What is the main idea of your first paragraph?
To gather certain ideas that would identify the theme of the excerpt and make it grow, if that makes sense.
What is the main idea of your second paragraph?
Adding details from your first paragraph. Adding additional data from the first paragraph, and then, adding supporting details.
Which of the eight types of focus (time, place, action, mood, point of view, speaker, idea, or step) will you use to change the focus of the second paragraph?
I would go with *point of view*. And the reason of that would be because we would want to see how this story or the excerpt or paragraph ... we would want to see what perceptive it would lie under.
Answer:
This is one of the most famous lines in Shakespeare's work. <em> "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark "</em> refers both to the spiritual and political corruption in Denmark. The new king, Claudius, obtained the throne by murdering his brother. Moreover, he is in incestuous marriage with Gertrude. The king is obviously more concerned with keeping the plot against his brother a secret, than actually ruling the country. Hamlet himself makes a similar remark in Act I, Scene II, comparing his country to a neglected garden: <em>"Tis an unweeded garden." </em>
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman examines gender role's oppressive nature which was imposed on women in the late 19th century. Due to the inability to insert one's identity, the narrator is driven mad and thus strives for self-expression.
A statement which is a theme of "The Yellow Wallpaper" is B. Keeping one's mind active is good for mental health.
The theme of self-expression is important to keep one's mind active. More than physical constraints, mental constraints are the one which drives the narrator insane. To protect her facade of marriage she is forced to hide her fears and anxieties. "Resting cure" aspect creates inactivity and silence which is intolerable. Such treatment only forced her to be passive and refused from any kind of mental exercise. Her imaginative power is repressed which ultimately is the cause of her insanity. On the other hand, for emotional and intellectual outlet she constantly longs for it. According to Gilman self-destruction is caused to the state of forced inactivity.