Brooks shows us that the plague causes many to suffer not only physically however mentally and emotionally as well. Before Anna could “mourn the (people) that (she) loved, another (person) was ill in her arms”. This caused Anna to come to a point in her life where she could either sink or swim and Anna decided to sink. Anna decided to be cruel to herself and turned to poppies, even though it did relieve her pain then, she suffered much more later. Not only did people suffer from the plague and what it brings, however people suffered from their own personal upbringing.
My dear friends, soon God will set us a new test,’ warns the priest. How do the hardships of the plague bring out the best and the worst in the villagers of Eyam? Geraldine Brook’s novel ‘Year of Wonders’ vividly recounts the story of the seventeenth century plague which cripples and transforms the English town of Eyam. The Black Death which strikes the village not only reveals the stark contrast between the admirable and evil nature of the towns people, but it also redefines the villagers of Eyam. The personal beliefs and social order which were once static, collapse in the face of God’s ‘test.’ When faced with adversity and desperation, certain individuals embrace the challenge and their heroism shines through, whilst others instead choose to turn their backs on the town, acting in selfish and crude ways.
However he had a tragic flaw but him confessing leads up to his tragic death that causes the audience to feel sympathy. John Proctor’s downfall is initiated by a human flaw which was his inability to control and resist his desire. When his wife Elizabeth got sick began to catch feelings for Abigail. When John Proctor stated “but I will cut off my hand before I’ll ever reach out for you” (page 15, act one) he shows how at one point he was having an affair behind his wife back and this lead up to all the madness in the town of Salem. When Abigail was talking to Proctor she says “She is telling lies to about me!
From the very beginning, the views were bombarded with horrible and tragic animations of Meryl dying, the animations were thoughts Meryl had been the result of her, constantly being exposed to deaths. When Meryl comes back from her father’s funeral, she begins to imagine how she would die, where it is a train derailing and crushing her, getting run over by a car while crossing the road or just being strangled by a stranger she just saw. These animations tell the viewer how Meryl is obsessed with imagining extremely pessimistic situations, the animations don’t always occur when Meryl experience something tragic but it’s constantly swimming through her thoughts. For example when Nick and Meryl make love, Meryl imagines she gets AIDS or end up with multiple sick and deformed babies. Meryl’s animations always revolve around her getting killed or end up in a horrible situation, which illustrates the fears and anxieties she is experiencing.
Conversely, negative changes are portrayed by The Bradfords whom fight fear with abandonment. Compelled by the pressure from the plague the villagers of Eyam are also forced to challenge and revaluate their morals and beliefs. Forced to change under siege of the plague Anna Frith undergoes a dramatic
Comparatively, she is unexpectedly thrown into the unknown when her family dies and she is left to help the community and forget about her needs. As the panic sets in when she enters the shaft, she is facing more and more doubts about her future separately. Brooks also shows the reader an insight into the world of the people living with the Plague: dark, dangerous, and seemingly hopeless. Overall, Brooks uses symbolism to show aspects of the Plague’s influence on Anna and the town in
In Dry Tears: The Story of a Lost Childhood by Nechama Tec, there are many discriminative, stereotypical and prejudice events that take place throughout the book. The book is actually memoirs written by the author about how during World War II Nazis would raid villages to imprison and/or kill Jews and show what the Jews had to do to survive. The Nazis hated the Jews; they had unfavorable opinions about them, and were taught to treat them unfairly. They stereotyped the Jews as if all of them were bad and deserved to be punished. An event takes a big toll on the main character (Tec); when the Nazis separated her family.
Her first home is destroyed during flood. Vyry then loose’s her second home by the Ku Klux Klan. They burn down her home causing her more problems. The Ku Klux Klan burning of her home was not the only suffering that Vyry is subject to but of the many dangers and the problems that this Klan had caused for many blacks. The mental anguish and physical destruction and pain not to mention death that this klan could instill on innocent blacks was brought across to the readers very clearly.
They killed us with land mines and booby traps; they disappeared in the night, or into the tunnels, or into the elephant grass and bamboo” (199n21). At the time the Vietnam war seemed unforgiving and mysterious, in ways that it made most soldiers naturally evil who in which portrayed enormous grief upon the enemy. It was a time where in every soldier's head they carried a motto, “kill or be killed.” In the novel, In The Lake Of The Woods, small and simple footnotes are attached at the end of important chapters and they give the reader clues concerning the story or they expresses symbolic twists that make the novel somewhat unpredictable. The Footnote I have chosen runs on the back of chapter 20. The small passage explains related truth on the Vietnam War, symbolizes what John Wade, the protagonists, has witnessed, and finally how it portrays the rest of the novel.
All it took was a few plague-infected fleas from Central Asia to start the chain reaction of death and terror. There was no cure, and everyone was at risk. The changes that followed after the plague had passed were drastic; there were changes in the economy, in society and in job