Spring Awakening Character Analysis Communication 5500G April 25, 2013 Wendla was very naïve. She was more of the baby of the group. She still likes to play dress up. Her mother was very overbearing and seemed to hinder her from actually finding herself, even though she was , indeed, very curious. She also experienced a lot of mental abuse from her mom, who seemed to cut her down more than anything.
Although Barbara is full of bitterness and jealousy, who rejects almost everyone she meets inferior to herself; in her snide comments and spiteful writing, she reveals her main problem – she longs to be loved and accepted by anyone. When she realises that Sheba is willing to be her friend and accept her as the person she is, she then clings onto the friendship she has so tightly, she appears unhinged. Despite her malice and obsessive behaviour, she is
Sister feels like Stella-Rondo has always gotten everything that she has wanted and that most of it was at her expense. Sister say’s that “She’s always had anything in the world she wanted and then she’d throw it away.” This included Sister’s boyfriend, Mr. Whitaker. Sister felt like Stella-Rondo stole Mr. Whitaker from her and once again she got what she wanted and then threw it away. Stella-Rondo married Mr. Whitaker and then they separated. Now she is back at home with the rest of her family causing trouble for Sister.
A lack of this fundamental building block in a relationship can cause many disagreements and arguments. In “Say Yes”, by Tobias Wolff, the relationship between the two people has gone astray partly due to their ineffective communication: “Sometimes his wife got this look where she pinched her brows together and bit her lower lip and started down at something. When he saw her like this he knew he should keep his mouth shut, but he never did. Actually it made him talk more” (74). From here, the couple proceeded to get into quite the argument, showing that their communication habits are, indeed, unhealthy because the husband continued to talk, even though he knew it would lead to a disagreement.
There is even a scene where she strips down to her lingerie at work, where they were all women, in front of her mom. Her mom tells her to put her clothes on because of how she looks “Look at you, you look awful!” (Carmen, RWHC) Another part of the main myth, to be a certain way, was when her mom tells Ana the things a man likes. She tells her “A man wants a virgin” (Carmen, RWHC), and when Ana loses her virginity, she suspects of it and confronts her. She tells her that she was a slut “You’re not only fat, now you’re a puta.” (Carmen, RWHC) and then asks why she doesn’t value herself. Carmen seems like there are certain ways she believes a woman should be like.
Ona’s wishes are especially not welcome by her mother who frequently warns her of her past and a family curse which revolves around dance and adultery. It is because of this knowledge of Mira Nedd’s disapproval of dance that she doesn’t tell her that she has performed in the dance troupe. She was automatically chosen to be the lead dancer because of her moves which came so naturally something her mother would have argued as manifestations of the curse. She continued to participate in the dance troupe discreetly until she was chosen to try-out for the national dance troupe but needed permission from her guardian to take part. Hoping that her mother would be proud Ona was not surprised by the way Mira Nedd received the news.
He acts as if he is above the other men, firing demands and making fun of them, and is very much in control of his wife Stella. When she comes home, Stanley ‘gives a loud whack of his hand on her thigh’. This action shows Stanley’s dominance over her, shows his control and his lack respect for his wife in front of company. Arthur Miller also states that a protagonist is somebody that is willing to do anything it takes, right or wrong to ‘gain his rightful position in society’. Stanley is guilty of this throughout the whole play by always trying to outsmart Blanche.
Zoë Wickham May 5th 2008 6th Period The Woman in “The Yellow Wallpaper” Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a feminist writer and in her short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper” she creates a women going crazy because of her husband’s firm hold on her. The woman trapped in the wallpaper is a symbol of how women are trapped by men. Written in first person, this short story contains a series of entries the woman writes in secret. The husband controls every move his wife takes, every hour planned with the pills she needs. Once the woman character in this short story develops her own sense of control apart from her husband she can plan her flight to freedom.
The author write "With all the intensity of the savage blood transmitted to her through long lines of wholly barbaric ancestors, she hated the woman who blushed and trembled behind that silent door." (Stockton 49). The author clearly states that the princess hates the woman behind the door. Evidence also proves that the princess is jealous of this woman for the author tells you how she caught the woman looking at her lover plenty of times, as if flirting with him, but when the man flirts back is when she starts to get jealous. She admits on page 49 that the lady is very lovely and beautiful, by the author stating that it draws people to the conclusion that the princess knows her lover wouldn't mind marrying the woman and that he would actually be happy with it.
“You are either somebody’s wife or somebody’s whore”. Jenny Fields in The World According to Garp speaks this line, but it also applies to the characterization of mothers in John Irving’s The World According to Garp, A Widow for One Year and The Fourth Hand. Mothers in Irving’s novels have affairs with 16 year olds and graduate students, write diatribes against lust, and seduce men who have had hand transplants of their deceased husband’s hand. Needless to say, mothers are portrayed in extremes in Irving’s novels, with personalities ranging from sexually liberated mother to asexual mothers. These mothers negatively affect their children and those around them, with John Irving suggesting that mothering should be about raising children, not imparting sexual norms.