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Symbolisms of oppression in Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper"
During the Victorian period women were viewed as objects. Upper middle class women were not allowed to be intellectual or work. Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an oppressed woman who wrote about the hardships of being a woman in a male dominate world. The symbolism in Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" depicts the feelings of oppression of a Victorian woman.
The narrator in Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" is infatuated with the wallpaper in her "colonial mansion" (531). The protagonist sees what she is "quite sure it is a woman" (538) trapped behind the wallpaper. The woman changes by day and night. "By daylight she is subdued, quiet" (539), however, "at night in any kind of light, in twilight, candlelight, lamplight, and worst of all by moonlight, it [the wallpaper] becomes bars! The outside pattern I mean, and the woman behind it is as plain as can be." (538). The protagonist sees a woman who represents every Victorian......

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