The Yellow Wall-Paper In the nineteenth century, women were repressed and controlled by their husbands and male influences The narrator of the story is repressed and represents the oppression of women in society. A house is normally a symbol of a secure place for a woman, but this house is not her own and she does not want to be in it. The house does not represent the traditional symbol of security for the domestic activities of a woman. ... Strong dominate male and submissive female Pulling the wallpaper down was a symbol of feminism being released from bondage. Woman is suf...

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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 Yellow Wall-Paper" is about a woman's' perception of the control men have and the unwillingness for one woman to give into the male patriarchy. ... Later, she begins to see a womanly figure amidst the symbols and designs; soon the figure emerges to be a woman trapped behind bars. This imagery the wife sees can be applied to herself as a woman trapped behind the male superiority. ...

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Both are symbols showing the inner feeling of the women portrayed. In "The Yellow Wallpaper", Gilman writes about how the woman loathed the wallpaper. ... In "The Yellow Wallpaper", Gilman conveyed that love was enough for the woman to not fight back about the room she was in. ... The room which the woman stayed most of her days in "The Yellow Wallpaper" was her demise. ... In "The Yellow Wallpaper", the woman in the second layer of the wallpaper was herself. ...

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However, these symbols are not as good as the real thing. ... In Charlotte Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper," the narrator's only triumph from an oppressive society is to become insane. ... A decision made by a woman, how scandalous! ... If a woman starts to write or read, it is considered that the woman is straying away from God. ... The only place she finds amusement is the hideous yellow wallpaper. ...

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