AnarchoEngineer

The Disastrous Life of Saiki K

The Disastrous Life of Saiki K

The fun part about PhDs is that some of them are hella specific so we can come up with a really long name for a fake area of study and it still is somewhat believable.

It’s just difficult to combine all the parts of your username. The best I can think of rn is to say you got your degree in Costal Human Ecology by researching pharmacokinetics in relation to reproductive biology.

Now I’m curious what field someone named “sharkfucker420” would have a PhD in.

Computer science?

And I’d guess your subfield intersects with something more human focused like psychology or maybe more on the side of biomechanics

How far off am I?

Depends on what “makes sense” meant. I understood that the dude basically locked up his wife and she went insane, crawling around the room thinking her shadow was another woman in the wallpaper. Also that she perhaps killed her husband in the end.

I also caught the vague impression maybe they lost a kid since she mentions shes in “the nursery.” Of course bars on the window makes it seem like maybe shes in a hospital, but that wouldn’t track with her having a blade to sharpen her pencil with.

I still don’t really know what the message is. People are fucked up? Mental illness was not well understood nor treated well in the victorian era? People can go insane because they’re treated like they’re insane?

Addendum: Just read the wiki article. Yeah the feminist themes were almost entirely lost on us. To be fair I grew up in a very rural conservative town, but that raises the question of why have us read the book if not to talk about the main point? I think we were just supposed to pick out metaphors and similes etc. from the text

Traumatizing middle school reading assignment