Crystal S. Tory Essay October 25, 2010 English IV Block 2 “Porphyria’s Lover” and “My Last Duchess” In the two poems, “Porphyria’s Lover” and “My Last Duchess” there was a tragic ending in both. Both poems consist of a woman killed by the hands of her lover. The men in both poems were both jealous-hearted, but they did not have the same motives for killing their woman. Both men did not want to share their woman’s love; they wanted it all for themselves. They say, “Love can be dangerous in the wrong hands.” In the poem, “My Last Duchess”, that statement is a fact.
This may be why he has such a difficult time getting along with women. When Hamlet’s father passed away, Gertrude (Hamlet’s Mother) didn’t even dwell on the fact that her husband had just passed away. She went along and hooked up with her dead husband’s brother. Hamlet becomes furious about this happening and loses all respect for
Emily assumed that he would wed her but caught wind that he had said he was “not a marrying man”. Emily could not let go of the only other man she had ever had in her life. Due to her insanity, she killed Homer Barron one night with arsenic. The reason she killed him was because she wanted him to be with her for the rest of her life. After the disappearance of Homer Barron, Emily secluded into her home.
As soon as the nurse finds out that Tybalt is dead her reaction is very troubling and she doesn’t exactly know how to break it to Juliet so at the end result she says, “Tybalt is gone, and Romeo banished; Romeo that kill’d him, he is banished.” (3.2.69-70). This quote is a literal and a grammatical structure because Juliet is very upset but angry as well, she is young and she doesn’t exactly known what to do in the situation. Romeo’s blamed for the death of Tybalt. Fat occurs again when Romeo comes to the understanding that Juliet is dead and he kills himself too. At the start of the play Romeo dreams that if he goes to
Final Outline Thesis: In the short stories “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner, “Wakefield” by Nathaniel Hawthore, and “A Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, women are portrayed as having very diverse reactions towards the abandonment of a loved one. Topic 1: Within the story, “A Rose for Emily,” Emily’s loss of her father ultimately causes her emotional insanity. “None of the young men were quite good enough for Miss Emily and such. We had long thought of them as a tableau; Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background [...].” “When we next saw Miss Emily, she had grown fat and her hair was turning grey. During the next few years it grew greyer and greyer until it attained an even pepper-and-salt iron-gray when it ceased
Second, her father's interference, and loneliness. Third, being bankrupt, being rejected by the people in the town, and being desolate. What I can also be taken into consideration is that Emily had an image and the Grierson family name to uphold; they wanted to pretend to be the perfect family; to keep the prestige. I think what motivates Emily Grierson’s to kill Homer Barron is because she is going through a rough life, and she prefers to be with a dead man, rather than being by herself. First; Homer was going to deceive Emily, by marrying her.
By creating a being, therefore, Victor automatically positions Woman in a lower rank than Man and ranks her essentially as unnecessary. Chapter 3 begins with a detailed description of Elizabeth and Victor’s mother, after they both contracted Scarlet Fever, resulting his mother’s death. Victor himself describes her death as an ‘omen…of my future misery’, and it seems that after his mother’s death, all female characters are shunned from Victor’s life, as he engages with his experiment. His mother’s death could not only symbolise his finality on engaging with a female character, but could also represent the death of all his morality and virtue, as represented by the docile and passive nature of women in the novel, portrayed through use of ‘The Sublime’ language and imagery. Furthermore, as well as usurping the natural role of women, Victor already usurps her working role, as his intense study at university, compared to the previous docile and domesticated description of Elizabeth , and Victor’s dying mother (in chapter 3), contrast to highlight the ableness of Man to work and earn a living, and women who are more suited to domestic life.
Zachary Holland ENGL 2328 Dr. Wilson March 18, 2014 A Rose for Miss Emily This story really threw me for a loop. I really loved it and when I read the ending it was like holy crap did that just happen? Mrs. Grierson lives in her own little world of entrapment. She has been hurt so many times before by people talking bad about her behind her back and with her father leaving her so early by dying and leaving her with knowing basically nothing about life since he trapped her from the world that she feels the need to trap the last true love of her life Mr. Barron. So the true causes of evil are her father trapping her and keeping her away from people and men so long that she literally ends up crazy.
The narrator’s insanity is caused by her husband, the treatment prescribed for her, and her obsession with the yellow wallpaper. One cause of the narrator’s insanity is the relationship between her and her husband. The narrator’s relationship with her husband is one of a father to daughter relationship. The narrator state, “John laughed at me but of course, one expects that in marriage” (Gilman 746). She is forced to live as a young child would live.
Her father did not want this to happen, so he wrote a letter to Percy to keep Mary away from him. Percy was so upset with this that he went to Mary Shelley’s house with opioids and a pistol and wanted both of them to commit suicide. Later that week he almost died from an opioid overdose (Mean). After these events, Mary, Percy, and Mary’s step sister ran away from England. On their journey, Mary Shelley kept a journal of the activities they did.