She also constantly lies about her age and relations. Another example of lies appears when Blanche is raped by Stanley. Eunice advises Stella to ignore the incident which is, in actual fact, lying to herself. The theme of lies is found again in ‘Atonement’ through
Especially when she reminisces in the final stanza about the time she was young and beautiful, illustrating her complete lack of confidence. Nevertheless, she is still presented as a foul character who threatens the reader, with the line ‘Be terrified’. The poem also ends with the line ‘Look at me now’ which has a double entendre (double meaning). It could be read as a cry of despair or, as a threat – if you did look at Medusa you would die! This leaves the reader feeling conflicting emotions for the character, probably similar to how Medusa herself feels in the poem.
Macbeth on the other hand cannot sleep and starts to see things. When Macbeth starts acting strange towards people, Lady Macbeth deceives everyone to hind their secret. When Macbeth kills Banquo and Lady Macduff, Macbeth’s guilt starts to go away because the evil and amount of power has taken over him. Lady Macbeth starts to feel guilty and is no longer able to sleep. She fears the dark, meaning she is afraid of evil and what has become of it.
• The tragic hero should be great, but cannot be perfect. The reader/audience should see themselves in the tragic hero/ine. o Blanche is not a “great” or a “perfect” person. She is far from being a girl scout- at least the version of Blanche we know from the play who is sexually promiscuous, manipulative, and snobbish- not knowing much about Blanch before her arrival to New Orleans, other than the fact that she was a very delicate person. o She does have plenty of flaws as noted above, most of which stem from her insecurity as a person.
She comes and goes,” to me, this is saying she cannot bear the truth so she turns her back on the mirror. Her hands tremble as she cries. The mirror is important to her because it is a reminder, a shake back to reality even though it drives her insane to know what she really is. The woman isn’t always faithful to the mirror though, as she turns back and forth to
Lady Macbeth is constantly ridiculing Macbeth because he is too afraid to kill Duncan, and she even tells him that he might as well be a woman. This is ironic because in this quote, Lady Macbeth says “Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?” (5.1.39), which lets the readers know that she feels guilty. This guilt is what would eventually drive her to madness. Mental madness all due to an attempt to gain and maintain power; power both over their own selves and a run for
Or meanings that they are uneducated or cannot express themselves well and therefore find it hard to communicate with each other. However, this fakeness is broken by a simple thing that is not perfect. An accident leads to chaos and embarrassment for the mother. The nave nature of both the child and a reflection of this in the women whom are all trying to out complete each other leads to uproar. My mother mute shame also indicates the lack of initiative, instead an overwhelming sense of
They begin to despise each other. Jean makes Miss Julie subdued, uncertain and afraid. She is appalled by the consequences. She's a woman from the upper class who had a sexual relationship with a single servant from the working class. Jean is portrayed as the strong and livsduglige, while Julie is the weak who perished.
Both characters collide with each other over influence of Stella, Blanche’s sister. Eventually, however, Stanley is the victor, raping Blanche and sending her into a completely delusional state. To begin with we can see the way in which the playwright uses the characterisation of Blanche to establish the theme of appearances versus reality in the way in which she struggles to accept the harsh reality of her surroundings. When Blanch first arrives she is shocked by her surroundings: ‘Her expression is one of shocked disbelief. Her appearance is incongruous to this setting.’ When Blanche first is introduced to Stella’s home she is shocked and this establishes Blanche’s strong sense of class, and also that Blanche will be an outsider in this particular setting, never realizing just how harsh it is.
The final line “Who could not say, ‘Tis pity she’s a whore?” can be seen as directed towards her and so she is blamed for everything that has occurred. Throughout the play she is seen as quite powerful and headstrong by refusing many marriage proposals and being quite stubborn in doing so. However, she is reduced to a weak being however upon dying which is a culmination of her passions. It is perceived that women are a danger to men and to society as a whole and so Giovanni’s actions are to be blamed not on himself, but on Annabella because of the beauty she possesses. Giovanni states that Annabella’s “lips would tempt a saint” thus showing the corruption her presence inflicts upon even the supposed innocent of men.