The Yellow Wall: A Feminist Analysis

It took centuries for the world to adapt to this revolutionary idea, “there is nothing more rare, nor beautiful than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection” (Maraboli). Beauty is something that does not come from appearances it comes from within a person’s mind and soul. Through the eyes of Donald Hall in his book Literary and Cultural Theory, the audience can infer how the “key to all feminist analysis is a recognition granted to and exercised by women and men” (Hall 199). Despite the fact that feminism is “highly controversial” and “varies widely,” it has unarguably knitted the social gap between the two genders closer. Before people succumbed to the concept of feminism, society was coerced to emulate the …show more content…
Their heart, body, and soul cried and plead for freedom and power, while their mind accommodated and complied with oppressions and patriarchy. These choices consequently resulted in having an immense scale of women with physical and mental disorders. The root cause of their illnesses was society. Society had sewn these women’s lips shut; it had stripped them of any power they could have acquired,” she just takes hold of the bars and shakes them hard” (Gilman 775). In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the narrator, presumably named Jane, wants to escape the onerous horror that is her life. She invents this imaginary world in her subconscious where a woman inside her horrendous wallpaper is desperately and constantly trying to escape from her current residence. Unfortunately for her, Jane does not perceive that the woman in the wallpaper represents her. Thus, guiding the reader to the author’s intent of magnifying a women’s blind desire of self-expression, and illustrating how never having the ability to articulate one’s emotions can affect one’s mental stability, aptly leading them to their psychological