'Curley's wife is a very complex character because she is presented in different personalities at different chapters and in this chapter we see that she desires freedom and fame. Steinbeck presents her in such way that or opinion of her changes through out the novel, first we see her as a flirt then we see her presented in a horrible racist personality and now Steinbeck presents her as Innocent. Steinbeck did this because at this chapter where she dies it's like he wants us to feel sympathy for her because not that she is dead her problems are gone and there is not need for attentions because now she looks relaxed laying down on the hay. The language used in this chapter is very descriptive especially the part when Curley's wife dies, this might be because at the time
Steinbeck elicits contradictory feelings in the reader: sympathy for the recently murdered woman as well as sympathy for his murderer. Steinbeck achieves this through using contrasting imagery, portraying Lennie with animal traits, and presenting Curley’s wife’s death as a release from her misery. Steinbeck provides conflict with texture, light, and sound to assist the reader’s emotional quarrel. The feel of Curley’s Wife’s soft hair put side by side to the rough old and brown of the ranch displays many of the differences. Steinbeck has subliminally mentioned isolation and conflict that Curley’s wife’s creates with her soft hair; here it is quiet apparent, “Feel right aroun’ there an’ see how soft it is.” (Steinbeck 90).
The short story,’ The Lottery" is written by Shirley Jackson. The story brings out the barbaric ritual of stoning to death of innocent women by way of lottery. The moral issue in the theme of the story is barbaric deaths of hapless women at the hands of powerful men for the sake getting good harvest in a small village of America. The wrong belief system in the traditional agricultural American society is another moral theme in the story. The most effective style of the author to lead the reader to the theme is his brief and direct approach.
Both Dawe and Slessor use powerful imagery to illustrate their anti-war sentiments. The two poems address the gravity of war and the awful sacrifices of men too young to die and the use of imagery in each adds another dimension and plays a crucial part in emphasizing the message of pieces. Imagery is used in both poems to create a sense of unification in death, both between the families of the dead boys as in homecoming when Dawe used imagery such as ‘the spider grief swings’ through the ‘wide web of suburbs’ as the news of death reaches each house and unifies the whole country in mourning. But a different type of unification in beach burial as Slessor unifies the dead soldiers from both sides of the war, ‘the sand joins them together’ in their graves, they are all labelled as ‘unknown soldiers’ and Slessor describes them all as ‘gone in search of the same landfall’. Another type of imagery that appears in both poems in the description of the war itself and the imagery used reinforces the brutality of it, so is the aim of both poems.
Thus this was what she meant by not even the perfume of Arabia can cover up her guilty sin. Another example would be when Lady Macbeth says “Was your hands, put on your night-gown, looking not so pale: I tell you yet again, Banquo’s buried. (5, 1; 52). Considering the fact that Banquo is dead, and she was the one who influenced her husband to do all those bad deeds, in the end it caused her to relive this scene to show how cruel she was in the past. Thus it is shown that guilt can cause one to lose there inner conscience.
Antigone tries to explain why she had the right to bury her brother. She is justified in disobeying the law because everyone deserves to have a proper burial. Antigone is not afraid to face the outcome of her actions even if it calls for death because “This death of mine is of no importance…”(208). If leaving her brother Polyneices unburied, she “should have suffered”(208). Antigone achieves her plan and did not let anyone stop her from doing what she thought was right.
The poem ‘Poppies’ explores a relationship between a mother and a son. It also explores images of conflict such as “Armistice Sunday”, “poppies” and “the war memorial”. The poem shows us the effects of war and describing the mother as victim of warfare as well as the child. However, in the “At the Border, 1979”, it explores how the war between countries have affected families emotionally and physically. In the poem ‘Poppies’, the mother feels very sad; “Three days before Armistice Sunday and poppies had already been placed on individual war graves” this is a reminder that war kills people which makes her sad as her son might be killed in war.
In the stories collected in Trash and in her stunning first novel, Bastard Out of Carolina, she offers an uncompromising vision of the ugliness and injustice of poverty. Incandescent with grief, rage, and pride, her fiction also affirms the complex subjectivity of persons who must endure the contempt of a society that affords them one of two mythologized positions: “the
Hardy seems always to be making a point about society and the way it treats women. This leaves his books open to social criticism, which is what they received, especially in “Tess of the d'Urbervilles” which was highly criticized, mostly for the overt sexuality within the book, and especially the scene when Tess is raped by Alec D’Urberville, when it is unsure if Tess resisted enough or was seduced by Alec. For a novel from 1891, it is bitingly
| 2.2 | A little water clears us of this deed. | All you have to do is wash your hands and it will be okay. | 2.2 | Naught’s had, all’s spent where our desire is got without content. ‘Tis safer to be that which we destroy than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy. (alone) | She wishes she didn’t do it cause she’s really guilty and wishes to die.