The Yellow Wallpaper And To The Young Wife By Charlotte Perkins

The narrator in “Yellow wallpaper” and the speaker in “To the young wife” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman view women as being oppressed. The stringent social regulations that were in place throughout the 1800s kept women from enjoying numerous social rights and opportunities. The narrator experiences oppression as a result of her marriage, her home, and the wallpaper. Additionally, it tells the story of a woman who was driven insane by the Victorian rest-cure. Which was formerly a commonly recommended period of inactivity believed to treat women's hysteria and nervous problems. Additionally, she had the impression that she was in an uncomfortable environment because she was surrounded by things she didn't want to see again. An example of this is “It is the strangest yellow, that wallpaper! It makes me think of all the yellow things I ever saw—not beautiful ones like buttercups, but old, foul, bad yellow things”.In addition, she felt smothered by the way everything was set up, the unattractive furnishings, and the sultry

In one example of this is “Are you content with work, — to toil alone To clean things dirty and to soil things clean; To be a kitchen-maid, be called a queen, queen of a cook-stove throne?”. In this statement, she is asking the reader if is that all that you are going to do with your life. Not only that but it shows the women were only there to clean and cook and take care of the children. Women were seen as servants to their husbands they didn't have a say they were only there to take care of them. Another example is “having no dream of life in fuller store? Of growing to be more than that you are? Doing the things you know do better far, Yet doing others - more?”. Women were not encouraged to obtain a real education or pursue a professional career. After marriage, women did not have the right to own their own property, keep their own wages, or sign a