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.
He is talking about Curley’s wife with the clear intention of discrediting her to George. This displays him to be a heedful rumourmonger amongst the other itinerant workers: “Well, I think Curley’s married a tart.” In addition, another language device that Steinbeck uses in this passage to present Candy is adjectives. There are a wide variety of adjectives used such as, “reassured” and, “safe” which also describe Candy’s inner thoughts and feelings. The fact that Candy feels secure when taking to George implies that he is reluctant to talk to any of the other ranch hands because they usually disrespect him and exclude him for who he is: a disabled individual. However, “reassured” may suggest a sense of caution and perceptiveness about Candy, and suggests that initially he did not trust George and Lenny.
She’s just self-obsessed, and unable to judge herself and her position honestly. It seems at every chance she gets, Curley’s wife likes to talk about her lost opportunities. She speaks of a traveling actor who told her she could join their show, without gathering that this is a pretty standard pick-up line. Same with the offer to go to Hollywood: Curley’s wife has convinced herself that her mother stole the letter, rather than realize the men weren’t really interested in her for any actual talent. Curley’s wife’s obsession with herself ultimately leads to her death.
For example, in this passage we understand that Norah is struggling with the grief of her lost daughter and doesn't want to let go of her memory, "Phoebe she would keep alive in her heart." (88) It helps us understand the reasoning behind her actions of drunk driving, dreams of lost things, and escalated emotion at random as well as other actions the character demonstrates through out the novel. The deception of her daughter effects Norah and explains why she bought the camera,"...So he'd capture every moment, so he'd never forget. "(88) Norah doesn't want her husband, sister and not even neighbours to dismiss her daughter as unimportant. Norah's great pain because of the "death" of her child causes her to be scared of change, she wishes she could capture a happy moment, and stay in that moment-perhaps forever. "
This is seen when Steinbeck repeats red colour ‘Her fingernails were red’ and ‘red ostrich feathers’. Red colour has the connotation of love, passion and danger. The use of red colour with curley’s wife enforce the reader to think about her life as she have no love in her life, her passion, being an actress, died and she can be dangerous for Lennie because he is only one who is attracted towards her. Moreover, Steinbeck has also used simple short sentence ‘Her figure nails were red’ to put emphasis on the colour red and to keep the readers engaged by portraying his
Elizabethian time was the Era of superstition to say the least. In the most the common setting, superstition played a factor in civilian’s everyday lives. Elizabethians believed that physically saying “god bless you” following a sneeze would prevent the devil from entering your body when opening your mouth. Other superstitions such as having your shoes on a table, having hold of a peacock feather, passing by a black cat, and spilling table salt or pepper were also considered to be bad luck. Women in the kitchen believed it was unlucky to stir the pot counterclockwise while cooking.
I’m not ready to take this much power in my hands and under my responsibility. I wanted to step away fast and quietly disappearing under the shadows unnoticed and just leave this competition to be over with but then I took once glance towards my wife, Anabell. She smiled slightly as she held our newborn daughter in her arms and that gave me enough breathing room to remember why I was doing all of this. I was doing all of this because
It’s your stereotypical castle, dark, frightening and funeral like. Basically not the type of place anyone in the right mind would approach or maybe we all judge too much on appearances? However, this is where a kindhearted Avon lady, Mrs. Bogg (Dianne Wiest) pays a visit. Wiest takes Depp back to the end of the suburbs with her and has that motherly instinct to help him. Where as all the nosey neighbors quickly interfere with phone calls and tea parties, Edward soon becomes a walking celebrity as he dazzles them with his talent on making there gardens, dogs and selves stunning with his hands, his scissorhands.
Curley’s Wife highlights this when, out of loneliness and desperation she makes an effort to look good around the ranch at all times. She is incongruous on the ranch, but still insists on dressing like a movie star to attract attention, in hope for somebody to stop by and give her the time of day. When Lennie stops to talk to her she spills her heart out, unaware of what he is capable of. She tells him that she wants a friend, someone to share good and bad times with. ‘ Think I don’t like to talk to somebody every once in a while?
Hulga over hears much of this conversation and tells her mother to “get rid of the salt of the earth.” (p.465) Hulga is suspicious of Manly, yet Mrs. Hopewell can only think about possibility of the yong man being a positive influence on her daughter. After ignoring him a dinner, Hulga waits for manly to walk him down the path. This seems totally out of character for Hulga. As Hulga lays in bed she fantasizes about seducing manly and enlightening of her view of reality. It is obvious that Hulga sees Manly as naïve to the the ways of the world.