This is confirmed when, in the end, a woman draws a marked slip of paper from the ancient ballot box and is quickly stoned to death by everyone in town, even her own children. The woman is Tessie Hutchinson, an obnoxious, selfish mother and housewife. Through her use of dialogue and descriptive adjectives, Jackson utilizes Tessie to display the lower gender role of women in earlier America and to serve as the largest source of rebellion in the story’s village. Shirley Jackson, born December 14, 1919, was an American author hailing from San Francisco, California. Growing up, she’d always wanted to become a writer and displayed this through many journals and examples of poetry.
Critiquing Camille Paglia’s Editorial “On Date Rape” Camille Paglia is an anti feminist, controversial lesbian graduate student from Yale, and best known as “America’s foremost cultural critic.” (The Sunday Times). Amongst other things, Paglia wrote a fierce editorial titled “On Date Rape.” Paglia concludes that if a woman is raped; it is her fault because she should have seen the signs. Although Paglia is very well educated, her use of fallacies, such as appeal to fear, hasty generalization, false analogy, and false cause, truly exhibits how narrow-minded she really is. Paglia begins her editorial with appeal to fear. She states that “The minute you go out with a man, the minute you go to a bar to have a drink, there is a risk.” According to the Rape, Abuse, Incest National Network, “One out of every 6 American women will be a victim of rape, date rape, or attempted rape in her lifetime.” Also, alcohol is the leading factor in about 90% of all date rape crimes (Drexel University).
‘A Warm Golden Brown’ sympathy essay The short story ‘A Warm Golden Brown’ by Alexander Reid tells us about an important issue which still exists in society today, racism. The Author portrays racism through the main characters Ben, Daisy and Mrs Preedy. This story is about a brown girl who is a victim of racism by her ‘friends’ mum and her friend being stuck in the middle of these characters does not know what to do. This makes me feel sympathy for Ben the ‘friend’ who is in the middle of the issue. Ben is one of the main characters in this story.
St Bernadette was born in Lourdes at Boly Mill, France, on January 7, 1844. She was the daughter of Francis and Louise Soubirous and suffered from severe asthma. Bernadette was born into a loving and devoted family. At the time of her birth her family were relatively well-off financially; however, due to a series of misfortunes her family were soon plunged into a terrible poverty. Because of the family's poverty, they were forced to live in a single room that used to be a prison cell.
Miss Brill’s Fantasy Presented on a day described as “brilliantly fine” with “the blue sky powdered with gold” (1270) “Miss Brill”, a short story by Katherine Mansfield invokes an interesting perspective on how coping with rejection and accepting reality can be a difficult combination to balance; failed attempts are inevitable, unforeseen and extremely painful to experience. Using the main character as the narrator, as if the reader is allowed to view “a record” (unk) of Miss Brill’s thoughts, Mansfield engages the reader in a dramatic story which reveals the true to life fact about society’s cruel disregard of the aging population, its brutal rules of acceptance, and it’s lack of human compassion. Seen through Miss Brill’s personal revelations and ideas about self-preservation the author demonstrates how hiding from reality as a means to secure self-worth proves to be a waste of time, and will only impede the capacity to achieve inner peace. Miss Brill is an elderly woman amidst an inner struggle with loneliness, insecurity, denial and rejection which she keeps concealed with a clever use of fantasy. During one of her Sunday visits to the park Miss Brill’s self-image will be painfully restructured in her mind.
‘Of Mice and Men’ is a tragic novel set in 1930’s America during time of great Depression and poverty. It portrays the prejudice and clichéd views of a strained American society. Curly’s wife, a character who is detached from the rest of the world, a heart wrenching symbol of the American dream, trying and failing to break down the boundaries of society. This female represents women in the Depression, the lack of freedom and equality that they held, an equality that may still be held from many women to this day . Steinbeck is addressing the struggle for female existence during this period by leaving Curly's wife as the solitary female of the book, unneeded, and unwanted by the other characters.
Word count = 1,435 Color Symbolism in Madame Bovary In his novel Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert uses explicit use of detail and imagery to unfold the story of a 19th century middle-class woman, Emma Bovary. As the novel progresses, Emma becomes the wife of the doctor Charles Bovary and begins become less satisfied with her empty provincial reality. The growing desire of a fairytale-like life sequentially is what leads her to acquire great debts, adulterous affairs and eventually causes her greatest downfall; suicide. Flaubert’s novel is widely considered a masterpiece largely because of his use of narrative description. One of the many techniques Flaubert uses is color symbolism, which he uses colors to make crucial connections between characters in order to juxtapose them and emphasize certain attributes that take part in Emma’s life as well as a framework when setting up the mood and tone throughout the novel.
It is possible that this plot does or could happen in real life. Abuse and racism happens in some countries and it can be very brutal, and is shown the same way as the story. Like Lilly there are children that continue to be abused by their parents and they are very sad and lonely but also there are also good people like the Boatwright sisters who are kind to all people regardless of their race. The ending of the story, solves the main plot’s conflict and there is a satisfying solution. At the end, Lily finds out the complete truth about her mother who lived in the Pink house, and on the day that she died, she went to get Lily and to run away from T. Ray.
In the book, Candle in the Wind by Maureen Wartski, “revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold.” Because with all the tension and hatred after Harris’ death, Terri had to deal with a lot of anger issues and excruciating pain in her heart, so her actions are considered appropriate. The loss of Terri’s brother inflicted a lot of grief and anger for her. “I will hate Rodney Waring till I die.” (p.126) Terri’s loss has left her feeling an emptiness that is filled with hate. She uses her notebook to express her feelings because she realized that hate will suffocate her if she doesn’t express in any kind of way. Terri used to be a joyous person until Harris succumbed.“Until the night Harris died, I love the sound of rain.” “Now I hate
The play, “The Crucible”, written by Arthur Miller is an excellent example of evil being practiced in a Puritanism society. One of the main characters from the play which best describes evil is Abigail Williams. Abigail Williams is a gorgeous woman. She is very vengeful, manipulative, selfish, and born a gifted liar. She lives with her uncle, Reverend Samuel Parris in the village of Salem after her parents were killed.