AN OBSTACLES
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN An obstacle Charlotte perkins gilman
1. The poet as a woman:
The poet was a utopian feminist during a time when her accomplishments were exceptional for women, and she served as a role model for future generations of feminists because of her unorthodox concepts and lifestyle. With this said, I feel the poem speaks for women, and the speaker is a woman. Support of this can be found by way of inference. The poem begins as the speaker notes she has a lot of responsibilities.
A woman who is not just a wife, but is also a parent and a child—perhaps even a friend, and/or servant to the needy; the things she has to accomplish are …show more content…
In the first stanza, she symbolized a mountain path as the road a woman has to pass through to reach that equality. We know that it is quite a hard thing to do to climb a mountain, compared to when we walk on a flat road. Moreover, when we are burdened with many things to do important business of own and other people’s too. This woman or perhaps we can refer her to Gilman herself walks through that hard way bringing with her many things not only for herself. She does that also for her folk other women who believe that women are born equal to men. However, in the middle of her way a Prejudice prevents her accomplished effort. Prejudice here refers to patriarchal society both men and women who believe that women are the second …show more content…
It gives very meaningful extract even from the view point of human. We human being live in a dramatic and fast changing society in which we faces many difficulties and troubles which arises from our daily activity of life. The poet want us to stand bold enough to face the challenges that will come to us in our daily life and find the solution to solve any difficulties, face the challenges. In our society we come across different people belonging to different culture, traditions and class, rich or poor having different troubles big or small according to their living condition. Some faces financial problems, some prejudice and some discrimination. Their problems varied from persons to persons, in that particular of time the poet want to overcome the obstacle which sometimes stood up like a mountain in front of us and find a way out of that obstacle. And should do what one think that is right for the betterment of the society and oneself. To have the confidence to face the challenge and overcome it like the way the poet’s overcome the obstacle of prejudice, and the will power that she had to overcome are the things that one can do and