Power Politics in Marriage and Medical Attitudes in by Berina Hodzic

By Berina Hodzic

Seminar paper from the 12 months 2015 within the topic American stories - Literature, grade: 1,7, Ruhr-University of Bochum (Englisches Seminar), direction: Women’s Literature: From Anti-Slavery to monetary Independence, language: English, summary: In my paper i want to envision how Gilman’s nineteenth century brief tale "The Yellow Wallpaper" engages with the facility politics of marriage and the scientific attitudes in the direction of girls within the 19th-century U.S. society. i need to argue that during Gilman’s autobiographical tale, the feminine protagonist, who undergoes the remaining treatment, escapes from the oppression during the patriarchal associations of marriage and drugs looking for own and highbrow independence. The realist narrative offers bizarre imagery that depicts the assumption of an influence constitution regulated by means of male authority and women’s subordinate place in society.

My goal here's to offer a quick perception into treatment within the nineteenth century but additionally to painting the melancholy and the remedy Gilman herself underwent. In doing so i need to mirror on Gilman’s motivation for writing “The Yellow Wallpaper” and to reconstruct the social context by way of calling into query her nonfictional paintings “The Man-Made World”. the most a part of my research will conceal the research of the fast tale with the focus being/put at the key trope, during which i'm going to continue chronologically. eventually, my inquiry will shut with mentioning the most achievements and results the fast tale had on modern society and readership.

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