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Essay / Analysis of Yellow Wallpaper - 770
“Yellow Wallpaper” was first published in the 19th century by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and was rediscovered in the 20th century. The author is best known for her work and advocacy on political inequality and social justice, but is widely recognized for her writing on women's rights in the mirage. According to the main character and narrator of the story, conventionally accepted bourgeois marriage in the 19th century, which defined a tenuous boundary between the functions of the woman (primarily housewife) and the hard-working, authoritarian man, led to the lack of full freedom. development potential of women in society. “If a high-ranking doctor and your own husband assure your friends and relatives that there is really nothing wrong with you, other than a temporary nervous breakdown – a slight hysterical tendency – what should you do? . . So I take phosphates or phosphites, whatever they are, tonics, travel, fresh air and exercise, and I am absolutely forbidden to "work" until I am well. . Personally, I do not agree with their ideas” (Gilman 545). In this passage, the narrator uses very descriptive and vivid lines to show her displeasure with her husband's authoritarian and lawless behavior, and how his medical situation is used as an obstacle to his movements and achievement. She wants to be free and engaged in daily activities like any normal person, but she is denied these things by her own husband, who assures everyone that everything is fine. She is strongly opposed to such treatment, but her opinion means nothing to him and she has no power even to contribute constructively to his treatment. The narrator is also seen in a position in which she is told not to worry about her middle of paper...led yards away from this paper” (Gilman 636). The narrator took all the wallpaper off the walls. She finally frees the groveling woman by making her believe that she is free too. The narrator is still in the same child's room with the bars surrounding the windows. She feels like she's escaped because it's not the bars on the windows that worry her, but the newspaper. The bars on the windows and the wallpaper represent what the narrator and the Crawling Woman had in common regarding being trapped. The yellow wallpaper is what suffocates and traps her and the narrator is tired of being confined. Once she tears and tears off the horrible paper, she feels her soul escape from the prison that the nursery had become. The narrator is so relieved to be free. She begins to crawl like the woman. She knows it can't be put back on paper because it's destroyed, so she's at peace.