Women In The Yellow Wallpaper

In an era where a body has complete “superiority” over another, we expect to see uprisings with the opposing body for equality. This was the case with women and their power over literature in the early nineteenth-hundredths. As you can see with the many stories we read of famous women, we saw how they were constraint within the boundaries that men created. They were not given equal authority and respect over their own work. In “ Shakespeare’s Sister”, a question was brought to the readers. What if Shakespeare had a sister who was equally as talented as he was, but was never recognized due to the fact that she was a female. Women are not given their basic rights just because they are women. We see more of this in “The Yellow Wallpaper”. All

The wall was supposed to represent the boundaries she can not cross because she is a woman. The barred window is to represent women being able to see the light, but are barred down due to what men have made women viewed as. The yellow wallpaper, and the many faces and women she saw in there was the representation of the other women who are confined by societal expectations. The husband was to represent the whole body of men and how they treat and view women in society. The way how the whole story was twisted around when it was put into males perspective in the adaptation of the Twilight Zone, changed the whole representation and meaning of the whole story. In the episode, it only exacerbated the way we view the crazed wife. The meaning within the people in the wallpaper

In the “Yellow Wallpaper”, when the wife was finally able to rip the wallpaper apart and escape that room, that is her leaving the confinement of men over what women should be. This is a powerful statement because that is leaving behind her domestic lifestyle, leaving behind her forced life. It represented her being free from all the things she was forced to do. Men fear being overshadowed by people, especially women. Superiority over others is what gives them pleasure. Since women inferior to them physically, that translated to how they are what they are capable of. Since women can’t physically fight back, they are forced to stay the way men expect them to be, and that is to be the “angel”. Although being the “monster” was a terrible thing in the men's eyes in that era, it is a representation of the protest against men's expectation. That's why the wife’s sister is an angel, and there is a reason why she is stuck forever listening to her husband, she is forever confined to whatever her husband tells her. The monsters are the one wants individuality, who wants to be heard, who wants to be