Nabila, Ardela (2021) THE OPPRESSION TOWARDS WOMAN AS REFLECTED IN CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN’S THE YELLOW WALLPAPER. Undergraduate thesis, Diponegoro University.

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Abstract

This study deals with the issue of women’s oppression in the nineteenth-century
America that is experienced by the main female character in Charlotte Perkins
Gilman’s short story entitled The Yellow Wallpaper. The aims of this study are to
examine the forms of oppression presented in the story, as well as the effects of
oppression on the main female character. In order to analyze the short story, the writer
uses sociology of literature approach and library research to collect the data needed in
this study. The result of the study shows that the main female character experiences
three forms of oppression, namely psychological oppression, material oppression, and
powerlessness, which are caused by patriarchal system. The writer concludes that the
short story portrays how oppression can happen even in the smallest unit of the society,
which is family.

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