The sooner people accept that we are all human, the better. Moving on, the author’s style was unusual, criticizing, and degrading, and the tone was less than likeable. However, it was a direct approach to displaying human faults and how people turn the other way rather than acknowledge them. Lady Montagu, clearly took offense to Swift’s poem and so, wrote her own riposte to put him down for writing such an unflattering poem. She certainly did not “pass in silence without matching wits”(292) with Swift.
In the way Callie Khouri wrote the movie, she lays a fundamental and dividing issue in our society: Women are seen as inferior to men, and are treated as such at home (like Thelma) and in public (like Louise). All through-out their actions, the movie shines by the impressive performance of the characters. In his review of Thelma & Louise, Albert Johnson writes that “Callie Khouri’s screenplay manages to offer detailed, believable characters” (Johnson, p.22). Thelma embodies a loving and spirited woman, while Louise’s hardhearted attitude expresses maturity dealing with men. Johnson manages very well to avoid the mainstream debate about whether or not Thelma and Louise’s roles in the movie are appropriate or realistic.
In the play Romeo and Juliet, many conflicts had made the play very interesting and kept your attention. Romeo and Juliet had fallen in love but then found out that their families don't like each other. They both ended up dying. I feel as if Friar Lawrence was most responsible for the outcome in Romeo and Juliet because he married them and gave Juliet the potion. Many other things would have happened if Friar did not get involved.
One could agree that Sybil Birling is the most unsympathetic character of all since Priestly illustrates, throughout the play, the flaws in her character. In the first act we don’t hear much from Mrs Birling but one can already get an idea of her personality. When her husband praises the cook, she replies, “Arthur you’re not supposed to say such things” . This quote shows that she’s very aware of her social standing. The second act is where one really starts discovering Sybil’s real personality.
People like me tend to try to be perfect and over think our writing. I always thought that this was an issue that only plagued the people who didn’t like to or couldn’t write. I couldn’t have been more wrong. In Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott, she states in the chapter “Shitty First Drafts”, “For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous. The only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts.” (22) Understanding this, I am able to get over my idea that all good writers write perfectly from the onset.
Claudius and Gertrude’s love relationship is seen as incest by Hamlet, while Horatio and Hamlet’s friendship is a good friendship because Horatio is someone that Hamlet trust and can depend on for anything. Hamlet and Ophelia’s relationship is one that is not accepted by her family because Hamlet is from royalty and Ophelia is not and because of this Polonius warns Ophelia about Hamlet. To everyone it seems as if Hamlet is just using Ophelia for sexual pleasure and nothing more. “Tis told me he hath very oft late/ Given private time to you, and you yourself/ Have of your audience been most free and/ Bounteous. If it be so (as so’tis put on me, / And that in way of caution), I must tell you/ You do not understand yourself so clearly/ As it behooves my daughter and your honor.”(I, iii, 99-106) Even Ophelia’s brother and father warn her about Hamlet, and how he may be using her but she does not listen because she is in love with Hamlet and does not believe he would use her.
Strangers Inlove How many children between the ages of twelve to sixteen actually believe that they have found the one and are truly in love. In William Shakespears play "Romeo and Juliet", shows how unrealistic both Romeo and Juliet's love for each other is. They show a great amount of immaturity by the quick time span they fall in love in, their youthful actions, and the ability to end their lives for one another. William Shakespeare's play seems to show us how unrealistic it is to fall in love with another. Romeo and Juliets so called love seems to happen in an instant, which is a complete fairytale.
Torvald treats Nora as a wife in the 1800s should be treated. The nicknames he gives her such as “little spendthrift” and “squirrel” degrade her as a person by comparing her to an animal and her actions rather than treating her as his equal (Act I lines 46, 54). Although his connotation was meant to be positive, the squirrel symbolizes gathering and thrift which not many housewives are looked upon as (Princeton Online). Throughout the entire play Torvald continues to show his affection towards Nora but remains stubborn in the thought that women should be denied their freedom. At the end of the play, he tells Nora “You talk like a child.
In Much Ado about Nothing, these two lovers are represented by Claudio and Hero, and the love which Shakespeare presents between them is meant to be romantic love or love at first sight; in my opinion, this is simply lust. There is no evidence in the play to suggest that Claudio's motivation for marriage is actually real love, the love of Hero's personality. He 'loves' her for what she is, not who she is; she fits Elizabethan society's ideal of the perfect woman. Claudio describes her as 'modest' (I.i.147), meaning chaste, an essential quality of an unmarried woman in the Elizabethan era, and in lines 167-168 of Act one, Scene one states: '...she is the sweetest lady that ever / I looked on.' He makes no comment on her character, but this would have been seen as normal in Elizabethan times; women were expected to be seen but not heard, and Shakespeare presents Hero as the conventional woman of her day.
Austen referred to her in one of her letters as "a heroine who is almost too good for me." Though Austen very frankly notes that the bloom of youth has left Anne, and that she is not the prettiest of the young ladies in the novel, Anne becomes most decidedly more attractive when her better qualities are noted. Anne is proud of her appearance, and she is deeply hurt after overhearing that Captain Wentworth thinks her appearance much changed for the worst. Unlike her father, Anne also takes pride in practicality, intellect, and patience. Anne is feminine while possessing none of what Austen clearly sees as the negative characteristics of her gender; Anne is neither catty, flighty, nor hysterical.