As The Yellow Wallpaper proves, women could have been stripped of their most basic privileges like reading and writing, without anyone batting an eye. Even to go as far as saying they couldn’t leave the house as it was unnatural for them to leave. While the resting cure as they used in The Yellow Wallpaper, is used for both men and women, men could at least protest treatment while women often could not. John is a prime example of a husband that dominates his wife. He treats her as someone inferior. Many times John just brushes off the fact that she wants to leave from her imprisonment, but is denied by the fact that she should trust him because he is her husband and alas, he is also a trained physician. The other characters in the story ignore the fact that she is “insane”. The fact that her depression is treatable in other ways, it’s the treatment that is slowly destroying her. John’s assistant and the narrator’s sister do nothing to halt her abuse. This can be related to modern day feminism as well. Theoretically, if someone was in the narrator’s position, people would rally to save her, and in this internet savvy world we live in today could change a lot of things. It can get the word quicker, to people that actually care. While The Yellow Wallpaper reflected the ideology of women back in the early 1900’s, our society has made strides
As The Yellow Wallpaper proves, women could have been stripped of their most basic privileges like reading and writing, without anyone batting an eye. Even to go as far as saying they couldn’t leave the house as it was unnatural for them to leave. While the resting cure as they used in The Yellow Wallpaper, is used for both men and women, men could at least protest treatment while women often could not. John is a prime example of a husband that dominates his wife. He treats her as someone inferior. Many times John just brushes off the fact that she wants to leave from her imprisonment, but is denied by the fact that she should trust him because he is her husband and alas, he is also a trained physician. The other characters in the story ignore the fact that she is “insane”. The fact that her depression is treatable in other ways, it’s the treatment that is slowly destroying her. John’s assistant and the narrator’s sister do nothing to halt her abuse. This can be related to modern day feminism as well. Theoretically, if someone was in the narrator’s position, people would rally to save her, and in this internet savvy world we live in today could change a lot of things. It can get the word quicker, to people that actually care. While The Yellow Wallpaper reflected the ideology of women back in the early 1900’s, our society has made strides