Quote Analysis by https://padlet.com/miss_wise/kvnf54p1yg5vaym4 en-us 2025-03-21 03:01:26 UTC 2025-09-07 13:45:06 UTC hello@padlet.com I am getting angry enough to do something desperate. To jump out the window would be an admirable experience https://padlet.com/miss_wise/kvnf54p1yg5vaym4/wish/3568287402 Course concept:

  • Value of Freedom and independence

  • "Jumping out the window" symbolise her desperation for freedom

  • Cultural context: Oppression of Women


Construction Factor:

  • Characterisation of narrator

  • Paranoid Voice

]]> 2025-09-04 05:09:50 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_wise/kvnf54p1yg5vaym4/wish/3568287402 'He asked me all sorts of questions, too, and pretended to be loving and kind' https://padlet.com/miss_wise/kvnf54p1yg5vaym4/wish/3568291226 Voice: Paranoid, Value: Family and Connection, Issue: Patriarchal control/manipulation

The narrator is numbed to any real connection other than the wall, due to her dillutional condition worsening as she undergoes 'the rest cure'.

]]> 2025-09-04 05:11:53 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_wise/kvnf54p1yg5vaym4/wish/3568291226 "I did write for a while in spite of them; but it does exhaust me a good deal having to be sly about it..." https://padlet.com/miss_wise/kvnf54p1yg5vaym4/wish/3568294096 A paranoid voice is developed through diction, using the word 'exhausted' to create connotations of tiredness and being emotionally drained to describe the degraded way she feels under John's eye. This example highlights her value of creativity, as she is risking John finding out in order to express her emotions through writing.

]]> 2025-09-04 05:13:23 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_wise/kvnf54p1yg5vaym4/wish/3568294096 "I don't want to leave now until I have found it out. There is a week more, and I think that will be enough." https://padlet.com/miss_wise/kvnf54p1yg5vaym4/wish/3568295521 course concepts:

  • voice: paranoid voice towards the (inferred) yellow wallpaper as she thinks she will be able to discover the 'truth' about her surroundings

  • foreshadowing: gives a hint about her paranoia developing into mania and physically peels the wallpaper to 'find it out'


construction:

  • values: shows acceptance and acknowledgement of her decline in mental health - allowing herself to chase 'freedom'

  • attitude: dedicated to finding out what she's going through and understanding her own mental state

]]> 2025-09-04 05:14:07 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_wise/kvnf54p1yg5vaym4/wish/3568295521 "...there is something strange about the house... I can feel it." https://padlet.com/miss_wise/kvnf54p1yg5vaym4/wish/3568298019 Construction Factors:

  • Personification.

  • Setting.

  • Foreshadowing.

Course concepts:

  • Enforced isolation can cause psychological damage - She feels that the house is "strange" & this strangeness makes her go crazy.

  • Pessimistic attitude towards her health & recovery - The house makes her feel bad & worsens her state.

]]> 2025-09-04 05:15:24 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_wise/kvnf54p1yg5vaym4/wish/3568298019 "He asked me all sorts of questions, too and pretended to be loving and kind." https://padlet.com/miss_wise/kvnf54p1yg5vaym4/wish/3568299062 Construction: The narrators voice is paranoid

Course concepts: Issue of patriarchal control and value of family that the narrator lacks.

]]> 2025-09-04 05:15:59 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_wise/kvnf54p1yg5vaym4/wish/3568299062 "...the smell is here. it creeps all over the house. I find it hovering in the dining room... Lying in wait for me on the stairs." https://padlet.com/miss_wise/kvnf54p1yg5vaym4/wish/3568299576 course concept: voice, paranoid sense of voice. personification of the wallpaper, fearfully connotated diction.

]]> 2025-09-04 05:16:16 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_wise/kvnf54p1yg5vaym4/wish/3568299576 https://padlet.com/miss_wise/kvnf54p1yg5vaym4/wish/3568299709 2025-09-04 05:16:19 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_wise/kvnf54p1yg5vaym4/wish/3568299709 I've got out at last... and I've pulled back most of the paper, so you can't put me back! https://padlet.com/miss_wise/kvnf54p1yg5vaym4/wish/3568301248 Construction Factor:

Manic Voice

Syntax - exclamatory

Course Concepts:

Issue of mental health

Value of independence

]]> 2025-09-04 05:17:11 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_wise/kvnf54p1yg5vaym4/wish/3568301248 "At night in any kind of light, in twilight, candlelight, lamplight, and worst of all by moonlight, it becomes bars!" https://padlet.com/miss_wise/kvnf54p1yg5vaym4/wish/3568304149 Course Concepts - issues/ideas associated with the mental health of women.

