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Comparing The Yellow Wallpaper And The Story Of An Hour

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In the two stories, “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “The story of an Hour”, the reader is presented with two very similar ideas concerning women’s rights and feminism. In “The Yellow Wallpaper”, written in 1892 by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the author is showing a support for a woman’s right to act and speak on her own behalf. The alternative to this clearly leads to insanity, as it does with Jane, in the story. In comparison the short story, “The Story of an Hour”, written in 1894 by Kate Chopin, is written to show how much things have changed for women. Instead of being oppressed women are now liberated! In Chopin’s ,”The Story of an Hour”, the main character Mrs. Mallard knows the way a woman should think speak and act and does so but the way
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