‘Flowers’ by Robin Jenkins is a short story about a young girl who has been evacuated to the Highlands during WW2 and dislikes it so much that she decides to break the rules. She rebels by going to the beach where the fighter jets practise bombing and finds a gruesome scene. This short story deals with a less pleasant side of life concerned with the consequences of war and the loneliness of the main character Margaret. In this essay I will show unpleasant life can be. Robin Jenkins first shows you how different the little girl is, “red eyed dissenter”.
The colour yellow, which symbolises decay and disease, is used to show the woman’s state of mind, which has been corrupted by the society she is part of. Also, the gruesome imagery of burning flesh in “smell of steaks in passageways”, coupled with the pluralisation of the objects portrays this as an experience of universal suffering. Eliot also explores the disempowerment of the individual through the judgments of a modernist society. Prufrock’s rhetorical question “Do I dare?” is about the movement he desires that has been oppressed by his self-conscious. The interjection “but how his arms and legs are thin”, shows his physical vulnerability and highlights his lack of agency.
Its just I cant help thinking about this girl-destroying her life so horribly.’ This shows Sheila feels commiseration and sensitivity towards Eva and her death which comes across as genuine regret when she realises she could be linked to her suicide. Mr Birling interrupts her questioning by becoming even more aggressive when trying to defend her daughter. The phrase ‘why the devil do you want to go upsetting a child like that’ that he uses shows he is more concerned that his daughter has been affected by feelings of guilt and shame for what they might have done to Eva Smith. He doesn’t realise the depth of the familys involvement and still feels able to be bitter and outspoken towards the inspector. However, this does impact the inspector at all because he continues his questioning with Sheila further.
The readers can tell she hates her house and poverty when she points out her house to Sister Superior and she “started to cry” (45). Sister Superior even felt “sorry” for Esperanza for having pointed out her house that “even the raggedy men are ashamed to go into” (45). Esperanza even
When Madame Khoun returns, Kien tells her about the fight between him and his cousin, “Under the pale streetlights, I showed her the bumps and contusions Tin had left on my back while Jimmy relived the potato story. Her face registered pain and anger, making her skin redden like blazing coal”(174-175). Madame Khoun got very angry because no one would help her or her children. Madame Khoun then marches over to her sisters house to demand an explanation of why this
The narrator claims that the hallway of the building in which Winston lives “smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats”. This initial image exposes the dilapidating condition of this society, for it is a world that smells and is offensive to its citizens. Not only does this society offend the sense of sight. The imagery of the “rotting nineteenth – century homes,” suggest that the society of Oceania is not moving forward because it is still trapped in the past. The citizens of Oceania are made to feel the decay of the society in their own body.
Sang Hee Gina Park Writing 30 Prof. Lena Firestone Midterm Root Cellar The poem, “Root Cellar,” written by the poet Theodore Roethke describes the unfavorable condition of root cellar, and how the living organisms are affected from it. Throughout the poem, the author portrays the negative outlook and perspective of the ‘stinking’ cellar. He writes strongly and pessimistically that not a single organism would be able to sleep, or even live due to the molded surroundings. The description of the cellar setting is vividly and thoroughly written as it symbolizes the reality of human life. Regardless of the filthy tone that introduces the unfortunate and evil atmosphere, Roethke manages to convey that the organisms in the extenuating circumstances have become successful as they overcome the difficulties, challenge themselves to
Isolation isn’t the Key to Success Loneliness and feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty (Mother Teresa). This quote states that being unseen makes someone terrible inside. By that person feeling terrible it puts a burden for whatever they do. In the novel “Of Mice and Men” written by John Steinbeck, there were many themes and motifs. The theme that exemplified the most in the novel was the theme of loneliness, which took apart Curley’s wife.
While describing her anticipated freedom, Nora highlights the very factors that constrain her. She claims that freedom will give her time to be a mother and a traditional wife who maintains a beautiful home, as her husband likes it. But the message of the play is that Nora cannot find true freedom in this traditional domestic
— Moderns and their Mothers’ Reach — Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Tennessee Williams) By Patrick McEvoy-Halston May 2006 In Terrible Honesty, Ann Douglas argues that moderns felt they needed to find a way to free themselves from the influence, from the control, of their Victorian predecessors, and discusses how their cultural products were means to this end. Free, they created one of the richest cultural periods of all time. But she also argues that moderns well knew that a price would have to be paid for all this self-fulfillment and self-growth. She writes that they knew that at some point the Maternal, the “object” they repressed and beat back, would stage a return and make them pay for their insolence. Some theorists—especially those influenced by object-relations thought—argue, however, that the nature of how most of us experience our own self-growth and freedom ensures that moderns would themselves stage the return to a matriarchal environment—that is, that she wouldn’t need to return, for they would feel compelled to come pay her a visit.