedom through artist creativity from their bounded lives through writing. Each writer expressed their opinions in hope to strike a spark in women rights. The authors Charlotte Perkins and Kate Chopin in their stories, “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “The Story of an hour,” use reoccuring themes of complete isolation to illustrate the domestic space typically inhabited by women during the progressive era, providing detail and evidence of this isolation through the use of setting and symbolism.
During the Progressive era, many women faced forms of isolation. In the short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the narrator is faced with the form of isolation through the popular method of the “rest cure.” The rest cure was popular medicational practice of its time, as it was believed to rest the mind and body of the patient. During the practice of the “rest cure,” the patient would be completely shut off from everything they once knew. The practice would cause the patient to be in complete isolation, due to their …show more content…
Both stories speak deeply on domestic space. The two short stories, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” and “The Story of an Hour,” both focus on the effects of the “rest cure” treatment. The two main characters of the stories are absolutely isolated from the world they knew, due to their physical or mental health. Both women find freedom through the window in their isolated estate. Whether it was to make the feel free or to express their future, the window represented similar symbolism for both stories. Another thing both stories shared similarities in, was the two husbands. Both husbands of the women, caused harm and depression upon their life's, as they weren't allowed to express themselves and were continually
Many Feminist writers during the Progressive era often wrote about gender equality. During the Progressive era many women found freedom through artist creativity from their bounded lives through writing. Each writer expressed their opinions in hope to strike a spark in women rights. The authors Charlotte Perkins and Kate Chopin in their stories, “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “The Story of an hour,” use reoccuring themes of complete isolation to illustrate the domestic space typically inhabited by women during the progressive era, providing detail and evidence of this isolation through the use of setting and symbolism.
During the Progressive era, many women faced forms of isolation. In the short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the narrator is faced with the form of isolation through the popular method of the “rest cure.” The rest cure was popular medicational practice of its time, as it was believed to rest the mind and body of the patient. During the practice of the “rest cure,” the patient would be completely shut off from everything they once knew. The practice would cause the patient to be in complete isolation, due to their …show more content…
Both stories speak deeply on domestic space. The two short stories, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” and “The Story of an Hour,” both focus on the effects of the “rest cure” treatment. The two main characters of the stories are absolutely isolated from the world they knew, due to their physical or mental health. Both women find freedom through the window in their isolated estate. Whether it was to make the feel free or to express their future, the window represented similar symbolism for both stories. Another thing both stories shared similarities in, was the two husbands. Both husbands of the women, caused harm and depression upon their life's, as they weren't allowed to express themselves and were continually