Neglect And Ignorance In The Yellow Wallpaper

Oppression through Neglect and Ignorance Female oppression has been around since the dawn of time going all the way back to the hunter gatherer levels of our existence. While evolving into something more in today’s society of wages being lower and women shown less respect due to their gender. But in the times of the “The Yellow Wallpaper” female oppression is shown through an oppressed women’s perspective. And through this we are shown the levels are oppression in a timely fashion through the beginning, middle, and end. While showing examples of responsibility, isolation, female oppression, and sanity. When introduced to our nameless women we are shown that she is going through a tough time in her life. Feeling depressed one can say it causes …show more content…
When John sees that she isn’t getting any better he tells her that they will be moving to an estate outside of the city. Without asking her what is wrong or what is going on inside of her mind he makes a decision that will affect her life. When they move to this estate he gives all of the responsibility to her sister in law without asking if she can handle anything causing her to lose any type of responsibility she can have thus treating her like a child. By her not having anything to keep her mind at bay she then states she much rather have the room where the garden is adjacent to so she can enjoy the view. John then responds that he picked the room where the yellow wallpaper is. By her giving into his wants and demands causes her to have false narrative of what she should be doing. “The individual’s fear of guilt may thus preserve associated false narratives” (Jaeger, Tess, et al). This then eludes to our overall showing of oppression but early signs of insanity by her having nothing and being alone to her thoughts causes her to then have the streak of yellow on her dress. And showing that she is sneaking around the wallpaper and she has lost her