Many times during the novel Of Mice and Men Steinbeck creates contradiction: Curley’s wife’s red wardrobe compared to the brown, mucky, ranch. Even George and tall Lennie are conflicting themes in the novel. These are only two small examples, looking deeper in the novel one finds the importance in Curley’s Wife’s death. The passage describing Curley’s wife’s death is the most emotionally wrenching for the reader in the novel. Steinbeck elicits contradictory feelings in the reader: sympathy for the recently murdered woman as well as sympathy for his murderer.
However he had a tragic flaw but him confessing leads up to his tragic death that causes the audience to feel sympathy. John Proctor’s downfall is initiated by a human flaw which was his inability to control and resist his desire. When his wife Elizabeth got sick began to catch feelings for Abigail. When John Proctor stated “but I will cut off my hand before I’ll ever reach out for you” (page 15, act one) he shows how at one point he was having an affair behind his wife back and this lead up to all the madness in the town of Salem. When Abigail was talking to Proctor she says “She is telling lies to about me!
Even though he had nose bleeds and looked pale in the end, the pride of the mother over Jerry’s ability to take care of himself prevented her from noticing anything being out of the ordinary. The mother was able to gain trust over Jerry and that helped make her a better mother. By having more trust on her son she was able to let him explore and learn more about himself and things around him. Instead of having him not learn anything in a safe environment which she would not be able to keep him in forever, he was able to learn a lesson about reaching goals in
This makes him responsible for his own removal from the relationship. The scence when Bundy has the gun is just another metaphor for her being in control. This is logical and emotional because everyone loves when the woman is able to take up for herself and by removing the man she asserting her power. She further uses humiliation to show the lowlesness of a man who is unfaithful to his woman. This is logical and emotional because a real loving man would not be unfaithful and
The women use their emotions in order to figure out that Mrs. Wright did commit the murder. By the end of the play they decide to protect her because they seemed to relate to the abuse she endured in the household. The murder was justifiable because during this time period there was no such thing as divorce. Mrs. Wright was dying slowly because of her husband, and the only way to escape was to kill him the same way he killed her bird through strangulation. Mrs. Wright’s situation is comparable to a prisoner who is condemned to incarceration for life with no parole when they have never committed a crime.
Jocelyn Hunt Mrs. Cruel EN 111 April 4, 2013 Neighbors or Murderers There is a known quote that says, “It takes a village to raise a child,” but should a village have a hand in killing an innocent person? In two stories, an innocent woman was killed involuntarily and voluntarily by her community. An entire community should not play a role in the death of a resident or neighbor; he or she should help his or her neighbors thrive, and try to help and save each other’s’ lives. In Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery”, a small town conducts an annual raffle that gambles on the lives of innocent people. Town residents young and old pick pieces of paper out of a “black wooden box” (Jackson 312), and if he or she picks a blank piece of paper, his or her life is safe.
She has no racial prejudice against Tom but her growth is almost incredible as she comes to understand all the prejudice against her father's client and that he will lose the case simply because Tom is black. However she still keeps faith in human nature whereas Jem is traumatised by it. They both begin to have an understanding of why their father is defending a black man even if it means constant harrassment. This instills a feeling of goodness in them, seeing how their father is doing the right thing even when it brings him in harms
20-21). He is scared of her matrimony “bring her a house “(L. 73) he wants her to get married. He is not scared of her being healthy a “great gloom” is talking about her intellect and the choices she needs to make for her own good and future get married be beautiful but not to a certain extent to where that is all you have going for yourself have the surrounding people see you more then just a beautiful person (L. 8). He wants her to be smart and have a happy life. The health was the last thing for him to ask for he didn’t overlook it he just didn’t associate it with “great gloom” (L. 8).
She even asks Cornwall to pluck the other eye as well. Furthermore, she shows herself being capable to kill someone, when the servant attacks Cornwall she kills him. We can add to the list of her cruelties two more instances, when she enjoys causing the old Gloucester pain by telling him that it was Edmund who betrayed him by showing them the letter and lastly throwing him out of the castle blinded. However, like her sister she falls for Edmund too, when Edmund wins the battle against the French she calls him “lord and master”, like he is only hers. She dies as Goneril poisons her as she learns that she is plotting with Edmund against
He shows he doesn’t care for her and he wants to leave her. However, Mary can also be portrayed as a sinister villain. She killed her husband using a leg of lamb and then went to extremes to cover it up. Furthermore, Mary Maloney can be seen as both the victim but also the criminal. Dahl represents Mary the protagonist as being the innocent in the story through the maltreatment that is shown by Patrick towards her.