How Do Women Treat Women In The 19th Century

Women Matter Too Women in the nineteenth century were undoubtedly heard to have psychological disorders. Psychological disorder is defined as a disorder of the mind involving thoughts, behaviors, and emotions that cause either self or other significant distress. There were several different reasons for women to have mental disorders in the nineteenth century. One reason that stood out among the others was how men treated women. Men and women had certain roles in society in the nineteenth century; women were the underdogs and men could treat the women how they pleased. Male attitudes toward women caused women to have psychological disorders such as depression, anxiety, and hysteria. Depression is a persistent feeling of sadness and worthlessness …show more content…
Therefore, hysteria in the nineteenth century became a major focus of cultural and medical study. This psychological disorder was considered ““female malady” and was linked to feminine, emotional, irrational, and sexually unrestrained” (Hysteria in the Nineteenth-Century Literature). Emotion plays a big role in hysteria in the nineteenth century when the husband is to blame for women having hysteria. Like in “The Yellow Wallpaper” the narrator starts to have hysteria towards the end of her story. When her husband continues to stick her in her room every time she does something that shows her depression. She starts to see things in the ugly yellow wallpaper in the big bedroom. She starts to see “a women stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern” (785). Being trapped in a room she has insisted on telling her husband she does not like the wallpaper in is making her see things she doesn’t want to see. She then becomes all about this hideous wallpaper trying to figure out the true meaning of its patterns. The hysteria then takes over her body at the end of her story. The narrator felt as if she was so trapped by her husband that she felt as if she was the figures she saw in the