Literary Movements of Charlotte Perkins Gilman

              Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a feminist Author, and the literary movement she was involved with was Realism and Naturalism. The term Naturalism describes a type of literature that attempts to apply scientific principles of objectivity and detachment to its study of human beings. Unlike, Realism which focuses on literary system, naturalism implies a philosophical position: for naturalistic writers characters can be studied through their relationships to their surroundings. The Naturalist believed in studying human beings as though they were "products" that are to be studied impartially, without moralizing about their natures. One of the Authors works that fits into the movement is “The Yellow Wallpaper”. In this story she focuses on how women were treated in the early 1900s. Women had no say at all and an example is shown from this story when the narrator had to do what she was told, and had no other choice. “The Yellow Wallpaper” is an example of Realism and Naturalism because it showed how women lived during the early 1900s.







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