Within “Jane Eyre” and “The Yellow Wallpaper,” both writers' themes focus on similar ideas about how 19th century women were handled and treated inappropriately. Within 'Jane Eyre' and 'The Yellow Wallpaper', explores the themes of isolation, male dominance and illness, the impact these themes have on the main female characters within the text have similarities but also have contrasting differences between each of the characters.Jane Eyre, Bertha and Jane, at a certain point in the texts, face the same fate of being sealed in a room against their will and isolated from the outside world. The way Brontë writes allows the reader to sympathize with Jane Eyre's emotions and experiences, including her isolation in the red room. Jane Eyre is a young orphan isolated from her parents due to their deaths, living with her aunt and her cousins, being abused by her cousin John, and receiving punishment for John's actions as a child. Jane Eyre recalls that "I will remember how you pushed me away. . . in the red room. . . . And that punishment you made me suffer because your wicked boy hit me, knocked me down for nothing" (Brontë 35). Locked in this empty room Jane Eyre physically isolates herself from the world. Unlike the Jane of The Yellow Wallpaper, the difference is that Gilman's Jane is trapped in the social world of John, her "husband", who in turn constantly manipulates Jane by the whole world and was known as the reason why he did not force her to sit in her room during the day, as seen when Jane says: "Sometimes I imagine that, in my condition, if I had less opposition. and more companionship and stimulation after day from the rest of the world" (Gilman 60 ). then she... middle of paper... like that. Mentally Jane and Bertha went completely mad, ending in death and complete psychosis. In conclusion , the three women end up with different destinies, all facing similar conditions in their lives. Each woman deals with their circumstances differently, and this impacts not only their lives but also the lives of the men they interact with throughout the story. Both authors highlight key issues related to women's disempowerment, isolation and mental illness in the Victorian period through their characters and enlighten the reader on the similarities and differences between the themes addressed by Brontë and Gilman. Quoted Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. vol. 1. United States: Dover Publication INC., 2002. Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. "The yellow background." Broadview short fiction anthology 1892: 60-75.