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Analysis Of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper

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When Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” was first published, many people initially read it as a Gothic horror story about a women who goes psychotic. As time goes, people started to realize that “The Yellow Wallpaper” was actually a text that heavily criticizes the inequality of the sexes within the institution of marriage. This text represents feminist because it talks a women trying to escape from her husband especially when she found herself trapped which was drive her crazy. In this text the author who appears to be a woman was undergoing care for depression. Unfortunately, she could not chose a desirable medical practice other than the one her husband shoes for her. The powerful, and authority of her husband urged her to be passive especially

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