Friar Lawrence was a friend of Romeo Montague. Witnesses have testified that Romeo regularly visited Friar Lawrence’s cellar, one recent visit to tell Friar Lawrence that he no longer has feelings for Rosaline and that he’s found someone else, Romeo’s ex girlfriend (Act Two, Scene Three). Other actions Friar Lawrence made leading up to the suicides could have contributed to them a great deal. On the day Juliet woke from her sleep, Friar Lawrence went to see her, when Juliet awoke she saw her Husband dead at her feet. Friar Lawrence then fled from the room to escape the police.
Granny’s hard knock life In Katherine Anne Porter’s short story, “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” there is a vivid picture of an elderly woman’s last moments and storm of mentality on her death bed. The story is shown as a stream of consciousness in which granny remembers the grievances she had throughout her life. This making it obvious to the reader that she has had not one, or two, but three jilting in her life that has affected her character through the last shreds of her life. Her past love George, the death of her husband John, and the absence of god on her death bed, all affected granny’s life and personality. The first pitiable jilting of Granny Weatherall was done at the altar by a man named George who she once was deeply in love with; this jilting affected her life in many ways.
The reason to Conrad’s suicide attempt is his mom's acute coldness towards him shows her ultimate despise of Conrad because she blames him for not dying instead of her favorite first born son. After his suicide, Conrad is asked to see a psychiatrist by his father. Cal tries to bring the family back together, Beth, Conrad and himself, but fails to do so. Beth never once visited Conrad in the hospital and barely checks up on him to see if he was asleep. She began to shut herself from her husband and most importantly, her son.
When Bradford arrived back onboard, he learned of the death of his wife, Dorothy. The day after he had embarked with the exploring party, Dorothy slipped over the side of the Mayflower and drowned. Many historians, including Nathaniel Philbrick and Gary Schmidt, suggest that Dorothy may have committed suicide due to despair over her separation from her only son and fear of settling in a dangerous wilderness. Bradford did not write about her death in his journal, and there are no indications that Bradford ever spoke of her again. Some, including historian Kieran Doherty, suggest that Bradford's silence on the subject is an indication of his purported shame over her suicide.
The woman, refusing, lit her house along with herself on fire. Montag felt sick for a few days afterward, trying to understand why somebody would value books over their own life. Their purpose was hidden from him, and he fell into a sick sadness. As Beatty came to Montag's house to explain that what he was feeling was normal, he made a resolve not to return to his job as a fireman. Right after which, he said to his wife while pacing back and forth in an obvious agitation, “Happiness is important.
Victor’s father goes in search of his old friend Beaufort who ‘lay on a bed of sickness, incapable of any exertion’. His daughter Caroline was taking care of him and when he died she turned to Frankenstein for comfort, which marked the beginning of their relationship and the pair married a few years later. This whole situation seems rather odd for a number of reasons. Firstly it seems quite unusual that a man would have any kind of sexual relationship with his dead friend’s daughter, as in a way it could be perceived as disrespectful of the deceased. Also there is a notable age difference between the two.
She weathered the jilt by asking God to justify being left at the altar and granny takes it as jilt after not getting a sign from God. Although it is not known if God did what Granny asked of him. Years after the jilt the memory of throwing out the cake was a symbol that Granny was letting go of the pain she was left with when George left her at the altar. Before Granny died she had requested Cornelia to do one more thing for her. “I want you to find George.
“They’d married, lived and worked together, slept together- had sex, sure- and then the blind man had to bury her. All this without his having ever seen what the goddamned woman looked like. It was beyond my understanding.” Hearing this I found myself thinking what a pitiful life this woman must have led. Imagine a woman who could never see herself as she was seen in the eyes of her loved one. A woman who could go on day after day and never receive the smallest compliment from her beloved.” (p. 2735) Although the narrator believes that he is describing the relationship he imagines existed between the blind man and his wife the reader knows that the description more accurately describes the relationship between the narrator and his wife.
The story made me experience an emotionally drastic change of mood; I had a melancholic spirit. I felt pity for Homer, who did not have any intention to marry Emily until he met his death in her bedroom. I also felt the same for Emily whose father; Mr. Grierson had rejected many suitors who had come to seek a hand in marriage to her. The girl later lacks someone to marry after her father’s demise until she becomes infatuated with Homer who was not interested in marriage. “A Rose For Emily” has had a profound impact on me.
John is accused of witchcraft, but when he confesses he takes it all back when he is forced to sign a paper. He is hanged. Elizabeth Proctor: She is the wife of John Proctor. She is cold to John 7 months after his affair. She is saved from being hanged because she gets pregnant.