With whom do you have more sympathy with, Arthur Kipps or Jennet Humfrye? In the Woman in Black, I sympathize with both Arthur Kipps and Jennet Humfrye, however not The Woman in Black. We have sympathy with Arthur Kipps, as he has not done anything to deserve the loss of his son, and Jennet Humfrye due to her son being taken away from her. Arthur Kipps has not had anything to do with Jennet Humfrye, yet she is haunting him for no apparent reason. At the end of the book, he is trying to let go of the WiB (Woman in Black), carry on with the rest of his life and move on.
* Question the degree of the influence Edie has on him and his future. * He turned Edie away from being a nun. Both of them had an equally important influence on each other. This is where the subtlety and nuance. * Its more revenge and self-interest rather than the driving force behind his moralities * He is uneasy about taking on the role as whistle-blower * Struggles with the decision to abandon the code of D & D * He is indecisive until Charley’s death * Rage and desire seem to drive him rather than any desire to address a moral failing * After inquiry Terry is transformed into a stronger more positive version of himself.
Paul’s sexual Identity No one from Swamp Creek knows Paul’s sexuality. Because of the ignorance from the Swamp Creek residents, Paul has been burdened with years of mixed emotions about who he is. Paul has been left in the dark about who he is. Despite that the majority of Paul’s peers do identify him as a homosexual, his own actions and feelings instead point Paul towards being a straight man who has homoromantic tendencies. To say that Paul isn’t gay is like trying to force a horse to drink when it is not thirsty.
Much of this post-war era literature does not present romanticized stories of true love, as many people avoid the allegiance and commitment of relationships by which true love is characterized. On the contrary, it is commonly seen that characters attempt to pursue happiness and eliminate void by fulfilling their needs through meaningless sexual relations due to a lack of meaning in life, just as Lady Brett Ashley did in The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. Lady Brett Ashley “must be the controlling individual in any relationship, the imperial force, and she can only be that while men are under the sway of her sexuality. When they seek equality in the relationship, or dominance, when they want to call the shots, she ends the relationship, giving up her conquered territory and moving on” (Hays 241). Despite the negative connotations often associated Brett, she is quite complex as this “bitch goddess,” as labeled by Mimi Gladstein, is an “intriguing mix of femininity and masculinity, strength and vulnerability, morality and dissolution.
In Mikal Gilmore’s personal narrative “My Brother, Gary Gilmore,” he describes his two brothers and father as the “teenage rebellion of the fifties” (1) for the fact that they each looked “for a forbidden life” (2). It was a life where they just did what they wanted to do without anyone stopping them. For example, “They would smoke cigarettes, drink booze and cough syrup, skip and ditch class” and sometimes “take part in gang rumbles” (2). The Gilmore Family has no authority and rules made for them to follow. They live in a life of unstructured hierarchy in the sense that no one in the Gilmore family has total power to control the actions of those committing crimes, which helps us understand why the Gilmore brothers and even the father choose to be living a forbidden life.
Bennett wrongfully believes that homosexual and heterosexual unions are not comparable; however, if we change the definition of marriage, our society’s understanding of marriage would be irreconcilably ruined. Bennett recognizes that homosexual unions are not comparable,
This demonstrated that Boo had no connections to anyone outside his house since he was not allowed to have one which made misery rain on him. Lastly Boo was always discriminated and never appreciated for anything he had done to serve society. As the people of Maycomb always on thought of Boo being a bad person, he was shown evidently that he served society as a secret hero such as when he had saved the children from Bob Ewell; “Mr. Ewell was tryin’ to squeeze me to death . .
You know he’s going to come back. S’pose you didn’t have nobody... a guy needs somebody.” We hear the sadness in Crooks’ tone and we know that he doesn’t have anybody. Crooks is a great example of what it is like if a person does not have anybody and they are lonely. This issue in the book is still relevant in today’s society as there is this fear about being alone and having no one. This novel shows the importance of relationships and how the people in the novel think about it.
He was repulsed even though the man had actually moved home because he knew he was dying. Even though Jerry was raised in a small, conservative community Jerry’s comments were what was repulsing. The hard headed, pea brained Jerry could not understand that homosexuals are everywhere, even in 1987. The only difference is that today we do not feel the need to hide as much, though obviously there are still places where today I wouldn’t vocalize the point that I’m gay. But In 1987 gay marriage was not being thought of, there was no place in America where homosexuals could marry, this gave Jerry more ease in being adamantly opposed to this AIDS positive homosexual who moved home to die.
For an individual to lose self-control in such deviant and heinous activity, left fear upon many. When trying to theorize Ridgway behaviors, it is obvious that he does not fall easily into just one category. To apply a single theory would be to undermine his personality and characteristic abilities. From the beginning, Ridgway was abused mentally, sexually and