Tuesday, December 10, 2019

The yellow wall-paper. Assignment 3

The Yellow Wallpaper" written by Charlotte Perkins Stetson, is a well written story describing a woman who suffers from insanity and how she struggles to express her own thoughts and feelings. The author uses her own experience to criticize male domination of women during the nineteenth century.  "The Yellow Wallpaper" still brings a clear message how powerless women were during that time.In this story I see that the male dominace is an usually  thing . Her husband  named John is an physician and he think that keeping his wife isolated in the garish yellow  wallpaper room will help her get over her “nervous depression". He believed that keeping his wife in one room isolated from the outside world ,she will feel more better and her health will be improved. John treat her as an object an tell her what is right and what is wrong. One moment when she was looking the moonlight ,he tell her  that everything that she felt was an illusion and he shut the window. I think that her husband think only for himself,only for his feelings and not for wife feelings. He sees her as a woman who can stay at home and to obey whatever he say and treating her like own toy. The only think that she can do is writing her thoughts in diary because no one can judge her for what she  feel or thing about. The symbol of this story is the Yellow wallpaper which symbolised  that ,yellow is often associated with sickness or weakness. But in the end she begins to like the yellow wallpaper and she now  believes herself to be free because she is not trapped behind the wallpaper. Now  she think that in this paper are things that nobody knows about ,only me

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