Contrary to that, there are also multiple similarities between their societal behaviors involving mental illnesses and ours. In Jane Eyre, there can be many arguments made on characters that can be considered ‘mentally incompetent’ or ‘insane’. One example would be Aunt Reed, who found it impossible to care for Jane as her own child simply because she did not like the child’s mother. Today, Aunt Reed would be designated as having Avoidant Attachment Disorder. This mental illness would be diagnosed based upon her hostility, her criticism, her self-important image and her lack of empathy towards Jane.
In Jacobean times women were seen as inferior and even in the Victoria era, thus she required external forces to crush her conscience to allow her to fulfil her ambition. Yet she is afraid her feminine qualities will prevent her from achieving the murder of King Duncan. Which would gradually lead to her mental breakdown. Regicide was considered a mortal sin in Jacobean times, one God couldn't forgive. Whereas Browning’s protagonist in The Laboratory sustains her feminine qualities this is reflected in the line “The colours too grim” in which she is referring to her dislike of the colour of poison and that it needs to be 'brightened' up in order to convince her victim to drink it.
Not bad lookin’ for what they are, you know” by responding with “I wouldn’t care for them” (2151). With that she can smoothly reaffirm her belief that the freaks, and any who would consort with them, are below her. This means even more here since Leota put out the opinion that the pygmies aren’t all that bad looking. By dismissing them the way Mrs. Fletcher did she causes Leota’s sense of who is attractive to be highly questionable. The intense rivalry between the two women reveals itself when they engage in little spats of one-upmanship.
She is not only bow legged, but also a mute—the main reason behind her mistreatment. Although these handicaps are not significant concerns today, during the time frame of “Recitatif” these are seen as defects that do not mesh well with society. As Roberta tells Twyla, “And because she could [not] talk—well you know, I thought she was crazy” (214). The protagonist of Atwood’s “Lusus Naturae”, unsurprisingly, is the individual that is signaled out as the scapegoat. She has a genetic disorder that warps her outer features; yellow eyes, pink teeth, red finger nails, and dark hair that protrudes from her chest and arms (233).
When having heard an owl, she cries ‘Hark, Peace!’ This remark shows you that she is jittery, as on a normal occasion she wouldn’t have even noticed the owl because based on what we know of her character so far she isn’t the jumpy type of person. It’s also slightly ironic how she calls out for ‘peace’ because you automatically make the connection to god’s peace: whereas the audience all knows she is damned. You also surprisingly see a psychological vulnerability in Lady Macbeth. She tells Macbeth that Duncan ‘resembled my father as he slept,’ and if it weren’t for that she would have murdered him herself. This is wildly contradicting her cold persona.
Here she is presented as a survivor clinging to her life and possessions; it is poignant that Baby Kochamma has not earned them through personal achievement but simply “inherited by outliving everyone else”. The unattractive hoarding nature of Baby Kochamma is also shown through her obsession of locking away everything inside the house, and we are clearly meant to mock her as indicated by Roy’s derisive words “crockery crooks… cream-bun cravers, or thieving diabetics”. In this sense we cannot sympathise with her, nor are we expected to as shown by Roy’s demeaning treatment of her. We are shown Baby Kochamma’s backstory, suggesting perhaps that Roy is asking us to attempt to understand this character before judging and loathing. In chapter 1 her “unchristian passion” for
How Does Carol Ann Duffy Present Women in Mrs Aesop and Litany? In both Mrs Aesop and Litany Duffy presents women at quite different angles. In Mrs Aesop Duffy makes reference to women as blunt and constantly criticising, a trait that is very unusual for a feminist. Because of her jealousy she makes fun of his masculinity and insults him the sex was diabolical. Showing a stronger side to Mrs Aesop, but also a rather childish one.
She, unlike those previous female roles in Disney; is quite outspoken, clumsy and independent. This is why she failed to meet the matchmaker’s expectation. So she considered herself as a shame, a black sheep of her family. But then she shows the filial piety of the
We see an example of this arrogance towards Gerald when she says ‘Go on Gerald – just you object!’, and the stage directions that it should be said with mock aggressiveness. This is one example of the many things that she says to Gerald with stage directions of such a manner. She doesn’t seem to say anything normally but has some sort of sarcastic tone to say it in when she is talking to Gerald. When the inspector comes, Sheila is very honest and open about everything that she did wrong and is genuinely apologetic about everything that she has done to contribute to the death of Eva Smith but she doesn’t want to take all the blame so she is very persistent that everyone admits to their involvement to the death of Eva Smith. She doesn’t want all the blame on her so she insists that the rest of the family says what they have done so she doesn’t feel so bad because they also ‘helped to kill this girl’ as Gerald says.
The final line “Who could not say, ‘Tis pity she’s a whore?” can be seen as directed towards her and so she is blamed for everything that has occurred. Throughout the play she is seen as quite powerful and headstrong by refusing many marriage proposals and being quite stubborn in doing so. However, she is reduced to a weak being however upon dying which is a culmination of her passions. It is perceived that women are a danger to men and to society as a whole and so Giovanni’s actions are to be blamed not on himself, but on Annabella because of the beauty she possesses. Giovanni states that Annabella’s “lips would tempt a saint” thus showing the corruption her presence inflicts upon even the supposed innocent of men.