This embodied sin of Hester follows her wherever she travels to, just as the actual embroidered letter sticks with Hester. Just as Pearl depicts her mother's sin, she also shows her mother's resilience and emotional strength. This is equivalent to how the scarlet letter ends up being a symbol of power in the Puritan society. "The scarlet letter had the effect of the cross on a nun's bosom. It imparted to the wearer a kind of sacredness which enabled her to
Edna’s devotion to her persistent process of emotional, personal and social self-discovery, started with dreaming. This dreaming eventually makes her realize that there is a way of freeing herself from the oppression that she faced. Through Edna’s vision of a meadow, her growing awareness of the inequities in how her husband treats her, and through Mademoiselle Reisz`s music, one can see how Edna’s dreams transform her and she begins her journey of self-discovery. It is as though she is seeing herself for the first time and she is moving toward readiness to embrace real change; change that will lead her out of her despair, loneliness and alienation. Edna’s journey toward awakening consisted of four significant events, each symbolic of her courage to face her fear of the unknown and accept another way of being.
Through the character of Ismene, Sophocles shows the stereotypical weak woman, and through the character of Antigone, he shows the strong personality that woman have. Throughout the play, Sophocles shows the reader that Antigone’s character is filled with passion, determination, and bravery. Antigone’s character is strong enough to do what she feels is right, which is to have a proper burial ceremony for her brother, despite the fact that it is against the law set by Creon. Creon is determined to carry out the consequences which he set if anybody were to go against him. When he finds out that somebody has disobeyed, he reacts with fury: “What?
Lastly, the readers may ask, what exactly is the tone in this piece? I feel her tone would be concluded as rather a type of infatuation or admiration. I say this, because Annie is so in awe with everything the eels do. Because she is so infatuated with them, it almost forces the reader to become obsessed with why Dillard is as excited about them as she is. As an author of the excerpt from “Nightwatch”, Annie Dillard wanted to write to her audience as if she were speaking to them face to face, trying to get them to understand without persuading them.
The most interesting/important/strange thing you see that these women share in common is about their beliefs . They also have very strong sense of belonging ,and they treasure the values of their religions and cultures. In “How To Tame A Wild Tongue “, Anzaldua shows us her determination in promoting her mother tongue which is also an essential component in a culture . She also emphasized the importance of her mother tongue by using Spanish quotes and words in between the sentences. She also did not give up even though she faced many difficulties in the journey of how she made the world recognized Chicano Spanish .
This is an appropriate name for the character in this short story, for she too has a strength and decorum about her that enables her to arise from the difficulties of life imposed on her by racism, in order to obtain care for her grandson. Achieving this goal satisfies her need to love and care for her grandson, and in so doing, also transmits this love and care to a new generation, enabling it to rise above racism as well. In this way, she carries two important themes of the story: first, the ugliness of racism that tries to defeat this strong woman, secondly, the power of love seen in her determination to do everything she can to obtain help for her grandson. “A Worn Path” communicates a theme to humankind about rising up to meet life’s challenges; in fact, the connections between the literary elements of setting to plot and character to symbolism contribute to the story’s overall theme of love, and rising up through determination. In “A Worn Path” the setting is an integral part of the plot structure due to the main character’s age and poverty, as well as the social limitations of the time period.
For example, in this passage we understand that Norah is struggling with the grief of her lost daughter and doesn't want to let go of her memory, "Phoebe she would keep alive in her heart." (88) It helps us understand the reasoning behind her actions of drunk driving, dreams of lost things, and escalated emotion at random as well as other actions the character demonstrates through out the novel. The deception of her daughter effects Norah and explains why she bought the camera,"...So he'd capture every moment, so he'd never forget. "(88) Norah doesn't want her husband, sister and not even neighbours to dismiss her daughter as unimportant. Norah's great pain because of the "death" of her child causes her to be scared of change, she wishes she could capture a happy moment, and stay in that moment-perhaps forever. "
Turpin. She embodies traits that make her the “southern woman” she idolizes. Throughout her life, she has been struggling from the value systems she was raised knowing, to learning the culture of the current day. “The Grandmothers value system is founded upon Particular notions of aristocracy and heredity” (Owens). This meaning a specific class of higher ranked people cannot be continued through outward appearance but can be fixed in the blood.
It is fitting that the women who chose to take these words as her name did in fact embody the spirit behind the words. In her short stay here on earth, she was able to impart many truths upon the people she spoke with and in doing, so she was able to further the causes that she supported. Her life was a constant search for belonging and a home. Her life beginning as a slave, being separated from her family early on, then being isolated from her children and community after obtaining freedom, was a lonely one. Sojourner’s quest for a home may not have come to fruition during her life but in death, history found a place for her among the other
Diversity has created a major impact within our country. Today many Americans struggle with identity issues due to race and ethnicity. People strive to be socially accepted within their culture along with the culture’s of their peers. As read in Chapter 12’s Journey of Literature through their poetry, Patricia Smith and Aurora Morales stress that what we face today is reflected by history from prior years (Clugston, R. W. ). In Chapter 12’s Journey of Literature author Patricia Smith stresses the views and concerns from a black young girl as she tries to find her identity while growing and eagerly seeking her place in this world.