The perhaps most critical theme in ‘The Crucible’ is the role that hysteria can play in tearing apart a community. Hysteria replaces logic and enables people to believe that their neighbors, whom they have always considered upstanding people, are committing absurd and unbelievable crimes—communing with the devil, killing babies, and so on. In ‘The Crucible’, the townsfolk accept and become active in the hysterical climate not only out of genuine religious faithfulness but also because it gives them a chance to express repressed sentiments and to act on long-held grudges. The most obvious case is Abigail, who uses the situation to accuse Elizabeth Proctor of witchcraft and have her sent to jail. But others thrive on the hysteria as well: Reverend Parris strengthens his position within the village, albeit temporarily, by making scapegoats of people like Proctor who question his authority.
Obedience was used in order to provide an example of how girls should act towards their superiors, in particular, their parents. A tremendous focus is on Little Red Riding Hood’s appearance as the superlative ‘prettiest’ displays, this leads people to be ‘fond’ and to ‘dote’ upon her, increasing her vulnerability as ‘predators’ are drawn to her or as Perrault wanted to show, men. Also, the repetition of the attributive ‘little’ alongside the common noun ‘girl’ highlights Little Red Riding Hood’s defencelessness. However, naivety is her ultimate downfall leading her to a grisly end. Despite the warnings that she should go straight to her Grandmother’s, Little Red Riding Hood becomes distracted by feminine pursuits, portrayed through the compound sentence “…gathering nuts, running after butterflies, and gathering bouquets of little flowers.” This emphasises her age and vulnerability as she isn’t aware of her surroundings and the danger they can impose.
In Macbeth, Macbeth himself is shown as being disturbed due to the way that he is acting and that he starts hallucinating just before he murders the king “Is this a dagger which I see before me” and this shows that he is disturbed because he believes that he can see the dagger even though it is not there which means that he is worried about doing the deed of killing the king and it puts doubt in his mind but his over-whelming ambition forces him to still kill him. Lady Macbeth is disturbed due to the way that she acts, believing that there’s Duncan’s blood on her hand and trying to wash it off constantly, she is also disturbed in a similar way to the woman in The Laboratory because during this time period that they are set in the common stereotype for a woman is to be obeying, shy and to do what they’re told but in the case of Lady Macbeth and the woman in The Laboratory are both manipulative and controlling, in the case of The Laboratory the woman is disturbed because she wants to murder a woman for taking away her last love by poisoning her and she paranoid that they know her plans “He is with her, and they know that I know “ which is another feature of her being deranged due to her being paranoid, in a similar way Lady Macbeth exclaims “and take my milk for gall” which is similar to The Laboratory because they are both trying to create poison in order to gain what they want, Lady Macbeth wants her husband to become king by Duncan and the woman in The Laboratory wants to kill her loves lover (Pauline). The Duke from My Last Duchess is disturbed much alike to the woman in The Laboratory due to them both being paranoid, in the case of the Duke he was paranoid that his wife was flirting with everyone and believe that she valued his “gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name ” the same value as any other gift she was given such as cherries from a peasant whereas in The
The citizens of the Capital are also dehumanized. They watch children being killed by other children, and cheer for the ones spilling the most blood. They believe it is just a game, not thinking of the fact that it is sick and wrong. They take the killing as entertainment as where someone, somewhere, is sobbing over the loss of their child. These dystopian elements convey the director’s idea of this society becoming reality.
How does Hosseini convey the horror of the rape scene witnessed by Amir? This scene is horrific on a number of levels. Amir’s cowardice conveys the horror of the rape scene because it highlights Hassan’s innocence. Hassan’s loyalty to Amir is touching. Hassan has taken the blame for Amir their hole chidhood whilst they shot nuts at the neighbors dog and here he takes the risk of being attacked by Assef in order to get to the fallen kite for Amir.
One of the Puritan ladies in the crowd suggests that Hestor has “brought shame upon us all, and ought to die. Is there no law for it? Truly there is, both in scripture and statute book.” The Puritans wish further torture on Hestor, even though they themselves too have committed similar crimes. But in looking for a reason to bring more harm to Hestor, they break a commandment worse than Hestor’s; using the Lord’s name in vain. Just for their own satisfaction they look to manipulate the writings of their
Furthermore, both poems betray women as bad people. For instance in Porphyria’s Lover his lover acts quite slutty around him; “and made her smooth white shoulder bare,” – this shows that she may have only been in the relationship for an arteria motive. In The Laboratory the woman wants to kill for her revenge and also kill innocent people for fun. He may portray women in this way as women were seen as a “lower-class” to men at the time that the poem was written. When writing The Laboratory Browning will have looked at what people wanted to read.
Hitler controlled the Nazis just like a bully has his/her little followers who abide by the bully so they can “seem cool.” Kids see violence and bullying everyday in movies and television portraying them as the popular kids; therefore, they think that being hurtful and cruel to someone is what will gain them that “presence” that they are striving for. Much like the Nazis, bullies brainwash their “Jews” or peers into thinking they are dirt and will always be dirt. This might be classified as the “verbal” bullying the Nazis did to the Jews. By getting into their heads, it allows them to manipulate the victims into doing what they need or want them to do. For the Nazis, they needed the Jews and other victims to do manual labor in the concentration camps; as for the bullies, they need to lower the victim’s self-esteem so they can feel better about their own self and to seem “cool” to the other students.
The fact he also invited her, suggests irony in his characterization because he is showing her where she will end up. Marqui, shows her the gallery of the beautiful women, in order to show her what she was getting her self into, therefor showing she was not forced and she went in with her own choice. Page 11: “The lilies I always associate with him; that are white and stain you.” Imagery of the lilies' apparent purity suggests the narrator's innocence and the Marquis's sexual corruption. Lilies are traditionally a symbol of chastity and virtue; to the narrator, however, they are 'funereal', associated with death. Flowers suggest a link to the fairy-tale context, such as the rose in 'Beauty and the Beast'.
In Robert Bloch “Sweets to the Sweet”, Irma’s evil and vindictive ways, was a result of the abhorrent treatment she received at the hands of her father. [What is a transition you can use to help connect this paragraph to the previous paragraph? Please refer to our above discussion for strategies.] She was neglected, physically abused and tormented. At times, when he says to the governess, “Give that little witch a beating,” (21), he is advocating for a stranger to abuse his child.