This is an example of the violent danger that is associated with Abelard’s love for his daughter, In Oscar’s journey to search of romantic love, he repetitively falls under the deadly “Let’s-Be-Friend Vortexes” (Diaz 41), which leads to him acting violently toward others and himself. Oscar’s first act of violence occurs while dating his first love, Ana. Ana, while “supposedly” dating Oscar, has a boyfriend named Manny. Manny is known to “[smack] her…[kick] her…[call] her a fat twat”( Diaz 45). Oscar, being madly and blindly in love with Ana, takes his uncle pistol and contemplates about killing Manny.
The idea of relating her vagina to a gun also gives the vagina a more powerful connotation and it gives a good base to show the difference and inequality between the two issues. The image of a gun in our society makes people think of power. This is why using the metaphor of a vagina being a gun sets a very powerful tone for the whole poem. Toward the end of her poem, she even says that her vagina is even more powerful than a gun, "But my vagina is not a gun, it is a mightier thing, with a voice that rings true making lawmakers' ears ring" (25-28). What she is saying in those lines is that reproductive rights are a bigger issue than gun rights, but lawmakers are afraid to see it that way and are scared to tackle the issue.
Molly Proctor 12/03/15 ! “In the stories in The Bloody Chamber Carter is excessively interested in violent instincts.” How far do you agree with this view?! Carter’s certainly takes an interest in violence making violent instincts prevalent within The Bloody Chamber and other stories. However, Carter does introduce readers to a number of themes beyond the apparent “violence” which formulates a debate as to what extent the violent becomes “excessive” within the texts. Various other themes include: love, pride and the oppression of women.!
Mean girls/ Julius Caesar Comparative Essay In the movie Mean Girls by Tina Fey and the play Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare there are many motifs. I will be specifically looking at motifs of betrayal from both stories that illustrate the theme “you have to be careful who you trust”. In the movie Mean Girls the main character Cady becomes very good friends with Regina George. Later in the movie Regina lies to Cady by telling her that she is going to hook Cady up with a boy, when really, Regina is trying to get with that same boy. Another example of betrayal in the movie Mean Girls would be when Cady gets all of Regina’s good friends to turn against her.
christina delahys November 8, 2012 Delores English 114 Violence out of Love In the novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz, the characters Beli, Oscar and Lola are all confronted with indescribable violence when trying to find love due to the curse of the “fuku”. The brutal violence that occurs within the novel easily relates back to the curse caused by the love of Abelard for his daughter by betraying Trujillo’s demands. Each character throughout the novel experiences great hardships and obstacles while trying to find true love. Although Beli, Oscar and Lola constantly attempt to find love, they always fail to do so with many instances resulting in violence. The well-known ‘fuku’ curse is the sole reason love is unattainable and violence is abundant in the Cabral family.
The girls start shouting “I saw Goody Bibber with the devil” and “ I saw Goody Booth with the devil”, this use of short snappy accusations one after another makes the whole scene dramatic and adds to the suspense being created. The words “I saw” almost become like a barrel of bullets being fired into the ears of the audience making them feel the madness going on. The stage directions say the the “curtains fall” as the girls continue making the accusations, this shows that the situations going to continue on into the rest of the play In act 2, Elizabeth gets arrested and we the audience are able to feel the madness going on because we know that such a devout Christian woman such as Elizabeth could not possibly be involved in witchcraft. We know that this due to Abigail’s plan to try and get Elizabeth arrested. We are able to feel the madness even more through Proctor shouting “Herrick!
“the two older sisters were very vein and cruel…[they made the girl do all the house work and charred her face] pg.” The story really shocked me. I thought that the girl would become beautiful like in the other Cinderella stories but, I was wrong. I really liked this version better than the one I grew up with because of the magnificent theme that it had. The theme is that beauty is on the inside rather than just on the outside. Even though, the girl’s face was burnt the invisible man looked past that and saw her for her.
She uses onomatopoeia many times during the text to describe the “Rat-tat-tat-tat” sound that the gunfire made to make the reader better imagine what it was like to be there at that time. It also helps shift the audience toward her side of the coin so to speak, in that it creates a harsh reality of fear for the reader which is unexpected from such a small sound. Chang also uses climax in her writing during the chapters so that at the middle of every chapter the reader feels that they reached the worst of the violence and tragedy and it also hooks them into wanting to read more to find out what the next big thing is that will happen in the next chapter. Chang uses hypophora in the beginning of the text to inform the reader of what kind of things they will be educated on regarding the Rape of Nanking. This is shown to its full extent on page nineteen when she lists many of the questions first time readers might have about the
Their emotion overwhelmed all rational thought and this was because they truly believed in the supernatural and because this hysteria could be used to their advantage. Abigail, for example, lusted after John Proctor and wanted to see his wife hanged so that they could be together. Thomas Putnam was after his
Leilani Mapuatuli EWRT 1B Professor Cragen February 2, 2011 “My Life had stood -a Loaded Gun-” Analysis In Emily Dickinson’s poem, “My Life had stood-a Loaded Gun”, Dickinson skillfully tells a tragic love story between a mortal man and an immortal woman. The main symbols Dickinson uses to tell this sad tale is the loaded gun, the owner/master, and the mortal’s impending death. She uses the gun to describe the woman’s eternal state, personality, and duty. Then describes the lover as an owner/master because he has essentially captured her heart and is able to use her as protection. Death, or the lack of being able to die, is the most important symbol because it shows one how and why death, in a way, can be a blessing or even a way to escape pain.