Since Pearl was conceived by Hester and Dimmesdale’s sin she was not born with the innocence that children are normally born with, which gave her an insight of the world around her and a maturity far beyond her years. Her own mother, Hester Prynne, questioned her child’s humanity, often seeing Pearl as more of a “little elf” (Hawthorne, 89) than her own child that she had given life to. Pearl never seemed to possess the attributes that a child her age should have, rarely showing compassion except when she took Dimmesdale’s “hand in the grasp of her own (and) laid her cheek against it” (Hawthorne, 106) when he had defended Hester’s right to keep Pearl. Around strangers or in the privacy of her own home she sometimes becomes simply an “unpremeditated offshoot of a passionate moment” (Hawthorne, 93,) but we know that Pearl is much more than just that. She is a symbol, an important aspect that, if Hester didn’t have, turmoil would have ensued.
In the critique Cinderella: Not So Morally Superior, Elisabeth Panttaja critiques a version of a Cinderella story, Ashputtle, by Jakob and Wilelm Grimm. Panttaja goes in depth about hidden details of Ashputtle and how Ashputtle is not actually motherless, and the real mother is behind all the magic. Even though Panttaja states that Ashputtle’s real mother is violent and evil, she is actually a sweet, godmother like person. Panttaja argues that even though Ashputtle does not have a real living mother, the hazel branch, given to her by her father that she planted at her mother’s grave, which grows into a tree, acts as her mother by taking care of Ashputtle (Panttaja 659). The tree grants Ashputtle’s every wish; from her clothes to helping out with chores.
Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House ends on either a very negative note, or a very positive note depending upon how one views such situations. At the end of the story, Nora Helmer leaves her oppressive, belittling husband, and children - who are hardly her children - behind to rediscover and educate herself. Ibsen states, “The wife in the play ends by having no idea of what is right or wrong; natural feeling on one hand and belief in authority on the other have altogether bewildered her.” (Ibsen. 409) Nora’s situation was a very unique one with many tunnels and slides to be trekked. Her exit was a fully rational, completely acceptable action.
It certainly deserves the title of “great.” The differentiation of characters in this book is astonishing. Each character interacts with Janie in a completely unique way and adds to who she becomes throughout the novel. The story would be incomplete even without the minor characters. Janie’s childhood was mainly influenced by one person. Janie’s grandmother is the first person who belittles Janie.
Curly's wife is powerless in a masculine world, Steinbeck doesn't even give her a name; she is simply Curley's property. Check out this quote where she uses her femininity for attention "Oh!" She put her hands behind her back and leaned against the door frame so that her body was thrown forward. "You’re the new fellas that just come, ain’t ya?" (chapter 2, pg 145) Note: my page numbers probably don't match your but the chapter will Point: Steinbeck’s use of the character of Curley’s Wife is the only female character in the novella.
There are many differences that are shown in the Hunger Games book and movie. In the book Katniss Everdeen gets a mocking jay pin from a girl named Madge, the daughter of Mayor Undereese. This is very important because when Katniss goes into the hunger games her mocking jay pin becomes her symbol, the symbol of rebellion. The book doesn’t show the game makers (the people who control the Hunger Games) because they didn’t need to. They didn’t need to because the book was Katniss Everdeen’s thoughts and it kept on saying what the game makers will do next.
The books ‘Anne of Green Gables’ written by LM Montgomery and ‘Lullabies for Little Criminals’ written by Heather O’Neill are similar and different in many ways. These two well written novels are very similar, two main similarities are both Baby and Anne were never loved properly, and both Baby and Anne’s mothers died. Yet both novels are very different from each other, two main differences are Baby is loved in the foster home she lives in and was better off in it, yet Anne was neglected in her many foster homes, and both Baby and Anne are very smart individuals but Baby gets put into a practical learning class while Anne wins a scholarship. One of the major similarities in these novels are that Baby and Anne were never loved properly. For
In effect rendering their existence and diminishing their humanity. She attempts to justify the nicknames by saying that the name “goes well with Boby, my butler’s name. Butlers are with you for life, so my husbands have to adapt their names to his” (14). That is until we discover that his real name is not Boby, but Chief Justice Hofer, the man who had sentenced her to the brothel and that Koby and Loby are the two men who had testified against her. Her desire to dehumanize them stems from Alfred Ill’s rejection and denial.
Motherhood entails a significant amount of resentment in this story. This is an aspect of motherhood which can relate on a more common ground with the modern day sci-fi. The reason being, single parenting is a concept that viewers can relate to much easier than some of the more extreme concepts that Butler goes into detail with. The traditional outlook at motherhood is again flipped upside down in this genre, with Denise’s best friend eventually having to adopt her cloned child. Paige undergoes a great deal of sacrifice, which is seems as though is perceived as a normality in the genre of black sci-fi.
The book that corrupts him further is described on page 104. "It was a novel without a plot, and with only one character, being indeed, simply a psychological study of a certain young Parisian, who spent his life trying to realize in the nineteenth century all of the passions and modes of that belonged to every century except his own, and to sum it up, as it were, in himself the various moods through which the world-spirit had ever passed, loving for their mere artificiality those renunciations that men have unwisely called virtue, as much as those natural rebellions that wise men still call sin." This book absorbs Dorian to the point of him obtaining a dozen copies of its first edition and telling Lord Henry on the last day he sees him on page 180 "Yet you poisoned me with a