The rights of women everywhere have been amazingly botched for as long as history books have written. Historically, if you are not a white male who doesn’t have any sort of disorder or disability you are going to flourish. Even nowadays, whether it is influenced by racism or sexism, this history still holds some truth. The Yellow Wallpaper is a good example of this. John, the narrator’s husband, is very controlling. While he does not go about it in a forceful or fiendish manner, the narrator has yet to protest John’s practices to treat her depression and anxiety. The narrator acknowledges the oppression but insists that John is doing it for her. To the casual reader, the story is one of a good-meaning, but oppressive husband who drives his
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As The Yellow Wallpaper proves, women could have been stripped of their most basic privileges like reading and writing, without anyone batting an eye. Even to go as far as saying they couldn’t leave the house as it was unnatural for them to leave. While the resting cure as they used in The Yellow Wallpaper, is used for both men and women, men could at least protest treatment while women often could not. John is a prime example of a husband that dominates his wife. He treats her as someone inferior. Many times John just brushes off the fact that she wants to leave from her imprisonment, but is denied by the fact that she should trust him because he is her husband and alas, he is also a trained physician. The other characters in the story ignore the fact that she is “insane”. The fact that her depression is treatable in other ways, it’s the treatment that is slowly destroying her. John’s assistant and the narrator’s sister do nothing to halt her abuse. This can be related to modern day feminism as well. Theoretically, if someone was in the narrator’s position, people would rally to save her, and in this internet savvy world we live in today could change a lot of things. It can get the word quicker, to people that actually care. While The Yellow Wallpaper reflected the ideology of women back in the early 1900’s, our society has made strides
As The Yellow Wallpaper proves, women could have been stripped of their most basic privileges like reading and writing, without anyone batting an eye. Even to go as far as saying they couldn’t leave the house as it was unnatural for them to leave. While the resting cure as they used in The Yellow Wallpaper, is used for both men and women, men could at least protest treatment while women often could not. John is a prime example of a husband that dominates his wife. He treats her as someone inferior. Many times John just brushes off the fact that she wants to leave from her imprisonment, but is denied by the fact that she should trust him because he is her husband and alas, he is also a trained physician. The other characters in the story ignore the fact that she is “insane”. The fact that her depression is treatable in other ways, it’s the treatment that is slowly destroying her. John’s assistant and the narrator’s sister do nothing to halt her abuse. This can be related to modern day feminism as well. Theoretically, if someone was in the narrator’s position, people would rally to save her, and in this internet savvy world we live in today could change a lot of things. It can get the word quicker, to people that actually care. While The Yellow Wallpaper reflected the ideology of women back in the early 1900’s, our society has made strides