Al Johri Ms. Hamilton English III Honors 14 September 2009 In Arthur Miller's classic play, the Crucible, Act II, Scene II was deliberately removed. This scene largely consisted of a heated conversation between the two protagonists of the play, Abigail Williams and John Proctor. At first, Abigail believes that Proctor has finally come to marry her; however, this misconception is cleared when Proctor releases his wrath upon her due to Abigail's baseless accusation of witchcraft upon his wife, Elizabeth. As the scene progresses, the reader sees how Abigail becomes so wrapped up in her lies and witchcraft, consequently diminishing her intelligence, and what little respect she had in the reader's eyes. The reason the scene was cut from the play lies in both the significance of the conversation and what it revealed about the John Proctor in terms of his affair and his character.
III. The main character in the book is Catherine. Catherine is a fourteen-year old girl that is being forced to write a journal by her brother Edward. Unlike most girls, Catherine is extremely strong-willed and hates things that girls are supposed to love, especially tasks women would normally do. “Today I chased a rat about the hall with a broom and set the broom afire, ruined my embroidery, threw it in the privy, ate too much for dinner, hid in the barn and sulked, teased littlest kitchen boy until he cried, turned the mattress, pinched Perkin, and went to bed” (Cushman 3).
By reading both of these poems, the poets, by their writing styles, are revealing in each poem the young children are of different ages. Wilbur uses alliteration to make this poem somewhat of a nursery rhyme to identify with his daughter. The reason the father lies to his daughter in this specific poem is to protect her from enduring the vicious nightmares of danger striking the young child while she is attempting to sleep. For example, "Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall" and compared to this poem, Wilbur writes, "The warping night-air having brought the boom, of an owl's voice into her darkened room." This use of alliteration and diction provide even further evidence that the child is young.
Jane grows jealous, as she believes Jennie is secretly trying to do the same. On the last day of their stay, the Narrator decides that she has the perfect opportunity to free the woman in the wallpaper. After the room is emptied, she locks herself inside of it and demands to be left alone. Tearing free the wallpaper, she enters full psychosis, and takes on the persona of the woman in the wallpaper. When her husband returns that evening, he finds her creeping madly across against the wall.
Maria Teresa's style of punctuating her diary narrative with exclamations continues throughout this chapter. In Chapter 10, Patria compared Captain Pena to the devil, but now that he has maneuvered things so that Minerva and Maria Teresa could be released from prison, he is compared to God. While Minerva compares Captain Pena to God in that he hands down commandments, she also breaks from the theme of comparing Trujillo to God and instead compares him to the devil. The most turning point is when Dede becomes nervous about all of her sisters traveling together to visit their husbands, and her warnings serve as foreshadowing for their deaths. When they laugh at her warnings and she gets upset, Minerva says, "Come on, Dede.
Jem and Scout were robbed of their innocence which children maintain as they are still young. In my opinion, the town's gossip about Tom Robinson and the Negros as Scout overhears them speaking to one another in groups at church, at the missionary circle, or in town begins to destroy her innocence because she sees how terrible people can actually be to each other. In chapter 23, we see the two children struggle with this and it impacts Jem greatly. “Jem turned around and punched his pillow. When he settled back his face was cloudy.
In the end of the story, the narrator has lost all sense of reality, and John discovers her crawling around on the floor of the nursery, following the pattern of the wallpaper. The narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper” was ultimately going to be driven to insanity because of her controlling husband, her writing being forbidden, and her growing obsession with the inanimate objects. In the end, she finally does away with her supposed obligations as a wife and mother, and her sanity as
The Great Gatsby Money can’t buy love, but it can make you act differently and lie to your loved ones. In the novel The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald there were many themes but the two biggest ones that I noticed that could be compared to each other were lies and deceit, and money changes the way people act. These two things were a big part of the 1920’s and it is the same way to this day. The first theme that stood out to me was lies and deceit. In the novel couples cheat on each other and lie about it.
The way John creates a sudden fear in his wife which provokes her to startle and hide her journal speaks volumes of his influence over her life. Gilman’s use of symbolism first begins to take flight when the woman in her story suddenly begins to notice the wallpaper. It becomes evident only through her use of symbolism that controlling men trap women from all of their potential. The wallpaper in her story symbolizes women who have long been repressed by such men, and by society. Gilman demonstrates this very notion in the slightest ways, such as when the woman first describes the wallpaper as if it had been used by a room of boys: “The paint and paper look as if a boy’s school had used it.
He decides to blackmail Tally so he can find the secret place and turn everyone pretty, if she doesn’t find the secret place he won’t turn her pretty. After finding the place she ends up liking the secret town and meeting a guy named David who persuades her to change her view on the procedure by doing that she destroys the tracker. Doing so Dr. Cable sends Special Circumstances in and arrest everyone, Tally and David escape. Tally and David go back to the city to rescue the other uglies, when they get to the city they find out the Shay has been turned pretty and David’s father is dead. David’s mother comes up with a solution to cure the brain damage when you get the procedure to become pretty, Tally decides to volunteer to be the guinea pig for David’s mother.