For example, Edna speaks of her promiscuity to Robert and says “I suppose this is what you would call unwomanly; but I have got into the habit of expressing myself. It doesn't matter to me, and you may think me unwomanly if you like”. She eventually gets to the point where she doesn’t care anymore. She refuses to change herself in order to fit into the mold she has come to hate that society has created for
The room is becoming her obsession and her only true passion. Her husband is becoming less of a focus and she is not as uncomfortable with the inside of her prison as before, and longs less and less to leave. Her relationship with the outside world is becoming skewered, but her initial interpretation of the room as a prison with yellow walls remains the same. Her visualization of the women within the wallpaper, is her subconscious recollection of her initial state of mind before her mental deterioration. Her current self, that is removed from her previous, more sane state, is becoming confortable in the room and feels she can do what she wants in it, however her recollection which still hangs with her drives her to feel the need to rip down the yellow wallpaper.
This continues after multiple attempts to tell her husband that she is uncomfortable with the yellow wallpaper. Until her mental break comes her husband is not able to see the extent of the damage he has done by leaving her without emotional and mental stimulation (Gilman 588-600). While this case is different than the other story it is still about missed managed emotions. As a result of being locked away in a room she lost what makes people feel good about themselves their emotional connections with others. Having no one to connect with she is force to focus on her self to the point where she is unknowingly projecting herself as the women be hide the wallpaper as a metaphor for her being trapped by the walls of the summer house and her own
Among the major female characters in the novel we can conclude that as a result of being treated like objects, women become passive. Being pampered and used as servants makes them subjective to reality and weak so they are unable to object or oppose the ways they are treated. When facing a life of misery or death, women turn to the men around them rather than putting in effort to assume more independence. Therefore, being perceived as nothing more than something expendable, most men would not make an effort to help women in need unless it would benefit
“Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.” (33) Living in a life like this woman are treated as belongings and not as people. Gilead is a fictional example of how scary the world would be if it fell into the wrong hands and women are not treated as human. “At neck level there's another sheet, suspended from the ceiling.
Fear is created by Bronte in chapter two as the room is remote in comparison to the rest of the house, and once inside, Jane is isolated from the rest of its inhabitants. She “resisted all the way” which shows us that Jane is scared of going into the bedroom; as she has previously stood up to her cousin, who we know hurts her physically, the fact that an otherwise brave girl is scared of and trying to avoid going into a room makes us think that it is something to be feared. Bronte also created fear in the chapter through the words of Miss Abbot, who says “something bad might be permitted to come down the chimney and fetch you away” telling a child this is bound to scare them and created fear in the child and in the audience. The mystery in which the room is presented also makes it seem frightening, it is not mentioned to have a purpose, and is only mentioned by a colour, “the red room”. Whilst red is the colour of passion and lust it is also the colour of a more sinister thing; blood.
She goes into a description of how love has let her down and she will not be strung along, this builds pathos and ethos because she gets herself out of the situation by leaving him. I think this is a strong argument because people’s emotions of someone being hurt tells them that cheating is an unacceptable behavior. These text
She proves how corrupted the Puritan society is. The actions of what they did to her make us feel sympathy towards her, but Hester shows that she is a woman of her words. “It lies not in the pleasure of the magistrates…that should speak a different purport.” (155; ch.14) Even though Chillingworth tells her that they’re thinking about taking the Scarlet Letter off, Hester declines and choose to wear it until it would fall of its own nature. Or until she felt in her heart that it was time. It’s like after a long days of work, when you’re at home and you take those shoes off, you feel this relief and weight taken off from your shoulders.
When they laugh at her warnings and she gets upset, Minerva says, "Come on, Dede. Think how sorry you'd be if something should happen to us and you didn't say goodbye." But before they leave, she cries out her real fear: "I don't want to have to live without you." The reader knows that is her fate exactly: to live after her sisters die as martyrs, and thus to tell their story. Another instance of foreshadowing occurs after Tio Pepe reports what Trujillo said at the gathering at the mayor's house.
This would make some readers feel pity for Mayella as she is lamenting due to horrific flashbacks she may encounter, others may think that this is a cover up as she knows what she is doing is wrong, and she is trying to get the judge and the jury to side with her. This technique is used by Lee to make the ruler think and engage the readers. This view shared with Jem: “she’s got enough sense to get the judge sorry for her, but she might just be just – oh, I don’t know”. Here Harper Lee shows the mental controversy of the characters as that the trial has brought on