Women’s Oppressions in Literary Works
Women used to be oppressed by men in society that men established for a long time. How were they to be oppressed? It was not allowed for women to freely express their voices and do what they want to. Society expected and forced women to take only limited role unfairly and kept women’s social status lower than men’s. Women became far from equal.
In the 19th century, many female authors expressed their complaint and aspiration for freedom from these oppressions through their writing. Their works are just about feminism. They wrote cautiously about how women were oppressed by men and how their social role restricted in order to enlighten every woman. The two short stories, “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, and “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and the poem, …show more content…
Louise’s heart disease represents her weakness caused by a frustrated longing for freedom. When she hears the news about her husband’s death, she expects to get freedom, but before long, her expectation is shattered by her husband’s sudden appearance. As a result, she perceives that she has to return to previous life without freedom in patriarchal society, and this shock leads to her death. The nervous depression of the narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper” is concerned with a mental problem. Although it is not clear whether the narrator really has a mental disease, her husband, a doctor, makes a diagnosis of her problem as the nervous depression and forces her to stay in the room. The fact that there is no one who has shown critical view toward his action means that women who lived in those times were under suppressive circumstances. The decision made by her husband causes her condition to be worse and make it a real
Women used to be oppressed by men in society that men established for a long time. How were they to be oppressed? It was not allowed for women to freely express their voices and do what they want to. Society expected and forced women to take only limited role unfairly and kept women’s social status lower than men’s. Women became far from equal.
In the 19th century, many female authors expressed their complaint and aspiration for freedom from these oppressions through their writing. Their works are just about feminism. They wrote cautiously about how women were oppressed by men and how their social role restricted in order to enlighten every woman. The two short stories, “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, and “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and the poem, …show more content…
Louise’s heart disease represents her weakness caused by a frustrated longing for freedom. When she hears the news about her husband’s death, she expects to get freedom, but before long, her expectation is shattered by her husband’s sudden appearance. As a result, she perceives that she has to return to previous life without freedom in patriarchal society, and this shock leads to her death. The nervous depression of the narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper” is concerned with a mental problem. Although it is not clear whether the narrator really has a mental disease, her husband, a doctor, makes a diagnosis of her problem as the nervous depression and forces her to stay in the room. The fact that there is no one who has shown critical view toward his action means that women who lived in those times were under suppressive circumstances. The decision made by her husband causes her condition to be worse and make it a real