She also describes the ill treatment of Native Americans as a whole by the government and their persistence to assimilate the Indians. I believe her intentions for writing this book were to inform the American people of the cruel and horrific treatment of the Native Americans and to educate them in ways the history books conveniently do not. As a child, Mary was forced into boarding school in an attempt to assimilate the Native children where they literally tried beat the Sioux out of you. Mary’s mother also attended boarding school and encouraged Mary to go and learn the white mans ways. Mary becomes a rebellious teenager, quits school and embraces her traditions, culture and looks to the elders for advice.
The perceived self is powerful because it reflects who you are. These women had been under so much abuse that it changed their perceived self from the one being victimized to the one causing the problem. This unfortunately is the reason why their experiences had such a lasting effect of them. To me this is the nastiest and most disturbing reality of incest and molestation. The act of incest doesn’t just hurt the victims physical, the real damage is done mentally with the destruction of a woman’s
16 November 2011 Character Analysis of Sister Sister, one of the main characters in Eudora Welty’s “Why I Live at the P.O.” is a very complex character. She goes through many emotions and has encountered many hardships concerning her family. She starts out being the brunt of lies told by her sister, Stella-Rondo. Sister’s relationship with her sister is full of jealously and resentment. It is also very destructive.
Grace Marks, in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace, is a young woman accused of murdering her master and his mistress, and is based on a true case. Grace Marks is a complex woman, as most of her personal traits are distorted because they are recorded by unreliable sources. These sources are mainly found in the media, such as newspapers, that tend to include inaccurate information rather than facts. Although the novel seems to be about the question of whether or not Grace Marks was guilty or innocent, it is truly about the Victorian notions of femininity. Women were seen as mortal, yet at the same time they were seducers and manipulators.
I have chosen to research Frida Kahlo and Georgia O’Keefe because they are very inspiring women artists. Frida Kahlo pushed the boundaries of what was expected from a traditional Latin American female artist. She led a life full of emotional and physical pain. From an early diagnosis of polio, to a life altering bus accident, to a marriage riddled with infidelities, Frida's often-difficult life was the inspiration for her art. Her exploration of herself and the world she lived in broke social norms, artistically, and politically, causing both outrage and awe from those who viewed her paintings.
Her clothes being of the “coarsest material” and “sombre hue” (80) are evidence of the miserable feeling taking over her. As a result of her deception, Hester no longer obtains her former beauty. Instead, it is replaced with a dreary plainness. Hester is also affected emotionally. Before Hester was ever shunned by society due to the lies brought about by the scarlet letter, Hester was known to be a passionate woman.
She is a bundle of contradictions, a blend of fact and fiction that the audience must decipher. Blanche at one time verges on hysterical with her incoherent speech, and at one point the way Stella glances at her is a little anxious (Scene One). She is presented as slightly eccentric, although the audience doesn’t realize the significance of this until later in the play. Blanche is an intelligent and sensitive woman who is also emotionally traumatized and repressed. This emotional repression stems from all her lies.
Mary, who is the main character, shows the viewer a convincing portrayal of a paranoid and mistrusting mental patient. She has emotional displays that are inappropriate, silly, sad, or full of rage.. She often showed socially disruptive and sometimes dangerous behavior. A large part of her behavior included uncontrollable paranoia of her son's safety and periods of regression such as jumping around in the back of a truck. Mary had made some shady references to outside forces that she was acting as if had wired the house and were spying on her. Also Mary worries constantly about her son's safety in a very obsessive manner.
Sadly after Patricia became a published author and poet rumors started to spread about her and the columns that she had written. The rumors were that Patricia had fabricated some of her column stories. Due to the rumors Patricia lost her husband and her career. She suffered institutional vitriol and public demonizing by much of the mainstream press at the national level, particularly by the more conservative Sunday television panel-show pundits (Heintz, 1999). Because she endured so much she recycled some of her experiences with the press into her contemporary writing.
The dementia also caused my grandmother to lose weight, have difficulty swallowing, and it seemed as though she had lost the ability to smile. As the disease progresses further many people lose the ability to walk (Mase and Rabins, 92). Dementia can be said to be the cause of death because it predisposes its victims to pneumonia and blood clots to the lungs, and perhaps to strokes and heart attacks (Gillick, 97). Confusion seems to be one of the early noticeable psychological changes with