Hegemonic Imprisonment In The Yellow Wallpaper And The Battler

Hegemonic Imprisonment Short stories invite the “audience to follow a certain trajectory of desire” (Phelan). These desires prey on the very values of the audience to unconsciously lead them to question a moral or ethical dilemma. It accomplishes this by enhancing the stories thematic component. This component involves representing the characters as being part of a larger concept or even philosophy. Gender normative behaviors are described as behaviors that are directly imposed by a greater power (men) to somehow govern, or overrule its population. Those that differ or challenge these behaviors and expectations must be ridiculed or shunned. Thus, the stories to be discussed, suggest and indirectly (very subtly) ridicule the behavioral …show more content…
In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” and Ernest Hemingway’s “The Battler”, the appropriation of gender normative behavior by men, in this case representing those that dominate and sway societal opinion and cultural expectations, onto its female and other male constituents, is challenged, disregarded and/or made to seem …show more content…
Without understanding this, the stories appear very plainly to be about the insanity of woman and the brutality of man. If however the stories’ underlying implications and ideas are understood, the deterrence from behavioural patterns; then expectations about stereotypical philosophies as a whole will be revolutionized and ignored. As Phelan describes it, the ability to influence the audience’s morality will constructively add and influence other literature to reinforce the idea of up taking moral and ethical criticism in literature about a certain topic or issue to thus direct change. This way, perhaps any discrepancies or issues found can be truly criticized honestly and directly, or else be imprisoned by societal