The governess becomes convinced that the two children know about the ghosts. Flora denies seeing Miss Jessel and doesn’t want anything to do with the governess, so she is sent to her uncles. At the very end of the novel, the governess is alone with Miles and tries making him tell her that he knows about the ghosts. She blocks him from looking at Peter Quint, and the governess tells him that he is no longer controlled by the ghost and he ends up dying in the governess’ arms. Depending on how trustworthy the reader feels the governess is, they may think she killed him herself but I believe, with proof, that Peter Quint was possessing little Miles and had something to do with his death.
Tom Robinson or your father?’ No answer.” Here is where she had a chance to tell the truth. In the book it hints several times her father Bob Ewell has physically and sexually abused Mayella Ewell. She was given a few chances during her testimony to tell the truth. Her father would have been arrested, Tom Robinson would be found innocent and she wouldn’t have to live in fear of her own family member anymore. Due to her choices, she becomes a perpetrator.
When Creon learns that Antigone has buried her brother, he becomes furious and sentences Antigone to death despite his son’s and Antigone’s fiancé pleading, as well as a warning from the prophet. But as the prophet for-told, the gods are on Antigone’s side and for Creon’s crime he loses his only son, Haemon and his wife. The begging of the play, Antigone has her sister, Isemen outside the city gates. Antigone is trying to get Ismene to help her bury their brother, Polyncies. But Ismene refuses to help her sister, fearing the death penalty installed by Creon.
Jocasta isn’t really known for being deceiving or manipulative in this play, but she does try to convince her husband that all of the prophecies are not true at all. The prophecy with Oedipus is that he was supposed to kill his father and marry his mother, when Jocasta and her late husband Laius found out the prophecy of their new born son, they casted him out of Thebes to die. But in fact that baby did not die because he was taken in by king Polybus and queen Merope of Corinth. Then later on in the play Oedipus gets word of his father’s death in Corinth and then finds out in fact that Polybus was not his biological father at all. When all of the takes place and Oedipus gets back to Thebes, Jocasta realizes that the prophecies could be true and she tries to convince Oedipus that they are not because she and Laius’s son died after they got word of the prophecy that was foretold to them.
As Atticus said, “I do my best to love everybody” (112) and because of this attitude, Atticus sees there to be no reason to why he should act any different around different people. Unlike others in the Community who are racist and define people by class and social statues, Atticus views everyone as individuals and sees them for who they are, even
When the oracle said that her son would kill his father and sleep with his mother she quickly abandoned her son to avoid that horrible fate and thanked the oracle for that. However, when Oedipus heard that Polybus was dead and realized he didn’t kill his father Jocasta said the oracle was useless. Jocasta is the type of person that chooses to be blind and accept the lies but only when they help her. If the truths help her then she will accept the truths. Jocasta is also trying to blind Oedipus in this quote.
He was an extremely perseverant man, and no matter what anyone else said, they could never stop John Proctor. He even stood bravely in the face of death, knowing that he would go peacefully since he was finally able to forgive himself and he, as well as his wife, found the good in him. This is the reason why John Proctor is the most admirable character of the
In a racist society like Maycomb, the verdict of this trial is a foregone conclusion the moment Mayella opened her mouth to scream rape, as the cowardly white jury of the court would never admit a black man’s testimony is true. Atticus is an intelligent man and recognizes this fact, yet he still decides to carry out his duties as appointed. He knew right from the start that there was nothing he can do to prevent Tom from getting convicted. Thus though all his effort will be in vain, he still works very hard to fight for Tom. In other words, he is very courageous as he ‘know(s) you are (he is) licked before you (he) begin (s) but you (he) begin(s) anyway’.
. It was also her fault because she is not yet divorced and dating a younger man. If Natalie would let Frank call the police than he would be still alive The boys were to blame as well because instead of calling the police when Richard broke into the house and yelling at their mother they called Frank to come over and take care of it. Frank decided to go over to the house to take care of Richard and he beat Frank up and then he left. His father was doctoring his son, Frank’s mother wanted to call the police and he would not allow her to do so.
Hale’s senses return to him all but too late as the trials condemn those who are clearly innocent to a Satanist’s death. Danforth is a man of high esteem in Massachusetts at the time period in which The Crucible is set. If politics have taught us anything throughout history, it’s that men who have power tend to abuse it; Danforth is no exception. Keeping a record of how many he has sentenced to hang, Danforth makes it