Identity Through A Name
In Seneca Falls, NY the first meeting of the Women's Rights Movement took place on
July 19-20, 1848. This was just the beginning of women's equality. Women started to wear pants in the 1920’s instead of a dress or skirt. They applied for jobs others thought were not appropriate for women. They also started peaceful protest in the streets demanding a right to vote. Women got creative when fighting for the rights that all humans deserve through their actions, music, and books they wrote. Women started to speak out against the patriarchal constructs that confined them to the domestic sphere to demand change in the way they are perceived in society. Much literature written by women were soon brought out from the shadows in order to advocate for the women’s role in society; they wanted to be seen as equal to men. One piece of literature written was “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. “The Yellow Wallpaper” was first published in the New England Magazine issued on May 1892, but not “...until 1973, the story’s feminism thrust had gone unremarked…” by all because of the Poe-like tale (Haney-Peritz). Gilman shared the story of a woman trapped in her room by her husband with a distasteful yellow wallpaper, but later on she found she wanted to release the woman trapped behind the paper. Though her story was thought to …show more content…
In society this has long been portrayed as the “American Family” in which women are subservient and take care of the kids. “The Yellow Wallpaper” questions this given role by displaying that the unnamed wife is happy with her husband, understanding that he is trying to help her. In the end his control drove her to insanity. She didn’t have a purpose or roll because her husband didn’t allow her to do anything but rest. This unnamed woman had only the ability to journal in secret while watching the woman in the yellow
In Seneca Falls, NY the first meeting of the Women's Rights Movement took place on
July 19-20, 1848. This was just the beginning of women's equality. Women started to wear pants in the 1920’s instead of a dress or skirt. They applied for jobs others thought were not appropriate for women. They also started peaceful protest in the streets demanding a right to vote. Women got creative when fighting for the rights that all humans deserve through their actions, music, and books they wrote. Women started to speak out against the patriarchal constructs that confined them to the domestic sphere to demand change in the way they are perceived in society. Much literature written by women were soon brought out from the shadows in order to advocate for the women’s role in society; they wanted to be seen as equal to men. One piece of literature written was “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. “The Yellow Wallpaper” was first published in the New England Magazine issued on May 1892, but not “...until 1973, the story’s feminism thrust had gone unremarked…” by all because of the Poe-like tale (Haney-Peritz). Gilman shared the story of a woman trapped in her room by her husband with a distasteful yellow wallpaper, but later on she found she wanted to release the woman trapped behind the paper. Though her story was thought to …show more content…
In society this has long been portrayed as the “American Family” in which women are subservient and take care of the kids. “The Yellow Wallpaper” questions this given role by displaying that the unnamed wife is happy with her husband, understanding that he is trying to help her. In the end his control drove her to insanity. She didn’t have a purpose or roll because her husband didn’t allow her to do anything but rest. This unnamed woman had only the ability to journal in secret while watching the woman in the yellow