Persuasion notes: Anne Elliot - The novel's protagonist, Anne Elliot is the middle daughter of Sir Walter Elliot, a landed baronet from a socially important family. Quiet and reserved, yet clever and practical, Anne sees the foolishness in her father's lavish spending. Because she is neither the most beautiful nor the most image-conscious of his daughters, Sir Walter often overlooks Anne, slights her, and dismisses her opinions. Though Anne seeks love, she is conscious of her duty to her position and the prudence of making a suitable match. Seeking to please those around her, in her youth, she was persuaded from following her true desires.
The reason why Mathilde Loisel character is important to the theme of story is because she strengthens the theme of the story. We can see through her life what might happen when you live in a fantasy. She had a modest life with no worries or hardships and sacrificed all that security to experience one night of pleasure, excitement, and fun. At the beginning of the story Madam Mathilde Loisel was craving a life of luxury, a life that she felt that she rightfully deserved. Her current modest life was unbearable and she felt that it was mistake that she was “born, as if by an error of destiny, into a family of clerks and copyists (Howe 250).
She has friends who only belong to her social status, and later she gets married to the prince of Monaco. Another character Serena van der Woonsen is a young, rebellious, and very attractive woman who has the status of a celebrity in this show. Her dressing is expensive portraying her high-class status, on the other hand, grandmother who is highly respected and has high-class standards. However, Serena is less concerned about upholding her family name unlike other characters. She also dates Dan a less rich teen from Brooklyn.
And in the process they find the one thing that had eluded them: love. The important character in this movie includes Camilla Belle as Nora Dominguez – the elder, serious, sister. She is a law student who does not want to put relationships above her career. Alexa Vega as Mary Dominguez – the younger, frivolous, sister. She loves to shop and misses being rich.
She is a very attractive woman who plays the act of the “silly, ditsy, bubbly, woman” so to speak. Nora is not as naïve as she plays on, but she is happy go lucky, acting as if she hasn't a care in the world. Nora wants to spend money more freely, live life more freely and be careless unlike her husband Torvald. Torvald is only concerned with how others perceive him; he is a narcissist and arrogant. Nora is genuinely good at heart and wants her children to be happy.
Thinking this would make their wives happy they were proud of their recent achievements. However this signified they placed their work above their family because they were only thinking of their needs and not of the families. They are not home as frequently as the wives would like them to be because they are out working. Both didn't like spending money or allowing their wives to spend it on gifts for themselves. When Ted's handshakes as he is signing the check shows he is hesitant to spend money.
Many people feel that by pleasing others they become happy themselves, but what they do not know is that it can lead to unhappiness. Throughout Edna Pontellier's and Virginia Woolf's lives, they always try to make people around them happy without thinking of themselves, which eventually leads them to being unhappy. In The Awakening, after Edna is lectured by her husband, The tears came so fact to Mrs. Pontellier's eyes that the damp sleeves of her [lounging robe] no longer served to dry them... Such experiences as the foregoing were not uncommon in her married life. They seemed never before to have weighed much against the abundance of her husband's kindness and a uniform devotion which had come to be tacit and self-understanding (Chopin 178-179).
It is often heard of females complaining how they want to find a true gentleman. What they don't realize, is that gentlemen are not attracted to women, but ladies. Women get men, while ladies get the highly sought after gentlemen. In part, this is due to the fact that ladies automatically acquire the classier lives with gentlemen, simply because they tend to take better care of themselves than a typical everyday woman. Career wise, a lady often seeks out indoor jobs which they know they will enjoy and not feel
As they have not been rich for long, they do not possess the sensibility or the kind of behavioural restraint that comes with wealth maturity. ‘Each of them felt that hers was the most important role in the wedding.’ P39 “Why not get a couple more while you can?” Simei to Erqiao, P36 Yuqing The bride-to-be, born of an eminent family in decline. She seems to know the social system very well, and is able to “play the system”. For example, despite being a member of a rich family, that family is in decline. Her mother-inlaw, Mrs. Lou, is a miserly person who “loved her son, but she loved her money, too.” So to ensure that they could get everything they might want, they left “the important things till last, so that when they had used up their money they could ask for more.” [2] Yuqing knew that social rules
Despite the fact that she was born in a family of clerks, she daydreams of luxury. Since she possesses beauty, grace and style, she believes that her true place is among the upper class ladies. She completely refuses to accept the reality of her life: ordinary dwelling and worn-out furniture. Mathilde does not pay much attention to her husband either. In a word, she gives an impression of a person who is not capable of appreciating anything.