The constant suppression of her husband to let her roam around the house, and his insistence to rest and sleep all day, became the catalyst for her to have delusions about the intricate patterns on the yellow wallpaper. Her daily 'imprisonment' inside the bedroom, and constant deliberation of where the pattern leads to and what the pattern is, revealed to the woman an important discovery: the pattern in the yellow wallpaper "... is like a woman stooping down and creeping about... By moonlight, it becomes bars!... [b]y daylight she is subdued, quiet. I fancy it is the pattern that keeps her so still." This summarized and showed best the woman's own feelings about her constant 'imprisonment' by her husband, and in general, by the society. The woman became aware that the pattern is a 'woman' like her. In fact, the wallpaper served as her reflection of everything that was happening to her, what she is feeling and thinking. The woman in the wallpaper symbolized her oppression, and the images she was seeing on the wallpaper made her realize that was also 'stooping down and creeping about,' and it was then that she started seeking her own empowerment by breaking free from the 'bars' that were her husband and her society. The latter part of the story showed how the woman developed to become a...
The front pattern does move -- and no wonder! The woman behind shakes it! Then in the very bright spots she keeps still, and in the very shady spots she just takes hold of the bar and shakes them hard." This statement showed how the woman gradually learned to assert herself, which was actually equivalent to her gradual descent to insanity. This marked the crucial point in which the woman crossed the path from oppression to empowerment. Finally, the woman, at the end of the story, finally succumbed to insanity, and in her being insane, she finally gained her power over her husband and society, elements that suppressed her rights and womanhood. "The Yellow Wallpaper" is a complex study of a woman trying to break free from patterns or norms of a hostile society against women.
What I have told you are just my feelings and opinion, John. Though I am do not know exactly what is ailing your wife, I do know -- as a woman's intuition would know -- that your wife is not happy being alone in that room everyday, treated like a patient with a horrifying, yet undetermined, 'disease.' I can feel the hurt in her as she only see glimpses of
Yellow Wallpaper and Paul's Case: Emancipation of Mental Captivity The two texts, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper and Willa Cather's Paul's Case, portray the main characters with hysteria. Both cases are reactions to the pressures put on them by their families as well as the society. They seem to build mental barriers that cannot be brought down, so called safe heavens, escape from harsh realities and this puts them
Kimmel, it is gender inequality, rather than gender differences that is the cause of gender differences in men and women. And gender inequality is caused from the earliest age on depending on the specific country and age that we live in. Kimmel is not even sure whether gender inequality, does not exist today. It is thought that it has vanished, yet in many areas, it still seems to be
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