Also, John Proctor is surprisingly sensitive and thoughtful. When he asks his wife if she is saddened he displays concern for her well-being. He wants nothing more than for his dear wife to feel loved and he is willing to do whatever it takes to make her feel that way. He always spoke good about his wife. For example, when Elizabeth was accused of witchcraft, John said, “My wife cannot lie, I have paid much to learn it sir.” (p.111) John Proctor's major flaw was his great pride in his name.
After he apologizes to her for saying he didn’t like her husband Claude reflects on Mrs. Meitner. Claude says he didn’t hate her husband because he made Mrs. Meitner happy but he hated Hitler for taking away her happiness. This shows how empathetic Claude was at such a young age. Even though he did not completely want to give up on the idea of marrying Mrs. Meitner he wanted her to be happy and “let her go.” This shows how Claude has traits that no other kid had his age. By seeing past Claude Brown’s bad boy ways of robbing, drug use and thuggish persona you see very grown up attitude of a kid not even in high school.
This is an early indication of his firm disapproval of, bordering on disgust at, Curley’s wife. Later in the extract he dismisses her as a “tramp” and reinforce the idea that she is little more than an object to be owned by stating “So that’s what Curley picks for a wife.” Lennie, in contrast, is more ‘appreciative’ with his “fascinated” eyes that “moved down over her body” causing Curley’s wife to subconsciously react: “she bridled a little”. Unlike George, he falls for her
Steinbeck represent Curley’s wife as a pessimist, she is a women in the 1930’s and so she would never be treated like an equal. Curley’s wife struggles to come to terms with this, “Think I don’t like to talk to someone ever’” this shows that Steinbeck is using her denial of the facts and the way that society is, to create a character that feels that she is equal to men. This makes the reader feel sympathy for Curley’s wife and creates an effect of understanding towards her situation. Steinbeck uses Curley’s wife as a tool to show the role of women in the great depression because everyone has a dream but women are forced to leave there dreams behind and forget about them. To survive in the 1930’s Curley’s wife would have had to accept this and evolve her life around it.
He was open to life and living and did not take one thing for granted. The husband had pity for the man, when in actuality he was living just fine. He stated that “he felt sorry for the blind man for little bit” and stated “what a pitiful life this woman must have led” (Carver 30). The husband looked at it again in an arrogant way, just because you cannot see a person does not determine wheatear or not you can love them. After being inseparable and married for 8 years, working together, living together and of course having sex with each other he unfortunately had to
This immediately gave the impression that she saw herself as superior, and we immediately disliked her. She also kept a very practised smile on her face, although it was slightly turned down in the corners, and her eyes were slightly mocking, conveying to the audience that she was never fully pleased with anything, again making her seem shallow. As her husband thanked the staff, Margot scalded her husband with the line 'You're not supposed to say such things'. She perched gracefully on the chair, never forgetting her apparent need to remain well postured the entire time. However, during this line she leaned over and hissed the words.
In the contrasting paragraph, she presents how she is anti-war, by saying ‘stop all this!’ this use of short a sentence emphases her thoughts about war, and how in fact it is ruining society. Another way the writer presents thoughts and feelings is using lists. ‘Stop this breaking of homes, these sad privations, this mangling of men, this making of widows!’ This is used in the contrasting paragraph to again emphasise her thoughts about how sending the men off to war, will ruin society and create more problems. The way the writer contrast is showing how it is all good women getting these jobs, but in fact in the long run, it would not be a good thing, and will eventually take its toll. The writer looks at the role of changing women, and how before the war, women went to extreme lengths to try and get ‘the vote’ and to feel part of society, and the war has done this for them.
Jarret McCallister Ms. Smith W131 27 February 2013 Critique: “A Mother’s Day Kiss-Off” In “A Mother’s Day Kiss-Off,” author and editor of Vanity Fair, Leslie Bennetts, starts out criticizing society, specifically men, for being unsympathetic towards the sacrifices women make. She makes generalizations about the resentment that all women feel when it comes to being a housewife. Bennetts then contradicts herself by shifting the blame over to women for accepting the domestic role. She goes on to provide suggestions as to what women should be doing differently to advance their social status and gain more independence. By changing the main focus of her paper and making over-generalizations about the way that all women feel, Bennetts takes away from the effectiveness of her argument and weakens her overall credibility.
1. "I have hated the words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right." (528) After encountering Max being forced on the way to a concentration camp, Liesel becomes hopeless of the written word, seeing Hitler's words as the source of her suffering. Ilsa Hermann gives her a blank book and encourages her to write hoping she will. While then, Liesel writes the story of her life, containing both tragedy and beauty, at a fevered pace.
She’s gone!” In this pivotal scene, in a fight with her mother, Nina shows the audience that she has unveiled the dark side of her personality. The responder discovers the negative aspects of a sequential loss of control and as Nina has her hold chipped away the responder finds that an individual can change more and more. Going from “Beautiful. Fragile. Frigid” Nina becomes more and more like the Black Swan, the