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A 4 pag epaper which examines how women are often presented as victims who struggle in a man’s society as seen in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper and the film The Changeling. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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part of the 20th century were perceived as creatures that were incredibly different from men in many, negative, ways. They were seen as less capable of intellectual thought, less capable
of being logical or rational than men, and seen as creatures that were all but less than men in all ways but in bearing children. Much of the world clearly
seemed to assume that women were not much more capable than children of many things and the cultures were run and controlled by men. In Charlotte Perkins Gilmans story The
Yellow Wallpaper, written at the end of the 19th century, and the recent film The Changeling, which takes place in the first half of the 20th century, the reader/viewer is
presented with two very powerful examples of how women were seen as much less than men and how they struggled as victims in society. The following paper examines these stories
in that respect. Women as Struggling Victims in Society in the 19th and the 20th Century In first looking at the stories under examination it is important to
understand something of how women were perceived in society, by men, and the medical community for this is a very large part of why women were oppressed and seen as
lesser creatures than men. In relationship to medical science, which involves Gilmans story a great deal, one author notes how, "It was commonly assumed throughout much of medical history, that
the female reproduction system and the female neurological systems were one and the same, or just so intertwined that there wasnt much difference" (Virag). In truth it was often assumed
that a womans mental, and physical, condition was reflective of the reality wherein a womans womb would wander freely through her body (Virag). Clearly men had no idea, medically
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