Throughout The White Devil, Webster presents his leading female character Vittoria as elusive, Vittoria’s absence from the stage for much of the play and often present on stage only due to the fact that she is continuously accused of being a ‘whore’. During scene one Vittoria speaks only two short lines and then exists the scene and is not heard of until her court trail scene. She is often used to create dramatic situations even during her trail scene, where whatever she speaks is re-told even when she recalls a dream she has had, Bracciano boldly states ‘sweetly shall I interpret your dream’. Portraying the fact that she is unable to interpret her own dream, implying that she is incapable compared to the male characters. During her trail scene, she is accused of being a whore and it is at this point in the play that she gains a voice.
All throughout the beginning of the play, she is nagging, forceful, manipulative, and seemingly free of a moral compass and conscience. Before the scene where the gentlewoman sees her sleepwalking and washing her hands, Lady Macbeth does not even exhibit an inkling of a guilty conscience. She never so much as sympathizes with her husband when he feels remorse about his murder. Then, suddenly she is stricken with overwhelming guilt that keeps her up at night. Contrary to this, Macbeth has a gradual build up of guilt that starts even before the deed is done.
Another example that depicts the overall theme of “disorder” is the organization of her essays; most obviously, the essay titled “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”. Her organization within that essay is choppy and confusing, much like a diary entry. The confusing organization of that essay, and of the entire book, is used by Didion to demonstrate to the reader a central claim that is prevalent throughout the novel: life is chaotic and disorderly and there is nothing any one can do about it. That claim can be easily interpreted as cynical; however, Didion’s final conclusion is this: one must come to terms with and embrace the chaos in order to live a full life. 2.
18 Dec 2012. In this scholar essay, Lynda Koolish indicates that the struggle for psychic wholeness runs through the whole book and discusses the Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) of different characters. Koolish thinks that much of the novel explores the extraordinarily anguishing interlude of time of all the protagonists, and she regards them as MPD in a state of dissociation and denial. They cannot endure the endless succession of losses and deaths any more. The consciousness of Sethe, Denver, Paul D and Beloved are filled with a truncated and disrupted chronology, which is Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) or disassociative states.
In Wide Sargasso Sea, repainting the image given to the reader of Rochester, Rhys characterises him as the antagonist rather than the hero portrayed Jane Eyre, sympathetically transcribing Bertha’s stream-of-consciousness as the oppressed wife sinking into the madness he helped to cause. The first comparison to be made, therefore, is that the reader has a possible pre-existing knowledge of some characters and issues present in Wide Sargasso Sea. In Jane Eyre, the madwoman in the attic was given no voice, incapable of uttering any intelligible speech. In Wide Sargasso Sea, Rhys gives her an entire perspective and narration. This raises the possibility of an allegorical reading: the reader learns that Antoinette is the descendant of a Creole Caribbean family whilst Rhys also draws on an understanding of the position of plantation families following Emancipation.
Kemp employs characters whose desires, dreams, imagination and memories to allow a feminine consciousness to shift from outer awareness to inner sensibility without time restraint. The plays ‘Still Angela’ and ‘Ruby Moon’ give no answers encouraging the audience to form their own personal understanding, the intention being for each individual audience member to gain their own conscious and subconscious
Rose was in the vocational education program in is high school and didn't need to be. Mike Rose attended an all boy religion based school called Our Lady of Mercy. Previous to entering this school he had to take a placement exam and somehow his exam got mixed up with another kid named Rose. Apparently the other Rose needed to be in the vocational program and as a result Mike was placed there. Being that his parents didn't know much about the American school system, he couldn't know much about it, and he continued to attend the vocational program not knowing that he shouldn't be in it.
For the author of A Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, surrounds this very mysterious character with the issue of a wallpaper that is consuming the characters life. Gilman describes the characters dementia without directness to an "insanity". Jane, the main character knows that she has a mental issue and uses this journal to describe how she slowly loses her sanity. The curtness of how she lost her way made the story a little creepier, and more mysterious. In a novel the author could describe her past life for chapters and chapters, but knowing her life for such a short period of time made the story
Corryn has to continue asking questions and progress through conversations before she ever finds out what had gotten Gidion suspended. II. Selection: In Gidion’s Knot, Johnna Adams chooses not to include Gidion in the script and begin the play after his death. The play is named after him, yet the audience never gets to meet him. By leaving Gidion out of the script, only to be talked about, it creates a new
However, the reader only knows this due to inference and deduction. The story, told in third person without a clear narrator, plays out without the true subject matter ever being spoken. The characters reveal very little in the way of background or history and they are only referred to as “Jig” (or “the girl”) and “the American”. We never come across the words “baby” or “abortion,” (referring to them instead as a thing that is making the two people unhappy and an “operation,” respectively) yet the obscured meaning is very easily inferred. She wants to carry this child to term, give birth and raise him or her – or at the very least is afraid of how she’ll feel if she doesn’t get that chance.