Women were seen as mortal, yet at the same time they were seducers and manipulators. The novels main idea is about the conflicts that women, who were influenced by the Victorian Age, suffered. Grace’s identity is confusing, as it is made complex by her either trying to protect her innocence or by hiding her guilt. Atwood does an excellent job getting the reader to question this, but her main issue focuses on survival, and how the search for Grace’s true identity is symbolically the search that all women living in a suppressed environment are involved in. This theme is very true to Atwood’s feminist pursuit, which is seen in her other novels as well.
Analyse the extent to which Steinbeck succeeds in presenting a complex character in Curley’s wife. Throughout the novel Steinbeck feeds us two different aspects of Curley’s wife. One being the dangerous and flirtatious women and the other being is broken, weeping mess. All through mice of men our opinion changes direction, however in this essay I will analyse the way Steinbeck presents Curley’s wife as a multifarious character. We first hear of Curley’s wife in chapter two, Candy feeds George and Lennie information about Curley’s wife before she enters the bunkhouse.
However, it also reinforces the novella’s grim worldview. In her moment of greatest vulnerability, Curley’s wife seeks out even greater weaknesses in others, preying upon Lennie’s mental handicap, Candy’s debilitating age, and the color of Crooks’s skin in order to steel herself against harm. Steinbeck also presents Curley's wife as a doll 'her hair hung in little rolled clusters, like sausages' which has the effect of objectifying her. We also find out that Curley's wife is used in the book. She was picked up by somebody who said they were going to make her a movie star, and then they didn't send her a letter, showing how she was a 'pushover' and naïve, and then Curley found her, and made her his wife, and that is the only identity Steinbeck gives her in the book(as the wife of Curley) which I think emphasises he does to show her as an inferior by not giving her a personal identity so that we cannot relate to her- she is
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”.
In both poems gender conflict is demonstrated between through the emotion of betrayal in a relationship. For example in Les Grands Seignurs she talks about “little woman” which could show the great depth of thought about how she feels towards men. The word “a toy, a plaything” suggests that’s once she got married she has became powerless and feels like she is a toy, this shows her betrayal as when you get married you expect the marriage to be fantastic and not to feel like a toy. In contrast, Medusa also demonstrates this when she says “wasn’t I beautiful?” this Is effective as I can infer that she feels insecure about her looks. It also suggests that she misses her past through the use of a rhetorical question which makes the reader feel sympathy for her.
Nora Helmer is the very epitome of a reprobate in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House. Nora is unique in that her one outstanding métier is also her most destructive shortcoming. This quality is lying, something Nora is more than adept at (though she seems to have a knack for irony as well.) The first word Nora speaks is "hide," which sums up her character absolutely perfectly; she lies to everyone about everything. She lies to her husband, she lies to her best friend, and she lies to herself.
THE CRUCIBLE Character analysis Abigail Williams – Abigail Williams is an orphan, unmarried but has an affair with married man John Proctor. From the start of the play Abigail is a villain, she tells lies and manipulates everyone to fit her own little world, all so she gets her way, to get revenge on Elizabeth Proctor. Throughout the hysteria Abigail is driven by sexual desire, lust for power and jealousy. All of the young girls in Salem have no authority, the minister and other male adults are God’s representatives. The trials start, in which the girls act as though they have a direct connection to God, led by the now powerful Abigail.
Italso is the case of Connie, who stirs Deacon Morgan’s thoughts and inner emotions as he follows her to the Convent. In other words, he falls under her spell when she draws him into the cellar and attempts to seduce him. Morrison directly associates Connie with the biblical Salome by stating that “A Salome whom he had escaped just in time or she would have had his head on a dinner plate” (280). Indeed, the figure of Salome has also been associated with seduction and temptation. She is also referredto as the fatal woman who brings about men’s fatal ending.The “femme fatale” is “auniversal archetype which has existed, in one form or another, in folklore and myth in nearly all cultures.
Anthea Longville Eng 101 Professor Muhlstein September 26, 2012 Male Dominance over Female Dominance In this essay, “Cinderella Stepsister”, Toni Morrison speaks about the violence that Women do to each other. However, she uses this fairytale Cinderella as a valuable lesson to let women know that they must not treat their stepsisters (other women) as Cinderella treated hers. She discusses the humiliation, abuse and the enslavement that other women willing do to others of their kind. She also stresses about women with power in society who bring down the less educated ones and also try to over-power those that are same rank with them. Morrison feels that women should work together with kindness and be generous towards each other.
But if it were, doubt not her care should be to comb your noddle with a three-legged stool and paint your face and use you like a fool” (I, i, 61-65). Kate threatens her potential suitors just like how Michonne fought off potential groups of people for her to survive with. But they both eventually give in, Kate marries and Michonne finds Rick and the others from the show and joins forces with them. Petruchio’s dominance over kate is very powerful. This is much like how many marriages have the “who wears the pants in the relationship’” effect.