Examine Steinbeck’s portrayal of Curley’s Wife. How do our feelings towards her change throughout the novel? In this essay I will, examine and explore Steinbeck’s portrayal of Curley’s Wife in Of Mice and Men. I will also examine how our feelings towards her change throughout the novel. Steinbeck presents the character of Curley’s wife to be attractive, flirtatious and vulnerable and she is a very complex character.
She had bigger dreams than just being a housewife and I think being the only woman on the farm stifles her. She looks to the men on the farm for friendship and companionship, but obviously they take it as flirting and in order to stay out of trouble with Curley, they stay away from her. This increases Curley’s wife’s loneliness. Curley’s wife represents women in the 1930’s during the Great Depression. Women in the 1930’s were seen by men as scheming and devious.
The wallpaper’s tendency to go into knots and “pointless patterns” of lines with no ending imitates her mind; the wallpaper just like her thoughts is a loop that always moves in never-ending circles. She is constantly trying to understand the inner reality of her life since there is a broken connection between what her beliefs and actions. She physically accepts the demeaning relationship with her husband however she secretly rebels his demands because she knows it is good for her like writing in her journal. Also, she passionately desires to see and take care of her baby but she does not reject being taken away to a different location. The color of the wallpaper reflects her sickness.
In both poems gender conflict is demonstrated between through the emotion of betrayal in a relationship. For example in Les Grands Seignurs she talks about “little woman” which could show the great depth of thought about how she feels towards men. The word “a toy, a plaything” suggests that’s once she got married she has became powerless and feels like she is a toy, this shows her betrayal as when you get married you expect the marriage to be fantastic and not to feel like a toy. In contrast, Medusa also demonstrates this when she says “wasn’t I beautiful?” this Is effective as I can infer that she feels insecure about her looks. It also suggests that she misses her past through the use of a rhetorical question which makes the reader feel sympathy for her.
” I' faith, sir, you shall never need to fear. I wis it is not halfway to her heart. But if it were, doubt not her care should be to comb your noddle with a three-legged stool and paint your face and use you like a fool.” This shows the viewer that Katherina is an aggressive character and is seen by the other male characters as a shrew. As the play progresses the viewer can see that Katherina is aggressive caused by her father and the suitors all favouring Bianca over her which
In the novel, The Grapes Of Wrath, by John Steinbeck, the land is often seized from farmers because they cannot afford to keep it due to a bad harvest season. The land is seized because of the Great Depression. The dirt has all of its nutrients stripped away because of the Dust Bowl, making it difficult for the farmers to harvest valuable crops to pay rent to their landowners. Losing the land makes the farmers depressed and desperate for the emotion the land brought them because they are emotionally attached to it since they have built their lives and families off of it even though they rent it. When the land lets farmers down, by not producing much crop because of conditions, they get disappointed as their land gets taken away, but farmers still lust to have an emotional attachment with the land.
An indication of this is “I was ashamed of the dear fellow” (Dickens 145). Pip is ashamed of Joe’s appearance and behaviour because it is an embarrassment for him; he sees it as confirmation of his low class origins. During their visit at Satis house, Pip learns that he is to be apprenticed to Joe. This temporarily shatters his expectations of becoming educated as a gentleman and he is extremely saddened to know he is to be a mere blacksmith. Once apprenticed to Joe Pip’s snobbery is frightful.
Woman were basically slaves to men .women were to cook, clean and tend to the children .some woman were spiteful of their husbands because they had greater opportunities but Bradstreet had a devout love for her husband. Although most woman of her time looked at being a housewife as being punishment she embraces it. She says they are one where as everything they do is in sync with each other. Their love for each other is mutual and ever flowing. She feels that no other woman can love her husband more than the love she has for hers.
Determining the Tragic Hero in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman Through Aristotelian point of view Arthur Miller’s 1949 play Death of a Salesman is about the tragic story of Willy Loman, a salesman who is struggling to make ends meet but also struggling to find himself. At the age of sixty one Willy is captured by questions of what and why he became the person he has become? Haunted by his mistakes in the past he slowly starts to see his mistakes. Realizing he has not done much to fulfill his dream of living the life of a salesman as he had seen many years ago through Dave Singleman and overwhelmed with the guilt that he ruined his son Biff’s life, he decides to commit suicide so Biff could have the his life insurance money. Is Willy Loman a tragic hero?
B. Amanda always makes disparaging remarks about her missing husband. II. The conflicts among family members and the disintegration of family. A. Wingfields are in the lower middle class. B.