Comparing A Room Of Ones Own And The Yellow Wallpaper
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How has the absence of women's intellect excluded women from the same rights and freedoms as men? The contrasting dominance between men and women have been defined through the irrational outlook of men in regards to a system of repression, due to their overwhelming dominance. Women’s intellect has been consistently undermined due to this system of authoritarianism causing the creation of a social hierarchy where men are placed above that of women, based upon social dominance. The actualised ideologies enacted by men are explored conceptually by female novelists during the eighteen to nineteen - hundreds. Novelists such as Virgina Wolf, “A Room of Ones Own” and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” wrote humanistic responses to the