Crit app

Question 1

When did women get the vote?

Answer 1

• 1928

Question 2

When was the yellow wallpaper written?

Answer 2

• 1892
• By Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Question 3

What is shown in TYW?

Answer 3

• Themes of mental illness and how it was treated during a time of rigid Victorian gender roles
• Focuses on unreliable narrator who feels entrapped after the birth of her child and focuses on how she fixates on the wallpaper in her room
• Focuses on difference between day and night and represents the different and hidden ways women are presented

Question 4

What techniques are used with day vs night in TYW?

Answer 4

• Day perhaps represents how women are controlled and repressed - the narrator feels this on a personal level by her husband John as well
• Night there is a dramatic shift to focus on her freedom and of the women in he wallpaper
• In daylight ‘florid arabesque’ and ‘subdued’
• In night focus on moon with connotations of supernatrual

Question 5

What is the point of unreliable narrator in TYW?

Answer 5

• As obsession with wallpaper continues she becomes more unreliable - only told from her POV in secret diary entries
• Due to her mental decline and strict Victorian expectations it allows readership to feel the confusion she feels from being trapped

Question 6

What is the symbolism of the wallpaper in TYW?

Answer 6

• Symbolises constraints of society and a prison
• She hates it - ‘constantly irritating’
• ‘colour is repellent, almost revolting’
• Semantic field of disgust displays anger
• Women behind wallpaper symbolises repressed women - ‘faint figure’ who wants to ‘shake the patterns’
• Resists social patterns

Question 7

When was Jane Eyre published?

Answer 7

• 1847
• Charlotte Bronte

Question 8

What is Jane Eyre about?

Answer 8

• Focuses on Jane overcoming difficulties fueled on by a patriarchal society in the search for independence

Question 9

What techniques used in Jane Eyre?

Answer 9

• First person - she is taking control and power e.g. ‘Reader, I married him’ she is the subject and reverses gender roles
• Opposes Victorian ideal of women being quiet and submissive

Question 10

What quote used to resist patriarchy in Jane Eyre?

Answer 10

• ‘I am no bird, and no net ensnares me’
• Bird may represent how women are viewed as objects that should be trapped
• Short decisive statement rejects this stereotype showing she will not be controlled
• Ensnare symbolises being unsafe and trapped

Question 11

When is Pride and Prejudice published?

Answer 11

• 1813
• Jane Austen

Question 12

What does Pride show?

Answer 12

• Austen critisized social expectations of how women must marry using satirical language, immediately stating ‘It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possesion of a good fortune must be in want of a wife’
• Irony shows she does not support the system where women must rely on men for economic stability