I then recalled someone telling me that they were hard to tame. I took up the courage and followed my heart towards it. I then realized that the cat had given birth to kittens. I felt really sorry for the innocent kittens. It came to mind that the jackals had attacked the cat while she was in a vulnerable position.
Southern gothic characters usually posses some type of characteristic that makes them dark and sick- minded. Emily is full of her “sickness” enough to the point the she thinks that it is okay for her to take someone’s life because they do not want to be with her. Taking a person’s life is to be considered very violent, and death is gruesome and grotesque. Miss Emily poisons Homer with the rat poisoning and it is implied that she has relationship with Homer that is of necrophilia. Miss Emily’s hair was found on a pillow lying next to Homer Barron’s corpse.
Isobel shared similar traits to Diana, her apartment was just as messy, she was always seeking the approval of others and was also psychotic which is displayed by her obscene prank phone-calls in which she would verbally abuse whoever was unfortunate enough to be on the other end of the line. Isobel’s final quest for identity and change leads her to Mrs Adams house (Isobel’s next door neighbour during her childhood), Isobel finds out that her parents lied to her in order for her to be scared of Mrs Adams after Isobel wrote a poem about her cat. Mrs Adams tells Isobel that she loved the poem and that her cat ‘Smoke’ later died and followed with ‘’well, nothing lasts for ever, as they say.’’ Isobel replies with ‘’I hope they are right’’ implying that Isobel hopes the mental pain inflicted by her mother will not bother her any longer. After a final expelling of frustration Isobel says ‘’I am a writer, I am a
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.
Indians killed her parents brutally, and she witnessed the horrific act. A lack of parental figures probably led her to become in love with John Proctor, who spurned her. Abigail was willing to do anything to be with him, even drink the blood of a chicken. When she and other girls who were dancing in the woods accused of conjuring spirits, she blames Tituba. Tituba in turn blames other women, and Abigail cunningly devises a plan of accusing other people of witchcraft including Elizabeth, Proctor’s wife.
This shows Abigails desire to belong not only to proctor but also within the community, by taking Elizabeth’s position. Thomas Putnam seeks revenge on Francis Nurse by accusing his wife, Rebecca, of murdering Ann Putnam’s babies through supernatural means. This shows us that Thomas Putnam is accusing Rebecca nurse of murdering Ann Putnam’s babies in order to feel a sense of belonging in the community and create anarchy in the community. In Act four, Reverend Hale reports that the town is in great confusion because of the hysteria, using visual images of homeless orphans wondering the streets, abandoned cattle and rotting crops, showing that no one belongs in
It represents imprisonment and this is made clear when the she says, “The faint figure behind seemed to shake the pattern, just as if she wanted to get out”. (245) The imprisonment is created from the yellow wallpaper because the Jane repeatedly asks to remove it but isn’t allowed and she is confined to the room she despises due to the stubbornness seen from her husband. You can see Jane slowly descend into her madness with her hallucinations- “The only thing I can think of that it is like is the color of the paper! A yellow smell." (248) “At night in any kind of light, in twilight, candlelight, lamplight, and worst of all by moonlight, it becomes bars!
He wants the riches without the work. Thomas’s wife, Ann Putnam also holds a grudge against the Nurse family. She believes that Rebecca Nurse is a witch and murdered the seven babies Rebecca helped Ann deliver. Ann
He chooses cats over fellow men because they serve him a better friendship. He has uncontrollable rage when under the influence of alcoholic substances it makes him act out and mistreat not only the loving animals, but his wife. The narrator continues to find himself lashing out against everyone and everything killing everything except his dear Pluto. When he feels like Pluto has been avoiding him he vengefully grabs the
In The Crucible, people accused each other of witch craft without proper evidence because they were afraid of being called witches. For instance, when Reverend Hale accused Tituba of dealing with witch craft, she immediately confessed that the devil has spoken to her and she accused Goody Osburn and Goody Good of being witches. In the same way in 1950 Senator McCarthy made claims about certain people being communists or communist sympathisers because he feared that America was becoming a communist country. These sort of unsubstantiated claims are another reason why The Crucible relates to our contemporary society. For example, the Federal Liberal Senator Cory Bernardi made a request to ban the burqa because he thought that it was being used as a disguise by criminals, this allegation was later rejected due to a lack of evidence.