Women in the 19th Century

In the 19th century, society believed that there was a big difference in personality between men and women. Women are regarded as passive wives and mothers, and men are seen as individuals with different roles and opportunities. For women, education does not go beyond a certain point, people who are pushing the limits are despised. Marriage is absolutely necessary, occupations that exceed housewife's obligations are almost unprecedented. Female writer Jane Austen lived and wrote this particular time.

The role of women in the 19th century is reflected in "Yellow wallpaper". In the 19th century, husband and father did not allow women to interact with specific activities. Women's responsibility is based on their children and their families (Stansell). In "Yellow wallpaper", John wants the narrator to meet the needs of themselves and their children. John tried to manage the narrator, but his society is based on the same nature.

Before the 20th century, women were discriminated by men from the perspective of work and freedom. In the 19th century, men and women had different views and opinions on women in society. A famous American feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman announced "yellow wallpaper" in 1892 and wrote a short story from a women's point of view. A narrator of "Yellow wallpaper" began a story by explaining the house where her husband took her for summer vacation. Male dominant woman, handling of a narrator isolated in a small room, yellow wallpaper collapses the heart of the talker

Janet Witalec discusses patriarchal pressure on women in the 19th century. This brings disability to female gender. Witalec said in a "Yellow Wallpapers" critics acknowledged that "this story is a text of feminist written to protest women's faults in feminist society." A woman in oppression of society of the 19th century. She acknowledges that men are the most dominant in society, and therefore creates boundaries and rules for women, even those of even higher levels. Witalec explained that the limitation of narrator in conference room is similar to the recognition of 19th century narrator against gender inequality in society.