Oppression of Women in Chopins Story of an Hour and Gilmans Yellow Wa

Oppression of Women in Chopins story of an Hour and Gilmans yellowness Wallpaper The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin and The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman sh ar the same view of the subordinate line of women in the late 1800s. Both stories demonstrate the devastating effects on the mind and body that result from an intelligent person living with and accept the imposed will of another. This essay will attempt to make their themes discernible by examining a brief summery of their stories and relating them to their personal histories. It will breach this theme further through analysis of setting, visual and conceptual symbolism, and by exploring the relationships between the reference works in each story. In the Story of an Hour, we are told that Louise has a bad heart condition. A friend of the family has discovered that at that place was a bad accident at her husband?s labor and he is on the deceased list. Louise?s sister carefully tells her this hapless rude (a)s however, instead of falling apart, Louise finds herself feeling as if she has a new lease on life because she will finally be qualified to live for herself. Suddenly, her husband walks in the door, and shocked, Louise drops dead of a heart attack. The mendelevium says it was from a joy that kills (341-342). In The Yellow Wallpaper, the main character is attempting to heal from a nervous disorder. Her physician prescribes the rest cure which allows her to do nothing no housekeeping, no writing, and no visiting with family or friends. She cannot counterbalance play with her baby. Her husband insists that she stay in a room upstair and she eventually goes insane. Both Chopin and Gilman borrow from real events in their lives when writing these stories. Kat... ...V. Roberts and total heat E. Jacobs. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey Prentice-Hall Inc. Simon Schuster/ A Viacom Company, 1998. 542-553. Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. Why I Wrote ?The Yellow Wallpaper? Ed. Catherine Lavend er The College of Staten Island of the City University of New York, Fall Semester, Oct. 1997. (25 Jan 1999) http//www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/ accounting/lavender/whyyw.html McChristie, Pat. Women Need to Work copyright 1998. Cyberwoman (30 Jan 1999) http//www.cyberparent.com/women/needwork.htm Wyatt, Neal Biography of Kate Chopin English 384 Women Writers. Ed. Ann M. Woodlief secure 1998, Virginia Commonwealth University. (26 Jan. 1999) http//www.vcu.edu/engweb/eng384/katebio.htm Why are Women Leaving Marriage in Droves? Marriage. Copyright 1998. Cyberwoman (30 Jan 1999) http//www.cyberparent.com/women/marriage1.htm