Charlotte Anita Whitney

either between family, friends, or particularly spouses can be negative or positive regardless of whether there are social, political, or environmental factors, and personal or financial situations. Writers like Theodore Roethke, Katie Chopin, and Charlotte Perkins Stetson importantly depict the stressful and delicate matter of complicated relationships between husband and wife in their literary works “My Papa’s Waltz,” Story of an Hour,” and “The Yellow Wallpaper.” Each of these…

feminine yet also austere.” (16). This quote is on the second page of the novel so readers can already get a sense of themes of feminization and gender inequality that Rash implements throughout the novel. The Forerunner released an article by, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, writing about her short story The Yellow Wallpaper which was titled accordingly, Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper. In this article Gilman writes upon how society and professionals can implant horrific stereotypes into ones brain…

Imaginative Liberation In Charlotte Perkins Gilman “The Yellow Wallpaper” the reader is able to see the traditional marital ways in the 1800’s, and goes on to show the mental instability that many women faced during this era. This story gives an infinite example of how women were treated as second class citizens with their authoritative male figures, and treating them and keeping them in their childish ways. John, the narrator’s husband a bright physician caught up in his own success and…

control over women in every aspect. The husband of a house usually made all of the decisions while the wife stayed home and cared for the children and took care of the house. Men were driven by an egotistical stereotype that they knew what is best. Charlotte Perkins Gilman lived during this time period and underwent the same suppression and subordination that countless women experienced. During this time period, Gilman wrote one of her most famous and controversial short storie which expressed…

capable for social interactions. On the other hand, women were expected to get married, with the only goal of having children, and stay home. Their only duty was to fulfill the role of wife and mother. These were the historical conditions the writer, Charlotte…

author’s life. Many authors take these influences and transform them into a work of art, whether it be a painting, poem, or even a story. These influences range from one’s beliefs, one’s achievements, and sometimes one’s disability. After reading Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper,” readers infer how Gilman’s work is largely influenced by her own suffering from mental illness, her feminist ideas, and by women’s oppression she faces in the 19th century. Gilman…

The Discourse of Feminism Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1892) is about a woman who suffers from post-traumatic depression. Her husband, John, and she moved to a summer vacation house that is in a very isolating place, separated from society. John, who is also her doctor, recommended that she need absolute rest and confinement. This contradicts what she believe will cure her. She believed that being active and having freedom will do her good. This makes her begin to write…

Victorian Women: Society’s Puppets In “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the narrator of the text was depicted as a woman suffering from an anxiety illness that she identifies as real, but her blinded husband, John, thought she wasn’t sick at all and all she needed was to rest for a while. As the text progressed, the narrator began to become connected to the yellow wallpaper in the nursery room she was staying at, seeing things move within the wallpaper and even seeing women…

incidents may hold the power to take what was once sane and turn it on its head. These traumas, regardless of their severity, cause an imaginary footprint in a person’s brain and the longer they fester, the larger they become. “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and “Witty Ticcy Ray” by Oliver Sacks both show signs of two very different versions of what can be deemed crazy. Both use themes of confinement and manipulation to bring the instability of their characters to the…

can. Women have always been considered lower then men and have strived for equal rights for many years causing many uproars and debates. After many writings, rallies and debates the rights of women have changed overtime. “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and “A Room of One’s Own” by Virginia Woolf both discuss women and how they were treated during their perspective time periods. These two female authors discuss important aspects of women’s history and their individual…