The Oppression of Women by Society in The Yellow Wallpaper

The Oppression of Women by Society in The discolour Wallpaper                        The Yellow Wallpaper is about a creative woman whose talents are curb by her dominant husband. His efforts to oppress her in order to keep her in spite of appearance beau mondes norms of what a wife is supposed to act analogous, only lead to her moral destruction. He is more concerned with societal norms than the mental health of his wife. In trying to become independent and overcome her own suppressed thoughts, and her husbands saturnine diagnosis of her she loses her sanity. One federal agency the story illustrates his dominance is by the track he, a well-know and established doctor who should know better than to diagnose a family member, diagnoses her as having a temporary nervousness condition and what he prescribes for her illness, which is retire rest. Without asking her, he takes her to their su mmer home to recover from an illness that he doesnt believe she has. He tells her there is no reason why she feels the way she does she should get rid of those silly fantasies. In saying this to her, he is treating her like a child who doesnt really know how she feels, thus making her interrogation herself. When she tries to tell him what she needs, she is completely shut out and ignored. I sometimes send off that in my condition if I had less opposition and more society and stimulus-but John says the very worst thing I can do is to hold about my condition, and I confess it always makes me feel bad. This pedagogy has a two-fold meaning, in the first furcate of the sentence he reveals part of his insecurity problem. He is not interested in getting her wait on because he doesn... ...environment she was placed in, and to not look for outside influences to help inflect her, which was an indication of his insecurity. She accepted the environment that she was placed in but stimul ate to slowly change it into what she wanted. Even though her husband really believed that he was helping her, he was actually hurting her. He was stuck in societys opinion that woman wanted to be taken care of and thought that, thats what he was doing. He could not understand why she began to react violently and angrily to the environment in which she was placed. Only by confronting her fears of what society and her husband would think about her, did she allow herself to become free. Once she achieved her independence, she realized that she didnt need to swear on anyone else but herself for her survival. By refusing to be submissive, she traded her sanity for independence.