The Yellow Wallpaper Essay

The book The Yellow Wallpaper is the representative of the cult of true womanhood. The contrast between female and male both in home and the economic world; female’s only sphere which is home; female’s moral superiority; female’s ideal function as a mother and a wife. The author had a goal to make it clear for “True Womanhood” and “Women’s Right”. Author insisted through the whole story that there is only one human race. In her idea, in order to improve the society, the most crucial apart is the equality between women and men. As for her hard work, we might call it as “female social realism.” In the story, author uses narrator’s insanity as a way to fight back for the policies which have female out of the professions, and denied all their rights and oppressed female to be …show more content…
John which is narrator’s husband, offers narrator tender love and caring, but his act deepens her despair and desolation. His act becomes her shackles, policing every move and restricting her to write her story and let her being herself. Through this move, he denies her as an autonomous person. John wants his wife to be dependence. His way of calling narrator, like “blessed little goose” and “little girl” makes narrator as a child. In their relationship, they are husband and wife, doctor and patient, also they are dominator and little girl without any power. This situation illustrates nineteenth-century husband’s behavioral expectations of women. If woman showed discontentment in the role allotted to them, their behavior might be categorized as hysteria. what’s more, they were expected to be cured to be a helpless, intellectually weak and be passive woman. After narrator being obsessed with the yellow wallpaper, she associate herself with the woman in the wallpaper and to resolve to free the woman and, by association,