These two short stories, "The Yellow Wallpaper" and "A Jury of Her Peers" both are written by women. These women are crying out from a feminist standpoint from feeling oppressed by men in society.
"The Yellow Wallpaper" is about a woman who is given "rest cure" to cure her from post natal depression. It is written from a first person perspective, so at times the reader does not know if they can trust her account of the situation, or if she is literally going crazy in her room by herself. She even sees women crying out for help in the yellow wallpaper of her room.
In "A Jury of Her Peers", Minnie Foster is accused of killing her husband. Essentially, the men and women of the town are the jury's of the trial. The women can relate and understand Minnie's situation where the men are just searching for evidence that she killed him. The women find out that she indeed did kill her husband, but it wasn't out of pure intentions, but instead, her husband led her to do it after years and years of being suppressed in her marriage. When he killed her bird, that was the last straw.
The women in both of these short stories are similarly living encased in their lives as if they were in jail. There is no way out because of the men in their lives who limit their opportunities.
In both of these short stories, the main Gothic element is feminism The term feminist is used to describe any group of people that are being oppressed. In this case it is women being oppressed by men.
What i wrote in my comments, that it felt like i was reading a schizophrenia patients diary when reading The Yellow Wallpaper. Having it all that much disturbing, they really did manage to present how oppressed they felt with men's chauvinistic behavior, stating they are going insane being so powerless in the society.
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