We are introduced to a majorly significant and complex character, named Curley’s wife. Steinbeck shows us that Curley’s wife is flirtatious, mischievous (despite the patriarchal society of the 1930’s) but most of all she is an isolated character. Her hasty marriage to Curley proves to be failed attempt to escape her own spiral of disappointment of not fulfilling her ambition of becoming an actor. This ironically is a main theme in both texts. This essay will analyse and compare the presentation of Lady Macbeth and Curley's wife through the structure, themes, what is said about them, their actions and what they themselves say.
The Tell-Tale Heart versus The Necklace Two short stories are being discussed in this paper, “The Tell-Tale Heart” written by the famous Edgar Allen Poe, which tells the story of a deluded man trying to convince the readers of his sanity using a rational explanation to explain an irrational behaviour but later proves to the readers how sane he is without still knowing the state of his own mind and “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant is about a spoiled ungrateful young woman, Mathilde Loisel, who learns her lesson the hard way. She attends a ball and must have an expensive dress and jewelry as well which she loses and her pride keeps her from telling the truth and puts her into debt. When two things are lined up in this manner, there are inevitably going to be some similarities and differences, however, the differences between these short stories vastly outweigh the similarities. This paper is aimed at contrasting these two stories and pointing out a few of the many differences between the two stories using the each author’s perspective on short stories. One of the primary contrasts in these two short stories is the route in which the reader discovers the ending of the stories.
Another episode from the case study where Diane had intrusive obsessional thoughts of strangling her own children with the dressing gown cords suggests that Diane had maladaptive cognition and she believed that her thoughts would help to cause events (thought-action fusion) e.g. ‘If I wish my children dead, that increases the chances they will die’, and for that reason she had an urge to control those unwanted thoughts and carried out the compulsive rituals. Salkovskis et al (2003) also outlined that neutralising intrusive thoughts usually involves carrying out actions that are intended to reduce any potential threat. This supports the cognitive model as it shows the importance of maladaptive cognition
Steinbeck portrays him as paranoid and insecure for which he overcompensates for with aggression. In section 4 we find talking to Crooks, Candy and Lennie, in this section we see a glimpse of her true self, after which she then overcompensates for her vulnerability by threatening to have Crooks lynched. This gives us the impression that she is evil. Finally in section 5 we see the true version of Curley's wife, we learn she has dreams, just like everyone else, and also falls victim to loneliness (another big theme of the novel). In death, we see what she really looks like, innocent and pure.
This novel is more than a cautionary tale against illicit relationships; it is an in-depth exploration of the devastating force of obsession. In the foreword, Sheba and Barbara are living together in Sheba’s brother’s home in North London while he and his family are away in India on vacation. The year is 1998, after the affair has taken place. Barbara is telling the story because she feels someone needs to explain Sheba’s motivations. While at her brother’s home, having already been terminated from St. George’s, arrested, and then let out on bail, Sheba feels she can let her guard down.
Mean girls/ Julius Caesar Comparative Essay In the movie Mean Girls by Tina Fey and the play Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare there are many motifs. I will be specifically looking at motifs of betrayal from both stories that illustrate the theme “you have to be careful who you trust”. In the movie Mean Girls the main character Cady becomes very good friends with Regina George. Later in the movie Regina lies to Cady by telling her that she is going to hook Cady up with a boy, when really, Regina is trying to get with that same boy. Another example of betrayal in the movie Mean Girls would be when Cady gets all of Regina’s good friends to turn against her.
This helps to convey the horror of what Medea has done because her plan was evil enough, but when she gets her young naive children to unknowingly kill two people, it just makes what Medea has done even more unthinkable. Euripides goes on to convey the horror of what Medea has done in the messengers speech by how he describes how people ‘felt sorry’ for the way she was treated. When the boys arrived, the messenger was ‘so pleased’ and so followed them up to the princess’ room. This conveys horror, because people who care about the princess, clearly has respect for Medea, and they believed she was being sincere. The ways she tricks innocent, well intentioned people into helping her with her murderous plot just increases the horror of the messenger’s speech.
In Margaret Atwood's novel, The Handmaid's Tale, manipulation is exercised through the lessons of the aunts. Their use of propaganda tricks the minds of the handmaid's, showing what position the handmaid's hold and how great it is to be living in Gilead, a place where women are respected and protected; however, it is brainwashing them and turning them into true believers, when in reality Gilead is a prison towards the handmaid's where their only purpose is to reproduce. In Chapter Nineteen of The Handmaid's Tale, during the ride to Commander Warren’s house, Offred has a flashback to when she was in the Red Center. In one of Aunt Lydia's lessons, she discusses how some women believed there would be no future and that the world would explode therefore putting the excuse that breeding was useless, and
The reader is at first inclined to laugh at Nuttel for being so gullible. However, the reader, too, has been taken in by Saki's story and must come to the realization that he or she is also inclined to believe a well-told and interesting tale.WHAT I DISLIKED ABOUT ” THE OPEN WINDOW “"The Open Window" is the story of a deception, perpetrated on an unsuspecting, and constitutionally nervous man, by a young lady whose motivations for lying remain unclear. Mr. Nuttel who fall victim of the deception, comes to the country side in an attempt to cure his nervous condition. He pays a visit to the home of Mrs. Sappleton in order to introduce himself, and before he gets to meet the matron of the house, he is intercepted by her niece, who regales him with an artful piece of fiction that, in the end, only makes his nervous condition worse.249 words. Reference: Google; : The open window.
She is as duped by her husband, Iago, as much as the rest of the cast and she tries to amend her wrongdoings in the end by telling the truth to Othello although she is too late to save her mistress, Desdemona. Bianca on the other hand is women who I believe is in on the whole plot to ruin Othello. In my readings I think that Iago uses this women for his