In Racine’s Phaedra, the Phaedra uses many images to describe her love for Hippolytus – her stepson. Love is usually seen as a beautiful and wondrous feeling to be shared with someone else. However, Phaedra chooses imagery that speaks nothing of the positive aspects of love – and everything of the negative. She first describes love as madness, a dark abyss, a burning, and a poison. The unflinching pessimism in regards to this matter help to support one of the main themes in Phaedra: passion is a dangerous thing that must be controlled at all times.
The temptress is a female who possess what the male desires and she uses these desires as a means to his ultimate demise. Mattie definitely has what Ethan desires. Throughout the story Ethan is constantly gazing at her beauty and encountering thoughts of her that goes against his imprisonment to Zeena. For example, Ethan said that Mattie was “more than the bright serviceable creature he had thought her. She had an eye to see and an ear to her: he could show her things and tell her things, and taste the bliss of feeling that all he imparted left long reverberations and echoes he could wake at will” (Wharton 14).
The story "Everyday Use" expresses many of the ways she is unlikable including her selfishness, arrogance, and ungratefulness. In "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker, Dee is considered an unlikable person because she is arrogant, selfish, and
Symbolism in the Scarlet Letter: The Threshold "But there is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt, ghostlike, the spot where some great and marked event has given the color to their lifetime; and still the more irresistibly, the darker the tinge that saddens it." (Hawthorne 83).With these words, this was the life of Hester Prynne in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter.” Hester Prynne has committed the sin of adultery and becomes pregnant with her lover’s child. She has to live and wear the letter a, which is embroidered on her clothing. Because of the symbolism of the threshold in “The Scarlet Letter,” Hester Prynne’s life is doubled by the actions she has done. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter” Hester Prynne is sent to prison for her sin.
One would expect the tide to go down sooner or later but “always” makes it sound as if Cathy was always hyper-active. This again could be hyperbole as Nelly’s fallible narrative voice narrates it and also she was the one who had to try and tame her and clean up her messes, which could make her biased. This could also mean that Cathy was very passionate; she may not necessarily have been always happy but she may have been passionate in her anger meaning she would have
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a compelling novel about the repercussions of guilt and “sin”. While this story takes place in a strict Puritan community, one can see the relation of Sigmund Freud theories of libido that can be compared to this novel because it discusses the passion that exists as a natural part of human nature which criticizes that community’s strict ways. Pearl, Hester’s child comes into the story at the very beginning; “a great law had been broken; and the result was a being, whose elements were perhaps beautiful and brilliant, but all in disorder.” (62). Pearl represents the innocence of the natural human desires. Hester named Pearl Pearl because she gave all she had for her and so she is of great value such as a pearl.
In the story “Roman Fever” Wharton reveals that that the longtime friendship is rooted with envy and deceit. Throughout “Roman Fever” one can see the many way’s that Mrs.Slade has always been envious of Mrs. Ansley while the opposite seemed to be for Anslely’s opinion of Slade. One of the first things one can see is the envy that Slade has for Ansley’s daughter Barbara. In “Roman Fever” the two women go back and forth speaking of Barbara, Ansley believes that Slade gives to much praise to Barbara while Slade does not think Ansley gives her enough (Wharton 1082). Wharton yields “Mrs.
She born as General Gabler’s daughter so she feels for a better destiny and imbues with romantic vision of making one’s own life a work of art. She could be imagined as distinguished, beautiful, proud and even in her defiance of her surroundings and in the gesture of her suicide. Hedda is pitiful because she is a tormented creature caught in an era that society imprisons women in limited choices, as a victim, in spite of her desperate to control the fate of others. With Hedda’s manipulative character, her desire of a “beautiful” death and her fear of scandal are the core characteristics that compels her to manipulate Lovborg in killing himself and leads herself to commit suicide. When Hedda first appears in the play, she is a cool character who has control of her emotions and actions.
Many people have many misconceptions about organic foods. What most people don’t know is that organic only describes how the food was raised or grown, and that organic is a label. Living in the era that is all about “going green”, this is of personal, professional, and civic interest to me. Growing up on a farm in the Midwest I have seen first-hand the differences between the outcomes of organic and conventional farming. The idea that organic is better for the consumer and the environment is more of a mindset and not the truth.
I personally believe that it symbolizes the Devil because the devil represents everything evil… lies, greed, and even murder. In the beginning of the story, the Pearl found by Kino was symbolic of the lord Jesus Christ. It was the savior of Kino’s family as Jesus Christ was the savior of all Christians, according to the Bible. The pearl can save Coyotito from his poisoning at the hands of the scorpion, and actually cures the wound a little just by being in its presence. It can also help Kino accumulate enough money to send him through school.