When she can finally be free, it is seen as a mad woman “I had to creep over him every time”, here the use of the “I” is also important but most importantly, what her state represents.
#The yellow wallpaper annotations free
When the protagonist can finally express herself without repression, is when she is free “here I can creep smoothly on the floor”, in this quotation the use of the word “I” represents a lot, she can finally make her own decisions by herself. Reaching the end of the story, the topics of what women were allowed to do is challenged. The protagonist of the story is acting as a criticism to society through these acts. Women were so utterly underappreciated that they did not have a voice in their own homes.
In the story “The Yellow Wallpaper” this can be clearly seen. Women at the late nineteenth century suffered from being underappreciated and did not have a voice in society.
Then, John does not take seriously what her wife says about the wallpaper, “He laughs at me so about this wallpaper”, he does not care what the narrator says. Then, her husband is not the only one that does not let her write John’s sister in law does not let her write too, she is hired as a housekeeper. A further evidence of this is when the woman doesn’t like her room and says “But John would not hear of it, she feels her husband won’t consider her opinion. The protagonist of the story represents and carries almost all the features women were expected to have at the late nineteenth century.Īlso, the woman at that time didn’t have the same rights as men. Also, at that time science was very important so the narrator thinks that her husband is always right, “What is one to do?”, this is when she is talking about what her husband tells her and that she does not agree with it but she feels he is right because of his profession. Her husband did not allow the narrator to write because he thinks it is worst for her, “he hates to have me write a word” the protagonist cannot write in front of her husband. The protagonist of this story could not write because of her illness that was a nervous depression, this was what his husband, John, told her. Secondly, the woman in the late nineteenth century could not express themselves or do things like writing or going out of their houses alone. Throughout the entire story, the author makes a critic to the society, but indirectly, using metonymy.įirstly, metonymically means a figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of an object or concept for that of another to which it is related.
That is why we can claim that this character metonymically represents women in Victorian society, since metonymy is a figure. This is a characteristic of many women in the Victorian society. She is a victim of the repressing society in which she lived in. She is not only a victim because of her husband’s apathy of her illness. In the short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper”, the protagonist is shown as a victim. “The woman of the story “The Yellow Wallpaper” metonymically represents the woman at the late nineteenth century” How far do you agree with this statement? Explain. This is the second version of our essay, hope you like it 🙂 I published mine, and then Ceci made some corrections and suggested some tips on writing conclusions. Then, we had to publish our essays on our blogs. For our literature class our teacher, Cecilia Lasa, asked us to think an essay statement based on the short story we’ve been reading, “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
0 kommentar(er)
