The Importance Of Feminism In 'The Yellow Wallpaper'

The question is what have I learned about reading? I would respond back to that question by saying lenses. Lenses are the most major aspect in what I have learnt this year, through reading. But the way I view lenses is like a mirror. Mirrors are just a way to view any object in reverse, and yet people are still looking through their own two eyeballs. The idea of mirrors intrigued me because the view in which I perceive is like completely different. Mirrors in a way help define who I am such as through my glasses. The way lenses helps me perceive the object, writing or look in a new way. In the end, they just reflect back a different view and without them, I would be blind. Feminism, a very controversial idea, especially to men, because men …show more content…
Silas Weir Mitchell. Charlotte wanting no one else to be driven crazy due to the extreme treatment, she published the “The Yellow Wallpaper”. Charlotte, in turn, used her psychological experiences to explain how she felt, therefore, making empathy from readers such as I. At one point in the story, the main character Jane, is locked in her room and is unable to be with her own child thanks to her husband’s treatment. She just wanted to reconnect and be with her baby. Jane conveys her thoughts in a journal and wrote,“It is fortune, Mary is so good with the baby. Such a dear baby, And yet, I cannot be with him, makes me so nervous”(Gilman second page the 9th and 10th paragraph). After reading “Story of an Hour” beforehand,“The Yellow Wallpaper” was significantly easier to interpret and analyze than “Story of an Hour” because I knew what to identify and look for. Connecting to this paper was easier but at the same time it was difficult. The reason on why it was difficult to connect was her insanity. My class and I spent weeks analyzing this story, and yet we we were unable to figure out the ending. We argued back and forth on whether or not if is Jane dead. But then an idea struck to someone’s head and mention about how the nursery connects to her having a child and being able to at least see it. I don't know what …show more content…
At that time, the idea of a “Republic” was just being developed. Plato wrote a book, conveniently calling it the “Republic,” and it was split up into seven sections. One section was called the “Allegory of the Cave”, and it talked about the philosophy of the people knowing the truth. There are 3 people in the story are locked up in a cave and day by day, they only see shadows. However one day, a prisoner escapes and witnesses the outside world. The escaped prisoner has gone through an enlightenment in which he sees the supposed “light in the sky”. To share his new found knowledge, he journeys back to the cave and tries to convince the prisoners to join him with the new found knowledge. Socrates explains to Glaucon, that the prisoners would rather choose to be kept dark than be blind by saying “will he not be perplexed? Will he not fancy that the shadows which he formerly saw are truer than the objects which are now shown to him? ”(Plato 12th paragraph). The enlightenment of one man was not enough for the others. After taking a closer glance and diving into the allegory, I interpreted as, I need to value the things or decisions that are given, because without valuing the objects, then it will result in everyone choosing to be blind (metaphorically of course). In a way, this philosophical lenses is giving a clear vision of the