The Oppression of Women by Society in The Yellow Wallpaper

The Oppression of Women by Society in The yellow(a) Wallpaper                        The Yellow Wallpaper is about a creative char whose talents are suppressed by her dominant husband. His efforts to oppress her in rear to keep her within partys norms of what a wife is supposed to act like, moreover lead to her psychogenic destruction. He is more concerned with societal norms than the mental health of his wife. In trying to become independent and overcome her testify suppressed thoughts, and her husbands false diagnosis of her she loses her sanity. One way the story illustrates his mastery is by the way he, a well-know and established doctor who should know let on than to diagnose a family member, diagnoses her as having a temporary nervousness qualify and what he prescribes for her illness, which is bed rest. Without asking her, he takes her to their summer home to reanimate from a n illness that he doesnt believe she has. He tells her there is no crusade why she feels the way she does she should get rid of those silly fantasies. In face this to her, he is treating her like a child who doesnt really know how she feels, and so making her doubt herself. When she tries to tell him what she needs, she is completely shut out and ignored. I sometimes fancy that in my condition if I had less electric resistance and more society and stimulus-but John says the very worst thing I can do is to think about my condition, and I confess it forever and a day makes me feel bad. This statement has a two-fold meaning, in the first part of the decry he reveals part of his insecurity problem. He is not interested in getting her help because he doesn... ...environment she was placed in, and to not look for outside influences to help strengthen her, which was an indication of his insecurity. She accepted the environment that she was placed in but begin to slowly change it int o what she wanted. Even though her husband really believed that he was helping her, he was actually hurting her. He was stuck in societys thinking that woman wanted to be taken bursting charge of and thought that, thats what he was doing. He could not understand why she began to reply 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 realize that she didnt need to rely on anyone else but herself for her survival. By refusing to be submissive, she traded her sanity for independence.