Carol Ann Duffy describes Medusa as a bitter woman, who has been betrayed by the man she loved. The poet creates the reader’s reaction to medusa’s character through a direst address to the reader. Rhetorical questions like ‘Are you terrified?’ and ‘Wasn’t I beautiful?’ bring the reader unto immediate contact with Medusa. Furthermore commands like ‘Be terrified’ and ‘Look at me now’ are used to build fear and allow the reader o experience her rage. This is just one method used to create the reader’s reaction to Medusa.
Pearl symbolizes evil in the story by representing God's punishment of Hester's sin, symbolizing the guilt and the scarlet letter that controls her behavior and defying Puritan laws by being cheerful and associating with nature. Pearl is a greater punishment then Hester’s “A”. First, Pearl represents God's punishment by her mocking and nagging of Hester. This is shown throughout the novel she sometimes seemed to her mother as almost a witch baby (Hawthorne 88).Second, Pearl is a baffling mixture of strong emotions with a fierce temper and a capacity for evil; with Pearl, Hester's life became one of constant nagging, and no joy. This is proven when Hester remarks to herself, "Oh Father in heaven - if thou art still my father - what is this being which I have brought into the world" (Hawthorne 89).Thirdly, Pearl represents the sins of both Hester and Dimmesdale.
This is displaying the beginning of her negative thoughts which is the contribution to her spiralling into insanity since her disease confuses her mind and contradicts her logic, the paper parallels her mental state at this point. The isolation of Jane causes her to attempt to fulfill her social desire by desperately attempting to unravel the mystery that she imagines in the wallpaper. From this attempt she becomes
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.
Medea Discussion Question #2 I actually think that Medea is the victim compared to Jason being the villain, although not entirely. I think this evidenced during a conversation between the nurse and the tutor, “Nurse: Oh, what an enemy Jason’s proved to those he should have loved! Tutor: What human being is not?” (Lines 15-16). They are both shown to have had their feelings of love with near absolute abhor. I think Medea deserves pity in certain situations, such as in the beginning and the events leading up to the murders, when she is shown crying out in the beginning of the play, “The pain of misery!
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
"What is Mr. Darcy to me, pray, that I should be afraid of him?" which causes Elizabeth great embarrassment in front of Mr Darcy and others shown by her response "blush and blush again with shame and vexation" demonstrating not only the embarrassment annoyance she feels towards Mrs Bennet also encourages Kitty and Lydia's bad behaviour and her attempts to push Elizabeth into an unwanted marriage with Mr. Collins which in consequence fails to cause a good result for herself or her daughters.
The colour red or “rouge” has connotations with lust, passion and intensity but also violence, blood and danger. Stienbeck uses the colour “red” to show that the character as being sexual and physical, but that in it self is a threat and a danger to her and those around her. The fact that her make-up is laid on “heavily” shows that curleys wife is desprate for attention. She doesnt just put a
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.
Similarly, Blanche focuses on her appearance and her possessions to cover- up her humiliation and strengthens the façade. The deterioration of Blanche’s youthful façade leads to her insanity.