By doing this Ibsen influences our opinion of him in the sense that all our thoughts regarding him are based on Torvald or Nora’s judgements. Additionally, her father’s opinion is never indirectly given on anything except one matter, which is the way in which he viewed Nora. This makes him enigmatic as we can do nothing but guess where he would have stood; nevertheless his standpoint on his daughter was clear. He imposed his views on her, because of this she ‘never had any opinions but his,’ this nurtured her meek nature as well as the fact that ‘he called her his little doll and played with her just the way she played with her dolls.’ Theirs was a fairly conventional father-daughter relationship, however Ibsen questions the possibility that he may have sheltered her too much for her own good, due to the fact that the way he treated her undermined the essence of her personality and thus she conformed to what he wanted her to be. Despite this, as any daughter would, Nora “loved her ‘dear, kind papa!’ best.” Ibsen does this to show how unresisting she is to take on the disposition set out for her by her father.
Can end up tearing his family apart. Christophers family consists of a mother, a father and a sister. His mother is ignorant and thinks Chistopher needs material goods such as the car she offers him. She expects him to fall in line and be regular. His father is the head of the family.
I also think the play highlights the importance of families; especially fathers. We learn Edward has grown up in a safe, secure family; however his father is constantly away at work, so it is left to Mrs Lyons to look after Edward by herself. Mickey’s life is also similar, in the way that he never has a father figure around, however he does have a kind, loving mother, who would do anything for her children. The absence of fathers allows Willy Russell to focus on motherhood, and how, no matter what happens, a mother will always be there for her child; even if their father
Ponyboy does not realize why Darry emphasizes schoolwork. Ponyboy then figures out that Darry wants him to go to college because Darry couldn’t. Darry said, “ You could get a scholarship with your brains and grades” (Hinton 73). Pony just thought that Darry was just being too overpowering of him with all his nagging. Pony and Darry seem to have never gotten along ever since their parents died in a car accident.
Growing up, she and her family never were faced with severe hardships and crippling tragedies. Nora can be seen as extremely sheltered and even oblivious to the outside world. Nora seems to have a rather close bond with her father and looks up to him. This is seen in Nora’s response when
Guilt: The Snowball Effect Dunstan (Dunny) Ramsay is constantly affected by his guilt throughout the novel Fifth Business by Robertson Davies. This guilt is centered on Mary Dempster and her son Paul, because of the snowball incident at the beginning of the novel. Dunstan, unlike Boy, consciously recognizes his guilt and allows it to affect him while he is a boy, when he goes to war, and even when he returns home as an adult, and through his life into his sixties. When Dunstan was ten years old, he was involved in a conflict with a childhood rival, Percy Boyd Staunton, in which they get into a snowball fight. Percy resorts to a rock loaded snowball to make the final blow on Dunstan, but when Dunstan gets out of the way, the pregnant Mrs. Dempster and her husband Amasa are walking by, and Mary gets hit in the head.
Scout tried to resist her father but since Atticus was a well-respected man to both his peers and families, Scout followed his orders. “You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anyone says to you, don’t let ‘em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change…it’s a good one, even if it does resist learning.” (76) A good father would teach his
“Suddenly you find yourself tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six year old daughter why she can’t go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her eyes when she is told that Funtown is close to colored children.”The only real emotion the clergymen felt is guilt. They were appalled with what they saw; they are ruining the lives of innocent people just because of their skin color. King puts the image of a little girl in the head of the reader, and the reader feels heartbroken. There is nothing worse than telling your kid they can’t do something because of what color their skin is. Is that fair?
There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.” George Washington was not afraid to take a leap of faith, to step in the dark, confident all the while. “Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.” George Washington was empathetic and charitable, though he never sought anything in return. “When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.” President Washington knew that to succeed, he had to take in account everybody’s point of view, and remain as unbiased as he could. He had his faults, however few, but he conquered those just like he conquered his enemies and his doubters. He faced them head on, using honesty and good values in one hand and cunning and power in the other.
My doubt I had in myself hampered me from feeling as though I was incapable of changing my situations. I want his belief in self to be his perserverence. Only I held myself back, through having a fixed mindset for all those years because my father did not believe in me. I wish to be the reason my son never holds back, that he will always push on and up because his mother always believed in him and told him he could and how he can not what he can't and how he will fail. I chose not to have fixed mindsets anymore.