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 narrator first realizes she’s infatuated with a woman named Charlotte Greaves in the hallway of their dormitory. (237) She becomes very observant of Charlotte, watching her from a distance. She notices that Charlotte dresses shabbily, walks lopsided, and isn’t a traditional beauty. However, she’s at once attracted to Charlotte because of her bangs. The narrator has a very romanticized idea of beauty.
Some of them are good like Desdemona and some are corrupted like Bianca and Emilia. Desdemona is the girl who marries a man who her father does not approve. She marries an outsider even though she knows that when she does this she is going against her family and even against society. In her eyes there is nothing wrong with her marriage and she loves Othello with all of her heart. Her love is pure and sweet and nothing that happens in this play sways that love.
Not only does she try to impress everyone with her appearance but she also goes along with Char, and gets in trouble because she has no ability to say no and walk away. Maleeka takes the blame at first, but towards the end of the novel she gets her courage and tells on Char. She finally finds herself and realizes she is beautiful without Chars expensive clothing. She also realized she doesn’t need to stick out; she just needs to be herself. In the end Maleeka and Caleb are backed together and Maleeka is friends with Miss Saunders.
Stoker uses Mina as a device he marks her out as the ideal partner in matrimony, and as Mary Shelley Frankenstein uses multiple first person narrator however Stoker has included female’s speakers which gives a different and more socially equal effect. Lucy is very dependent women who indulges in her mother’s money and is shown as a very stereotypical woman "why are men so noble when we women are so little worthy of them?" this is a very passive statement made by Lucy who is very aware of the gender roles. Lucy is a paragon of virtue and innocence, qualities that draw not one but three suitors. Lucy is very much differs from Mina as she is sexualized “why can’t they let a girl marry three men, or as many
“Is your man secret? Did you ne'er hear say, ‘Two may keep counsel, putting one away’?” (2.5.185-186). By allowing and even helping Juliet to keep her marriage from her parents, the nurse digs them both into a bigger hole with each lie that passes her lips and every time she helps Romeo and Juliet instead of going to the parents. Had she told the truth the deaths of the young lovers could have easily been avoided, but the Nurse continued to feed people disinformation. In Juliet’s most time of need, she goes on to say “(Romeo) Hath not so green, so quick, so fair an eye As Paris hath.”(3.5.222-223).
Jane’s new wealth, due to her uncle’s death, allows Jane to be truly independent, “I am independent, sir, as well as rich: I am my own mistress”. Although Jane attempts to be independent earlier in the novel, it is always impossible due to her economic disadvantage. She strives to have freedom in her relationship with Edward Rochester and through her feminist power gains her some freedom, his economic dominance always hindered her liberty. This idea was expressed by Bronte through slave imagery. Jane was a slave to her profession and class, “governess slavery”, and was discriminated against by Rochester’s wealthy friends.
Throughout the course of the Merchant of Venice, there are two forces that are shown to motivate the characters, namely that of love and of hate. Yet, throughout the book, it can be seen that hate is a stronger force than love and it can be said that there is little truth in the statement. Love, in the merchant of Venice, is shown in two main forms, brotherly love and romantic love and also slightly in the form of parental love. Scene one of the Merchant of Venice gives us insight into the brotherly love that the Christian Venetian merchants share. Through their vain efforts of trying to comfort the melancholic Antonio, we can see that the Christian merchants show brotherly love with each other.
Look here it is.”(III.iii.) Iago’s manipulative ways have earned him what he needs to succeed in the demise of his counterparts. By being loyal to her husband, Emilia has caused a great deal of harm to the woman she cares so deeply for. Another conversation of Desdemona is brought up between the Ancient and his general and this time Iago explains to Othello that he had seen Cassio with his ladies handkerchief. Othello later questions Desdemona about the handkerchief and she cannot answer where it is.
Throughout the book Romeo and Juliet, the theme that stood out the most was the ‘power of love’. The main theme is the power of love because Romeo and Juliet risked their lives for each other. You can see the theme when Juliet and the Friar Lawrence makes up a plan to meet Romeo. The theme ‘power of love’ is also shown in the story of The Beauty and the Beast. It story is about how the beast had to find a true love to become a human again, and the beautiful girl who loved him no matter what he looked like.