yellow wallpaper

             The vision of hysterical women in "The Yellow Wallpaper"
             Inherited ideology has traditionally constructed men as more susceptible to hold the power in our society. Women have been treated as second class citizens with neither the legal rights nor the respect of their male counterparts. Culture has significantly contributed to these gender roles by conditioning women to accept their subordinate status while encouraging young men to lead and control. Most feminist criticisms contend that literature, either supports the society's inherited structure or provides a social criticism in order to change these hierarchies. "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman depicts one woman's struggle against the traditional female role and the effect of women domination during the nineteenth century's society. She challenges the notion that though women are physically strong enough to carry the burden of childbirth, yet they are viewed as incapable of the strength of character necessary to work outside of their home. The narrator of "The Yellow Wallpaper", that is considered as suffering from hysteria, falls slowly into madness due to her husband's coercion. The primary intent of Gilman's short story is to criticize a prescribed treatment called "The Rest Cure" but also to reveal women's suffering at her time. Not only does the author depict a certain time's behavior; she more importantly tries to explain hysteria through the narrator's thoughts and to describe its manifestations with divers symbols and images.
             "The Yellow Wallpaper" presents itself as the writing of a young woman, who along with her physician-husband and her sister-in-law is spending the summer in what she calls an "ancestral hall". The narrator, Jane, that is suffering from "temporary nervous depression- a slight hysterical t...

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