The girl shown in the picture is also positioned in the back corner and this indicates that she has no authority. This is further demonstrated through the angle the picture is shown which is a high angle shot and this positions her as being weak and inferior. The audience can also see a snail in the corner of the picture, which symbolises how slow her life is going. Also the frame of the bright red leaf shows her hopes for life and this is juxtaposed with the decaying leaves around her, which further emphasizes her low mood. From the visual techniques used there are many ideas communicated to the audience as we can feel a sense of loneliness, depression, and desperation.
As she stares at her reflection, she sees herself as an old woman, whose young body has been distorted and gravity has taken its rightful place, creating a self pity attitude. Picasso uses vivid, live colors to portray the woman in reality, but the reflection includes dark, gloomy colors such as purple and blue, which are closely related to depression. The woman sees her young days being washed away from her face, suggested by the green discoloration on her forehead and darkening of her facial features. This dual nature of the woman indicates that she fails to see her beauty, causing her to live in fear of being judged. Pablo Picasso was a part of the Modernism movement at the beginning of the 20th century, a time period in which adoption of complex styles and forms were undertaken to provide new meanings.
She begins to hide her luscious hair in a cap and almost seems to lose her femininity. She becomes an outcast in the town, living on the outskirts of town. Men, woman, and children constantly making fun of both Pearl and Hester increasing the affect of Hester's diminishing appearance. An example of this abuse can be seen in Pearl repeatable being called a "demon child" by the towns people. (Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter 89) It almost seems as if the scarlet letter has absorbed her beauty along with all the rebellious and fiery qualities of Hester, leaving a cold and lonely woman, her tenderness "crushed so deeply into her heart that it can never show itself more.
Robin Jenkins first shows you how different the little girl is, “red eyed dissenter”. This shows that the little girl could be angry or has maybe been crying. I think Jenkins has used ‘dissenter’ to identify Margaret as different from everyone else suggesting her loneliness and isolation from the others. Loneliness is a theme throughout ‘Flowers’ which shows that life can be very unpleasant especially if you are alone. The theme of loneliness continues when, after Miss Laing tells the children to go pick flowers they all “scamper off” but the little girl doesn’t.
In this society people get very disturbed when the law is broken. When Mrs. Phelps starts sobbing after Montag reads the poem Mrs. Bowles starts yelling at Montag. Mrs. Bowles says, “I knew it would happen! I’ve always said poetry and tears, poetry and suicide and crying and awful feelings, poetry and sickness, all mush!”(101). Mrs. Bowles is furious at Montag for reading a poem and making Mrs. Phelps cry.
Duffy, as Mrs Lazarus, later explains the grief has led her to throwing up; “retched,” this shows that Mrs Lazarus has led herself to tormenting herself, as she is self harming and throwing up. At the end of the stanza Duffy repeats the word dead; “dead, dead,” this showing how bad her loss is, but also conveying that Mrs Lazarus is still shocked by the loss and is still not understanding it. At the beginning of the second stanza Duffy used short lines which are broken up by punctuation which makes the verse very disjointed; “Slept in a single cot” this also shows Mrs Lazarus has no body anymore and is therefore lonely, but also suggests she is like a baby in a cot who is hopeless. Duffy then puts emphasis on Mrs Lazarus grief and despair when she uses the word “widow,” followed by the word “half” suggesting that Mrs Lazarus is incomplete. We
Because of the fewer scenes and events used in short story, they have to be selected and ordered, lead swiftly to the moment of crisis face by the main character. Each scene reflected the conflict progressing between the women and her husband in order to compare the social class of both in society or at home. From the beginning, she was totally under the control from her husband who is a “high standing physician”, neither in treatment nor working outside. She felt can “not get well faster” and deep depression on herself. She gradually lost her sanity and became extremely madness at last, the story reached its climax and the women tear the wallpaper off the wall and felt freedom due to “pulled of most of the paper and can’t put her back”.
It was a place of slave labor laundries from the 18th to the late-20th centuries to house "fallen women", a term used to imply female sexual promiscuity. Asylums for such girls and women and others believed to be of poor moral character, such as prostitutes and teenage pregnancy. Harwood critiques her society for its oppressive treatment of women who are unprotected by marriage or respectability. So then she uses imagery to emphasize the hypocritical nature of the Christian Institutes that perpetrate it. Harwood recalls to our mind the sympathy for the young women portrayed in the poem and wants the readers to contemplate the sexism within
I think she has weary eyes because all she seems to be doing is crying and she has a dry throat because she is smoking cocaine which makes her get the effect of having a dry throat. I really feel for this girl. I think that she must have lost her family and friends down the road of her addiction. She must’ve pushed them away for her to have nobody. All the men she sleeps with don’t think anything good of her and I think they just see her as some prostitute who has no
From studying the unique poetry of Plath, I found it intense, deeply personal and somewhat disturbing as she wrote about the horrors of depression with ruthless honesty. Her poetry is personal in that she talks about a taboo subject that wasn't acknowledged during her lifetime and in a way it made her poems brilliantly intense.This can be seen most clearly in ‘Child’, ‘Elm’, ‘Poppies in July’ and also ‘Mirror’. ‘Elm’s’ tone is insanely intense, dark and plain miserable and this makes the reader feel immensely disturbed. It is clear from reading Plath’s work that she was in a dark hole, willing to escape. ‘Elm’ finished with the disturbing line “That kill, that kill, that kill”We can see through her callous honesty and the unsettling atmosphere that she is tormented when she says “Till your head is a stone, your pillow a little turf”.