Throughout the course of history, gender roles are drastically interchanged as centuries go by. Just so, the late 19th century and early 20th century represented a time period that American women were restricted to common household jobs, and prevented from being part of any sort of social or economical progress. As a strong advocate for women's rights, Charlotte Perkins Gilman played a significant role as she fought against the common marginalized label that had been put on women during the time period. In her short story, The Yellow Wallpaper, Perkins utilizes recurring vivid imagery to highlight the theme of isolation. With the use of secluded gardening objects, concealed housing parts, and. Perkins conveys the message that the 20th century
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John is utilized as a representative of the prominent social class of males of the time period. As a window is made to permit the passage of light and air into any sort of home, it would seem like a ludicrous idea to keep this from happening. In fact, light and air is never conserved by any person, any acts of such would raise speculation by any sane person. This was not the case for the narrator, the window being a representative of inborn rights that this woman was wrongly being deprived of. In a brief look upon the American past, one instantly sees a history of inhumane treatment against women. Women that were expected to meet every sort of expectation of submission, even if these rights were intuitively inborn, the corrupted mentality of men of the time period halted women from growing in social status. A barrier that acted to keep women tending to the kids and home inside the 'painted ladies', which was a common term used to refer to the Queen Anne style housing, one of the main types of housing structure of the era. Further highlighting the objectification mindset that not only influenced almost every man of the time period, but was also present in the American government, as political action was in silence until further into the century time …show more content…
The narrator obsessed with a simple yellow wallpaper as she began hallucinating obscure imagery radiating from the wall, "and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide-plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in outrageous contradictions.(Perkins,648)". The inanimate objects again attain characteristics of insignificance. With here word choice, it is clearly seen that Perkins is not relating directly to the wallpaper itself. Words like 'suicide', 'plunge-off', and destroy are not normative when describing a simple object. Clearly, there is a message that she is attempting to relate to her audience. Instead of an object, the grotesque description of the wallpaper is a direct comparison to the narrator. Yet another room that John had dismissed her to, that throughout the whole story, was the main place where the narrator stayed alone and wrote her thoughts. In direct result of this, people that even consider the thought of suicide, have lost a battle against one of the most fatal disease that affects millions of people to this day, which is depression. Building off one another, the sequence of events that held John belittling the narrator's disease, and keeping her from any human interaction has brought her to such a low point that the woman saw the only escape as death. Since
John is utilized as a representative of the prominent social class of males of the time period. As a window is made to permit the passage of light and air into any sort of home, it would seem like a ludicrous idea to keep this from happening. In fact, light and air is never conserved by any person, any acts of such would raise speculation by any sane person. This was not the case for the narrator, the window being a representative of inborn rights that this woman was wrongly being deprived of. In a brief look upon the American past, one instantly sees a history of inhumane treatment against women. Women that were expected to meet every sort of expectation of submission, even if these rights were intuitively inborn, the corrupted mentality of men of the time period halted women from growing in social status. A barrier that acted to keep women tending to the kids and home inside the 'painted ladies', which was a common term used to refer to the Queen Anne style housing, one of the main types of housing structure of the era. Further highlighting the objectification mindset that not only influenced almost every man of the time period, but was also present in the American government, as political action was in silence until further into the century time …show more content…
The narrator obsessed with a simple yellow wallpaper as she began hallucinating obscure imagery radiating from the wall, "and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide-plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in outrageous contradictions.(Perkins,648)". The inanimate objects again attain characteristics of insignificance. With here word choice, it is clearly seen that Perkins is not relating directly to the wallpaper itself. Words like 'suicide', 'plunge-off', and destroy are not normative when describing a simple object. Clearly, there is a message that she is attempting to relate to her audience. Instead of an object, the grotesque description of the wallpaper is a direct comparison to the narrator. Yet another room that John had dismissed her to, that throughout the whole story, was the main place where the narrator stayed alone and wrote her thoughts. In direct result of this, people that even consider the thought of suicide, have lost a battle against one of the most fatal disease that affects millions of people to this day, which is depression. Building off one another, the sequence of events that held John belittling the narrator's disease, and keeping her from any human interaction has brought her to such a low point that the woman saw the only escape as death. Since