In this passage, we learn that "The Yellow Wallpaper" deeply criticizes the role of women and their reduced existence centered on domestic and household duties. This would be the theme of the story, as the theme is the dominant idea in a text. The historical context, therefore, would be the real life events that were happening in the world at the time the story was being written. The historical context, therefore, consists of the author's own experience with domesticity and physicians.
