“Not a day since then I haven’t whished him dead”-Havisham This is very effective as the aggressive tone shows “Havisham” has been rejected and her love is causing her pain. Similarly in “Valentine” “Carol Ann Duffy” uses a very forceful tone with words like “here” and “take it” which tells us her lover is not being very co-operative and like “Havisham” suggests a degree of pain within there love. The theme of love is taken to a deeper level by “Carol Ann Duffy” when she shows through literary techniques that the pain of love can be dangerous. The theme of love is contrasted by violent metaphors in both poems. “Ropes on the back of my hands I could strangle with”-Havisham This is another example of the pain of love and it is particularly effective as it shows the extreme physical tension within “Havisham” and describes the pain of love as a driving force of murder.
Thou art not conquered. Beauty’s ensign yet is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks” (5.3.101-104). Again, Juliet’s beauty is invulnerable to Death’s grasp. Even up to her death, Romeo cannot sway himself from being taken aback by Juliet’s charm. Incidentally, he refers to Juliet’s life as “honey”, and that it was sucked from her breath.
Lysandra goes through several stages once her bet friend beats her in a poetry contest that meant a lot to Lysandra. There things were ignoring, betrayal and holding a grudge. Firstly, the conflict vs. character (Lysandra and Elaine) is shown by Lysandra and Elaine not talking anymore once Elaine won the poetry contest. I know this because Elaine says, “Lysandra withdraws into a secret self and refused to speak to me” (70). Obviously, the conflict between Lysandra and Elaine is shown by Lysandra being so mad she withdraws on her dream to be to herself.
Though, when actually examined, the females portrayed in both literary works do show signs of bravery and rebellious spirit, which represents the actual mind of authors, they are still oppressed by the patriarchal society to a large extent. In Frankenstein, superficially, most female characters are portrayed as “heaven-sent” angels (Shelley, 34). The soul of them is like “a shrine-dedicated lamp” and they are “the living spirits of love to soften and attract” (38), which are fully consistent with the image of women in people’s minds in mainstream society in the 19th century (Sunstein, 4). Nonetheless, the weaknesses of them, which are used by the author to criticize the unfairness of the society, cannot be neglected. The two main female characters in Frankenstein: Caroline and Elizabeth are carefully analyzed in this essay, and from Frankenstein’s narration of them, we can see the author’s deep thinking and criticism about the unfairness of society.
It is these women who Goodlad asserts Don holds in high regard even though misogynistic undertones are prevalent in the office and the era. Next she introduces a collection of poems, Meditations in an Emergency by Frank O’hara, a major plot point in the third season that conveys Don’s existential crisis and shows him longing for a life that never could have been. The essay then culminates with her discussing that the reason audiences love Mad Men is because it is a vast piece of dramatic irony that causes self introspection into ones own life. Just
Before Juliet meet’s Romeo, Lady Capulet is very distant from her daughter which is shown in several circumstances including when Lady Capulet announces “Nurse, give leave awhile. We must talk in secret. - nurse, come back again” (I, iii, 8-9). This quote is significant because it shows that just being alone with Juliet makes her nervous and shows the rift between them. After Juliet has refused to marry Paris, Lady Capulet gets very upset but even she is shocked by Lord Capulet’s reaction and shows this by saying “fie, fie, what, are you mad?” (III, iiiii, 163).
She makes it seem like she is enjoying alcohol, but she is really enjoying nature. She uses words such as bee, foxglove, and butterflies to make this connection. In the stanza, “Reeling, through endless summer days, / From inns of molten blue. / When landlords turn the drunken bee / Out of the foxglove’s door, / When butterflies renounce their drams, / I shall but drink the more!” (syllabus). Dickinson compares herself to the bees and butterflies that drink the nectar from the flowers.
Lastly the actual phrases represent a feminist perspective, all phrases are extracts from some of the most renowned feminists to date, these include Harwood has written the poem under the pseudonym of Walter Lehman This suggests that Harwood had a considerable political temperament as well as an ability to poke fun or mock the social constraints of her time. Her point was about editors' prejudice against women poets, thus emphasizing her intelligence at the time, and the frustrations she must have felt within her context. In “Triste, Triste”, Harwood explores the tensions between the creative spirit and the limitations of the temporal. The concept of the artists’ imagination as a separate entity, able to transcend the
Good morning year 11 & 12 students. Representations of women have certainly changed over time, creating various challenges and experiences for not only women, but society itself. Within the texts “Porphyria's Lover” by Robert Browning and George Cukor's “Adam's Rib”, the composer is confronted with an ongoing issue throughout history; that women either have it all, or want it all and, that society has continuously failed to find balance within gender, and; equality amongst men and women will almost never exist. This preceding statement represents my thesis and various language and film techniques will be thoroughly discussed in order to broaden and deepen your understanding about ideas and perceptions about the challenges and experiences of women. In earlier times, women were seen to be submissive or portrayed as oppressed beings.
Sombre non-diegetic music sets the mood, while an extreme close-up focuses on her fumbling hands. Voice over is used while Plath is recites her poem, “The Arrival of the Bee Box”, which metaphorically captures her search for freedom, and the director’s perspective that Plath’s suicide freed her from the trappings of her unfaithful lover. The picture book The Emperors New Clothes shows how perspectives which conflict are often changed to conform. Hughes’ Red conveys conflicting perspectives through the personification of colour into personalities of Plath. The Minotaur shows Hughes’ subjective view and conflicts with Plath’s view portrayed in