In this story Panttaja says it is both mothers that are wicked. Panttaja states the real mother “plots and schemes, and she wins” (Panttaja 660) when it comes to fulfilling the wishes of Ashputtle. But actually the two mothers have the same goal in mind; to have their daughters married off and have a joyful life. To be able to do this, the real mother puts a charm on the prince to make him fall in love with Ashputtle instead of anyone else. The prince did not dance with anyone else all night and would always say “she is my partner” (Grimm 630).
She, “did not like him as much as a bride should like her bridegroom,” (Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm). This alone breaks the rules of the fairy tales we all know because there is a mention of whether the girl likes her suitor or not. In most fairy tales marriage is a prize, not something that has to do with actually liking someone. The girl then goes to her fiancé’s house and hears a bird screeching that she should turn back because she is in a murderer’s house. After exploring the dark home, the girl discovers and old woman.
Another major theme in the vignette is one of sexuality because as Esperanza is in a transition state and first experiences her emerging sexuality as a desire to be desired by the boy at the dance. Esperanza is ashamed of her feet and during the baptism she says “My feet growing bigger and bigger” (Cisneros 47). This symbolizes her insecurities growing. The theme of insecurity is common throughout the book. In the previous vignette Esperanza was scolded by a nun who said Esperanza lives in an ugly house across the school and even though she didn’t live there she was too embarrassed to tell the nun that she didn’t live there(Cisneros 45).
She aches to be pretty, but she soon learns that while beauty is desired in her homeland of Ayortha, all that glitters is not gold. Aza first lives in the town Amonta in her parents’ inn, the Featherbed. Life for her could be hard, especially when the guests are rude to her because of her ugly face, but she is mostly happy with her atmosphere of enclosure and protection from her parents. In the story she describes the guests of the inn as “sometimes friendly, but more often they were rude… Some didn’t want me to serve their food, some didn’t want me to clean their rooms.” However, here she could hide in the shadows of the inn and not have to worry about what lay outside Amonta, where people were rude but used to seeing Aza’s face. As a result of the atmosphere and behavior of travelers and townsfolk, Aza becomes very shy and hides whenever a new guest comes.
I have the bad dreams. I see people standing by my bed and I can hear people trying to come in and get me” (106) * “When an anorexic looks in the mirror, her own form looks large, rounded and curved… Others see her as thin-skeletal” (118) * “My head hair was dropping out in clumps on to my hairbrush” (119) * “The aim of everything is always to get back in control, to achieve and to be better” (122) * “Perception of beauty and happiness is not one from the inside, it is not inherent, but it is made up by our changing environment” (127) * “Do you see how you have made them pale and shaky?” (140) * “I want to prove to everyone wrong. I want to prove I’m right and get to Cambridge, and be on my own… I will increase my daily intake by 100 calories in week one, and then next week I will put it by another 100 and so on” (146) * “After weight is put on, things go inside, well away from public view” (166) * “It gives her a thumping head that night thinking about all the thousands of calories she has eaten just to fit in” (171) * “Grace decides to hide in her room. She decides that she will not be the sociable, drunken, college person that she though she should be, because that route has not been successful”
P4 | Loneliness and desperationRevealing CW historical background,and dreams. Her AD was to be a famous actress or be in the circus, ST uses imagery +description to show contrast in her D and reality when CW exp... | “I ain’t used to living like this...I coulda made something of myself…”Complex, descriptive sentences used to describe CW’s loneliness | Generates a feeling of sympathy in reader. Overall reader sadness + empathy for her. Cos situation CW i, makes R realise that even she had an AM dream of bcming fms. Shows how AM dream shattered by CW.
In Laura Whitcomb’s A Certain Slant of Light, Helen begins her journey as an unseen and unheard spirit, clinging to one human at a time and fearing her unknown past. At the heart of the storm, the ghost can feel real eyes on her, creating a connection that cannot be satisfied between a spirit and a human, so that she is encouraged to take over a human girl’s body in order to be with him. In her new form, memories of her mysterious past slowly return, transforming Helen as she realizes that she knew everything all along but her guilt was clouding the truth. Helen is a confused ghost, trapped in a world where no one can sense her presence. Even more painful is the fact that she remembers very little about her previous life: “I [can] remember my name, my age, that I [am] a woman, but death swallowed the rest” (4).
People are not comfortable with the unknown, which is why they fear moving out of norms. Arthur Miller’s The Crucible validates his claim that when faced with their fear of the unknown, particularly the dread of social isolation, humans show trepidation. Arthur Miller supports this claim in his The Crucible through Abigail’s manipulation of the judges in this play. Abigail manipulates the judges by threatening them with the unknown so that she can continue her twisted game of accusing people of witchcraft. When Abigail first enters this play, Miller describes her in the stage prompt as a girl who has “an endless capacity for dissembling,” (7) to inform the reader that she is capable of justifying her means with her ends.
The otherwise uninformed reader might wonder as to why a gentleman would assault a young lady in such a manner, or why a young woman would get so upset about a lock of hair. When Belinda awakens the morning of the infamous party, she pays little heed to her guardian Ariel who attempts to warn her of the potential danger in a dream, instead after she is awakened by her dog, she immediately becomes distracted with a love letter. After spending an inordinate amount of time describing Belinda’s time readying herself at her toilet with the help of her maid and the invisible sylphs, and in which her image is likened to that of a heavenly goddess, “
MANDATORY VOLUNTEERING Although mandatory volunteering seems to be a waste of time for many students, in my opinion, mandatory volunteering is still a good idea. In spite of the fact that volunteering is a personal choice, nowadays, it is a requirement to graduate from school .Many people are against it strongly. However, Firstly, students should study not only about knowledge but also about morality or social behavior. Students of today have good taking skills but extremely poor giving skills. Volunteering is an opportunity for them to explore their life and see the world with a different set of eyes.