Thesis Statement For The Yellow Wallpaper and Sweat

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Feminism in “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “Sweat”
Essay Outline
Thesis
The main theme that emerges in “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Gilman Perkins and “Sweat” by Zora Hurston is feminism. The women are born and raised in a patriarchal society that does not give them a chance to be heard. Their determination to break loose from patriarchal chains leads to adverse effects to their health.
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Topic sentence: Both characters struggle to survive in a patriarchal society that limits their freedom.
Topic 1, Aspect 1: “The Yellow Wallpaper.”
Detail: John keeps his wife locked up because he thinks that he is protecting her. He is a doctor but does not understand that locking his wife up derails her status of healing. She says, “He does not believe am sick” (Gilman 647).
Detail: She does not have the power to make independent decisions. She does not like the current room but she cannot tell John because he cannot hear of it (Gilman 648).
Topic 2: Aspect 1: “Sweat”
Detail: Delia is portrayed as a meek and submissive wife living with a rude and abusive husband (Hurston 1023).
Detail: Delia appears as a doomed character whose duty is to perform house chores and a servant to the husband. She cleans clothes after church even as her husband calls her a hypocrite (Hurston 1024)
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