We are introduced to a majorly significant and complex character, named Curley’s wife. Steinbeck shows us that Curley’s wife is flirtatious, mischievous (despite the patriarchal society of the 1930’s) but most of all she is an isolated character. Her hasty marriage to Curley proves to be failed attempt to escape her own spiral of disappointment of not fulfilling her ambition of becoming an actor. This ironically is a main theme in both texts. This essay will analyse and compare the presentation of Lady Macbeth and Curley's wife through the structure, themes, what is said about them, their actions and what they themselves say.
As Peggy Orenstein’s three year-old daughter entered the “princess phase,” Orenstein became increasingly frustrated. As a feminist, she worried about the negative effects the princess obsession would have on her daughter and other young girls in their futures. In “Cinderella and Princess Culture,” Orenstein sets out to discuss these effects. She discovers that although it seems as if this princess craze is creating negative gender stereotypes at an early age, maybe princess enthusiasts are really benefitting from their obsession. Orenstein has gotten accustomed to adults assuming her daughter likes pink and princesses.
Oates places beautiful Marilyn Monroe against the background of a used bookstore to accent how foreign the girl-poets take her to be. In the first two paragraphs of Three Girls, Oates describes the Strand Used Bookstore as dark, dingy, unorganized, and unrefined (77). Whereas, later on in the story, Oates describes Marilyn Monroe as the leading lady, attractive, and charming, even though she is dressed in men’s clothing with her blond hair in a braid (78). Even when the girl-poets describe Marilyn Monroe as “more resembling them, then she resembled her Hollywood image,” she seems to be out of place in the Strand (79). The girl-poets wonder, to themselves of course, why the Marilyn Monroe would be browsing through used books, when she could be walking through the Waldorf-Astoria (80).
While the plot markers are indeed a Cinderella story, this version contains a girl’s journey that resembles Sleeping Beauty’s. The parallels between Cinderella and Ella Enchanted are easy to point out. They are crude surface likenesses, the generic characteristics one always attributes to Cinderella. A cruel stepmother and two nasty stepsisters replace Ella’s mother. They treat her very poorly, having her serve as a scullery maid.
Stoker uses Mina as a device he marks her out as the ideal partner in matrimony, and as Mary Shelley Frankenstein uses multiple first person narrator however Stoker has included female’s speakers which gives a different and more socially equal effect. Lucy is very dependent women who indulges in her mother’s money and is shown as a very stereotypical woman "why are men so noble when we women are so little worthy of them?" this is a very passive statement made by Lucy who is very aware of the gender roles. Lucy is a paragon of virtue and innocence, qualities that draw not one but three suitors. Lucy is very much differs from Mina as she is sexualized “why can’t they let a girl marry three men, or as many
Legends tell the stories of characters overcoming inhuman obstacles. Beowulf tells the story of a hero, Beowulf, traveling to a faraway kingdom, Danes, to battle against the abominable monster named Grendel who is terrorizing the Danes. Grendel, who relished the war on the Danes (67-68). As did Grendel’s mother. And yet, as the abilities of these characters unfold throughout the story, their humanity is disregarded.
Miss Emily is an older woman, which is not particularly someone most people would see as violent. She meets a love interest by the name of Homer Barron. Barron and Emily go on carriage rides through the park routinely. When Emily finds out that Barron is not as serious about their union as she is, she takes it amongst herself to purchase poison that happens to be labeled “For Rats.” What we then see is an example within an example. Southern gothic characters usually posses some type of characteristic that makes them dark and sick- minded.
After exploring the dark home, the girl discovers and old woman. The next rule is broken when the old lady is kind to the beautiful girl and tries to help her. She is neither jealous nor mean, as popular fairy tales would lead us to believe.
Third and then the witches second prediction he becomes cocky and assured with himself but this creates a snowball effect of Macbeth trying to cover his track making him kill more and provides him with nothing but hardship. All this can be viewed as his fate but this was not free will it was a weak man manipulated by everyone around him. The witches propheses are a big part of the start of Macbeth downfall when him and Banquo telling their predictions its starts Macbeth on the path of the belif that he could have all he wanted in hbis wildest dreams. When the withces say “All hail, Macbeth!,Thane of Glamis!,Thane of Cawdor!,That shalt be King hereafter!” (1.3.47-50) Macbeth takes the bait like a wide eyed child to a piece of candy. He asked just as they thought if chance will have me” King, why, Chance may crown me, Without my stir.” (1.3.43-44) he was pulled into their lies and trickery from the very beginning and he is thrown right into his choice to kill King Duncan but who most pushed him was Lady Macbeth.
Comparing and Contrasting “The Story of the Hour” to “The Tell Tale Heart” How would you feel if you are trapped somewhere? In “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, Mrs. Mallard is a wife who is trapped in an unfulfilling marriage and even diagnosed with a weak heart. She is the type of woman who wants to feel liberated in her own life. In “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, the narrator is a madman and murderer who fails to conceal his fear after he kills an old man. Although they both have many similarities, surprisingly there are many differences between these two stories.