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Societal expectations placed on women mostly stem from an older, more sexist way of thinking. The idea behind this forced inequality is to place white men on a pedestal where they are seen as the ”most superior human”. Although this way of thinking was mainly present in our past we do see it occur in our lives today.
This weeks short story ;The Yellow Wallpaper by Charolotte Perkins Gilman, focuses on a woman and the treatment her husband John gives her (as a doctor). Very early off we are told two different degrees of sickness our main character is in, her husband, who is an esteemed doctor tells her "there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression,—a slight hysterical tendency,—what is one to do?" (page 131) and our main characters self diagnosis "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 about my condition, and I confess it always makes me feel bad."(page 132). In its core this kinda long short story is about oppression and what it does to a person, the more John traps his wife away with "treatment for her condition" through isolation the worse her condition gets, ending in a near psychotic break as she obsesses over yellow wallpaper. Personally i didn't feel any personal relevance with this story, the longer i read the more of a chore it felt to get through, although it had an interesting way of addressing the inequality of a relationship.
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