They can be seen to be the predictor of future events and to say something about your life. But what deciphers as an adult nightmare from a child’s nightmare? In modern society, the term ‘adult’, other than its dictionary definition, is most commonly used to refer to pornography, or restricted sections of a shop, or library. The idea of restriction is a key theme in Carter’s parodies. It is as though she is revealing the dark depths of childhood fairy tales which were never explicitly written in the originals, due to the child audiences at which the texts were aimed.
This notion is quite different with Tim Burton’s Alice who does not fit well in the upper-class Victorian lifestyle and social structure. Unlike the Disney Alice, Tim Burton’s Alice appears more open-minded making her very opinionated to her surroundings and people around her. This is displayed early on the film when Alice’s mother notified her about not wearing a corset and stockings and how it was proper, but Alice was against this and pointed her opinion towards being proper. Another example is
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). Another theme in this vignette is sexuality. Esperanza is growing up to become a woman as shown in Vignettes “Marin”, “Boys and Girls”, “Sally”, and “Edna’s Ruthie” in which Esperanza is learning how to be a woman. Esperanza’s shame of her feet is an obstacle of her development in becoming a woman and she has to overcome that shame to become a woman as she did in the vignette. When
No longer a self-assured sexual being, her response—that she is buying something for her mother,reveals that she has not yet quite reached adulthood. The combination of her brazenness and vulnerability ultimately spurs Sammy to shun the rules that bind him. ‘’You never know for sure how girls’ minds work (do you really think it’s a mind in there or just a little buzz like a bee in a glass jar? ).’’ Sammy speculates on the mental processes of girls early in the story. he assumes that if he cannot understand the workings of a girl’s mind, it is because there is no mind there to understand.
As she is a child, she doesn’t understand everything, even when Atticus is willing to tell her what she wants. The other people around town do not tell her everything, this includes Uncle Jack. Uncle Jack deflects her questioning about prostitution, instead telling her other useless facts, thinking this will protect her. “’She asked me what a whore-lady was…’ ‘Did you tell her?’ ‘No, I told her about Lord Melbourne.’”(Chapter 9, Pg 94). Scout also does not understand the consequences of many things.
But she simply negates her instinct and tells her that “what [she] felt was a draught, and shut the window” (Gilman). John does not listen deeply to what his wife says, he hardly ever really listens to her at all. The narrator says, “I wish he would le me go and make a visit to Cousin Henry and Julia” (Gilman). But john says that she “wasn’t able to go, nor able to stand it after [she] got there” (Gilman). He us always making decisions for her based on his assumptions on what is best for her, and not what she really wants.
On the other hand, Elizabeth seems to be genuinely scared and helpless. The account is quite short on the paper suggesting that she doesn’t want to talk about it and supports my point above. The beginning sentence of the text shows confusion and fright which later turns into just fright because Elizabeth didn’t hear the message from Daisy Bates earlier due to lack of communication. Eckford could also be confused as a result of the fact that she has never experienced this type of anger between two groups of people because she is so young and naive. The quote “ I tried to see a friendly face in the mob” implies that she feels feeble and helpless as well as lonely.
She does not feel sorry for anybody. She accuses Elizabeth Proctor in witchcraft to get rid of her and have Proctor for herself. But this will never happen. In the third act a big conflict in the court is shown. Abigail pretends she feels cold and sees a yellow bird.
The male character is dominant, defensive and hypocritical and the female character is pendent and is incapable of voting for her decision. In the story the man persistently tells her to abort the child but never uses the word abortion. He keeps on giving more like hypnotic suggestions that she must abort the child because it’s a very simple operation. He is hypocritical because he keeps on saying – “But I don’t want you to do if you didn’t want to”. He says that he doesn’t need a baby in their life - “That’s the only thing that bothers us.
"She was his baby. She loved him," his mother said of Tiny. When she would enter the bedroom, it would strike at her "as if to say ‘leave him alone.'" Contrary to what these pair of owners may have thought, this is not normal behavior for snakes and can be a very bad omen. Unfortunately, this was not known or heeded by the duo.