Analysis of Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own and Gilman’s The Yellow Wall-Paper

Analysis of Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own and Gilman’s The Yellow Wall-Paper

Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The

Yellow Wall-Paper focus on the status of women in the history. Both of their works

show the repression of women who are unable to express their ideas in a

male dominated society. Woolf in A Room of One’s own believes women need money

and a room of their own to write. Woolf says that women need to be independent from

men, and in order to do so women need to have money of their own. Gilman in The

Yellow Wall-Paper writes about the repression generated by the gender roles

established by the society which hinders men and women from developing and

practicing their ideas.

In A Room of One’s Own Woolf gives readers a clear picture of

what would have happened if a woman in Shakespeare’s day had had

Shakespeare’s genius. She describes the conditions women lived under during

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