A Feminist in Action in The Yellow Wallpaper -- Charlotte Perkins Gilm

The yellow-bellied Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, depicts a woman in isolation, assay to cope with mental illness, which has been diagnosed by her husband, a physician. Going beyond this surface level, the reader sees the narrator as a developing feminist, struggling with the societal values of the time. As a woman writer in the late nineteenth century, Gilman herself felt the adverse effects of the male-centric ball club, and consequently, placed more allusions to her own personal struggles as a feminist in her writing. end-to-end the accounting, the narrator undergoes a psychological journey that correlates with the advancement of her mental condition. The restrictions which society places on her as a woman have a worsening effect on her until illness progresses into hysteria. The narrator makes comments and observations that demonstrate her will to subjugate the oppression of the male dominant society. The conflict between her views and those of the society noti fy be seen in the way she interacts physically, mentally, and emotionally with the three most big(p) aspects of her life her husband, John, the yellow wallpaper in her room, and her illness, temporary nervous depression. In the end, her illness becomes a method of coping with the injustices forced upon her as a woman. As the reader delves into the narrative, a progression can be seen from the normality the narrator displays early in the passage, to the insanity she demonstrates near the conclusion. As the story begins, the narrators compliance with her role as a submissive woman is advantageously seen. She states, John laughs at me, but one expects that in pairing (Gilman 577). These actors line clearly illustrate the males position of power in a marriage t... ..., Gilman acknowledges the fact that much work is needed to overcome the years of injustice. done the concluding scenes where the narrator goes into her mental illness rebellion, Gilman encourages women to do what the y can to live up for themselves. Works Cited Mahin, Michael J. The Awakening and The Yellow Wallpaper An IntertextualComparison of the formal Connotations of Marriage and Propriety. Domestic Goddesses (1999). Web. 29 June 2015.http//www.womenwriters.net/domesticgoddess/mahin.htmGilbert, Sandra M. and Susan Gubar. A Feminist Reading of The Yellow Wallpaper. The Story and Its Writer. Ann Charters. Boston Bedford/St. Martins, 2011. Print.Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. The Yellow Wallpaper.Gutenberg.org Web. 27 June 2015. https//www.gutenberg.org/files/1952/1952-h/1952-h.htm