Mrs. Mooney was previously involved in a dysfunctional marriage to a “shabby stooped little drunkard” (61). Similar to her own marriage, Mrs. Mooney indirectly forces Polly to marry for money. Mrs. Mooney is a ruthless character as a result of her previous troubles. Consequently, Mrs. Mooney’s maternal connection with Polly is non-existent, turning their relationship into a business. When Mrs. Mooney is observing Polly’s interactions with young men, she becomes frustrated that “none of [the men] meant business” and considers sending Polly back to her previous job (63).
Since Lady Macbeth set him up to this by insulting his manhood, Macbeth took a turn for the worst when he started experiencing fear and guilt. You’d think he’d put an end to all of this negativity by this point, yet it actually drags out and he continues with doing malicious, unlawful acts. Eventually this leads to more trouble for Macbeth; He begins to struggle with hallucinations and sleeplessness, causing him to become extremely paranoid. He began to lose his human qualities during this process of regaining his ‘so-called’ manhood, as his killing spree was pretty much a joke on his actual manliness. Macbeth’s decadence then led to his marriage to slowly fall apart.
Blanche feels that it is okay to lie through life and hide who she really is and Stanley believes in honesty and saying how it is. In this play the romantic Blanche explains to Mitch why she lies. She says it is because she refuses to accept the hand that fate has dealt her. By lying to herself and lying to others it allows her to make her life seem more idealistic; it his her way of hiding who she really is. Stanley, on the other hand, who seems to be a practical man, disdains Blanche’s fabrications and does everything that he can to unravel them.
Lauren Franssen English 1302 Haas-5th hour The Unsuspecting Villain In Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, Catherine is self-righteous and manipulative. Her selfish nature ultimately results in the self-destruction of the ones who love her most, as well as her own tragic fate. Essentially, Catherine and her disloyalty to those around her, including herself, defines betrayal and suffering as two major themes in the novel, thus rendering her the villain of the story and accentuating the meaning of the literary work as a whole. Though her selfishness is not of malicious intent, Catherine is fully aware that her actions take a toll on the ones who she claims to devote herself to. She deliberately follows through with her marriage to Edgar Linton, despite her open proclamations of love for Heathcliff, with whom she grows up and loves irrevocably, only to unceremoniously abandon because of his insufficient societal rank.
Their purpose was to escape punishment, or work, or responsibility, and they were used for profit” (Steinbeck 74). At the beginning of the novel she is portrayed as a wicked person who’s evilness comes from nowhere but her own empty heart. Towards the end, she appears weak and afraid of people, mostly the ones that do not fall for her trickery. These are the moments in the novel that may give the impression that Cathy is not evil after all, but is merely an impatient, self-centered person. Cathy’s upbringing did not seem to be a likely place to develop hatred or any reason for rebellion in the young girl.
A Streetcar Named Desire Blanche DuBois is a very diverse character in the play A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams. She is a tragic and dynamic character throughout the play. Blanche does not know exactly how to handle losing everything she has lost and seems to be confused about life in general now. The way she lives after arriving at Stanley and Stella’s seems like she has turned away from reality and lives in her own fantasy world, or a world where she lives by how things should be instead of how things truly are. In A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche DuBois, feels she is better than others, constantly changes, and often escapes from reality.
Her friend doesn’t appear to be proud of boastful in the story and doesn’t seem to care that Madame Loisel is poorer than her. Madame Loisel is just embarrassed of the life she lives that she doesn’t want anyone around her to see who she is and how she lives. Within the story, the reader gets the sense that she is so envious of the life that others have she doesn’t realize what she has and that she is so concerned with wanting materialistic objects that she is making herself miserable and unhappy. Her husband who notices how unhappy she is brings home an invitation to a ball hoping to make her happy. Instead, Madame Loisel becomes even more distraught because she doesn’t think she has anything that is acceptable to wear to such a formal occasion.
She will not let this go so she regrettably hides in her dream world. Her fatal flaw will ultimately lead to her downfall when she becomes an alcoholic with nowhere to go to make the polka music go away. Therefore, characters take advantage of her and have sexual relations with her easily. Blanche is a tragic heroine because she has all the factors that make up a tragic hero. Other factors that make Blanche a tragic hero is those tragic heroes are responsible for his/her own fate.
The Winslow Boy Critical Essay Jamie Hall The Winslow Boy by Terrence Rattigan is a play about a young navel cadet called Ronnie Winslow who is accused of stealing a postal order. He is thrown out of the navel academy and sent home. This shames the name Winslow and his father is compelled to do fight what he calls an injustice. To do this he hires barrister sir Robert Morton which is not to Catharine’s liking as she is a suffragette and Sir Robert Morton is against Women getting The Vote. As a result these two Characters Conflict throughout the Play.
The final line “Who could not say, ‘Tis pity she’s a whore?” can be seen as directed towards her and so she is blamed for everything that has occurred. Throughout the play she is seen as quite powerful and headstrong by refusing many marriage proposals and being quite stubborn in doing so. However, she is reduced to a weak being however upon dying which is a culmination of her passions. It is perceived that women are a danger to men and to society as a whole and so Giovanni’s actions are to be blamed not on himself, but on Annabella because of the beauty she possesses. Giovanni states that Annabella’s “lips would tempt a saint” thus showing the corruption her presence inflicts upon even the supposed innocent of men.