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, …

…equilibrium. the lack of motion and action contribute to their distress. As Charcot pointed it out, the lack of activities is very often the origin of melancholic and depressing ideas. As for the author, Gilman, the medication to hysteria would preconize a lively existence in which time will not be spend to think over morbid ideas but in the contrary to step forward a positive thinking through both an interesting activity and a caring surrounding.