Medusa is described in a very negative manner. On the other hand, the final stanza makes us feel pity for her. Her lover had other ‘girls’ meaning he was unfaithful and the rhetorical question that follows makes Medusa seem desperate. This part of the poem evokes feelings from the reader as she is clearly distressed and suffering. She reminisces about when she was ‘fragrant and young’, illustrating her complete lack of confidence.
Helena is looked at as a pathetic girl who is jelous of hermia's looks and obsessed with Demetrius who will never love her back. Shes looked at as if shes a women who is wasteing her time wishing she were someone else. She says to Demetrius at one point that "the more he beats her the more she will fawn him". Helena is practically begging him to treat her poorly because she feels that any bit of attention from him is
The author write "With all the intensity of the savage blood transmitted to her through long lines of wholly barbaric ancestors, she hated the woman who blushed and trembled behind that silent door." (Stockton 49). The author clearly states that the princess hates the woman behind the door. Evidence also proves that the princess is jealous of this woman for the author tells you how she caught the woman looking at her lover plenty of times, as if flirting with him, but when the man flirts back is when she starts to get jealous. She admits on page 49 that the lady is very lovely and beautiful, by the author stating that it draws people to the conclusion that the princess knows her lover wouldn't mind marrying the woman and that he would actually be happy with it.
In the end what really matters Truth or Love? The woman in "Story" is obsessive over her now somewhat distant lover. She know that her lover is busy but she still tries to call and see him. With his excuses and contradictions, and their arguement she's angry, it reminds her of her husband. The lady quickly change her emotions she wants to apologize to him.
However, this attitude to love and women changes from positive to negative when he realises Lesbia’s infidelity, seen in Poems 5 and 10. Catullus also holds a negative attitude to other women in the poems who he sees as objects of affection and lust and not as women to love. Secondly, Catullus has an unfavourable attitude to women as he see’s women as deceitful. This attitude is seen in Poems 10 and 11 where he is deceived by Lesbia and a woman he names as a ‘tartlet’ and this leads to Catullus’s final attitude to women where he see’s women as being insatiable, this also links to the first attitude where Catullus uses women as objects to calm his desire for lust and is seen in Poems, 11, 32 and 110. The focus of the commentary is to form an argument around the statement that Catullus’s overall attitude to women is negative and derogatory.
Shakespeare’s objective is to show how the guilt Is driving her insane. Shakespeare also does this with the semantic field of death; “death and blood” are used through her sleep-walk. This implies that her guilt of killing Duncan is driving her insane this technique is used by Shakespeare to portray Lady Macbeth’s broken state of mind which makes her restless. In Act 2 Scene 2, the witches say "Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep,” this is exactly what has happened to Lady Macbeth as she is unable to sleep.
She’s paranoid in terms of believing that her lover has been having an affair with two women who she thinks are more beautiful than her, however in stanza 3, she says “Better sit thus and observe thy strange things than go where men wait me and dance at the King’s”; this gives an idea that she’s also a beautiful woman who is likewise given attention from other men however she decides to overlook that fact and cultivate a rather vindictive temperament by refusing to let the pain and embarrassment brought upon her by her current/former lover surpass her. As stated in the previous paragraph, she feels paranoid, embarrassed and pained and these strong feelings of the speaker are shown in most stanzas. In stanza 2, her feelings of paranoia and anxiety are expressed and emphasised when she says “They believe my tears flow while they laugh, laugh at me, at me fled to the drear empty church to pray God in for them! – I am here.” This is quite an interesting line as it is filled with all the sentiments mentioned earlier. The phrase “laugh, laugh at me, at me” contains repetitive language which suggests that she feels terribly humiliated and angry but we the readers do not know if ‘they’ are actually laughing at her or maybe it’s a notion
“The women in Tennyson’s poems are presented as victims of a male world” How far do you agree? Make reference to at least two poems that you have studied. In both Mariana and Locksley Hall are presented as victims. Tennyson presents Marina as a woman who is mentally unstable due to being isolated from the rest of the world. Whereas in Locksley Hall Amy is presented as a woman who is being constantly controlled by men at first her father and then her husband who she doesn’t love.
The Prologue also portrays The Miller as an unattractive figure: a man with a hairy wart on his nose and nostrils that are black and wide. Chaucer further expounds upon The Miller's uncomely appearance in the prologue when he depicts The Miller as drunken and disheveled. Chaucer portrays the miller as the deadly sin of lust when he describes, explicitly, that the carpenter’s wife committed adultery with The Miller. Chaucer also views The Wife of Bath negatively as well as The Miller. For example, The Wife of Bath is intentionally described in an explicit way to provoke a shocking response.
She lies about her husband’s vulgar behaviour and justifies it through clichés. While Blanche lies primarily to others, Stella lies to herself. Both do so as they need to, to survive. At the beginning of the play-from the moment we meet Blanche, we see the idea of telling lies and keeping secrets appear. Blanche is driven by sexual desire but is condemned by it for being a whore.