Ignorance are the symbols of the characters in Snow White. Snow-white, as the main heroine of the story, reveals her ignorance throughout the whole story. At first, she believes her stepmother by following the huntsman blindly, not knowing that he is going to kill her. She can barely survived by begging him and gets into seven dwarf’s house unconsciously. She ignored the danger of wandering in the forest and getting into stranger’s house recklessly.
In Moore’s “Which is More That I Can Say”, the role-reversal of the search of identity reinforces the image of the dynamic of fear that both mother and daughter have. Mrs. Mallon’s presence in the short story is described as something repelling and invasive towards her daughter’s decisions in life. Abby, having shaped her identity privately tries to alienate herself from her mother’s stronger character in order to have proper control of her life. Mrs. Mallon showing a risk taking behavior, sees her daughter as “a women who expects too much” due to her performance of actions in life. At the end due to the inability of Abby to succeed in her liberty, she witnesses lack of strength and the fear her mother has at the Blarney Stone.
She is also envy about it because there’s problem going on in Carla’s life, but she doesn’t care and Snow’s life is upside down which really bothers her. Another incident of jealousy can be seen when Carla is going away and meets Snow for the last time. Snow thinks, “I watch her mouth move and wonder how she can be so vacant in her own life. And I wonder why I can’t be the same” (pg 48). Since, Carla has nothing really special in her life but she is all cheerful and that is how Snow wants to be.
Animal Farm shows the true characters of Benjamin and Napoleon. In Jane Eyre, Jane, who is a poor, orphaned, inquisitive, plain and kind young woman living in Victorian England, spends the novel fighting for her independence. Given her circumstances and the way women are thought of in this time period, this is proving nearly impossible for her. She becomes a governess and cannot help but fall in love with her employer, Mr. Rochester, who is characterized as moody, dark, brooding and curious. There are many obstacles in their relationship, which eventually cause Jane to leave Thornfield Hall, her place of residence when she is serving as a governess.
Whereas she seems to belong more in glitzy and glamorous world, in an easy and out going life. The ranch hands, as seen from the fact that she is given no identity of her own as she is dubbed “Curley’s wife”, objectify her. She is the only woman in the ranch, which isolates her even further since she has no one of similar views and interest to talk to. She is vain, flirtatious and very gullible, which is easily picked up on since she believed out of her own delusions that her mother hid the letter, which told her if she was going to become an actress. This causes her to enter a loveless marriage with Curley, which she believed in self-delusion, was going to provide her a glamorous lifestyle.
Clover wonders why everyone and everything in their town is separated. When she asks her mother why everything on the other side of the fence seems so far away, her mother replies, “Because that’s the way things have always been.” Clover does not argue with her mother, but continues to wonder about the separation that occurs in her town. The reader starts to notice a change in Clover when Annie asks Clover and some of her friends if she could play jump rope with them. Clover’s friend, Sandra, answers, “no,” for the group without even asking them, but Clover wonders what she would have said. Clover thinks, “I don’t know what I would have said.
With no one to play with and no boys to play with, Jean Louise starts spending more time with her servant (Calpurnia) and her neighbor (Miss Maudie). Scout doesn’t know but she starts becoming more lady-like each day, just by spending time with these two grown women. When Jem and Scout’s father (Atticus) gets a very hard case, their Aunt Alexandra comes to fill in their missing mother figure. At first, Jean Louise opposes her Aunt’s way of thinking, that girls should be brought up like proper ladies. It takes Scout a while, but towards the end of the story she realizes why she has to be a good little girl.
Anne Saxton – Cinderella Analyzed We have all heard or come across the fairy tale of Cinderella at one point in our lives. Mostly it is the retold Wald Disney version filled with a wonderfully magical world, fairy godmothers, pumpkins and mice as well as truly warm and deep love. These tales leave one with the wish to make them our reality. The protagonist, Cinderella, who is very humble, hardworking and kind, lives with the stepmother and stepsisters in her family home. She is treated unfairly and is given the job of maid after the re-marriage of the father.
In other words, regardless of where their paths may lead, daughters will inevitably find their way back to their mothers. Within The Joy Luck Club, Suyuan and Jing-mei Woo, An-Mei and Rose Hsu, Lindo and Waverly Jong, and Ying-Ying and Lena St. Clair work to epitomize the multi-faceted relationships of mothers and daughters. Although these mother-daughter pairings have their own internal struggles, each relationship illustrates how the daughters see their mothers as over-bearing and the mothers see their daughters as distant from them. This distance, portrayed culturally and generationally, brings forth the central conflict between mothers and daughters. But through the in-depth look of each woman’s story and concepts of role-reversal and greater understanding, these maternal connections progress as the novel does.
This financial difficulty and abject poverty provides a beautiful illustration of motherhood, which is sacrifice for the wellbeing of her children. Meeker sets the tone by exploring the family life in the start of the poem. She uses hyperboles to describe the conditions of the family. Meeker gives a look into the relationship between the mother and her daughter, the narrator’s sister. She writes, “they clawed their womanhoods out of each other” (3) which undoubtedly indicates that the two do not get along.