With whom do you have more sympathy with, Arthur Kipps or Jennet Humfrye? In the Woman in Black, I sympathize with both Arthur Kipps and Jennet Humfrye, however not The Woman in Black. We have sympathy with Arthur Kipps, as he has not done anything to deserve the loss of his son, and Jennet Humfrye due to her son being taken away from her. Arthur Kipps has not had anything to do with Jennet Humfrye, yet she is haunting him for no apparent reason. At the end of the book, he is trying to let go of the WiB (Woman in Black), carry on with the rest of his life and move on.
Scout learned that Ms. Merriweather thinks Helen Robinson should be reprimanded because it is her skin color and her unfaithfulness to the church that caused their misfortune. The group of ladies that form the church circle should be an open-minded group, but they have only shown to be insensitive and unsympathetic. The full maturation of Scout is shown when she thinks to herself on the Radley porch, “Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shows and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough.” (374).
The view that ‘Cousin Kate’ shows the double standards between men and women during the 19th century in the quote “The neighbours… call me an outcast thing.” The fact the neighbours call the narrator an ‘outcast thing’ yet there is no mention of what they call the Lord shows how even though the Lord has done exactly the same thing as the narrator, he is not seen as an outcast because there were different expectations for women than men and in the Victorian age, women were definitely not expected to have sex before marriage and this was greatly frowned upon in society, yet for men this was different entirely and they were not completely judged for having sex before marriage as women were, further displaying the double standards shown in this time. Although you could support the view that the poem highlights the double standards between men and
Reality and Religion Ada begins to contemplate her own views of the world and rejects Monroe’s belief that the objects on earth are gifts from another world, in Frazier’s novel, Cold Mountain. She finds comfort in the predictable elements of life, such as nature’s cycles, after she sees how useless intangible items are to her, such as reading and learning languages. Thus, she denies the importance of invisible items. However, Inman, disgusted by the images of war burned into his mind, seeks refuge in the spiritual world he cannot necessarily see, much to the contrast of Ada, who now only finds comfort in concrete items. Forced to separate because of the war, Inman and Ada can no longer rely on each other to fill their voids.
When Danforth is questioning Mary about telling the truth in court, she states, "I cannot lie no more. I am with God, I am with God." Mary would tell the truth to a person higher than her, but only when there was no one around to persuade her to do otherwise. Abigail falsely accused Mary of seeing spirits that then led Mary to scream, "Let me go, Mr. Proctor, I cannot, I cannot—“ Mary threw her morals out the window when she realized that if she did not pretend to be possessed, she will be convicted. Mary did not care if she was being dishonest or a hypocrite.
The turning point in this poem was when Gwendolyn said “She heard no hoof-beat of the horse and saw no flash of the shining steel.” This line describes how Carolyn realized that Roy was not the man he appeared to be and she grows to be angry and disgusted with him and “her hatred for him bursts into glorious flowers”. The killing of Emmitt Till both angered and inspired Gwendolyn to write this poem, and shows her hatred against Roy through the eyes of Carolyn. Instead of coming right out and saying how she felt she described how she felt carefully through Carolyn over a period of
Ruth, in The Color of Water, exemplifies this quote because she completely disregards her own self-esteem. Instead, she ignores what other people, including her own her family, think of her as long as she can accomplish succumbing to her values. Both her black acquaintances and white acquaintances do not understand her association with blacks and decide to ridicule her. Despite this ridicule, she continues to live independently so that she can support her children. Rachel also decides to keep up the church that her husband started despite the death of her husband.
Societies’ perception of a person can be very subjective. In the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, a woman named Hester Prynne has a baby out of wedlock with the minister of the town, Arthur Dimmesdale. Dimmesdale feels a tremendous amount of sorrow and guilt in his soul for not publically repenting his sin as Hester Prynne was forced to do. When Dimmesdale does decide to repent, the townspeople choose to turn a blind eye to what happened even though they witnessed it with their own eyes. Hawthorne creates the characters Dimmesdale and the townspeople to show how society only believes something about a person that isn't the whole truth because they want to make that person seem like a good person, even when they find out he’s
In addition, the grandmother talks about Jesus with The Misfit when she hopes that it might help save her life. However, her first appeal is not religious because she never brings it up in the rest of the story. Moreover, she mumbles “Maybe he didn’t raise the dead” (28) affirming with the Misfit that Jesus must not have existed and all that religious magic was all just an illusion. Lastly, the grandmother lies again to herself and to The Misfit when she says, “‘you shouldn’t call yourself The Misfit because I know you’re a good man at heart’” (O’ Connor 23). The only reason she says this is in an attempt to save her
What he does is completely un-Christian like and he hurts the students at Lowood emotionally. Helen Burns’ form of Christianity is too meek and passive for Jane and although she does admire Helen for making this choice, the forgiveness and tolerance for everything is not what Jane is looking for. When Jane reaches the Rivers’ household, Hannah the Rivers’ housekeeper tries to turn her away even though she is begging. Jane tells her, “if you are a Christian, you ought not consider poverty a crime.”