The wallpaper is at first a great annoyance to Jane as she claims that it is confusing and contradicting. Jane was a writer and was not permitted to express herself through the means of writing. She is not only affected by the physical restraints of being inside the room alone, but the yellow wallpaper is dreadful and fosters only negative creativity. Jane's negative thoughts are first displayed through "It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions." This is displaying the beginning of her negative thoughts which is the contribution to her spiralling into insanity since her disease confuses her mind and contradicts her logic, the paper parallels her mental state at this point.
“And She is all the time trying to climb through. But nobody could climb through that pattern- it strangles so; I think that is why it has so many heads” (432) The narrator does not understand but the woman in the wall is herself. The narrator is trapped in the room while the wallpaper traps the woman in the wallpaper. The woman in the wallpaper is portrayed as trying to escape through the pattern but can’t because the pattern restricts her. The wallpaper like John is a confine in which neither woman can escape from.
The woman stuck in the wallpaper does circles and is sometimes able to crawl out through the window. Jane is reflecting her situation onto the wallpaper because much like the woman in the wallpaper, she’s stuck in her situation as well. Her husband confines her because of her sickness and he wants to keep her sheltered from the outside world. She is not allowed to work and has to stay in or around the house at all times. Her husband also babies her, treating her like she
Through the use of darkness and concealment, Shakespeare not only serves the purpose of lending the play to the Gothic genre, but both elements also work as a catalyst in order to trigger future events in Macbeth. Darkness is heavily sighted as being associated with evil in the play, seen in Lady Macbeth’s monologue. The femme fatale character calls “come,thick night” when she asks to be unsexed by “spirits.” Here, Shakespeare associates night time with the unnatural and thus comments on how darkness can sometimes cloak the “human kindness” in a person. Here, night time is used to mask the kindness associated with femininity, and therefore Lady Macbeth is able to cloak herself in “thick” darkness in order to become a key component in Duncan’s death. This is significant in revealing character in Macbeth.
While the reason is not known, it is not normal for a healthy middle-aged woman to lose her teeth, therefore it must have been her sickness. Zeena is constantly victimized by her own illness, and also her husband’s lack of sympathy for it. Another way Zeena can be considered a victim is in the way her husband, Ethan, does not care for her.
Redbacks are considered one of the most dangerous spiders in Australia. The Redback spider has neurotoxic venom which is toxic to humans with bites causing severe pain. There is antivenom for Redback bites which is commercially available. The female Redback has a round body about the size of large pea (1 centimetre long), with long, slender legs. The body is a deep black colour (occasionally brownish), often containing an obvious orange to red longitudinal stripe on the upper abdomen.
Also, these aggressive words resemble the hostility Jane faces within Gateshead. Also, in order to make light of the dreary environment that surrounds Jane, Bronte often uses the color red when describing Gateshead, the large mansion that Jane grows up in. This use of the color red also creates a somber and belligerent tone. She describes the mansion’s Red Room in great detail: “curtains of deep red damask” drape from the bed while a “crimson cloth” covers the end bench (Bronte 17). Bronte uses the color red, often associated with belligerence and blood, to emphasize the dark purpose of the room itself— a means of containment for a disobedient and fiery Jane.
By juxtaposing these two scenes Ivan Sen has shown why Lena would want to alienate herself from her family, the kitchen scene gives you an idea of this, an alcoholic mother who smokes heavily, mismatched furniture, dirty dishes, grubby paint and a generally dirty house alerts the audience to the fact that Lena’s family isn’t good and isn’t something that anyone would want. This concept is exaggerated even more when you see Lena’s bedroom which shows how different she truly is from her family. Lena’s bedroom contains things like posters of Ireland, a bible and
She is unreliable because she is deranged. She “creeps smoothly on the floor,” this is one of the few points that explains how deranged Jane is. The story is set in a time when women are more submissive. John, the narrator’s husband, is a doctor who claims that Jane is ill. Jane was told to stay in her room which is unique as the “windows are barred.” The barring on the window symbolizes herself being holed up inside and in the real world against her will. The bed is also nailed down in her room.
Tennyson presents the eponymous female character as, imprisoned in “four grey walls and four grey towers”, typically masculine images. The Lady of Shalott also feels that she is cursed by not being allowed to look out onto the real world. We may perceive this as a curse imposed by the patriarchal world; perhaps her husband is absent and has forbidden her to leave his castle. Although The Lady is presented by Tennyson as being a destitute victim due to her physical restraints it is also possible to debate that as she herself is the one who leaves “the web and the loom” she is a victim of her own weakness for Sir Lancelot as opposed to some higher masculine supremacy. Mariana is a poem about a woman awaiting the return of her renegade lover.