The actions of the nurse and the Friar are responsible for Romeo and Juliet’s deaths. From the very begging of Romeo and Juliet’s newfound love, the nurse is supportive and helpful with Juliet. The nurse was an influential adult to Juliet and knew that the Capulets planned for Paris and Juliet to be married. She should have known better and discouraged Juliet from seeing Romeo. Instead, the nurse acted as a messenger between Romeo and Juliet for information about the wedding (Act II, scene iv).
How does Juliet's mother's behavior when Capulet gets angry at Juliet influence the way in which readers view Lady Capulet? Answer: At first, Juliet’s mother is trying to tell Juliet that it’s a good experience and trying to make the marriage sound forced. She also makes it sound like she is concerned for Juliet, but she refuses and doesn’t want to marry Paris. With this Juliet’s mother gets very unhappy, dark even. (7 points) Score 2.
What could I say? I’m crying because I don’t know any of the dances?” Isabel also ends up sleeping with one of her bestfriend’s husband. Since she hasn’t had sex for awhile it was easy for her to fall into seduction. “And then he was in me and I was crying out, in pleasure… It was over and wrong… what would Liz say to me?” Besides the wrong she had done, Isabel is a good person at heart and tries to redeem herself by helping out the woman she hates most, Margaret Casey. “I had to cut myself off from the danger… Margaret had no manners.But I would help Margaret
In 1942, the family is forced into a Jewish ghetto and ordered to work for the German war effort. It is not long before all the Jews are told they will be moved out of town so Bielitz can be free of Jews. Gerda is separated from her parents and never sees them again. After she goes to a transit camp in Sosnowitz, where Abek’s family makes sacrifices to try and get her freedom. Then she chooses to not go with them because she realizes that she will be so thoroughly in their debt that she will be forced to marry Abek, and she doesn’t want to.
Madera’s desire to overcome her language barrier caused her to decide to go back to college and take English courses (79). Madera had taken her weakness into her own hands and decided to fix it by going back to school. She realizes that the way she speaks does not show the type of person that she, but her writing does (80). “The Bar of Gold” also talks about how the protagonist, Weeping John, is his own constraint, and because of that he is not able to move forward. In this folktale, Weeping John is constantly sick because he is worried about how his family will survive after his death (Gold 148).
The Yellow Wallpaper The final lines for “The Yellow Wallpaper” make me believe that the narrator has finally slipped into insanity. I think Jane is actually the narrator, and when she slips into insanity she feels that she has finally escaped from the torments of her own mind. The longer the narrator stays in the bedroom with the yellow wallpaper, the more she feels she is in prison, and the woman she sees imprisoned behind the wallpaper symbolizes her and how she feels. The narrator becomes desperate to free the woman behind the wallpaper before their rental is up, because she thinks that freeing the woman in the wallpaper will be freeing herself from her prison. At the end, the narrator briefly considers committing suicide with the rope
Emily instantly fell in love. She even bought him a silver toilet set with his initials on it to almost buy his love, but as time passed they had still not married. Once Emily found out that Homer was not the marrying type, she went out and killed him so he would always belong to her, “The body had apparently once lain in the attitude of an embrace, but now the long sleep that outlasts love, that conquers even the grimace of love, had cuckolded him” (Faulkner) as the narrator states. Emily had acted irrationally in order to keep what she had always desired. On the other hand, in The Jilting of Granny Weatherall by, Porter, Granny Weatherall had also been rejected by her lover, George.
(Stabs herself) There rust and let me die.”-P. 579 lines (169-171). It’s really sad that all of this could have been avoided if Juliet would’ve just left with Romeo or if their families gave up their hatred for one another. Throughout Romeo and Juliet, Romeo and Juliet’s personality drastically changes. At first Romeo was love-sick and Juliet didn’t want anything to do with marriage. Then they meet, fall in love and get married.
The quick encouragement of the marriage to Paris shows Nurse’s new disloyalty to Juliet. Juliet loses Nurse’s respect and feels alone in her decision-making, leading to the Friar’s plan. Overall, Nurse is to blame for Juliet’s death because she turned her back on her so that she could avoid the family
Although the substitute parents come across as loyal and caring, both the Nurse and Friar Laurence betray Romeo and Juliet in the end. After Juliet disobeys her parents' orders to marry the County, Juliet asks her Nurse to comfort her but instead, the Nurse advises Juliet to marry Paris saying that it is in her own best interest. Of course, Juliet is astounded that the Nurse would say such a thing after all she has done for her and Romeo. Also, when Juliet wakes in the tomb to Friar Laurence after taking the potion only to discover that Romeo is dead, Friar Laurence exclaims, "I dare no longer stay," and runs away leaving Juliet alone in a tomb with a recently murdered Paris and several other dead and decaying bodies. Juliet can no longer trust