Despite being written during patriarchal Jacobean society, the protagonist is a female, which is was highly unusual in those days. Of course this protagonist is Lady Macbeth. Throughout the play, through Lady Macbeth's actions we are forced to believe that she is evil. In contrast, the novel John Steinbeck tells a story of dreams, hopes and loneliness. We are introduced to a majorly significant and complex character, named Curley’s wife.
He begins to draw others into the tragedy of Eva Smith’s life and death. He attracts the sympathy and compassion of Sheila and of the audience by his clear and hard-hitting description of the girls misery. After the inspector informs Sheila, she portrays a distressed and agitated type of behaviour. On page 17 she says ‘Sorry! Its just I cant help thinking about this girl-destroying her life so horribly.’ This shows Sheila feels commiseration and sensitivity towards Eva and her death which comes across as genuine regret when she realises she could be linked to her suicide.
This view is expressed throughout the poems and the reoccurring theme is murder as they both show the idea of men killing a lover. The speaker in the beginning of ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ the Pietkoski, Two narrator is dwelling in a cottage in the country side. He is anxious for her to arrive, “I listened with heart fit to break.” He is clearly unhappy and angry. The reader realizes this from the beginning because he talks about “the sullen wind ’tore, ‘vex and spite.’ However, when Porphyria arrives , the mood changes and she ‘shut the cold out and the storm..’ Evidently the narrator feels comfortable and warmed by her presence. Porphyria starts
Thus this was what she meant by not even the perfume of Arabia can cover up her guilty sin. Another example would be when Lady Macbeth says “Was your hands, put on your night-gown, looking not so pale: I tell you yet again, Banquo’s buried. (5, 1; 52). Considering the fact that Banquo is dead, and she was the one who influenced her husband to do all those bad deeds, in the end it caused her to relive this scene to show how cruel she was in the past. Thus it is shown that guilt can cause one to lose there inner conscience.
Many times during the novel Of Mice and Men Steinbeck creates contradiction: Curley’s wife’s red wardrobe compared to the brown, mucky, ranch. Even George and tall Lennie are conflicting themes in the novel. These are only two small examples, looking deeper in the novel one finds the importance in Curley’s Wife’s death. The passage describing Curley’s wife’s death is the most emotionally wrenching for the reader in the novel. Steinbeck elicits contradictory feelings in the reader: sympathy for the recently murdered woman as well as sympathy for his murderer.
Name Mrs. Thornton English H 2A 19 January 2013 Romeo and Juliet Essay Test Romeo and Juliet is a beautifully written play that has romance, violence, and tragedy. In the play, six characters end up dead, both the main characters and some minor ones. There are many people to blame for each death, but I believe certain characters are in fault. I put the blame on Romeo and Juliet's forbidden love for the death of Paris. For the death of Romeo's mother, I put the blame on Tybalt and for Mercutio's death, Romeo is to blame.
This is right after she hears from the Nurse that Romeo was the one who killed Tybalt. Her initial shock at Tybalt’s death gives way to her intense feeling of love for Romeo. She feels betrayed and doubts Romeo, perhaps wondering if Romeo only got close to her so that he could kill Tybalt.
Medea Discussion Question #2 I actually think that Medea is the victim compared to Jason being the villain, although not entirely. I think this evidenced during a conversation between the nurse and the tutor, “Nurse: Oh, what an enemy Jason’s proved to those he should have loved! Tutor: What human being is not?” (Lines 15-16). They are both shown to have had their feelings of love with near absolute abhor. I think Medea deserves pity in certain situations, such as in the beginning and the events leading up to the murders, when she is shown crying out in the beginning of the play, “The pain of misery!
They conclude that Medea is guilty and needs to be punished. Her intent is to see Jason suffer; therefore killing his father in law, wife, and two children. Nevertheless, he is obviously grieving these sorrows cast upon him. Medea’s wish is fulfilled, however it has cost her own family. This woman sacrifices her loved ones for revenge and hatred.
(Mac 5.1. 38) The imaginary blood spots that behold Lady Macbeth's hands emphasize her intense feelings of remorse for the murder of Duncan. In the inception of the story, Lady Macbeth was dauntless and tranquil about the murder of Duncan. Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth, " tis safer to be that which we destroy than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy." (Mac 3.2.