George is immediately disgusted by this ‘that’s a dirty thing to tell around’ and we can already see a negative view of Curley’s wife forming in his mind. The fact that she has no name is significant as ‘Curley’s wife’ implies that she is merely an object or a possession of Curley’s and not someone with her own identity. Another way of looking at this is that Steinbeck is highlighting how insignificant she is as a person to the other men on the ranch and he could be trying to make us feel a bit sorry for her even at this stage. We are told that she ‘got the eye’ which makes her seem promiscuous and not like a very good wife. George uses the phrase ‘Curley’s got ant in his pants’ to put the blame completely onto his wife for his aggressive behaviour.
Mrs. Turpin and Grandmother, the central characters of “Revelation” and “A good man is hard to find,” by Flannery O’Connor, are both in need of a truth check in their lives. . “As in all of O’Connor’s stories, the violent surface action only begins to suggest the depths and a complexity of meaning embedded in the story. This is especially true when considering the mystery of evil and its relation to the action of grace” (Desmond). Mrs. Turpin considers herself morally superior to others by being a “lady,” and she judges people on their appearance before she even knows them.
The Scarlet Letter In the passage of the scarlet letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, we see the narrator doesn’t have the same attitude or views of the community. The harsh judgment Hester Prynne receives from the wives is predictable. Hawthorne’s diction in the narration reveals a tone of sympathy, while the words of the women scorn Mistress Prynne. The women who stood outside the prison door commenting on Hester Prynne punishment are described to be goodwives of a puritan community. The first woman to speak is a “hard featured dame of fifty”, she believes the good mature women of the church should have a say in the sentence of the mistress for they are wives, and will punish correctly.
We meet John Proctor whom Abigail is in love with. He does not love her back, he is married and has children, but she still keeps believing Proctor will be hers. In line 471 she says: "You loved me, John Proctor, and whatever sin it is, you love me yet!" Everything she does is for the sake of love. Which is not an excuse at all, but now it makes more sense why she gets into trouble connected with witchcraft and involves the girls in it.
Donne, living in the pious Jacobean era, and hiionships with others. She realises her hubris at being the ‘senior scholar’ blinded her to the values of Donne’s poetry as she reduced it to mere words in the same way that her doctors metaphorically objectified her as a ‘specimen jar.’ It is Vivian’s relationship with Susie that teaches her to relinquish her pride and in humility find a path towards ally purports that it is one’s religious relationships that guide them towards self-discovery. In At round earth’s imagin’d corners , he utilises the Petrarchan sonnet form, with the octet conveying his dilemma and the sestet providing a solution. In the octet he makes Biblical allusions to the Day of Judgement, wherein those who have died from are to ‘arise from death’ and be judged.
Saying this, Huck knows that she also smokes, and he doesn’t understand why she thinks of herself as such a great woman, when she is doing the exact thing that she told him not to do. Twain is showing that people back then were truly hypocritical and they said things that completely contradicted their own actions. Mark Twain shows another form of satire with his criticism on adult ignorance. One example of adults and their ignorance is the feud between the Grangerfords and the
Turpin, and seems to change her thinking. After Mrs. Turpin pronounces how grateful that she is neither poor nor black, Mary Grace (the fat girl) whips the book she was reading, Human Development, at Mrs. Turpin, which is great use of symbolism. Human development is a symbol for what Mrs. Turpin needs, because of her racism, judgementalism, and ridicule. And the name Mary Grace symbolizes something that relates to Jesus. Mary was Jesus’ mother, and there is a prayer called Hail Mary, which if she were to pray could bring her salvation.
To those around her, Hugla’s facial expressions are one of “constant outrage” (170) and she is blinded “by an act of will." (170) Mrs. Hopewell, confident that Joy/Hulga would have been better without a worthless, “Ph.D. in philosophy;” (173) has no comprehension of the true meaning, of life to her daughter. In one of Hugla’s books, Mrs. Hopewell found the following passage underlined by blue pencil; “Science, on the other hand, has to assert its soberness and seriousness afresh and declare that it is concerned solely with what-is. Nothing – how can it be for science anything but a horror and a phantasm?
Faulkner addresses the issue of religion through the characters of Cora and Whitfield, and their hypocritical characteristics give a representation of Faulkner's views on Religion. To iterate, Cora frequently spouts ridiculous religious axiom's that often times contradict her actual way of life as in her first chapter when she states "the lord can see into the heart. It is his will that some folks has different ideas of honesty,"(Faulkner 9.) Following this exclamation she criticizes Addie and her raising of a "tom-boy girl", contradicting her own statement of tolerance and demonstrating the notion that religious people are infatuated with hypocrisy (Faulkner 9.) In addition to Cora's hypocrisy, Faulkner's decision to make the religious figure Whitfield a conniving adulterous further displays the idea that religion, especially organized religion, is filled with ignorant hypocrites.
In “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” the grandmother is the main character. She is a snobby old woman who only has faith is these words, “I’m a lady” (pg. 507). In her last moments of breath, she tries to plead with her murderer, the Misfit, by adding prayer and Jesus into the picture when she knows that Jesus and prayer are not the faith she is using to save her life when she says to the Misfit,