Sunday

“I've got out at last. . . And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back!"

If you ever question the power of the written word, you need look no longer than to the many female authors that have bravely used their abilities as fictional writers to liberate women. 




















It sometimes baffles me to think about how far we have come since the 19th century, and few reminds me more hauntingly than Kate Chopin in “The Story of an Hour" and Charlotte Perkins Gilman in “The Yellow Wallpaper", which has been coined a feminist classic. Through female protagonists controlled by men, these stories illustrate the 19nth century women’s lack of power, the forced female roles in this time and how this affected women’s sanity. At a time were females finally started to see some opportunities outside the home, they were not allowed to pursue them. The stories effectively places opportunity against the idea of the womanly obligation, to show how the women were imprisoned by their gender in a patriarchal society.

I will not summarize the plots of these stories for the sole reason that I wish you to discover how they unfold first hand. I will warn you, that you might experience some skin prickling. 

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