When Evelina goes to London, she is extremely naïve and steps out of her sheltered life for the first time. She commits her first embarrassing act when she refuses to dance with Sir Clement Willoughby but then accepts the offer of Lord Orville. In 1778, you do not refuse the hand of a gentleman who asks you to dance. No matter how uninterested the girl is, she consents to the dance. Evelina does not know the rules and is dumbfounded when she is confronted by Clement as she is dancing with Orville.
Another major theme in the vignette is one of sexuality because as Esperanza is in a transition state and first experiences her emerging sexuality as a desire to be desired by the boy at the dance. Esperanza is ashamed of her feet and during the baptism she says “My feet growing bigger and bigger” (Cisneros 47). This symbolizes her insecurities growing. The theme of insecurity is common throughout the book. In the previous vignette Esperanza was scolded by a nun who said Esperanza lives in an ugly house across the school and even though she didn’t live there she was too embarrassed to tell the nun that she didn’t live there(Cisneros 45).
Also, in chapter eight the character Ms Havisham is introduced. Dickens describes her as looking like a corpse. When Pip first meets her she asks him: “You are not afraid of a woman who has never seen the sun since you were born?” Dickens is portraying Ms Havisham as a supernatural being. This engages the reader because it is not common to meet such a character. Estella is also introduced in this chapter and believes she is better than Pip: “he is a common labouring boy!” When Pip talks about Estella he says: “I think she is very pretty… I think she is very insulting.” This shows she is cruel and a snob as she thinks Pip is less of a person than she is because he is poor, which engages the reader because they know that Pip has fallen in love with her but Miss Havisham has brought up Estella to have a hatred of men and the working class because of her own prejudice against them.
Crucible Essay In the story of "The Crucible", John Proctor, the play's tragic hero faces a lot of difficulties, but ultimately forgives his faults. Even before the start of the play, he faces difficulties, by having an affair with a woman named Abigail Williams who is the play's antagonist, which his wife doesn't approve of. Abigail Williams creates all this havoc in the play, to get with John Proctor. Although John Proctor cheats on his wife, Elizabeth Proctor, he is depicted as an honest and hard-working individual. The fact that he cheat on Elizabeth doesn't mean he didn't love or respect her greatly.
The Paper Bag Princess written by Robert Munsch is a subversion of the fairy tale tradition of Disney. This is a story about a Princess, named Elizabeth, who goes through many obstacles to find her inner-self. There are only three characters appear in the book; a princess Elizabeth, a prince Ronald and fiery dragon. The progressive plot revolves around two central conflicts: self against other (Elizabeth against Dragon), and self against society (Elizabeth against societal pressures). The paper bag princess chose the opposite way with most of classic fairy tale such as Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Although she was comfortable, upon having unexpected houseguest she cries out while greeting them at the door, “Oh goodness I look like something out of Tobacco Road!”(1054). The statement was meant to refer to her as the undesirable women in a local play. “Mr. and Mrs. Bridge giving a party not because the wanted to but because it was there time”(1089), this is another example of just how superficial her lifestyle is. They gave the party only because they were invited to several not long before this.
My plan succeed. When we’re back to my house I immediately hid the key while she was having a look around my house to avoid her to escape. When Lucy was looking at my father’s picture, I said he went to war for a really long time, I was surprised when she said her father went to a war too. I offered her a cup of tea and sat with her next to the fire. Lucy started telling me that she likes winter because she can play snow ball fights, ice-skating and also Christmas, she loves receiving so many presents.
I answered her back, yelling, 'There is! I go up to see the fairies!' Frances' mother, obviously, did not believe her daughter and sent her to the attic bedroom which she shared with her older cousin Elsie Wright. She also made sure to ask Elsie if she had seen these fairies, to which Elsie said she had. After being teased mercilessly, Elsie concocted a plan to fool the adults.
He buys women drinks, dances with them, is very rude and judgmental, and he really only judges them on their looks. He sees them as disposable objects that he can throw away without a second glance. In the novel, he calls himself a sex maniac and you can see that side of him when he is around women. He tries to be polite to women, act older than his age, and even tries to seduce them. He does, however try to give these women a chance to almost prove to him that they aren’t phonies, but almost every single time he is disappointed.
Throughout the story, Laura is forced to see from a different point of view, making her a more mature young woman. Many believe that Laura has become more immature throughout the story because she makes unthought out, spontaneous decisions. Although she struggles to reach an understanding of maturity, she is unable to become a woman because of her divergent actions. One of these actions includes how distracted she gets when her mother gives laura, her hat. Laura's brother compliments her, and she completely forgets about Mr. Scott; “What an absolute topping hat!’… and [Laura] didn’t tell him after all,” ( p. 11).