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In three pages this paper analyzes the importance of setting in developing the major themes of female oppression during the late nineteenth century, and also considers the significance of the treatment methods the narrator received in reinforcing her oppression. Four sources are listed in the bibliography.
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that mirrored the authors own experiences with postpartum depression (Greene). Within the chronological setting of the late nineteenth century, the physical setting of confined spaces, and the medical rest
cure setting that was employed for female psychological disturbances of this type during this period, Gilman masterfully constructs a scathing commentary on the oppression imposed upon women by the Victorian
patriarchal society of this time. The narrator is Jane, who along with her physician husband John, infant son, nanny Mary, and housekeeper/sister-in-law Jennie, has relocated for the summer to
what she describes as a "hereditary estate," which emphasizes the male social domination that reduces women to property (Gilman 9). Throughout the
story, there are comparisons made between the natural exterior (the hedges and garden spaces that exist outside of the house), and the manmade constraints of the room interior (Gottfried 48).
The external spaces are encased by "hedges and walls and gates that lock" (Gilman 11). The barriers within the interior begin innocuously, with John refusing Jane to repaper
over the hideous yellow wallpaper that adorns the nursery (Gottfried 48). According to Jane, "He said that after the wallpaper was changed it would be the heavy bedstead, and
then the barred windows, and then that gate at the head of the stairs, and so on" (Gilman 11). Furthermore, Jane is prohibited from moving her bed, bars are
placed upon the windows, and the stairs are barred from access by the construction of gates (Gottfried 48). The house becomes a prison in which the female is the
inmate and the male is her oppressive warden. When Jane begins to feel unwell with symptoms of depression - nervousness and extreme fatigue - John decides to treat her using
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