Construction Factors - voice (narrator's paranoia expressed through diction of different types of lights used in the night), repetition of 'light', and style (symbolic of her inner turmoil as her mind starts to wonder and awaken at night, becoming almost manic).

]]> 2025-09-04 05:18:40 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_wise/kvnf54p1yg5vaym4/wish/3568304149 "I lie here on this great immovable bed-it is nailed down, I believe-and follow that pattern by the hour" https://padlet.com/miss_wise/kvnf54p1yg5vaym4/wish/3568305689 Course concepts:

Feminist perspective: critiques oppression of women in the 19th century-particularly those affected by mental illness

Cultural context: oppression of women

Construction factor:

Symbolism: bed being nailed down symbolises how the narrator is being oppressed

]]> 2025-09-04 05:19:35 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_wise/kvnf54p1yg5vaym4/wish/3568305689 "I have watched her... creeping as fast as a cloud shadow in a high wind" https://padlet.com/miss_wise/kvnf54p1yg5vaym4/wish/3568305792 Construction Factors:

  • Simile

  • Symbolism - narrator's descent into mania represented through the woman in the wall

  • Diction - creeping, shadow - narrator's need to hide, conceited

  • Voice - manic - fragmented syntax


Course Concepts:

  • Value of independence - shouldn't have to sneak/creep

  • Desperate attitude towards her freedom and independence - idolises the woman in the wallpaper

  • Evidence of the idea that mistreatment of women's mental health worsening their condition

]]> 2025-09-04 05:19:39 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_wise/kvnf54p1yg5vaym4/wish/3568305792 all those strangled heads and bulbous eyes and waddling fungus growths just shriek with derision! https://padlet.com/miss_wise/kvnf54p1yg5vaym4/wish/3568306546 the quote shows how the narrator’s mind is breaking down. She sees scary shapes in the wallpaper—like heads, eyes, and fungus—which reflect how trapped and alone she feels. The wallpaper seems to mock her, symbolizing how women were often silenced and confined in the past. It’s a mix of fear, madness, and the struggle to be heard. The personification also indicates her decent into madness and the hallucinations.

]]> 2025-09-04 05:20:04 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_wise/kvnf54p1yg5vaym4/wish/3568306546 "Personally, I disagree with their ideas. Personally, I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change, would do me good." https://padlet.com/miss_wise/kvnf54p1yg5vaym4/wish/3568306850 CONSTRUCTION:

  • repetition of "personally"

  • Diction "congenial"

  • Fragmented/short syntax

CONCEPT:

  • mental ignorance - context

  • mental illness & misdiagnosis- issue/idea

  • value of independence - value

Summary:

  • reflects and emphasises narrators isolated stance on her suffering wellbeing

  • making her seem like she is the only one who believes this.

]]> 2025-09-04 05:20:13 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_wise/kvnf54p1yg5vaym4/wish/3568306850 "Why there's John at the door! It is no use, young man, you can't open it! How he does call and pound!" https://padlet.com/miss_wise/kvnf54p1yg5vaym4/wish/3568307091 Construction features: exclamatory syntax and manic voice

Course Concepts: Issue of isolation and confinement causing psychological damage,

Personal context of Gilman - postpartum depression

Viewpoint: feminist perspective against the suppression of women though isolation and personal context

]]> 2025-09-04 05:20:22 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_wise/kvnf54p1yg5vaym4/wish/3568307091 "There is a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down." https://padlet.com/miss_wise/kvnf54p1yg5vaym4/wish/3568308254 Course concepts

  • value of creativity

  • attitude - the narrator has a cynical attitude towards the wallpaper


Construction

  • language features - simile and personification

  • voice - slightly paranoid

]]> 2025-09-04 05:21:03 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_wise/kvnf54p1yg5vaym4/wish/3568308254 https://padlet.com/miss_wise/kvnf54p1yg5vaym4/wish/3568309670 "I think sometimes that if I were only well enough to write a little it would relieve the press of ideas and rest me."

Construction:

  • Submissive voice

Course Concepts:

  • Desperate attitude toward her independence and freedom

  • Conflicted attitude towards creativity and its contribution to her wellbeing

]]> 2025-09-04 05:21:51 UTC https://padlet.com/miss_wise/kvnf54p1yg5vaym4/wish/3568309670 "I don't want to leave now until i have found it out. there is a week more and I think that will be enough." https://padlet.com/miss_wise/kvnf54p1yg5vaym4/wish/3568312657 course concepts:

idea = the mistreatment of women's mental health worsened their suffering instead of aiding the recovery

construction:

foreshadowing

manic voice

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