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Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) and “The Yellow Wallpaper”;Contents;Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935), was a famous American writer， the famous feminist, critic and social activist at the end of 19 century and the beginning of 20 century, and was honored as one of the forerunners of Feminist Movement, whose works become the feminist classics. Her life coincides with the rising of Feminist Movement and the awakening of feminist ideas. Her ideology transforms from opposing patriarchal oppression to seeking female potentials. ;Inspiration;;;Critical Reaction;A Feminist Narrative;Theme;Frye’s Monomyth(英雄之旅);;Marxist feminist reading;Is the ending a triumph or a defeat?;contradictionsin the text;;The writer of the thesis concludes that the madness of the narrator is a reflection of the ideology and women’s social status in the nineteenth century, whose madness bears double meaning due to her double identity as a woman and a woman writer. ;In The Yellow Wall - paper, female is victimized by the confining male - dominant society, symbolized by the yellow wall - paper. Social conflict (against person: her husband) E.g. “You see he does not believe I am sick” Person against herself: “I don’t know why I should write this” ;Person against nature: “wallpaper. I suppose john never was nervous in his life. He laughs at me so about this wall-paper!” Person against fate: “what a fortunate escape! Why I wouldn’t have a child of mine, an impressionable little thing lives in such a room for world.”;1. Imply the physical and mental prison of female in the society. Women were confined in the male-dominant society, and especially married women were particularly acknowledged as property of their husband in certain law.; 2. Fight for rights and freedom Charlotte Perkins Gilman, as a pioneer in the early feminist movement, conveyed her rebellion and anger over the inequality phenomenon between men and women. Thus, Gilman advocated all women should fight for their rights a