Freedom, A Birth-Given Entitlement Or A Manmade Privilege

Freedom, a birth-given entitlement or a manmade privilege? For the female population on this Earth, neither is the appropriate answer. Freedom is defined by the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint; everyday women are silenced for speaking out or are frowned upon for being independent by not submitting to the heavy-weight of the set standards placed upon their shoulders. Over the centuries, the proposal of women having any rights remained a constant battle that appeared to not have any pre-destined ending. In the intervening time that Charlotte Perkins Gilman fabricated, â€Å"The Yellow Wall-Paper†, any thought of Women s Rights was unorthodox; whereas when Mary Oliver indited, â€Å"Wild Geese,†Ã¢â‚¬ ¦show more content†¦In the written text or in everyday life the never-ending phrases of â€Å"act like a lady† or â€Å"dress like a lady† are heeded, but this expectancy of how a distinct sex should act is unnatural and a standardization created by how society believes each gender should operate. On July 3, 1960, Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born in Hartford, Connecticut. She grew up to become a feminist who encouraged the female population to gain their independence. She produced a large body of polemical writing, what would today be called feminist writings, that made her a leading theoretician, speaker, and writer on women’s problems of her time. In 1896, Gilman published her most-known nonfiction short story called â€Å"The Yellow Wall-Paper.† Gilman wrote the story when she started suffering from extended periods of depression after she started to believe her marriage threatened her sanity. In 1935 Gilman committed suicide after she learned she had a type of inoperable cancer (Baym p.790-791). In the compelling fiction short story, â€Å"The Yellow Wall-Paper†, the narrator is a woman that suffers from a low-grade mental illness but because she is locked aw ay in a room her illness intensifies. The narrator’s husband, John, who is a