Revision And Patriarchy Devising The Marginalized...

Revision and Patriarchy: Devising the Marginalized Subjugation of Women in Society There have been multiple conceptions about â€Å"The Yellow Wallpaper† over the true significance of the story and it has been evaluated by many scholarly writers for several generations. The story was written by the poet Charlotte Perkins Gilman in the nineteenth-century and it conveyed ideas about symbolism, feminism and individualism. It provides the reader with her viewpoint on society’s subjugation of women by the patriarchal model that reserved power for men. The gender ideology stressed that women and men were to conform to distinctive roles where males were to handle being the breadwinner of the home and women were to conduct being the housekeeper.†¦show more content†¦The methods of her writings were used as a way to communicate in writing about the issues that are troubling her because she cannot speak about these feelings or hardships with anyone else. These texts speak about the mental health condition that she is already suffering from along with the treatment of â€Å"rest cure† that she is receiving from her husband, which causes her to be engrossed by the symptoms of psychosis. Notably, this condition that she was suffering from is produced after giving birth to a child and is now known as postpartum depression. Furthermore, the treatment she was receiving was called the â€Å"rest cure† which consisted of being isolated in a room and placed on bed rest for several weeks and can even be for months. The upstairs room that her husband insist on her staying in has yellow wallpaper that she finds â€Å"repulsive† and she pleads with her husband to â€Å"repaper the room† but he won’t give into a â€Å"nervous patient[s]† request (Johnson 524). In view of this, during the eighteenth century women were not allowed to speak out against their husbands nor was she allowed to have an opinion in this matter due to her illness. These literary writings address how women were influenced by a â€Å"hermeneutic† belief system that placed women mutually in unity to abide by a societal â€Å"patriarchal† power (King and Morris 23). Again, women could not communicate their