Firstly Arthur see’s the ghost of Jennet Humphrey at El Marsh House which results in the death of a child; in Arthur’s case it’s his future son which will change his life forever. “He lay crumbled on the grass below it, dead” Susan Hill, the writer uses a theme of revenge here, after the woman in black’s child died in front of her own eyes she wanted to take revenge on everyone else, so whenever someone saw her, a child died. “I had seen the ghost of Jennet Humphrey and she has had her revenge” Susan Hill, the writer also uses the technique of sympathy for both characters; the woman in black and Arthur. We do not feel sympathy for the woman in black as she has murdered and haunted people for years whereas we feel sympathy for Arthur as he was a nice kind man trying to do
T. Ray scares Lily by saying that the men Rosaleen assaulted will probably come back and kill her. T. Ray tells Lily that her mother planned on abandoning her the day she was killed and this is the last straw for Lily. She stands up to T. Ray and while he was out in the peach field she packs her bags and the small box of her mother’s belongings and leaves a note telling T. Ray that he shouldn’t bother looking for her. Lily goes back to the jail to visit Rosaleen and is told she is now in the hospital and Lily knows that the white men must have come back and beat her up some more. Lily manages to break Rosaleen out of the hospital and they hitchhike to Tiburon, South Carolina
Fearing a possible plot of revenge, Creon exiles Medea and her children from the city. After pleading for mercy, Medea is granted one day before she must leave, during which she plans to complete her ultimate goal which is to murder Creon, Glauce, and Jason. During that one day left in Corinth, Medea decides to confront Jason. She reminds him of all the actions she has done for him and how he has dishonored himself by abandoning the marriage. Jason accuses Medea of overreacting.
In “A Rose for Emily” Faulkner uses foreshadowing, imagery and symbolism to depict how the small southern town’s mentality and a dominating father drive Emily to insanity and murder. Using foreshadowing Faulkner creates a mysterious story and gives us a strong description about death and the struggle of the main character for a better life. We see foreshadowing at the beginning of the story when Emily refuses to give her father’s buddy to be buried (289) .The best idea of foreshadowing is the poison. Emily goes to the drug store to purchase poison; the druggist asks her what she is going to use it for (291). In response “Miss.
The misfit revealed the negative side of the grandmother as her faith and moral are put in test while pleading for her life. The decision of the grandmother leads the family vacation to a tragic ending, where the whole family was murdered. The grandmother was a selfish, egotistical, self centered, ignorant, inconsiderate, dishonest, and sneaky. In the beginning of the story the old lady kept on trying to convince the family that traveling to East Tennessee would broaden the children mind. "The children have been to Florida before," the old lady said.
This forebodes the death of Macbeth and also Lady Macbeth by suggesting that they will not be able to kill the King and live a normal, guilt free life afterwards. Lady Macbeth then creates irony as she mocks Macbeth for thinking this way, she refers to him as a ‘coward’ and insists that this murder is necessary. This part of the play is extremely significant as we realise just how harsh Lady Macbeth is and how far she would really go. She removes any maternal characteristics that she may have had by explaining that her lack of pity would extend so far, that she would murder a baby. “Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out”.
The family eventually gets into a car accident and to their misfortune come across The Misfit. She witnesses her entire family gets murdered and pleads to The Misfit to pray with her. He complains that Jesus offers him no hope because he symbolizes a fallen sinner. The grandmother feels his pain and realizes she loves him like one of her own children. The grandmother moves in to comfort The Misfit, but he recoils and shoots her three times in
The Tragic Fall of the Family In “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor, the author creates a character called The Misfit who kills a family. The story begins with the family discussing where to travel on their vacation. The grandmother tries to tell the family that there is an escaped convict in Florida where they are travelling and that they should not go there. But instead the family does not listen to her and they are destined for tragedy. There are many elements that foreshadow the tragic events to come.
At an impressionable young age, he was abandoned by his mother, which may have led to his choice of killing women and girls. As a child, “he would steep himself in the images of other places and other words, trying to love what he could not” (Sebold 97). He obviously witnessed some kind of family dysfunction that triggered a dissociative response from him, wishing he was someone else, or away from his current environment. Sebold suggests intense family arguments by saying, “…and his father and she had fought for the last time in the hot car outside of Truth and Consequences, New Mexico. He had forced her from the car”(97).
When the eyes of the community begin to define her as a demon child, they find it crucial to take action. Soon Hester learns that, …There was a design on the part of some of the leading inhabitants, cherishing the more rigid order of principles in religion and government, to deprive her of her child. On the supposition that Pearl, as already hinted, was of demon origin, these good people not unreasonably argued that a Christian interest in the mother's soul required them to remove such a stumbling-block from her path. (81) So now, because Hester has imprinted a sinful, devilish connotation on her daughter, the community is making the assumption that Pearl must carry the same evil, sinful traits as her mother through her conception and birth. Because of this, Pearl is now perceived to be more sinful than her mother.