Yellow Wallpaper Oppression
analytical Essay
538 words
In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” it reveals the oppression women had gone through during that time period, but then escaping from the confinements of men's hold against them. The narrator is the woman whose only job was to sleep in bed all day, not to write, not to strain herself from the bedroom. She listens to her husband’s requests because of his doctoral status, thus making it difficult for her to really do as she pleases; she doesn’t want her husband to stress. The yellow wallpaper is a hideous horrid thing that she hates at first, but as she continues to stay in that room she less disgusted when she sees the patterns and the woman in the wall, who is in relation of her situation. Towards the end of their three month stay she’s suspicious with everyone including her “loving” husband messing with her wallpaper, not wishing for anyone else to figure out the pattern of the wallpaper, but her.
She has a “very careful and loving” husband who is a physician who just says that she has a “temporary nervous depression” she is “forbidden to ‘work’” until she is better. He restricts her from certain actions she wishes to do to stimulate her mind, and only stops her to tell her
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In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how "the yellow wallpaper" reveals the oppression women had gone through during that time period, but then escaping from the confinements of men's hold against them.
- Narrates how the woman has a careful and loving husband who restricts her from certain actions to stimulate her mind, and only stops her to tell her she's not able to do so based on her condition.
- Analyzes how the narrator dislikes the yellow wallpaper, but becomes fond of the room in spite of it. she looks at patterns for hours just attempting to depict the confusion of patterns.
- Narrates how the woman reaches a point where the people around her are suspects in figuring out the puzzle of the wallpaper in which "no person touches this paper but" her.
The woman she sees at night that creeps on the wall symbols the narrator's cage that she’s stuck in because of the bars of the patterns that are the shadows, but the light being the freedom the woman in the wall desires the most:“ At night in any kind of light, in twilight, candlelight, lamplight, and worst of all by the moonlight, it become bars,” then “by daylight she is subdued,
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