Virginia Woolf And Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The 20th century is a cradle of suffering, pain, dissolution, fear and depression due to the two World Wars. During this age there are many theories comes into existence such as feminism, nihilism, psychoanalysis, trauma theory, etc. In this age, Virginia Woolf and Charlotte Perkins Gilman are the prominent leading figures of feminine writings in which one can find some aspect of traumatic experiences. Virginia Woolf is ideally situated to appreciate and experiment with the art of writing. Her works like ‘The Voyage Out’ is the experiment with several literary tools, including compelling and unusual narrative perspectives, dream-states and free association prose while her novel, ‘To The Lighthouse’ shows her early childhood memories. But her

Dalloway, Woolf present one day event of Mrs. Dalloway ,the protagonist which is expand in 200 pages. In the same way, Charlotte Gilman was also a writer and a social activist during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Gilman experienced a severe depression and underwent a series of unusual treatments for it. This experience inspired her to write her best-known story “The Yellow Wallpaper” which was published in 1892. Gilman was also a successful lecturer and intellectual, her greatest works of nonfiction is ‘Women And Economics’. Gilman also established a magazine, ‘The Forerunner’ that allowed her to express her ideas on women’s issues and on social reform. In her magazine she gave reasons for writing the short story ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’. She said, ‘Being naturally moved to rejoicing by this narrow escape, I wrote The Yellow

Charlotte Gilman herself wrote in her magazine that, “It was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked”. The Yellow Wallpaper is a symbolic tale of a woman’s struggle to break free her mental prison. Charlotte Perkins Gilman shows the reader how quickly insanity takes hold when a person is taken out of context and completely isolated from the rest of the world. The narrator is a depressed woman, who cannot handle being alone and retreats into her own delusions as opposed to accepting her reality. The narrator’s echo of suffering shows in her writing, where she cried for rationality but no one listen her voice or avoid her. In her journal, the narrator