The foundations of American society in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were shaken by the revolutionary reality of women’s abilities, with high demand of political and social reform of gender inequalities by forthright women such as Charlotte Perkin Gilman. Expressing these views in her writings, both fiction and non-fiction, Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” acknowledges the power and control of women within patriarchal society, along with the effects on personality due to mental and physical illness. The short story offers a compelling study of Gilman’s own feminism and the roles for women in the 1890’s and 1900’s.
First appearing in the New England Magazine in January 1892, "The Yellow Wall-paper," is a work of fiction which brings forth the controversial discussion of women’s social struggle against male …show more content…
Charlotte Perkins Gilman allows the reader to see what mental and physical isolation does to an individual’s reality and imagination. This short story touches up on the patriarchal society and shows the audience of male dominance in the relationship and lives of women. Men were more dominate when it came to political and social. They claimed the power and strength more so than the women of the 19th century. The story shows what isolation will do to one when they start to develop the illness of depression. Depression is an illness that cause one to not want to do any sort of activities along with any movement whatsoever. The depression is not only a physical state but it is also a mental one as well. In the story we see the unhappiness within a supposedly normal marriage. The narrator struggles with not only isolation from everything in the world but she has a hard time finding how to deal with her depression. Charlotte Perkin Gilman allows you understand the effects someone can have on another person’s life, mentally and
First appearing in the New England Magazine in January 1892, "The Yellow Wall-paper," is a work of fiction which brings forth the controversial discussion of women’s social struggle against male …show more content…
Charlotte Perkins Gilman allows the reader to see what mental and physical isolation does to an individual’s reality and imagination. This short story touches up on the patriarchal society and shows the audience of male dominance in the relationship and lives of women. Men were more dominate when it came to political and social. They claimed the power and strength more so than the women of the 19th century. The story shows what isolation will do to one when they start to develop the illness of depression. Depression is an illness that cause one to not want to do any sort of activities along with any movement whatsoever. The depression is not only a physical state but it is also a mental one as well. In the story we see the unhappiness within a supposedly normal marriage. The narrator struggles with not only isolation from everything in the world but she has a hard time finding how to deal with her depression. Charlotte Perkin Gilman allows you understand the effects someone can have on another person’s life, mentally and