Durrenmatt uses this as a symbol of Claire’s artificial personality. In reality, Claire is a very uncaring human. We can see this with how she divorces her husbands so quickly and only names them after her butler, Boby. Claire represents how society shows its true faces, artificial and unconcerned. The town of Güllen is impoverished and becomes rich through her help but, in the end, she was just doing it so she could kill Ill.
Her father left her when she was young and her mother lost herself in the bottle of pills and booze. Therefore became the mother a prostitute to pay the rent and feed the family. Besides the lack of care from her parents, she had a boyfriend which she probably thought cared about her and the love to him made her completely blind to see his evil sides. That is why she apparently became a prostitute, to earn money to help her “big love”. All those points affected her incredibly much and also had some consequences, such as being a prostitute, actually trying to commit suicide and in the end the death as cause.
These mothers perform acts of heroism. An-mei’s mother, a woman who lives in Tientsin as a concubine of a rich merchant named Wu Tsing, is an example of Joseph Campbell’s ideas as she embarks on a hero’s journey by poisoning herself, so she can give her weak spirit to An-mei in order to make An-mei’s spirit stronger. An-mei’s mother departs on her journey when she enters Wu Tsing’s house and loses everything. She loses her son and daughter, her dignity, her image, her face, and the ability to raise her head. She loses her reputation as the loyal wife when she is accused of being a 2 prostitute, when she was actually raped by Wu Tsing.
Sheila manipulates Millwards in to sacking Eva Smith by using blackmail and financial threats by saying she’d “never go near the place again” and “persuade mother to close our account”. Sheila emphasizes her dislike for Millwards by calling it “the place”. The common noun shows that Sheila is insincere about the shop and thinks that it isn’t of a high standard that upper-class people would expect whilst Eva is working there. Sheila then goes on to say that if Eva was “some miserable plain little creature” she wouldn’t have done it. Through this Priestley is showing the theme of the class system as Sheila is using her higher class to get Eva fired.
Jason accuses Medea of overreacting. He claims that his decision to remarry was in everyone's best interest. Medea finds him spineless, and she refuses to accept his token offers of help. While visiting Corinth, Aegeus, King of Athens, offers Medea to come live in his home city in exchange for her knowledge of certain drugs that can cure his sterility. Now guaranteed a home in Athens, Medea has cleared all obstacles to completing her revenge, a plan which grows to include the murder of her own children; the pain their loss will cause her does not outweigh the satisfaction she will feel in making Jason suffer.
It is my contention to provide a different analysis of the murder and prove Miss Svetlov guilty for the crime other than Smerdyakov or Ivan Karamazov. The “local beauty” that had seemed to have enchanted Fyodor and Dmitiri Karamzov had been betrayed by a Polish officer only when she was a young eighteen year old girl. Her infatuation with the man had led her to have unrealistic aspirations from life and it crushed her when he left her to marry another woman, leaving her “disgraced and dishonored” (459). Thereafter, when she was still a “slender, shy…brooding” girl she was taken under the protection of a merchant, Samsonov. With an already slighted reputation, Grushenka was rumored to have been living with Samsonov as his mistress in return for his financial help.
THE CRUCIBLE Character analysis Abigail Williams – Abigail Williams is an orphan, unmarried but has an affair with married man John Proctor. From the start of the play Abigail is a villain, she tells lies and manipulates everyone to fit her own little world, all so she gets her way, to get revenge on Elizabeth Proctor. Throughout the hysteria Abigail is driven by sexual desire, lust for power and jealousy. All of the young girls in Salem have no authority, the minister and other male adults are God’s representatives. The trials start, in which the girls act as though they have a direct connection to God, led by the now powerful Abigail.
His sole objective after his release is to inflict vengeance upon all of the people who had betrayed him in his life. These include his former wife who cheats on him with his one time friend, who also happens to be the one responsible for sending him to prison. It also includes his one time mentor, Rauf, who taught him that there is honor and legitimacy in stealing from the rich. When Said is released from prison he finds his old mentor, and confronts him. Now a member of the wealthy social class they once despised, Rauf wants nothing to do with the friendship he and Said once shared, and so Said marks him as a traitor.
Salem, Massachusetts in the late 17th century was full of hysteria about witches casting spells, spirits being conjured, and the devil influencing the townspeople. Accusations of witchcraft, for personal vengeance, hurled fellow citizens into jail for eventual execution. The greedy were taking neighbors land once their innocent blood was spilled for crimes of witchery. John Proctor disliked the court’s lack of justice, and thought that the spreaders of the lies only did it to get what they wanted. All he wanted was for fair trials to be conducted and evidence to be looked for, because he was a very just individual and when a debate of who had authority he said “we vote by name in this society, not by acreage” (1.
He cheats on her, and when she finds out, it seems he could not care less. But Daisy cannot even leave him because she is too scared, and has no one to run to. Through Daisy’s situation, Fitzgerald is expressing that even when people are treated horribly, they still rely on wealth and high status. Even in society today, we see people deteriorating because of their goals to meet society’s standards. The neglect from her husband causes Daisy to wilt, much like the flower if it were treated harshly.