According to Freud, mixture of feelings of love and hate that Diane presumably felt for her mother were the results of her obsessional thoughts and fear of losing the mother, and could actually mean an unconscious wish of Diane to kill her mother. In order to remove the feelings of guilt resulting from those thoughts, Diane engaged in ritualistic praying that have given her a relief. In terms of treatment, Freud believed that people could be cured by making conscious their unconscious thoughts and motivations, thus gaining “insight” (McLeod, 2007). The therapies such as psychoanalysis, free association and dream analysis are used to deal with unconscious mental processes. It is assumed that some anxiety disorders such as phobias, OCD,
Learning and comprehending a life of unhappy wife in The Awakening novel namely Edna Pontellier, a dual concept of life and death is briefly sensed here. A usage of formal criticism is used in this essay because the theory focuses only on the content of the novel itself and the content which will be analized is specified into life and death concept. Life and death in Edna Pontellier’s character is not about the lexical meaning of them, but more to the emotional and physical meaning. The title The Awakening advises the idea of rebirth, renewal, and life, on the other hand, the main character who takes the major part of her awakening feels the sense of death so briefly in her life. Edna’s life which contains of unhappy marriage, adultery affair, and a force to be mother woman creates a complex character and problem, and somehow a metaphor of life and death contemplates her life in the story.
Max's story aims to encourage Liesel to be brave and willing to counter words of hatred with words of love; these final lines suggest that others would be willing to follow her if she took such a stand. 10. "I am haunted by humans." (550) The Book Thief is framed by Death's and death's inability to reconcile the remarkable cruelty and the remarkable compassion of which human beings are simultaneously capable. Liesel's life story contains elements of both, and by the end of the novel, Death appears to be no more capable of judging humanity than at the novel's outset.
Both being a reason towards the woman’s slow neurotic ride to insanity. The author gives the reader insight into the 19th century sociological attitudes, especially regarding gender relations through the conflict that exists between the protagonist and her husband. As her doctor, he advises her to keep
Critical Review Marlene Goldman’s review of “Fifth Business” was very effective. In her piece called “Madness, Masculinity, and Magic in Robertson Davies’ “Fifth Business”: A Tale of Hysteria; or, “the Suffocation of the Mother” she focuses on clearly explaining the themes of madness, hysteria and masculinity throughout the book with evidence from the novel to support her arguments. Goldman’s article focuses on the central themes of madness, hysteria and masculinity in “Fifth Business”. She argues that “women edge towards madness when they fail to balance the roles of true women and ideal mother”, referring to Mrs. Dempster and Mrs. Ramsay. She states that Dunstan’s masculinity is shaped by his experiences in the war and is secured by his heterosexuality.
“How does The Crucible show us the power of fear in human society?” In the text The Crucible, Arthur Miller uses the events of the Salem Witch Trials to portray the power of fear in human society. Fear is an instinct humans need to survive, which strongly affects how people act and often results in horrible consequences. Throughout the play the theme of fear affects the outcomes and characters of Abigail Williams, Mary Warren, Reverend Parris, Reverend Hale and John Proctor. The character of seventeen year old Abigail Williams uses intimidation to show the power of fear in human society. Abigail first demonstrates her fondness of terrorising those around her in her threat to the girls of the town: “Let either of you breather a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you...I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down!” This threat foreshadows Abigail’s accusations of witchcraft against others.
The audience is challenged throughout the text, as the reader’s assertiveness and insight into Sallies character is provoked through literary techniques, such as simile, symbolism etc. The biography is also a mix of detective novel, so the reader discovers what happened to Sallie and what she stood up against. Her pain and suffering from abandonment is explored and described by Sallie Anne as well as her sister in the following insightful narration. “when pat (sallies mother) abandoned Sallie for the second time, that really fucked her up… when your mother makes a habit of walking out on you, it doesn’t do much for your self esteem” and Sally stated “if only I’d had my mother, things would Have been different”. These lines emphasize the dramatic impact the repeated abandonment had on Sallie, and the course her life took.
In the second interaction we have with Curley’s wife. John Steinbeck uses her descriptions to create sympathy for her. For, example, the second time Curley appears in the novel is written within the following sentence. “Her face was heavily made up”. This could suggest that she disguises her true feelings and emotions with lies like the colourful, interesting appearance that disguises her lonely, isolated life.
“Could death and decay be growing where the child had grew so soon after?” Throughout Beverley Farmer’s “ Collected stories” readers are presented with raw emotions and the depths of human thought. Farmer simplistically contrasts both the radiating goodness and unbearable brutality of life in her stories “Inheritance”, “A Woman in a Mirror” and “A Woman with Black Hair”. Her female protagonists are confronted with death, illness and rape but deny their feelings of isolation and emotional displacement and instead are prompted to delve into the depths of their inner self. As the characters question their identity amid crisis and embittered memories, the stories progress to a climax in which a decision is made about the future. Farmer highlights the inner resilience of her characters as they come to realise their place in the world.
mankind’s experience of evil, experience of guilt and separation. • Psychological study of typically romantic characters, e.g. Victor, Walton, Clerval… • The ‘monster’ himself has been studied in connection with Rousseau’s theory of man’s natural goodness perverted by a hostile environment. • A sociological approach to the novel stresses its importance as a social document, giving evidence of a woman’s role /family ties/ education, etc.. in the first decades of the 19th century. • Feminist critics are especially interested in issues concerning women’s culture.