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This is the first 1,000 characters of 1385 words (5.54 pages) in the essay titled Three Cheers for John Modern day feminists’ enjoy looking into the past to find examples of female oppression. This tactic is employed in the hopes of demonstrating that oppression of their sex by the evil male populous has been going on for decades. One such work that is cited by feminists to showcase just how terrible women were treated in the first part of the twentieth century is Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper.”Feminists’ are quick to point out that the main character in this story is driven down the path of insanity by her uncaring husband. It is of their opinion that John, the main character’s husband, consistently neglects her by keeping her locked away upstairs. Other feminists argue that the main character was not actually insane, rather, she was pushed into a temporary state of delirium as a result of the state of confinement that her husband subjected her to. These same feminists will say that John’s consistent misdiagnosis of his wife’s condition smacks of incompetence. It is their theory that if the main character were a man during this same period of time, doctors would have treated the condition differently. In other words, men were not diagnosed with hysteria and bedridden for three months when they became depressed. As mentioned before, this is what some modern day feminists think. This is in stark contrast to the interpretation by us modern day realists. John was a good husband that cared deeply about his wife’s condition. He is described at th... |
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Keywords: feminists, state of delirium, oppression, good husband, norton anthology, three cheers, yellow wallpaper, charlotte perkins, time doctors, hard to imagine, temporary state, bedridden, realists, misdiagnosis, stark contrast, smacks