The Oppression of Women by Society in The Yellow Wallpaper

The Oppression of Women by Society in The Yellow Wallpaper                        The Yellow Wallpaper is nearly a creative woman whose talents are suppressed by her dominant husband. His efforts to oppress her in order to keep her within societys norms of what a wife is supposed to act bid, only lead to her mental destruction. He is more concerned with societal norms than the mental health of his wife. In trying to become independent and overtake her own suppressed thoughts, and her husbands false diagnosis of her she loses her sanity. One way the story illustrates his dominance is by the way he, a well-know and established doctor who should know violate than to diagnose a family member, diagnoses her as having a temporary nervousness condition and what he prescribes for her unwellness, which is bed rest. Without asking her, he takes her to their summer home to recover from an illness that he doesnt believe she has. He tells her there is no reason why she feels the way she does she should get rid of those silly fantasies. In saying this to her, he is treating her like a child who doesnt really know how she feels, thus making her doubt herself. When she tries to tell him what she needs, she is completely shut out and ignored. I sometimes fancy that in my condition if I had less opposition and more society and stimulus-but John says the very worst thing I can do is to think almost my condition, and I confess it always makes me feel bad. This statement has a two-fold meaning, in the first part of the sentence he reveals part of his insecurity problem. He is non interested in getting her help because he doesn... ...environment she was pose in, and to not look for outside influences to help strengthen her, which was an indication of his insecurity. She accepted the environment that she was placed in but begin to slowly change it into what she wanted. Even though her h usband really believed that he was helping her, he was actually hurting her. He was stuck in societys thinking that woman wanted to be taken care of and thought that, thats what he was doing. He could not understand why she began to react violently and angrily to the environment in which she was placed. Only by confronting her fears of what society and her husband would think about her, did she allow herself to become free. Once she achieved her independence, she realized that she didnt need to curse on anyone else but herself for her survival. By refusing to be submissive, she traded her sanity for independence.