Tuesday, November 30, 2010

What feminist issues are reveled in Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper"?

The Yellow Wallpaper is an allegory to the inner pressures
and entrapment of women when assigned by society to fulfill a specific
role.


The main character is a woman obviously stricken with
a tremendous case of PTSD or Post Partum Depression that is completely underrated by her
husband as the doctor. Society also ignores the situation of women in general afflicted
by illness as a mere case of ill nerves.


However, the
affliction she suffers is so intense that her brain begins to play tricks on her, making
her believe that there are figures wanting to come out of the Yellow Wallpaper because
they are (like her) trapped inside.


Meanwhile, as neither
the doctor nor the husband care to find a proper cure or treatment, her condition goes
unanswered, and society (as a whole) continues to vindicate women and their needs to an
empty, maddening, role of ignorance.


Conclusively, the
feminist issues revealed in the story include:  The needs of women being underrated, the
health of women being considered a secondary need, the psychological afflictions of
women not being taken in to consideration, and the inner battles of women and their
natures against the pre-established roles that society has established for
them.

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