Individuality In The Yellow Wallpaper

In Charlotte Perkins’ “The Yellow Wallpaper” we are shown the oppression of one's individuality, particularly women’s during the Victorian period, where men and women became more sharply defined than in any other time in history. In earlier centuries it was common for women to work in conjunction with husbands and brothers in family businesses, but this had changed with the assistance of momentous events such as the Second Great Awakening that swept the nation and gave a rise to more active and optimistic religious sensibility, and the Market Revolution which led to the commercialization of economic life and the decline of household production and work diminishing the economic role of women. This concluded with the complete isolation of women in society. “The Yellow Wallpaper” represents this

With all the effort needed to write and make her logs she eventually becomes exhausted and slows down making logs, not only that her logs become shorter her vocabulary less formal and fluent. She turns to the wallpaper as the intellectual stimulus she needs and uses it to keep her mind intact but slowly losing it as a result of this, beginning with her hatred for the wallpaper following with her curiosity of the patterns and her determination to find some kind of conclusion to the wallpaper and then finally describing the wallpaper to have a woman trapped inside of itself. As we see her descent into insanity it shows her true feelings of imprisonment and finds herself being the woman in the wallpaper until eventually breaking free from her confinement like the woman in the wallpaper had done before, although it was already far too late for our