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Comparing Gilman's Trifles And The Yellow Wallpaper

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Although Trifles and “The Yellow wallpaper” were both written by women, they were also apart of the time period. Gilman wrote stories as in this such for women to gain confidence and encouragement for a positive change in themselves (Tanski). Writing these books during a time they were in could help women become strong and, furthermore, be more independent. "The Yellow Wallpaper" is Gilman's semi-autobiographical story of taking Dr. S. Weir Mitchell's "rest cure" to alleviate her depression after the birth of her daughter (Nadkarni). She also suffered from depression. Her book was to a DR. who she went to help her with depression was significant because the book was actually about her in a way. While there were many stories written telling women how to behave and that they should not read fiction. Gilman read fiction and wrote it so therefore was a rebellion on the behaviors (Kerr). A time period where they could not express themselves, Gilman went above these boundaries and advocated for women. Although her writings supported …show more content…

With the 19th century having a strict control over women and their roles contributed to the author's writing the two stories. Women had to live up to Patriarchal codes. Patriarch is where the men is the Supreme authority, meaning he controls everything. It causes conflicts because women were limited of their equal rights and did not have much of a say so. Seeing them as just housewives and not being able to come out as they please caused the women to go into postpartum depression. All it caused was for more worse things to happen. Such as the deaths of the husbands in both stories because the women had so much anger in them. Both authors being brave enough to write either story and being in the time period are strong, because it reached out to the women in those situations to fight for their

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She published many great poems regarding the B.A.M and she won many awards for her work including Woman of the Year from Ladies Home Journal. She also appeared multiple times on television and attended speaking engagements. She then went on to become a professor at College Mount St. Joseph and Virginia Tech University. The analysis of the poem

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The letters she would often write to her husband became very popular, it showed how he supported her ideas and gave him some advice on what he can do with handling his political

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Gilman incorporates the literary techniques of tone and diction to provide the reader with a clear understanding of how the narrator falls into the beliefs of society, while she is confined and oppressed by her husband’s diagnosis of her being “Nervously Depressed”. Gilman’s use of both techniques allows the work to come together as a whole, and demonstrates the idea that women are content with living in a world were men is seen as more intelligent, able-minded and higher in standard than woman,

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In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s story, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the narrator is treated for depression by “rest cure,” isolation from society, which affects her mentality causing her to become secretive, withdrawn, and insane. With the treatment

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Kate Chopin, the author of “The Story of an Hour,” was inspired to write her stories based from what had happened to her in her life. All the man in her life died, which affected her deeply and writing was the thing that helped her keep going. Susan Glaspell on the other hand, was the author of “A Jury of Her Peers,” who at the time rebelled against society’s expectations. Both women a the time were trying to address the issue that women were being thought as inferiors by man and were also mistreated. In the two stories there was irony, women were being viewed as inferior by the man, and the role of a women was the same in both stories.

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In Charlotte Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper,” she tells a horrific ghost story about symptoms of the rest cure. The “rest cure” was a treatment developed by Dr. Silas Weir Mitchell who restricted women of intellectual stimuli and condemned them to a domestic life to help their postpartum recovery. After being a victim of this treatment, Gilman wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper.” Careful attention to the use of Gilman’s symbols in her short story allows the reader to analyze some of the themes concerning feminism and societal misogyny. Foreshadowing throughout, Gilman uses the house, the writing, and the wallpaper as symbols to show how man’s use of the “rest cure” limit women in society and offers that the solution to this issue is to persistently tear away at man’s injustice.

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The nineteenth century was a breeding ground for many literary movements, including realism, romanticism and naturalism. Realism consists of literature that is consistent, predictable, and sticks to the “simple truth” of how regular people live and talk. Romanticism is literature that contains things of intellect, strangeness and remoteness and tries to make the familiar unfamiliar. Finally, naturalism is literature that has regular people in extraordinary circumstances; the hero is at the mercy of larger social and natural forces, which are cruelly indifferent; traces of social Darwinism can be found in the literature and there is generally a brutal struggle for survival. Realism can be seen in The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman,

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However, it did help women to see that their more than a housewife and that they do not need to wait for Prince Charming to sweep them off their feet. If you want something done then you have to do if for yourself and that’s what many women had learned in the 60s. Although there are some naive women, for example Sister James, who believes in anything a man tells her because she thinks they might actually feel bad or they were just trying to protect you but to defy the boss, who was trying to help you survive this world and the workforce they are in, is very prudent. Sister James wanted to be herself but it was not until the end did she realized that this world is a vicious place that feeds on the innocent and weak and no is whoever they say they are. This was the world that helped men feel as if they were superior as if a woman hadn’t helped through the process.

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The main difference is that women are seen as an object and not as people. This is due to the unfaithfulness of both of the king’s wives. I found it brutal and unreasonable how the women characters in the stories are treated. The woman was clever in managing to survive in a society where women were not valued. The structure relies on her bravery and cleverness.

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In the short story “the Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the narrator, Jane who has just given birth becomes progressively more ill and depressed. Her husband John, who is a physician prescribes that she get lots of rest and fresh air so Jane and John rent a colonial mansion for the summer. Throughout the story John is one of the main causes for Jane’s deepening depression.

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The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a short story told through diary entries of a woman who suffers from postpartum depression. The narrator, whose name is never mentioned, becomes obsessed with the ugly yellow wallpaper in the summer home her husband rented for them. While at the home the Narrator studies the wallpaper and starts to believe there is a woman in the wallpaper. Her obsession with the wallpaper slowly makes her mental state deteriorate. Throughout The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman uses many literary devices such as symbolism, personification and imagery to help convey her message and get it across to the reader.

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