Gilman's Article 'Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper'

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isolation was. She wanted to set an example for the society that women should be given equal opportunities as that of man. She wanted an upliftment of the women, they can enjoy equal freedom and gender equality. In her article “why I wrote the yellow wallpaper” she have response the critics’ negative point that it wasn’t written to drive crazy but safe people especially women from being driven crazy. Gilman with the help of her writing wanted a better society where women are consider no less than men and where they would be no women suffering with depression or driven into insanity. During the nineteen century started the revolution and reformation of women rights. Many writers and novelist like Gilman in their writing …show more content…

But in some content we can also held schools liable for nurturing the women when they are girls. In school girls are always well behaved and mannered. They are always rewarded for their good grades and well behaved attitude. But when it comes to boys they are always shown as aggressive in nature. They are often punished for their mischievous attitudes in class which still never let boys stop their naughtiness. But, if girls behaved in the same way as boys they are always reminded about their gender characteristics as soft and being decent by nature.. As in the article ‘’The Confidence Gap ‘’ the writer mention us that “Girls seem to be more easily socialized, “They get a lot of praise for being perfect’’ (Kathy). In the above lines Kathy wants to tell that due to being perfect and well-mannered in the school girls often avoid in taking risk boys who are more challenging in schools as they are more used to scolding and punishment. It was a decade ago when the feminism movement started to ensure that women also received the same equality. Though women are participating in every tasks and field that men do. But still one can see that when women takes a greater power than men in the area such as business, sports and politics women are pulled down by the man . They think that women are weaker gender and they should not be

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