Solitude vivifies; isolation kills. Through out life in this crazy mind ridden world, people find themselves isolated. Isolation rears its ugly head in various forms and can often be unexpected. Whether it be personal gain unachieved, or conflicts of love or hate, people deal with this sort of abandonment. Self created or felt from another persons doing, this separation of ones being must be dealt with.
Robin Jenkins first shows you how different the little girl is, “red eyed dissenter”. This shows that the little girl could be angry or has maybe been crying. I think Jenkins has used ‘dissenter’ to identify Margaret as different from everyone else suggesting her loneliness and isolation from the others. Loneliness is a theme throughout ‘Flowers’ which shows that life can be very unpleasant especially if you are alone. The theme of loneliness continues when, after Miss Laing tells the children to go pick flowers they all “scamper off” but the little girl doesn’t.
This reflects the duality of being spellbound. The poem starts by putting the reader in the moment, “the night is darkening around me.” Bronte drops the readers directly in this inauspicious and freighting scene. She furthers this sentiment in the next line by adding a cold and wild wind. These conditions are already uncomfortable enough for most people to run from. However, a “tyrant spell” has entranced her and, she “cannot go.” The second stanza continues horrific place.
Curley's Wife, Innocent or Not? Of Mice and Men is not a novel that portrays women considerately, examples of this are shown throughout the novel, in particular Curley's wife, who walks the ranch as a temptress and as a result is treated with scorn throughout the course of the novel, resulting in her death. This essay will analyze and discuss Steinbeck's portrayal of Curley's wife. Whether or not she is ultimately an innocent person caught in a tragic situation or simply a malevolent person who brings about her own inevitable doom. Steinbeck portrays Curley's wife at the beginning of the novel as a tramp, a tart that threatens to destroy any male on the ranch.
Her use of words in ‘Elm’ is also interesting. “Faults” could be emotional and/or physical and this shows the psychological states explored throughout Sylvia Plath’s work. “Malignity” symbolises evil and the intensity of how disturbed her life was.Another poem by Plath that I found to be personal on an intense and disturbing way was ‘Mirror’. It is clear as Plath looks into the mirror that she is unhappy, watching her age. A mirror never lies, but Plath cannot find solace in what she sees.
What is the dramatic purpose of Vittoria’s trail scene and how does Webster achieve his intended impact on the stage. During Jacobean times women are often constructed through absence and silence. Women are seen as insufficient beings in not being men and therefore are often represented through silence and absence. In the Jacobean society, the position of women was irregular, their rights often varied with marital status but, even within the confines of the domestic space, the position of women was still unclear. Throughout The White Devil, Webster presents his leading female character Vittoria as elusive, Vittoria’s absence from the stage for much of the play and often present on stage only due to the fact that she is continuously accused of being a ‘whore’.
In “A Rose for Emily”, Emily Grierson lives a secluded, and turmoil filled life which has revolved around inexplicable loneliness characterized by the harsh abandonment of death being that of her fathers. Imagery used at its most vital state is when Faulkner depicts Miss Emily’s mental frame. Being self-imprisoned within the confines of her own home is in coercion, the human embodiment of her house; Faulkner describes it as “…stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps—an eyesore among eyesores.” (Faulkner 516). The
The dramatic choices of words such as, “drooped, mildewed, pulpy, and molded,” embellish the description of the setting. The poem is written so dreadfully that the readers may even feel reluctant to imagine. For instance, the line five in the poem, “hung down long yellow evil necks, like tropical snakes,” insinuates that living in a hell may be a better place to live than in a root cellar. Although there are ones who have failed to grow out from the horrid condition and face the reality of death, the two lines in the end of the poem concludes, “Nothing would give up life: even the dirt kept breathing a small breathe,” eliminating the existence of the word abdication. Therefore, the targeted or intended audience of this poem may be pessimistic individuals who have willingness to abandon their goal, future, and dream from the temporary dark that they
Diane Glancy’s Polar Breath explores the lonely death of the central character. Unnamed and unaccompanied except by spirits and memories of her dead husband, the protagonist is dragged into the beyond. Glancy’s depiction of nature as harsh and unrelenting, and her use of vivid imagery create a claustrophobic setting that does not relax until it has “closed [the protagonist] up.” Glancy’s depiction of nature throughout the story suggests it is at odds with and exclusive from the unnamed protagonist. The anonymity of the main character further highlights her meaninglessness in the face of the power of the environment. “The birds chattered in the fir trees”, highlights an energy and life that is not accessible to the story’s character.
The Gothic elements depicted in the red room heighten Jane’s unstable emotional state and enhance her social and emotional isolation. Bronte portrays the red room as a “silent…remote…seldom entered place”, portraying a threatening environment in which life ceases to exist. Jane’s seclusion in an environment where a “weeks quiet dust” collects and a “deceased husband” once lay, illustrates her as a figure of rejection, the Gothic elements establishing a hostile and ominous atmosphere to which she responds accordingly. Jane’s inability to comprehend her physical state within the room is heightened as she describes herself as a “half fair, half imp” with “glittering eyes of fear.” As her mind transcends the natural world in order to establish a sense of identity, and, by extension, security, a volatile emotional state is exposed and enhanced through elements of Gothic realism that Bronte employs. Bronte’s critique of rigid social structure is depicted through Jane’s instinctive duty toward Mr Rochester as he “[slips] on [a] sheet of ice” and falls to the ground.