Imagine being trapped under someone else’s influence, having nothing to say, trying with your strength and power to escape despite the inability to do so. Women in the late eighteenth century and into the early nineteenth century felt exactly like this, trapped and powerless. To this date men are still referred to as individuals who have obtained dominance in society. Women often have multiple restrictions and barriers placed upon them due to their gender. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, born July 3rd, 1860 and lived until August 17th, 1935 had experienced this lifestyle, and was the start of an evolution. At a very young age Gilman was abandoned by her father, and unfortunately her mother and brother with nothing to live for. This resulted in Gilman
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Later on after divorcing Charles, Gilman married her cousin George Gilman. Throughout her life Gilman worked not only as a writer, having established her own magazine called The Forerunner, but was also active in organizing social reform movements. Growing up Gilman had faced many obstacles and later on used her creative writing skills to express her thoughts, opinions, and feelings, giving readers the chance to experience the insight of her life and time period. One of her best known pieces of literature is The Yellow Wallpaper. This short story is about a women who suffers from post-partum depression and whose illness gives her insight into her situation in society and in marriage. Later she is treated by her husband, who is also her doctor, he believed she will be cured. Unfortunately even when she undergoes the treatment, it then starts to rob her of her sanity. Readers can witness the influences of her own experience of Post-partum and Nervous depression, “the rest cure” and social standards of women in the late eighteenth century. These personal life experiences and time period in which Charlotte Perkins Gilman lived in all influenced her to write The Yellow Wallpaper in which she communicated the message that women are often left trapped in the shadows of male
Later on after divorcing Charles, Gilman married her cousin George Gilman. Throughout her life Gilman worked not only as a writer, having established her own magazine called The Forerunner, but was also active in organizing social reform movements. Growing up Gilman had faced many obstacles and later on used her creative writing skills to express her thoughts, opinions, and feelings, giving readers the chance to experience the insight of her life and time period. One of her best known pieces of literature is The Yellow Wallpaper. This short story is about a women who suffers from post-partum depression and whose illness gives her insight into her situation in society and in marriage. Later she is treated by her husband, who is also her doctor, he believed she will be cured. Unfortunately even when she undergoes the treatment, it then starts to rob her of her sanity. Readers can witness the influences of her own experience of Post-partum and Nervous depression, “the rest cure” and social standards of women in the late eighteenth century. These personal life experiences and time period in which Charlotte Perkins Gilman lived in all influenced her to write The Yellow Wallpaper in which she communicated the message that women are often left trapped in the shadows of male