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How Passivity and Submissiveness lead to madness by Charlette Perkins Gilman and Henrik IbsenHe told me all his opinions, so I had the equivalent ones too or if they were different I hid them, since he wouldnt excite cared for that (Ibsen 109). As this quote suggests Charlotte Perkins Gilman, in The Yellow Wall-Paper and Henrik Ibsen, in A Doll home plate dramatize that, for woman, silent passivity and submissiveness can lead to madness. The teller of The Yellow Wall-Paper is driven to madness after she withdraws into herself. I am alone (Gilman 44), she tells us. Desperately attempt to express her feelings to thaumaturgy, she says I told him that I really was not gaining here and that I wish he would take me away(Gilman 46), but I stopped nobble for he sat up straight and looked at me with such a stern reproachful look that I could not say another word. alternatively the narrator keeps quiet. She settles into quiet submission I am much more quiet than I was. tin can is so p leased (Gilman 48). She is afraid to irritate John or to make him uncomfortable (Gilman42). She makes herself believe that as a physician he knows whats best for her and, therefore, acts passively, letting John control her even though she gets unreasonably angry with him (Gilman40). Writing in her journal is the hardly thing that keeps her sane yet John takes that away from her I must put this away-he hates to have me write (Gilman 41). The narrator yearns to confess to John how she really feels, but she prefers to keep her feelings bottled up I think sometimes that if I were to write a slight it would relieve the pressure of ideas and rest me (Gilman 42). Instead, she is passive and hides her emotions. I cry at nothing and cry most of the time. Of course I dont when John is here, or anybody else, only when I am alone (Gilman 44). She tells us that John doesnt know how much I really suffer (Gilman 41). Even when the narrator tries to communicate with him, he immediately dismisses her I tried to have a real earnest reasonable talk with him, but John wouldnt get wind of it (Gilman 40). Instead of speaking her mind and standing up for herself, she withdraws and does not say another word(Gilman 47). Convincing herself that John is always right, she obeys whatever John says, which only causes her condition to worsen despite the fact ... ...y Torvald He used to call me his doll-child, and he played with me the way I played with my dollsI went from Papas hands into yours. You arranged everything to your own taste, and so I got the same taste as you-or I pretended to Now when I look back it seems I have lived here like a beggar-just from hand to mouth (Ibsen 109). Rather than be sheltered (Ibsen 108) by him unlike Gilmans character, Nora is able to speak up for herself and confront her past.Both Nora and the narrator of The Yellow Wall-Paper suffer from their silent passivity and submissiveness. Nora Helmer, who nearly lost her mind (Ibsen ), is able to save herse lf by being cocky and speaking out, confronting Torvald, her past, and her need to educate herself in the ways of the world. Unfortunately Gilmans character keeps her feelings inside, and, as a result withdraws into herself and becomes insane. The narrator asserts her disjunction from reality as she tells John Ive got out at lastin spite of you and Jane...and you cant put me back (Gilman 53), sloughing off the person she in one case was, Jane to become the woman in the paper.