The play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead takes a different angle than seeking certainty in one’s actions, instead trying to understand others certainty without justification. Both characters spend the entirety of the play in utter confusion to the world around them as they are unable to make significant choices in their lives. Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead both have a centralized theme of the impossibility of certainty explored in two different theatrical angles. The incomprehensibility of the world around the characters in Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead allows them to directly question the certainty of their actions. Hamlet cannot understand the actions of the characters around him as he is the only character in need of certainty to allow him to act.
Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House ends on either a very negative note, or a very positive note depending upon how one views such situations. At the end of the story, Nora Helmer leaves her oppressive, belittling husband, and children - who are hardly her children - behind to rediscover and educate herself. Ibsen states, “The wife in the play ends by having no idea of what is right or wrong; natural feeling on one hand and belief in authority on the other have altogether bewildered her.” (Ibsen. 409) Nora’s situation was a very unique one with many tunnels and slides to be trekked. Her exit was a fully rational, completely acceptable action.
Very silly choice if you ask me’. She is very different to other parents because normal parents will complement their child even though they were horrible but Gwen instantly lists all the negatives factors of the play and say Meg was terrible. Gwen’s continuous nagging creates a barrier between her and Meg which Gwen is not able to get out of her domestic world. Furthermore, when Gwen was complaining to Jim that she did not have her keys, Jim tries to convince Gwen that he does not have the key but she tips all the contents of her handbag on the floor which shows she is in a very irrational nature. Gwen has a tendency to repeat a lot of words in order to get a message across which also can show anxiety, especially when she says ‘No.
She cannot face up to reality and deal with her emotional problems in a ‘normal’ way, thus creating a sordid reputation for herself. In this way I feel she is a victim as she is unaware of her actions. Blanches physical appearance also
Child tends to be clingy, anxious and fearful, never knowing what to expect. | Available one moment & rejecting the next. Love to argue but rarely reach resolution, deep insecurity leads to the need to over attach. | Disorganised | Mother seen as “frightened” or “frightening”. No consistency, no secure base, no rules, no attunement, harsh punishment, abuse, neglect.
Solitude vivifies; isolation kills. Through out life in this crazy mind ridden world, people find themselves isolated. Isolation rears its ugly head in various forms and can often be unexpected. Whether it be personal gain unachieved, or conflicts of love or hate, people deal with this sort of abandonment. Self created or felt from another persons doing, this separation of ones being must be dealt with.
Scout claims that “[Calpurnia] likes Jem better’n she likes [Scout], anyway” and then proceeded to “[suggest] that Atticus lose no time in packing her off.”(25). This shows how inconsiderate and rude Scout is toward Calpurnia. Scout acted rude and insolent to adults and to her peers, talking back to Ms. Caroline, Cal and making her friend Walter “duck his head in shame” (27). This is important because it shows her lack of understanding; she is not mature enough to think
Carroll brought this trait into his Alice stories Carroll, an ordained deacon interested in the unconscious, enjoyed performing magic tricks for children. He had health issues and a stammer. Carroll showed many traits of the psychological make-up for the Archetypal Trickster, often an alienated outsider challenging the structured order of things by cleverness or foolishness including mischief-making. He brought this trait into his Alice stories Alice "was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank..." with "...nothing to do..." (a Trickster traditionally makes an appearance here) when a White Rabbit rushes past; tantalises her by talking, then taking "a watch out of it's waistcoat pocket." Alice's attention thus grabbed, foolishly follows the Trickster rabbit down the hole which leads to being lost and bewildered.
Bettelheim argued that “without any fantasy elaboration (Bettelheim 470),” this girl was doomed from the start. He reflected that this lack of imagination made the story all too real, causing disappointment and
“There was witchcraft in little Pearl’s eyes, and her face, as she glanced upward at the minister, wore that naughty smile which made its expression frequently so elvish.” (Hawthorne 145) This, is a misleading description that Nathaniel Hawthorne depicts of Pearl, the daughter of Hester Prynne, in his classic novel The Scarlet Letter. Pearl is the living product of sin for her mother. Born out of wedlock, Pearl is a unique child that tends to be very moody and unpredictable. However, Pearl, at such a young age, demonstrates outstanding knowledge and exhibits curiosity to her mother’s scarlet letter, and the hypocrisy of Puritan society. Although Pearl portrays devilish characteristics and performs mischievous behaviour, she has good intentions which derive from the purity of her innocence and the love for her mother and father; thus, Pearl is not a devil child.