Even though he had the affair, we see John tell Abigail that he had made a mistake. This shows that John Proctor recognized that he had done wrong, and he set out to rectify it. Not only did he try to rectify it, Elizabeth also admitted that it was partly her fault that John turned away from her. John Proctor does have problems with his wife Elizabeth, in both the book and movie. From this you could take that he is not honorable because he is troubling his spouse, but in the book it shows Proctor working
Compare the methods that poets use to create an interesting character in “Singh Song!” and another poem from character and voice (“Checking out Me History”). Both poems are dramatic monologues and have a conversational tone. The poems are written in free verse and this has connotations to the way that the characters have confusion over their identity. The irregular stanza lengths show the various cultural differences between the poems. In the poem “Singh Song!”, the poet uses repetition to show the persona of Singh as being very personal and intimate when he spends the little time that he has with his “newly bride”.
In an attempt to get back at Hindly for his cruelty Heathcliff purposely lends him money so that he will fall deeper into dept, because of his alcoholism. This shows the depth of his cruelty. He is now a man filled with hate, revenge and jealousy. Readers may again fell sympathy for Heathcliff despite his cruelty toward young Catherine and Linton, because of his struggle with loosing
We contend that this startling and unpleasant introduction is the writer’s way, of letting the reader know; we are to hate and despise this character. As Chillingworth comes into town and sees his wife being punished for the crime of adultery, by having to wear a scarlet A for the rest of her life. He asks a bystander in the crowed why this woman was being punished. He is told, and his immediate reaction is that the man should also be punished. Hester is then taken back to prison where she was being held,
Actually sex is an impulsive desire which cannot be tamed while marriages try to confine these desires only to the married partner. Thus this restriction on the fundamental instinct of human beings creates a lot of sexual frustration in them. This often puts a spouse in a state of depression. A research carried out by Buss and Shackelford of the University of Texas at Austin revealed that around sixty percent men and fifty percent women are involved in some kind of affair during their marriage (193-221). As a result, the problem of spousal infidelity arises which is one of the major causes of divorce all around world.
Edna’s character abandons her role as a mother and wife; she breaks moral values and standards because of the intimate love affair she shares with Robert, therefore leading to the struggles she faces in the novel where she failed. Moral characters say more about a person than the background of an individual and play an important role in one’s life. When disregarded it can bring shame and conflict to a family differentiating a person to be good or bad. The concept of good and evil differs from one person to another, but certainly, a married woman who loves another man apart from her husband and acts upon that love is sinful. When the story begins Chopin’s description of Edna makes it look like she is the antagonist of the novel, when Mr. Pontellier was sitting on the
Response Paper on Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl According to the encyclopedia Merriam Webster, slavery is a condition in which one human being is owned by another. However, we can define slavery as an institution and holocaust that has been set in place by insecure and greedy individuals with inhuman desire to physically and morally use and abuse other human beings to acquire wealth and status in the society. In her book Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs autobiographically writes about her family and friends’ slavery journeys as well as hers in the South of America. Going through Jacobs’s memoir helped me see slavery from a slave’s perspective, but it made me question religion and the capacity of slaves to measure immorality. It is more than pleasant and cheerful to read the story of a slave girl written by the slave girl in question.
| ForbiddenSocial divide | “Bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh.”“With my veins running fire”“Women feel just as men feel”Use of pathetic fallacy | So close together they are one entity, co-dependent due to his disability, which joins them. Despite initial social class barrier & the fact that he was married.Metaphor – theme of elements.Lack of equilibrium – perhaps because she never resolved the tension between reason and passion for herself. | A Room With A ViewE.M. Forster | 1908Mod. | LoveNatureColourSexuality | “He saw the flowers beat against her dress in blue waves.”Juxtaposed to “Brown”Use of pathetic fallacy – new environment, new feelings.
For black women, however, the institution of slavery affected their psychological states, their marriages, and their family life. Slaves were frequently beaten, often without reason or cause. Their husbands were often sold to neighboring plantations, and female slaves were often terrorized by their male masters, ruining the sanctity of marriage amongst slave households (Brinkley 261). The children of female slaves were also often sold to other plantations, ripping apart the last remaining family that a female slave possessed (Northup, 12 Years a Slave). The constant auctioning of slaves and their children disturbed a female slaves ability to care for her children, and the sanctity of the family was ruined by the institution.
She saw first- hand what it was like to have slaves and how they were treated negligently. In this short story, Armand is a cruel slave owner who takes his anger towards Désirée and the baby out on his slaves. Chopin described Armand as having “the very spirit of Satan” when he dealt with them. He looks at his baby and sees the ancestry of a black person. To him, the baby is tainted which makes his family and marriage impure.