Through this metaphor Harwood insinuates that all of the woman’s passion has been lost through her obligation to household chores such as scouring out crusted milk. Another notable inclusion in the poem is two children that the woman has no control over as she is too busy chasing lost dreams. Her performances are not even worth listening to according to Rubinstein, presumably one of the children. In fact her performances are so mundane that they would rather “caper round a sprung mousetrap” than listen to her perform. As she wraps the dead mouse in a paper we are notified of the words “Tasty dishes from stale bread”, symbolic of her vain attempts to resurrect something that is already lost.
While the book focuses on multiple different perspectives, the movie adaption released by director Joe Wright in 2007, depicts the three major points of view of the novel. As the novel focuses primarily on the thoughts of each character, the film, in contrast utilizes symbols and body language to show the character development of Briony. In this twisted tale of love, Briony takes advantage of the people around her without realizing the consequences of her actions. This twisted tale begins on a warm summer day in 1935. Briony, the main character of the novel is introduced as she is followed closely throughout the novel and film adaptation.
But what if you cannot believe the person telling the story? What if the story itself is not meant to be simply read, but translated? The Yellow Wallpaper is a short story that should be taken for what it is: the diary of a madwoman, but should not necessarily be believed as it is told. Charlotte Perkins Gilman penned this, what could be called a quasi-autobiography in 1892, as a “message from experience” to Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, a physician who treated Gilman’s ‘nervous disorder’ and prescribed his ‘rest cure’ to her in 1887: she was desperately pleading with him and others to alter this treatment, with warning of its horrific and detrimental effects. The dramatic and situational irony found over and over throughout the text in both narrative content and style are what in effect finally show the reader this story is not to be taken at the narrator’s word: a husband and wife lease a mansion for the summer so she can ‘rest’ to cure her ‘nervous condition’; family and servants tend to her, her baby and her duties- while she quietly obsesses about wall paper.
On pages 214, 215 of Fun Home she compares the fear of her own sexuality to Odysseus being stuck on Cyclops Island. She also compares her childhood home to the Labyrinth. Although specifically she means in contrast to the houses many different doorways and mirrors making the house difficult to maneuver through, to me this is a way of comparing herself to the Minotaur and her father to Daedalus. The second building block described a memoir as a story of conversion. Professor McGlynn referred to John Freccero’s quote,” I am I, but I was not always so” to describe this final amino acid.
Additionally, it is likely that the fact Tess murders was enough of a controversial subject, without Hardy having to describe it, to shock the readers. The heartbreaking tragedy which radiates throughout the novel is particularly poignant when Tess gushes, ‘Say you do now, dear, dear husband; say you do love me, now I have killed him!’, with which Angel replies, ‘I do love you... it’s all come back!’ (page 448). Tess’s complete naivety and desperation for Angel’s acceptance and love has lead her to the extent of questioning her moral duty. As a reader we are unaware if Angel’s love has ‘come back’ because he’s finally seen Tess, or that it is because of Tess murdering Alec. Either way, further distress is created for the reader, as it is not possible for love to go away and then return and Tess seems completely oblivious to this.
Throughout the novel, Miss Havisham uses mostly a bitter treatment towards Pip. She addresses to Estella “Break their hears and have no mercy.” Only a truly sick person could say this, but Pip ignores her thoughts. Pip claims, “I should have been happier and better if I had never seen Miss Havisham’s face.” He realizes, overtime, that she has effected him so much in a bad way and wishes that they never met. Towards the end Pip states, “If I let her go, the fire would break out again and consume her.” Even after all the misery she caused him, he is changed for he can’t give her up. Miss Havisham’s role is an essential detail for most of the other characters have some significant connection to her.
The Goblin Market The Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti tells the story of two sisters, Laura and Lizzie, that overcome the “goblins” and their forbidden fruits. Christina Rossetti wrote this poem unnaturally. The way wrote the poem was odd because she made the rhythm and measure irregular. Also, unlike other poems, The Goblin Market’s narrator was not in first person. Rossetti also uses religious references, Adam, Eve, and the forbidden fruit, in this poem.
For example, two stories that I read, Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog by Mark Twain and A Brand Plucked from the Fire by Julia A. Foote are completely different stories but their concepts and morals can be compared and contrasted with each other to add value to the understanding of each. In Twain’s story, a man chooses to bet on just about anything. He gets himself into a predicament when he loses a bet with a frog that he simply couldn’t teach to jump on command. On the other hand, in Julia Foote’s story, a woman who loves God sees an angel who eventually tells her “you are lost unless you obey God’s righteous commands”. Although these stories are completely different, they are similar in the sense that sometimes, your instinctual thought is not always the correct one to choose.
I do, however, feel that Daniel is only an image of human beings of today. We identify ourselves with Daniel when we for instance read the news at breakfast. Phyllis McGinley wrote this poem to express that we often do not care about all the gloomy news the media present to us. Reading the first stanza, I got the feeling that Daniel “studies” world disaster just as easily as he sips his orange juice. In the next stanza, on the other hand, the words in the newspaper dismay him, and he is gloomy when he reaches for the butter.
Kattrin is portrayed as a character that is different from the others, as she is the only character of pure intentions, but all the more, she is disadvantaged and still suffers a similar fate as her siblings, as revealed in proceeding scenes. The “Song of the Great Solus of this Earth” also reveals Brecht’s mockery of the practice of virtues during war, revealing virtues’ fatality to their possessors. In scene 9, the Cook tells Mother Courage that he has a small inn back in Utrecht, where she can join him. However, he also states “if [mother courage] is bringing [Kattrin], it’s all off”, because the “customers don’t like having something like that always before their eyes” (97). Unfortunately, Kattrin hears them, as “[she] has her head out of the back of the wagon” (97), and decides to save her mother the trouble of deciding, and “clambers out of the wagon with a bundle.