The Role Of Feminism In American Literature

Women. What would be the world without them? Humans would not exist. They are just as equal as men. However, they have been fighting for equality for a long time. The mistreats, and humiliations to their gender from men have a long history. From depriving them of their right to vote, speak or be involved in politics, to make them feel less valuable to society, men have always ranked themselves as the authority. Judging the women as the weaker sex, making them subordinate themselves to males and have all decisions-makings are just some examples of the ideals of the 19th century. It was not until the Progressive Era in the 1890s that women started to truly speak about what they wanted. It came out as an idea and then a movement that initiated in Europe, and later came to the United States, it is called Feminism.

In American Literature, there is a woman who was polemical in the 19th century for her writings. She was Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a woman who found herself in the progressive era, where women were trying to open their path to equality, and during this process, Gilman saw many injustices against her gender, making her act with the creation of writings where she expressed all of this and influenced feminism across the US. In fact, The Yellow Wallpaper is one her most famous literary pieces and is the one that will be discussed in the following lines. Charlotte Perkins Gilman use of symbolism in The Yellow Wallpaper is present in almost any paragraph, making it the main literary device applied to address the moral issue on feminism concerns and the male superiority complex along with the social norms of the