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The ways that relationships develop help us to understand a text important…
The ways that relationships develop help us to understand a text important message
(3.1 external exam)
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Setting is the context in which a story or scene occurs and includes the time, place, and social environment. It is important to establish a setting in your story, so your readers can visualize and experience it.
The narrator whose name may or may not be Jane is highly imaginative and a natural storyteller, though her doctors believe she has a “slight hysterical tendency.” The story is told in the form of her secret diary, in which she records her thoughts as her obsession with the wallpaper grows.
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- she loses touch with the outer world.
- She comes to a greater understanding of the inner reality of her life.
- The inner/outer split shows the audience the understanding of her suffering
Everypoint she is faced with relationships , objects and situation that seem innocent but have a lot of meaning behind it.
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- The narrator shows an imaginative, highly expressive woman. e.g she remembers scaring herself with imaginary night time monsters when she was younger.
- She expresses the fact that with her imagination she believes the house is haunted.
- As part of her "cure", the husband does not let her exercise her imagination in any way yet proclaims that her mental health is some part of sickness.
- Both her reason and her emotions rebel at this treatment, and she turns her imagination onto seemingly neutral objects the house and the wallpaper
- In an attempt to ignore her growing frustration. Her negative feelings color her description of her surroundings, making them seem uncanny and sinister, and she becomes fixated on the wallpaper.
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- The narrator sinks further into her fascination with the yellow wallpaper. her frustration progresses from her day to day life.
- Her true thoughts are hidden from the outer world, and the narrator begins to slip into a fantasy world in which the nature of “her situation” is made clear in symbolic terms. (explain further using symbolic examples)
- This process of dissociation begins when the story does, at the very moment she decides to keep a secret diary as “a relief to her mind.”
- Gilman shows us this division in the narrator’s consciousness by having the narrator puzzle over effects in the world that she herself has caused. For example, the narrator doesn’t immediately understand that the yellow stains on her clothing and the long “smootch” on the wallpaper are connected.
- Similarly, the narrator fights the realization that the predicament of the woman in the wallpaper is a symbolic version of her own situation. At first she even disapproves of the woman’s efforts to escape and intends to “tie her up.”
- narrator finally identifies herself with the woman trapped in the wallpaper, she is able to see that other women are forced to creep and hide behind the domestic “patterns” of their lives, and that she herself is the one in need of rescue.
- The narrator must lose herself to understand herself. She has untangled the pattern of her life, but she has torn herself apart in getting free of it. An odd detail at the end of the story reveals how much the narrator has sacrificed. During her final split from reality, the narrator says, “I’ve got out at last, in spite of you and Jane.” Who is this Jane? Some critics claim “Jane” is a misprint for “Jennie,” the sister-in-law. It is more likely, however, that “Jane” is the name of the unnamed narrator,
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- The literary devices that are used are setting, theme, antagonist, repetition, antithesis, symbolism, metaphors, cacophony, and personification.
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- The house , window frames etc.
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- It expresses the gender opression explained in the story
- It expresses the Narrators mental Illness
- Expresses the societal patriarchy against men and women in the 1800s
- Setting , Tone, The characters and Narration, Personification , Simile, metaphor,Dramatic Irony
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