The Yellow Wallpaper And A Story Of An Hour

In the nineteenth century female writers emerged as powerful voices, using their unique writing style to address the common oppression faced by women. These writers fought for change through their works that help come to light the restricted societal norms and gender roles that restricted women. It looks at how Kate Chopin, Charlotte Anna Perkins, and their stories"Story of an Hour," "To the Young Wife," "The Yellow Wallpaper," and "Why I Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper," identify the hardships that women face and the urgent need for freedom. Their works provided a platform to discuss the challenges faced by women in a male-dominated society.

Female writers confronted repressed desires from housewives who wanted to be free from their husbands,

Mrs. Mallard's understanding that her life has been mostly centered on living for others, mainly her husband, and that her newfound freedom allows her to put herself first is shown in this quote. It means her previous existence was one of restriction and limitation, meaning that women experience oppression in marriage and society. In Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" The narrator describes her husband's prescription of the rest cure, saying "I don't like to look out of the windows even—there are so many of those creeping women, and they creep so fast" (Gilman). It shows the narrator's confinement and isolation by limiting her from talking to the outside world. It shows the harsh treatment given out to women, limiting their freedom and choice. Chopin and Gilman both use their writing to point out women's unconscious needs and lack of freedom. Through Mrs. Mallard's brief moment of freedom and the main character's struggle against isolation, those writers portray the smothering situations that stopped women from fulfilling their goals and dreams. Chopin and Gilman boldly question the societal inequality of women at the

In Charlotte Perkins Gilman's poem "To the Young Wife," the narrator encourages young women not to give in to standard expectations and lose their identity inside of their marriage. “Have you forgotten how you used to long In days of ardent girlhood, to be great,” The narrator reflects back to the days before marriage and kids to show that this wasn't the life they had hoped for and to remember who she truly is. In "The Yellow Wallpaper," The main character's sense of isolation gets worse by her motherly role. “I used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could find in a toy-store.” They have their own goals and desires throughout their early years. Later in their lives, it became something under their husband's control. Society made it appear that being a wife and mother was the only thing they should be. This portrayal undermines the glorified notion of motherhood and the sacrifices that women were expected to make for their children. Gilman pushes for a reconsideration of women's traditional duties by criticizing modern norms around marriage and