“The Pumpkin Eater” By Alexi Kondylas The short story "The Pumpkin Eater" by Isabelle Carmody is a coming-of-age rite of passage and an allegory. Events in the narrative show quest conventions that are common throughout history. Like with; traditional gender roles are restrictive, beauty can cause unhappiness for women, and that love and marriage trap women. The quest short narrative have conventions that assist the exploration of ideas with the quest - the journey and prize. At the beginning of the story, the protagonist (princess) thought that having true happiness meant finding a man/prince to sweep her off of her feet/ to instantly fall in love , and take her away from her castle/home.
She thought of herself as two different people, "the rancid-butter-smelling Edith of the day shift", and "the rose-scented Edith wriggling into a party dress", she wanted to forget about the rancid butter Edith, the only Edith she wished to be was the rose-scented Edith. She wanted a "perfect" job, appearance, home, family, but she didn't realize that nothing would ever be perfect unless she made it perfect, not by changing who she was, but by changing how she saw herself and other people. Manipulating the way she talked, dressed, and acted did nothing for her. Even after spending all her money on clothes, perfume, a wristwatch, and books on etiquette, Edith still didn't fit in, all she did was make herself stand out even more than she did in the first place. In order to forget who she was, Edith created an alter-ego of herself, and tried to become that alter-ego, she never really knew the difference between what was important, and what wasn't.
2) How does Romeo describe the woman he loves in Scene 1? Refer to things like word choice. Connotation, tone figures of speech, and so on. Romeo describes the woman he loves by saying: ‘’She hath Dian’s wit.”- Here Romeo is comparing her to the Roman goddess Diana because she is chaste and does not want to marry. “O she is rich in beauty, only poor that when she dies, with beauty dies her store.” – Romeo is saying that she is beautiful, but it is a shame that she will not pass her beauty down to anyone because she does not want to have children.
The prince did not dance with anyone else all night and would always say “she is my partner” (Grimm 630). The mother through the doves gives her special clothes that are more beautiful than anyone else’s. Panttaja states that he is under a charm and it is pure magic in the work, not true love. That in itself is evil because it is manipulating the prince and everyone else around. Another example of the
When he meets the princess she comes off as a bit of a snob, because she had this idea of how her rescue was so post to happen. Therefore he is a little calloused in the way he deals with her as they make their way back to the kingdom. For instance the princess is upset about him not being a price charming type of guy and the king not rescuing her himself. So Shrek says he’s not a messenger boy he’s a delivery boy and just tosses her over his shoulder and carries her away of the
Secondly, many people believe that the little mermaid is sexist because Ariel gave up her voice to be with a man, or did she. Some can argue that Ariel gave up her voice as an expression of independence from her underwater life. For example, Ariel falls in love-at-first-sight with a human, Prince Eric, and rescues him from a burning ship. This drives her father into a rage, so Ariel turns to the one person who offers her a real chance to live in the human world. Ariel is a revolutionary.
Unsatisfied by her surly husband, she constantly sneaks around the barn, trying to make the workers conversate with her. Curley’s wife dream was to be a Hollywood actress but this dream is unreachable due to her ruling husband. She imagines how great it would be to stay in nice hotels, own lots of beautiful clothes, and have people want to take her photograph. Curly is so overprotective and will not let her do anything unless he approves it which really rarely happens. For her to reach this dream she has to have more freedom from Curly or just leave him.
The mother takes care of Cinderella through many forms, through the tree that provides her with the dresses she needs to attend the ball and through the pigeons that point out the incorrect brides to the prince. Panttaja also argues that “Cinderella finds refuge in a pear tree. Since these places of refuge continue the bird/tree symbolism we could, quite possibly, be meant to see the mother in them.” (659). Regardless of her mother dying, she was well-mothered. “Unlike the narratives favored by psychoanalysis, which are about maternal absence and disempowerment, this tale tells a story about a strong mother/daughter relationship that shape events.” (660).
She is so intent on fulfilling her desires that Medea kills her own brother and manipulates the death of a king during their flight from Colchis. Medea refuses to let anything stand in the way of her selfish aspirations. In contrast, Dido is the loyal Queen of Carthage who never desired to love again after the death of her husband Sychaeus. She is forced to fall in love with the Trojan warrior Aeneas by the divine orchestrations of gods Juno, Venus and Cupid. Though her new found love intoxicates and causes her to forsake the duties of ruling, this is not by her design.
Afterwards, the River Monster announces that it is because of Houyi, so all the people blame and trouble him unless Houyi can shoot the other nine suns. Houyi is very puzzled and restless, so he even cannot shoot one sun. One day, a goddess cannot tolerate it and tries to help Houyi. He gives Houyi a magical pill and tells Houyi that he can get rid of all the troubles and goes into the moon after eating this pill, but he will take on endlessly lonely. After hearing this, he comes back home and tells everything to Chang-e, then he sleeps deeply because he hasn’t had a good sleep since the thing happened.