-Mariana Diaz
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Gender and Pathology in "The Yellow Wallpaper"
Fleenor talks about the symbolism in The Yellow Wallpaper it is more than confinement, victimization, and the inability to write. It shows us that the women being trapped in the room was a symbols for women not being able to write because it was wrong. In the story one theme is punishment for becoming a mother or in another view punishment for being female. The narrator in The Yellow Wallpaper is punish for being a mother by not been able to see her baby. The narrator is punished for been a female by having to stay in the room and not been able to write. I agree with it because women are being lock down not physically but mentally women are seen as less than men. The women need to escape that room and fight for their rights.
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i agree with you saying that women are seen less than men because in this story her husband made it seem as if she didnt know what she was talking about and didnt even try to see her side of how she was feeling. He just took as she doesnt know what she is talking about because she is "crazy".
ReplyDeleteyea back then women couldn't do much so it seemed like if they were locked up in their own room.it was lame but women worked together to get more rights~.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you when you said "the narrator is punished for been a female by having to stay in the room and not been able to write". Which is true men are afraid that women are going to figure out what is really going on and they are going to leave.
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