These differences augment the emotional reaction and the understanding that a modern audience may elicit from 'Macbeth Retold'. Ella Macbeth parallels Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth with the line "You're too full of the milk of human kindness." Juxtaposition is used immediately after as Ella continues to lecture Joe in a more modern-day dialect. In this scene, instead of reasoning with her husband, Ella humiliates him into murdering Duncan, giving today's viewers more of a reason to empathise with the chef. Irony is then introduced into the piece a few scenes later when Joe accidently breaks a bottle of milk and cuts his hand while cleaning it up.
Curley’s wife has taken complete control of the situation by implying that she would get him lynched, this was typical of the time period the book is set in. Crooks goes from being exceptionally confident and self-assured to not saying anything and trying to make himself as small as possible. “Crooks stared hopelessly at her, and then he sat down on his bunk and drew into himself.” This shows that Crooks feels that he is out of place and certainly intimidated by Curley’s wife’s sudden outburst of hostility, he knows he has no hope of winning the confrontation. Curley’s wife enjoys the power she is exercising over Crooks, knowing that she has the power in their relationship and exercising it
For example, at the drive-in, Johnny managed to raise his voice to Dally—which had been Johnny’s most helpful “stand over” man as well as idol—telling him to stop harassing the two girls, Cherry and Marcia. Due to the new boldness of Johnny, Dally had been shocked and therefore stepped away as told. Fortunately, Johnny’s intervention on the girls’ behalf pleases the girls, and they talked and walked with the greasers. On the other hand, this interaction between the female Socs and male greasers sparked the anger of the Soc boys and motivated them to attack Johnny and Ponyboy. When he and Pony were later jumped by the Socs in the park, Johnny had the nerve to use his switchblade to attempt to scare off the Socs.
After using Marla’s mother into the homemade soap him and Tyler are creating without her permission, the narrator starts feeling an amount of guilt and regret. This is shown when the narrator says, “The miles of night between Marla and me offer insects and melanomas and flesh-eating viruses. Where I’m at isn’t so bad” (pg 94). In chapter 14 of the novel, the narrator describes to the readers that when he is with Marla, he wants to “make her laugh, to warm her up. To make her forgive me for the collagen .
She tells the orderlies to take Bromden aside and shave him, which he tries to avoid, because he says he hates it (Ch.1, Page.6 “Before anybody can turn and look for me I duck back in the mop closet, jerk the door shut dark after me, hold my breath, Shaving before you get breakfast is the worst time”) . In the second chapter we find out that they had given drugs to Chief Broom. In this chapter however a new patient is introduced to the ward, an Irishman called McMurphy. He is not like the others, and isn't intimidated by the black boys, that impresses the Chief. He introduces himself to the other patients by saying “My name is McMurphy, buddies, R. P. McMurphy, and I’m a gambling fool.” In the third chapter Bromden describes how the day room is split in two between the Acutes and Chronics.
Weir highlights this through costuming, for example, when Book wears Jacob’s (Rachel’s dead husband) clothes. The full shot of Book wearing the ill-fitting clothes, coupled with his uncomfortable facial expression, demonstrates his unsuccessful attempts at being completely accepted in the Amish community. His intruding presence in their community is symbolised by the act of his car knocking into the birdhouse, emphasising the disruption of harmony and peace. His stay with the Amish teacher Book that violence is not the key to solving problems, and competes with his rival Daniel for the affections of Rachel. However, his supreme ordeal is defeating the enemy, which he successfully accomplishes at the end, as shown by the close up shot the group of
When Irene visits Clare at her home, she has the pleasure of meeting her husband John. He calls Clare “nig” and openly discusses his hate for “niggers,” believing he is in room with only white people. Larsen portrays how Irene is negatively affected by the white world through this uncomfortable situation that Clare obliges her to endure. She is forced to deny her true identity in front of John so that she can remain loyal to Clare’s true identity, or risk him finding out that he married a woman of color. "She couldn't betray Clare, couldn't even run the risk of appearing to defend a people that were being maligned for fear that that defense might in some infinitesimal degree lead the way to final discovery of her secret!
The author describes Elisa’s feeling as, “Everything goes right down into your fingertips. You watch your fingers work…” (p. 633). Once the tinker had left, Elisa’s mental stimulation and self-fulfillment had left with him too. It is clear that she is unsatisfied with the relationship she has with her husband. Before the headed out for dinner, Elisa started to dress nicer and look for feminine.
Actually, he says, if she has to marry, Ophelia should marry a fool, as wise men know that women only make men into "monsters", even while knowing this Ophelia kept on loving Hamlet even though Hamlet would not respect her. In act 3 scene 1, Hamlet and Ophelia are having a conversation but Hamlet is just disrespecting her in front of everyone and she doesn’t say anything but stays quiet the whole time. Ophelia’s death was an unfortunate accident. She was at best dimly aware that she was drowning – ironically a solution to her
The movie opens with the characters being introduced and falling in love. This is shown through the narration of Holly who often tells the story with no emotion and in a very neutral way. It is also done through the use of montages of images of him at work and her in her everyday life, than the transition from their ordinary lives to their killing spree is created through a montage of Holly’s house in flames in which we see her toys and the things in her room burning which clearly signifies her loss of innocence. From then on, the movie is told through a series of events, it breaks all the conventions of the crime genre because it is slow paced and has very little action, when there is a shooting, we are not shocked and neither are the characters, it is almost as if it had never happened and as if it didn’t matter. The fact that the structure of Badlands is so neutral tells us a lot about the nature of the film and the greater meaning.