Explore how Shakespeare and browning reveal strong feelings using Lady Macbeth and the laboratory. The laboratory by Robert Browning is about how one woman in aristocratic France because of betrayal and jealousy can lead to attempting to kill her partners’ new lover. The woman is at a laboratory to have a poison created to kill her rival. During which she has flash backs revealing what she has witnessed. The woman in the dramatic monologue is the woman with the strong feelings unlike normal women of the 18th century who would have gone to a church to pray to god, for him to give them strength, but this woman decided to go to a laboratory which was considered as the devils house, “devil’s-smithy”, to take actions into her own hands.
He uses his power over his wife Stella Kowalski and his sister in law Blanche DuBois to selfishly gain attention from friends and to regain his dominance in his home. He also is a very sexist character and shows little respect for the women in the play. Finally Stanley’s love of sex and his physical strength ends up in him raping Blanche. A character like Stanley who abuses his power of being the man of the house should not be cheered for when reading the play and should be considered the villain. Firstly the beginning of the play shows Stanley abusing his leadership in the household to get what he wants.
She is a temptress who disturbs the fraternity of the men, for whenever she enters the bunkhouse, or at least stands in the doorway, preventing the men's passage, Curley's wife is a source of tension: The men worry that they will succumb to her physical allure; they worry that Curley will appear and become jealous and enraged against them. Once she has tempted Lennie, he sins and kills her--albeit accidentally. At any rate, the death of Curley's wife is the end of the "dream" for Lennie and George and Candy. There can be no Eden for them as George must kill Lennie before he is caught and his soul destroyed. With the death of the child-like Lennie, the innocent dream of having a ranch is also
The whole thing takes place just for Delia’s submissiveness. If Delia has been audacious from earlier the whole situation would not take place. At the end Delia needs to use violence to get rid from her cruel husband. Delia, who really cares for her beloved husband, finally lets the snake free in the house for Sykes and when Sykes lastly screams when the snake assails him, Delia does not pay any attention of his screaming. One of Hurston's central preoccupations in "Sweat" is the problem of oppression within the black community.
In the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Curley's wife demonstrates multiple time that she is a villain and in many ways is the cause of her own death. One example would be when Curley's wife when she is in the stable with crooks and she slams him. He was just trying to defend himself and Curley's wife made sure he knew that he was beneath him.
Her actions ultimately lead to the murder of her first husband Camillo, her sexual presence and beauty creating jealousy and envy in the men that meet her. Vittoria is not an innocent character, but she is a product of women’s social limitations in the patriarchal society Webster has chosen to set the play in. Vittoria is undoubtedly the central character of the novel, the events throughout are as a result of her liaison with Brachiano, sparking a journey of murder and treachery. The title of the book ‘The White Devil’ describes Vittoria well, and helps display that she is not an innocent character. Being compared to the devil in a novel set in a heavily catholic country shows that she is evil, and the subtitle ‘The Tragedy of Paulo Giordano Ursini, Duke of Brachiano, With the Life and Death of Vittoria Corombona the famous Venetian Curtizan’ supports this.
In essence she is a dictator and takes advantage of the other workers, and the patients. Nurse Ratched humiliates the poor patients, which makes them lose faith in humanity, and lose their dignity. They no longer feel like they are men because during the therapy meetings she always makes them talk about topics that are reasons for why their life is horrible. During the therapy
eDoes Steinbeck encourage the reader to see Curley’s wife as a victim or villain in section five of ‘Of Mice and Men’ Steinbeck has created a character in the book named ‘Curley’s wife’. In the book Curley’s wife does not have a name as it makes the reader feel that she doesn’t deserve one. Steinbeck portrays Curley’s wife as either victim or a villain. In section five of ‘Of Mice and Men’ Curley’s wife is at some points a villain. She takes advantage of Lennie.
Hopefully the audience will understand that Steinbeck's social criticism implies that he is using the book as a metaphor in order to make a point. For instance, he shows the way Curley's wife was treated in order to how show badly women were treated in many circumstances at that time. Throughout the novel, Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck portrays women in a horrible manner; he shows them as unintelligent and unimportant figures. All of the women, including Curley's wife, Lennies Aunt Clara, Clara, Suzy and the women at Clara's bar are shown in this unintelligent and un respectful way. There are many quotes that show this in the book and also information that is understood from the book but not actually written by John Steinbeck.
The way John creates a sudden fear in his wife which provokes her to startle and hide her journal speaks volumes of his influence over her life. Gilman’s use of symbolism first begins to take flight when the woman in her story suddenly begins to notice the wallpaper. It becomes evident only through her use of symbolism that controlling men trap women from all of their potential. The wallpaper in her story symbolizes women who have long been repressed by such men, and by society. Gilman demonstrates this very notion in the slightest ways, such as when the woman first describes the wallpaper as if it had been used by a room of boys: “The paint and paper look as if a boy’s school had used it.