Suburban Sonnet by Gwen Harwood Suburban Sonnet is a bleak poem, highlighting the personal limitations that accompany maternal responsibilities and the role of a housewife. It is clear even from the title that Gwen Harwood intends to tell the reader tales of vain attempts by things of beauty such as sonnets to overcome the bleak and depressing reality of something as dull as suburban life. One of many important features of the poem, though only expressed in few words, is the powerlessness of anonymity. From the outset it becomes clear to the reader that the failed pianist has no name. As she is anonymous the reader is alerted that this woman is no one important and therefore should not be paid particular attention.
Hughes uses his poem, The Minotaur, to try to manipulate the audience to see a different view of their marriage, and to make people feel sympathetic towards him. Hughes portrays his wife Sylvia Plath as violent, irrational, and out of control. This is shown in the way he shows her, in lines such as “The mahogany table-top you smashed”. The onomatopoeia of “smashed” further emphasises her violent personality. Later in the poem, Hughes accuses his wife of abandoning her family.
The Irony in “Everyday Use” “Everyday Use” concerns a mother’s depiction of herself and her two daughters: Maggie and Dee. Mama is the narrator in this short story, which takes place in and small town in or around the mid nineteen hundreds. Full of life and not timid at all is her oldest daughter Dee. Maggie who was burned in a fire at their previous home stays in the shadows. In a Sense Dee sees herself as better than her family, and believes they are ignorant and do not know their own heritage.
In both poems gender conflict is demonstrated between through the emotion of betrayal in a relationship. For example in Les Grands Seignurs she talks about “little woman” which could show the great depth of thought about how she feels towards men. The word “a toy, a plaything” suggests that’s once she got married she has became powerless and feels like she is a toy, this shows her betrayal as when you get married you expect the marriage to be fantastic and not to feel like a toy. In contrast, Medusa also demonstrates this when she says “wasn’t I beautiful?” this Is effective as I can infer that she feels insecure about her looks. It also suggests that she misses her past through the use of a rhetorical question which makes the reader feel sympathy for her.
Another episode from the case study where Diane had intrusive obsessional thoughts of strangling her own children with the dressing gown cords suggests that Diane had maladaptive cognition and she believed that her thoughts would help to cause events (thought-action fusion) e.g. ‘If I wish my children dead, that increases the chances they will die’, and for that reason she had an urge to control those unwanted thoughts and carried out the compulsive rituals. Salkovskis et al (2003) also outlined that neutralising intrusive thoughts usually involves carrying out actions that are intended to reduce any potential threat. This supports the cognitive model as it shows the importance of maladaptive cognition
In Eudora Welty’s “Why I live at P.O.”, Sister, the narrator, tries to alter the viewpoints of the reader to shape their interpretations to match the bias and the animosity towards the family. People often allow their perceptions to be influenced by a self-serving bias that can jade the depth of reality. In her reality, Sister is the victim that gets ridiculed by her family especially her sister Stella-Rondo whom she harbors a jealousy. Sister claims her life was “fine” before Stella-Rondo shows up and interrupts everything. She describes Stella-Rondo be inconsistent and unstable based on her being spoiled when they were children.
Ender’s excellence brings a lot of torture for him when Stilson wants to overrule him, Bernard frustrates him and Graff uses his sister to break Ender down emotionally. To begin with, Stilson wants to hurt Ender because he thinks he was excellent if his monitor and which is taken off. “Oh, gonna fight me huh? Gonna fight me, Thirde?” (Card 7). In this quote, Stilson shows anger toward Ender who deliberately creates a situation to hurt Ender.
This theme is found in The Glass Menagerie by the mother, Amanda. She constantly criticized Tom and Laura and treated them like little kids. An example of this was found in the beginning of the play when she consistently critiqued the way Tom was eating. He eventually abandoned his dinner and left the table. In The Life You Save May Be Your Own, the old Lucynell Crater desires so much to rid herself from her daughter that she is desperate enough to throw her on a random man that does not love her.
Why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could go off and find someone to play with” (Lee, 119). Jem tells Scout that she is acting like a “girl”. Society has made him think that way. Jem being Scout’s brother is prejudice towards her because he is ignorant. Women are expected to be “ladies” and to behave prim and proper.
Theres Rose Mary, thats for remembering. Please remember, love.” (Act lV, Scene V). Ophelia says. She is trying to show Laertes speaking up for herself in a way how crazy she has gotten from her fathers death, that even if she's crazy she will still speak up and show why she is mad. Then Laertes says, in “Sadness and torment, suffering, hell itself—she makes them almost pretty.” (Act lV, Scene V).