Freedom for Women in The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gillman

Freedom for Women in The discolour cover by Charlotte Perkins Gillman and The spirit level of an Hour by Kate Chopin The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gillman and The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin be dickens feminist kit and caboodle in which liberation is the overlying theme. Both of the main characters achieve immunity from their married mans oppression in these minuscule stories however, freedom is only achieved through insanity in The Yellow Wallpaper and death in The Story of an Hour. The women in these stories are viewed as very powerful, as they do whatever it takes to free themselves from the tyrannical holds of their husbands. Their strength proves these two short stories very influential works of feminism. conquest is chief in the achievement of liberation in both short stories. Both of the narrators are oppressed by their husbands, and though they want to be happy, it is impossible due to the counseling they are treated by their spouses. In ?The Yel low Wallpaper,? John, the nameless narrator?s husband, confines his wife to a room with barred windows and hideous yellow wallpaper because she is ill. He does not allow her to exert herself physically or mentally, prevents her from seeing her friends and family and keeps her under fierce scrutiny. While isolated in this room, she begins to go mad, believing that the wallpaper is in some manner watching her, and eventually she believes she is a prisoner inside it. The narrator proves that her husband is oppressive when she reveals how afraid she is of him. She says, ?There comes John, and I must put this away(predicate)?he hates to have me write a word? (Gillman 41). Likewise, in Kate Chopin?s ?The Story of an Hour? it is perceived that the main character Louise Mallard is oppre... ...reedom proves to be the overlying theme in ?The Story of an Hour? and death is the way in which freedom is achieved in the short story.?The Yellow Wallpaper? and ?The Story of an Hour? are two feminist works that highlight the magnificence of freedom for women in the oppressive world of men. Freedom is not achieved usually in either of the short stories, but is gained through insanity and death. These two stories prove that women?s liberation is an extremely important issue, and the means by which these women gained their freedom is remarkable.Works CitedChopin, Kate. The Story of an Hour. (1894). 31 Apr. 2003. http//www.4literature.net/Kate_Chopin/Story_of_an_Hour/Gillman, Charlotte Perkins. ?The Yellow Wallpaper.? The Yellow Wallpaper and Selected Stories of Charlotte Perkins Gillman. Newark University of Delaware Press, 1994.PID 0230