Kate Chopin's The Yellow Wallpaper And The Story Of An Hour

"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin share the same view of the social norms of women in the late 1800's. Both stories demonstrate the women’s liberation movement and overwhelming effects on the mind and body that result from an intelligent woman living with and accepting the imposed will of another. In both stories the women weren't being abused by their husbands, it focused more on the individual's inner desire for freedom. The women lived in a time era where women were supposed to get married and have kids and be house wife’s and submit to the man of the house. This essay will attempt to compare and contrast the two stories by examining a brief summary of their stories and comparing and contrast them to their personal histories. It will reveal the desires for freedom and oppression through analysis of setting, visual and …show more content…
Women always have been stereotype had to fight for equal rights and freedom opposed to men feeling as women are incapable of doing the same things the can do. The in the story “The Yellow Wall-paper” the unknown female protagonist “Nobody would believe what an effort it is to do what little I am able,—to dress and entertain, and order things.” She was expressing how her husband doesn’t look at her as a strong woman and when she would speak to him about different things he would laugh as if she is the joke. The narrator feels as she has so much more potential but she is not able to explore herself as women because her husband would not approve her doing so. In “The Story of an Hour” Louise just wanted to feel liberated and she “When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone. She would have no one follow her.” Acknowledging her freedom and to imagine such freedom she shut herself off into a room alone so she can imagine her self-being along and not being controlled by her