The Yellow Wallpaper

In the early 1800’s women were given a subservient role in society. In marriage the husband could be viewed as the warden and the wife as the inmate. This left the woman to become dependent and therefore inferior. In “The Yellow Wall-Paper” the author Charlotte Gilman vividly writes the effects of oppression on women. The main character is suffering from mental depression because of the shackles her husband puts on her with his practical ideas …

…to the narrator. During her rest stay she fought the oppression from her husband in a male dominated society. The narrator broke free and explosively demonstrates her stand for feminism through the entries in her journal and the freedom opened by the wallpaper. As we now enter the 21st century, we appreciate the changing role of women that are now free to make conscious decisions and ideas from the subservient role and the male patriarchy.