Yevgeniy Pastukhov Semchenkov. Eng 201-0908. Pr. Chrysula

Yevgeniy Pastukhov Semchenkov ENG 201-0908 Pr. Chrysula Norway 5/14/2017 Emancipation in The Awakening and â€Å"The Yellow Wallpaper† Kate Chopin’s the most well-known work The Awakening and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story â€Å"The Yellow Wallpaper,† both initially published in 1899, present astoundingly analogous stories of the role of women in society. Both texts are narrated from the point of view of a female protagonist who breaks away from the restraining conventions of a male-ruled society before eventually emancipating through separation from the thinking world, via suicide in The Awakening and insanity in â€Å"The Yellow Wall-Paper.† Some would argue that the narrators are unreliable and the stories are misrepresented simply because†¦show more content†¦Yet Edna and Gilman’s protagonist are women who receive their imperfections through their surroundings; the carnality and madness are the results of their oppression. Until the happenings of The Awakening, Edna has been married to Mr. Pontellier for a long time. She goes through her awakening after a vacat ion in the Grand Isle, but before, she has been a subordinate wife without any doubts in accordance to her role. Just as Mrs. Pontellier begins the story as an average, sensible woman, the main character of â€Å"The Yellow Wall-paper† begins as a mentally secure person. Gilman’s heroine depicts the â€Å"garden-- large and shady, full of box-bordered paths† (4), the â€Å"pretty old-fashioned chintz hangings† (5), and even â€Å"those sprawling flamboyant patterns† (5) of the wallpaper in an ultimately sensible manner, what serves as an indicator of her capability of thinking and speaking from a rational standpoint. What is more, she is sent away to the mansion not in a view of the fact that she has mental issues but because her husband believes that she has depression. She admits that she is of the opinion that if she â€Å"had less opposition and more society and stimulus,† she would get well sooner (4). Having concluded that both females are in complete possession of their mental capacities at the beginning of the stories, a collation of The Awakening and â€Å"The Yellow Wall-Paper† uncovers a similarity in the oppressiveness of the ruling male figures. Both husbands in