Mr. Mallard unfortunately has the advantage of the marriage and thinks he has the right to impose everything on his wife. However, that all seems to change when she hears about her husband. In the beginning of the story when she first discovers the news “she wept at once with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sisters arms” (Chopin 15). Also the first sentence of the story says “Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband’s death” (Chopin 15). When just glancing over this you may think that in saying she has heart trouble, it is actually telling you she has heart disease or something close to it.
Tomoko grew depressed, shamed, and more determined to end her life as each day passed with the disease. She finally says, “I won’t live like this” (156). She feels as though the disease is a horrible thing that she cannot live with. Sadly, three days later Matsu says, “Tomoko had committed seppuku” (79). She couldn’t live knowing that she was soon to be dominated by this disease and there was nothing else she could do to stop it but her own death.
“The moment she got close enough to see the face, Sethe’s bladder filled to capacity” (page 61). This reaction caused Sethe to drag this stranger back to 124. Even though, this unknown creature was very frail and sick, Denver and Sethe slaved over her, so that she may be nursed back to health. Once being nursed back to heath, it was very clear to Sethe that the girl she brought into her house was a reincarnation of her lost daughter, causing confusion and untold mysteries to be solved. The ambiguity is defined in this restoration of a murdered girl.
Although Mrs. Mallard loved her husband the overwhelming thought of a life without him brought about emotions that she had buried inside which was a sense of freedom. The theme of this story comes together as Mrs. Mallard descends to her room to be alone. Mrs. Mallard was a sickly women afflicted with heart trouble. Her ailment was known to her family and friends. When the word come down that her husband had been in a train accident and feared dead her family and friends knew to break the news to her as easily as they possibly could.
"She'd brooded on her loss, misery had brewed/ In her heart, that female horror, Grendel's/ Mother, slain his father's son/ With an angry sword. " First this quote refers to Grendel's mother and how the loss of her son impacted her. The physical description of both Grendel and his mother represent them as monstrous looking, tempting to ignore that they're very real emotions. Grendel's mother has been cast away from humanity, but also that she didn't do anything to precipitate this. The poet remains reader of how understandable Grendel's mother's response is.
Markus Zusak successfully portrays this type of change in The Book Thief when Liesel, the protagonist, is forced to watch her brother die. She is not able to accept his death and so this event plagues her in her dreams. She is also blind to the reason why her brother has been forced to die. Only when she realises how much of a role Hitler has played in the loss of her family and in the major changes that her life has suffered does she begin to accept her reality: ‘Her starving mother, her missing father. Kommunisten.
The poet has achieved this by the use of a long and evocative description of death. This description is interrupted by the phrase ”I saw those eyes that did not see, mirror my cruelty…this represents the child–s loss of innocence, the realisation of the malice of her action. This is further reinforced in the last stanza where the child finally comprehends that as a result of her actions, her life has changed, the little child still inside her weeps upon her fathers arm ”for what I have become… but also comes to the realisation that she will never be the same again as a result of her actions.The father, authority figure only speaks once in the poem; ”End what you have begun.…This changes the child–s understanding of the responsibilities associated with power and the consequences of the misuse of this power.The second part of the poem …Nightfall… continues the story of the child forty years from ’Barn Owl– and is written in the form of an ode. The poem represents death closing in on the father, and
The word, “nightmare” which also means fear and terror displays the horror of war. In addition, in stanza 3, it gives a picture of a grieving woman crying before dead husband. She has to live on her own without her husband in dangerously without proper protection. It is hard to survive being widowed. Even in safe environment, it is hard to live being alone.
This is because of the constant worry of losing them. In Siegfried Sassoon’s poem ‘The Hero’ the theme of loss is portrayed powerfully. The poem explains that a mother is being told about the passing of her son due to war. The mother is told that her son was brave and fought proudly under the United Kingdom’s flag. But within the four walls of the brother officer’s head, the reader discovers that her son did the complete opposite and was considered a ‘cold-footed - useless swine.’ This is an emotive technique used to make the reader shocked and angry that he’d lie about the loss of the mother’s son then think about him in such a negative and disrespectful way as if his passing didn’t matter.
Great care was taken to tell Louise Mallard, who has a heart problem, of her husband’s death, Brently Mallard, during a railroad disaster. It was her sister Josephine, with Brently’s friend, Richards standing there for support, who gave Louise the news of her husband’s death, she immediately started to weep. “She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, paralyzed inability to accept its significance.” (p. 15) Upon receiving the news, Louise is thrown into a downward spiral of her emotions. “She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister’s arms.”(p. 15) After she was done grieving in her sister arms, Louise went upstairs and locked herself in her room and immediately began mourning the loss of husband. She went over to a comfortable armchair and sank down into it.