When she is caught by her husband, Hugh, she is told “If you give a nigger an inch, he’ll take an ell”, as if to discourage her actions. Of course, in the long run, those words did discourage Sophia’s attempts at educating Frederick, and her entire personality and attitude toward Frederick changed. She became meaner, more brutal, and just overall indecent toward Frederick. The power that her husband encouraged her to possess took away the only kindness Frederick had ever encountered. Frederick never let the discouragement from Hugh or the sudden rise of power from Sophia change his outlook; he instead taught himself how to read.
Ultimately, her main argument is that “It is the dead, / Not the living, who make the longest demands: / We die forever….” (2.58-60). Antigone relies solely on her beliefs in the divine law and that in the end, when she dies, the gods will be more important than the city in which she lived. Never did she doubt the god’s ways even though it went against civil law and the approval of her sister. In regards to Creon’s ruling on the death of her brother she states, “Which of us can say what the gods hold wicked?” (2.116). Her preference for divine law is shown here as well because she’s implying that Creon has no authority to judge what the gods will end up judging.
Winston suggests they just walk out and never see each other again, to save them from being hopelessly lonely when they are forced to separate. Julia shrugs off the thought, she tells him she’s thought about it before. She tells Winston, “I’m rather good at staying alive.” (Orwell 137) Hope is shared between them as they realize the Ministry can only physically kill them; they cannot make them believe anything. This belief that Big Brother and the state of the country are unnatural and wrong is a belief they are not supposed to have. Julia means love while Winston means betraying
And yet, Foer sticks to his guns, aspiring to perfect vegetarianism even as he suffers occasional lapses. “If nothing matters, there is nothing to save,” he says, quoting his grandmother, who during the War refused to eat food that wasn’t
She is treated as less than a servant at Gateshead, despite being significantly more than that. Her fault lies in that she has no money of her own, and the only reason that the Reed's care for her is that it was Jane's uncle and Mrs. Reed's husband's dying wish that she should be looked after. John and Jane's other cousins take pleasure in aggravating her regarding her position, for example John Reed says to Jane, 'you are a dependant, mamma says; you have no money; your father left you none; you ought to beg, and not to live here with gentleman's children like
She was effectually prevented, but she wasn’t on speaking terms with her family for several weeks.” (The Great Gatsby p. 75) Devastated by the pain inflicted from her true love leaving her that by the next autumn, she was just as happy as before. Then by February of that next year, she was engaged to Tom Buchanan from Chicago. That June, she married Tom Buchanan while Jay was still overseas. Bravely, he defended her from a foreign enemy. Thinking, believing that upon his return they would be reunited, he fought with valor.
these sentences show how materialistic Mathilde is and how selfish she is for caring only about gaining these things for herself. She didn’t show any care for her husband who despite their humble living, seemed to be a caring and loving husband who kept a positive attitude about things. She held her love for materialistic objects so high that it consumed her and occupied her mind. My second example of Mathilde’s selfishness is “Nothing. Only I haven’t a dress and so I can’t go to this party.
Hester could have just gave up Pearl because she felt all alone in life and like an outcast but she begged and pleaded because she felt that she had the right to keep her and she was going to defend the right to the death of her. Hester cries “god gave me my child, he gave her to me as compensation that you have taking from me Pearl punishes me to…” in chapter 8. Hester has a good heart and that she would take well care of Pearl. No other person could understand a childlike Pearl and doesn’t have that relationship between her and her
I was a looker, I brought in the customers, and that was fine as long as it lasted… but now… now I’m fucked. p. 128 With the reputation of a whore no job, husband, or family Pierette has nowhere to go and has made it impossible for her to lead a “normal” life because of the fact that she chose to live life like a whore instead of the saint like life the other woman try to achieve. It is not surprising because, Pierrette was raised in the environment and with the understanding that all woman should act like saints, and the men should be the ones working to provide for their families, when Pierrette made the conscious decision to completely go against the morals she was taught to live by, everyone lost respect for
She hated her husband, Anse and wanted no connections to him what so ever which was why she wished to be buried in Jefferson with her family rather than his. “Motherhood was invented by someone who had to have a word for it because the ones that had the children didn’t care whether there was a word for it or not.” Addie describes how that life is miserable and only offers great opportunities to those who are given it rather than those who earn or deserve it. Woman had it rough during the 1920s. Addie had very little opportunities and felt trapped in the world she lived. “She watches me, I can feel her eyes.