In the beginning of the essay Mitford uses a metaphor describing the process of embalming to a drama by saying “The drama begins to unfold.” The author does this to tell the reader that the process is long and dramatic in a certain way. Throughout her essay Mitford takes the reader through a journey. Her use of imagery gives the reader an idea of what or where they are for example in one of her paragraphs she describes the place of where the embalming occurs as a “the tiled and sterile look.” She says this to give the reader an image . The use of diction is crucial in this essay. The author uses complex diction but necessary because the essay is all about science.
I believe that Dubus wants us to know that Fowler loved his wife. He was concerned for his wife, because she was always seeing Strout in the streets and it was causing her such pain. But Matt loved his children so much that he becomes afraid for them. “He had always been a fearful father, when his children were young.” It wasn’t until Fowler and Strout were driving together toward Stout’s home we see that Strout still loves his soon to be ex wife. It is clear even as the two characters walk through Stout’s duplex, and the picture of his family and his wife’s smile which showed happiness.
The fact that ‘Journey’s End’ has evidently more characters to that of ‘Not about Heroes’, allows Sherriff to explore how the soldiers express their sense of duty through their actions by not letting their comrades down. For instance, in Act 2 Stanhope manipulates Hibbert’s guilt ‘“If you went – and left Osborne and Trotter and Raleigh and all those men up there to do your work – could you ever look a man straight in the face again”’. For the audience, they see that Stanhope intends to create a sense of guilt in Hibbert as this attitude displays to the audience that the soldiers have to rely on each other and act responsibly and collectively in order to survive, leaving no room for selfishness, meaning that they be putting their comrades second. This emphasises that thinking and acting collectively was simply a matter of life and death. Similarly, in Act 2 of ‘Not about Heroes’, Sassoon makes a stand to say he would never betray his comrades and wouldn’t ‘lead’ his ‘Company to be slaughtered’.
6) This is how the narrator, Pip, describes Joe Gargery, a humble man who is very fond of Pip, like a father is of a son. With Pip's parents dead, Pip needed a father figure and he found this in Joe Gargery, like Lawrence Jay Dessner suggests: “Gargery, as the husband of Pip's acting mother, is the most obvious father figure, and he is in some respects what Pip craves.” (pp. 444) Mrs. Gargery, Joe's wife and Pip's sister, is a strict woman who holds the household together, controls her husband and who is very unforgiving with Pip. She often beats him and Joe is always the one who defends Pip. Joe is also a man with strong moral values who tries to implant those values in Pip.
By the end of this play, we see how Nora’s secret changes the relationship between the couple, as she violates the stereotypical role-play as a wife and mother in her era, which generates her inspirational growth. Nora, the main character, was first introduced as a very sheltered, immature, and optimistic woman. Helmer we see as proud of his male role in society and in the household, father-like towards his wife, and greatly cares for his appearance in others eyes. When speaking to each other, Helmer communicates to Nora as if she was his child instead of his wife. He does this by things such as calling her nicknames with negative characteristics, such as his little lark, spendthrift and featherhead.
William Shakespeare’s work has had a notable impact on the English language. Terms and phrases that Shakespeare coined are used frequently in everyday life. His influence can be observed in literature and film, as well as daily conversation. Shakespeare’s influence on language can be seen throughout literature. Shakespeare created the phrase made famous by The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, “All for one and one for all!” (Lucrece, 1654) Shakespeare has been quoted in thousands of books, from The Three Musketeers to Twilight by Stephanie Meyers.
What Defines Your Role In Henrik Ibsen’s “Ghosts” the psychological and social conditions of the characters start off with a tremendous amount of complexity and unknown factors. Throughout the play things become uncovered which results in major controversy. Mrs. Alving, a woman with much pride, is a typical good wife who will go through any extremity to have her family perceived as anything but dysfunctional. For a short period of time Mrs. Alving left her duties as a wife but soon returned back with her husband even through the sinful demeanor that causes marital turmoil for the rest of their lives. After some time of internally struggling to decide whether to tell a major bombshell to Pastor Manders, she confides in the Pastor revealing the unspoken truth of the Alving’s servant Regina.
At the same way she confirms her anguish “Please let me know beforehand/And I will come out to meet you/ As far as Cho-Fu-Sa” (Pound, lines 27-29). The Merchant’s Wife depicts herself as a sad person due to her husband’s work. Nature plays an important row in her sorrowful letter. Despite of her strong appearance, she feels weak because her image of nature demonstrates her sadness of the husband’s journey. Work Cited Pound, Ezra.
Especially when she reminisces in the final stanza about the time she was young and beautiful, illustrating her complete lack of confidence. Nevertheless, she is still presented as a foul character who threatens the reader, with the line ‘Be terrified’. The poem also ends with the line ‘Look at me now’ which has a double entendre (double meaning). It could be read as a cry of despair or, as a threat – if you did look at Medusa you would die! This leaves the reader feeling conflicting emotions for the character, probably similar to how Medusa herself feels in the poem.
In Miller’s All My Sons, Chris Keller is initially portrayed as the righteous and “holy” figure that pushes for societal responsibility and love for our fellow Man. Chris’s appearance of Christ-like goodness is slowly peeled off as the play progresses when his hypocrisy is revealed through various methods such as the contrast between his insistent calls for social responsibility and his revelation of self-interest and suppression of truth; offering audiences the possibility that Chris may not be less guilty or a better person than anyone. In addition, Miller problematizes Chris’ ideals through his persistent pursuit for justice and morality that irrevocably sacrifices the family unit, which holds Chris responsible for destroying his own family in his relentless chase of his own obsession with his own set of ideal values. Finally, the neighbors function as the Greek chorus sheds light on Chris’ involvement in his father’s crime through the suppression of truth and omission of actual action to reveal Keller’s crimes. Hence, Chris Keller has every reason to feel as guilty as his father because while Keller’s guilt lay with his wartime misdeeds, his guilt lies in his hypocrisy, betrayal of the family and his implicit participation in Keller’s crime.