He brings Daisy and Gatsby into disrepute when he confronts them regarding their affair in front of everyone else. His double standard here is very evident because he is happy to unfairly accuse them when he is currently in the midst of having his own affair with his mistress, Myrtle Wilson. He is a very hypocritical man and is not afraid to do anything necessary to remain in control of the situation. Mr Buchanan is also used by Fitzgerald to play the “Brute” character that is present in just about all classic novels (e.g. Roo in “The Summer of The Seventeenth Doll.”) Fitzgerald makes it very clear to us that Tom is “A hulking man” by how the other characters in the book refer to him.
She sleeps with Albert and even has the audacity to ask Celie if it’s okay. Even though Celie doesn’t like her husband even hates it is not okay to do so. These are all examples of Shug’s harlot like sex escapades. In the middle of the story Shug begins to be a better person by being a friend for Celie. Shug helps Celie with her abusive husband.
This is memorable as it shows his shock towards having Raleigh in his company. This is further echoed by the fact that he, ‘stares at Raleigh as though dazed.’ It is obvious that Stanhope is in shock, but is it because of the fact that he is meeting his friend after three years? We are told in the play that Raleigh’s sister used to be Stanhope’s girlfriend. This is significant as Stanhope thinks that Raleigh will write home telling her how he is a drunkard. This explains Stanhope’s cool and unwelcoming attitude.
Basil’s staff, also a focal point of the show, are just about as outlandish as the messes that Basil finds himself in. The staff, which includes Basil’s wife Sybil, Polly the waitress, and Manuel the waiter, contribute immensely to the farcical element within each story line. Each character as well as the interactions among each character distinguish Fawlty Towers as a pure farce. Basil Fawlty is a rather arrogant, yet seemingly desperate person whose unwavering pride always seems to lead to his eventual downfall. Although Basil ascribes to a sense of authority, he is often undermined by his wife Sybil who really runs the hotel.
Wes Anderson’s The Royal Tennenbaums explores the notion of society’s idealistic family by questioning exactly what constitutes a normal family as we delve into the world of Royal, his three children and their mother. Here I will examine a sequence that struck me as visually confronting and contrasting. In the Sequence Richie has just found out his adopted sister, who he is in love with, has been having an affair with his best friend. He proceeds to shave off all his hair and slit his wrists using the razor blade. The Sequence begins with a central perspective symmetrical shot of Raleigh, Richie and Dudley in Richie’s living room.
He experiences a feeling of rebirth when he is introduced to Jane’s friend, Angela, who exhibits a promiscuous persona. Lester is immediately infatuated with Angela and fantasizes about her in a sexual manner, which causes his daughter much embarrassment and anger. Over a period of several days, Lester, Carolyn, and Jane all make decisions that change their lives forever. Lester experiences a mid-life crisis, which causes him to quit his job, and blackmail his much younger boss, Brad for $60,000 dollars. He decides to get a job at a fast food restaurant where he used to work when he was younger.
He is based on Jack Kerouac in real life. By the end, Sal is sick of traveling around and Dean’s crazy antics and leaves him. Dean: Dean is a former convict who is eventually freed. He is portrayed as a hero in the book, yet he is also extremely flawed. He does not seem to feel remorse for any of his actions, sleeping with and marrying several girls such as Marylou, Camille, and Inez.
Desperate to give his daughter away to the highest bidder at all cost, Geronte begins to employ the services of the best physicians in town. The condition of Sganarelle and Martine his wife is an appalling wife-husband situation. For one, Sganarelle is a drunk and panel beater. He is a tight fisted man who will not take care of family needs, so he always finds himself haggling with his wife. In Sganarelle’s often hysterical encounters with his wife, he resorts to punching her.
The movie begins with a romantic scene between Marion and Sam in a hotel room, while their departure is somehow filled with depression and disappointment, due to Sam’s inability to pay his alimony very soon. Then Marion, who works in a real state office, in a moment, decides to steal $ 40,000 and flees the state. On her way, she stops by Bates Motel. After talking to Norman Bates, a disturbed young man and also the owner of the motel, who apparently lives with his old and invalid mother, Marion is murdered by Norman’s mother in her room while taking a shower. Then, Norman appears on the scene of the murder and hides the evidence, including the stolen money, by putting the body in the car and drowning in in a nearby lake.
After a brief and passionate love affair with a woman named Lana, two jealous male acquaintances discover Brandon is anatomically female, and brutally rape and kill him for this “unnatural” behaviour (Pierce 1999). His brave performance of masculinity and his ability to remain faithful to his true identity contradicts Western society’s explicit gender norms. Although Western society equates sex to gender, through this intense rendition of Brandon’s life, viewers come to realize that gender is socially constructed, informed by cultural practice that is highly variable and far from universal (Brzuzy et al. 2012: 407). There is a deeper, more complex understanding of gender that can be recognized through the existence of supernumerary or third gendered individuals who transgress the gender binary and do not identify with the sex they were assigned at birth (Eyre and Pollack 2011: 212).