However he had a tragic flaw but him confessing leads up to his tragic death that causes the audience to feel sympathy. John Proctor’s downfall is initiated by a human flaw which was his inability to control and resist his desire. When his wife Elizabeth got sick began to catch feelings for Abigail. When John Proctor stated “but I will cut off my hand before I’ll ever reach out for you” (page 15, act one) he shows how at one point he was having an affair behind his wife back and this lead up to all the madness in the town of Salem. When Abigail was talking to Proctor she says “She is telling lies to about me!
This mental illness would be diagnosed based upon her hostility, her criticism, her self-important image and her lack of empathy towards Jane. In fact, Aunt Reed was a candidate for mental insanity just by being herself. Studies by the American Psychological Association show that internal mindsets of an individual, such as hereditary disposition, has an influence on the development of insanity. Aunt Reed was born into a high class family, and when her brother married ‘beneath himself’, it disabled her to love Jane. Even in today’s society, children are judged based on the amount of money and the social status of their parents.
When john takes Mary to the court so she can testify against the girls they think it’s a bit suspicious. When the girls are brought into the court they accuse Mary of bewitching them. John gets fed up and he confesses to his affair with Abigail to prove that she is not a goodly person and that she is jealous of his wife. Elizabeth is brought to the court to prove of what john is saying is true but because of her kindness and her love for her husband she lies to protect his name. Abigail and the girls pretend Mary is bewitching them again which make Mary breakdown and accuse john of being a witch.
A common worldwide value that Harwood rejects as the normality in life with her poems. Harwood battles against the traditions that she believes support this downgrading by continually returning to the issue. In “Home of Mercy” there is a line in the poem. Here I believe she is talking about the Magdalene Asylums. It was a place of slave labor laundries from the 18th to the late-20th centuries to house "fallen women", a term used to imply female sexual promiscuity.
Gina replied saying that she does not know, he was furiously left the house. Ibsen used Hjalmar’s attitude and action to make Hedvig look sympathetic. He did so to create drama which ultimately will lead to the play’s tragedy. Ibsen’s technique of portraying Hedvig as a victim to gain sympathy from readers was indeed clever and unique. He portrayed her as a thirteen year old girl who is going blind due to her mother’s affair with Mr. Werle who was losing his sight as well.
The Red-Room is a symbol of death, as it was Jane’s Uncle Reed’s room, and where he died. Because of this symbol we understand Jane’s hysteria when her Aunt Reed, locked her in there. The Red-Room could be interpreted as a womb, because the inside of the room is red, Jane’s Aunt Reed could be forcing Jane back there waiting for her to be ‘reborn’ with a new attitude (one that suits Mrs Reed). Alternatively some may think of the Red-Room as an indescribable trauma of suffering for Jane as she loses consciousness because she can’t deal with it, and she doesn’t verbalise what the problem is (possibly her uncle’s ghost). Fire is another symbol present in Jane Eyre, both caused by Bertha, first when she sets fire to Rochester’s bed and second when she burns down Thornfield by setting fire to what was Jane’s bedroom.
By creating a being, therefore, Victor automatically positions Woman in a lower rank than Man and ranks her essentially as unnecessary. Chapter 3 begins with a detailed description of Elizabeth and Victor’s mother, after they both contracted Scarlet Fever, resulting his mother’s death. Victor himself describes her death as an ‘omen…of my future misery’, and it seems that after his mother’s death, all female characters are shunned from Victor’s life, as he engages with his experiment. His mother’s death could not only symbolise his finality on engaging with a female character, but could also represent the death of all his morality and virtue, as represented by the docile and passive nature of women in the novel, portrayed through use of ‘The Sublime’ language and imagery. Furthermore, as well as usurping the natural role of women, Victor already usurps her working role, as his intense study at university, compared to the previous docile and domesticated description of Elizabeth , and Victor’s dying mother (in chapter 3), contrast to highlight the ableness of Man to work and earn a living, and women who are more suited to domestic life.
The way John creates a sudden fear in his wife which provokes her to startle and hide her journal speaks volumes of his influence over her life. Gilman’s use of symbolism first begins to take flight when the woman in her story suddenly begins to notice the wallpaper. It becomes evident only through her use of symbolism that controlling men trap women from all of their potential. The wallpaper in her story symbolizes women who have long been repressed by such men, and by society. Gilman demonstrates this very notion in the slightest ways, such as when the woman first describes the wallpaper as if it had been used by a room of boys: “The paint and paper look as if a boy’s school had used it.
Hamlet is saying Stop wringing your hands. Sit down and let me wring your heart instead, which he will do if it's still soft enough, because of the evil lifestyle that she has been living F.I would like to discuss the relationship between Hamlet and his mother Gertrude when he goes into her room to talk to her as she requested. Since the death of his father, Hamlet has hated his mother and is extremely disappointed in the way that she re-married to Claudius. It infuriates Hamlet how she knows what
The narrator learns about Roderick’s issues with fear and paranoia and his sister Madeline’s catalepsy. I believe that by this point, the narrator is ready to head back home. Instead he remains at the house to try to boost Roderick’s spirits, with no prevail. The narrator’s beliefs about the house itself being unhealthy and depressing are confirmed when Madeline dies. The burial of Madeline in the tombs underneath the Usher house disturbs the narrator but also reveals to him that Roderick and Madeline are twins.