I have always wondered what it would be like to have a family member with a personality disorder or if I had a personality disorder myself. I cannot fathom the thought of how horrific it must be. The struggles and the devastation it brings simply tear apart a person into shreds. But I do know one thing about it all, and that is that recovery is always possible. This book is about a young woman suffering and trying to overcome her borderline personality disorder.
Despite being written during patriarchal Jacobean society, the protagonist is a female, which is was highly unusual in those days. Of course this protagonist is Lady Macbeth. Throughout the play, through Lady Macbeth's actions we are forced to believe that she is evil. In contrast, the novel John Steinbeck tells a story of dreams, hopes and loneliness. We are introduced to a majorly significant and complex character, named Curley’s wife.
Each of Esquivel's chapters begins with a recipe and concludes with an ingredient having slightly changed to alter the dish, filling it with magical powers. Tita's tears also have magical qualities. Before she is born, she cries in the womb when onions are being cut. When she is born on the kitchen table, she cries sufficient tears that when dried, the tears are swept up to fill a ten-pound sack. While recovering at Dr. Brown's, Tita grieves so violently that her tears run down the stairs in a torrent.
Rose and Troy Maxson from the play Fences by August Wilson and Tom and Daisy Buchanan from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald each have extraordinarily dynamic marital ties. Troy and Tom both yearned for the upper hand in their marriages. However, it is not long before their wives, Rose and Daisy, grow tired of their
The story follows the ill fated love story of Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, the teenage children of feuding families. It is set in a time when nobility, wealth and family honour and name provided a life of privilege. Marriages were arranged between families and it was considered important to marry within your own nobility and class to maintain family honour and social status. Themes of love such as Parental Love, Romantic Love, Love of Family Honour and Friendship are explored through the dramatic languages and provide an emotional context when the theme of hate and death cause conflict and dilemma for the characters. Love is an overpowering force that takes over all other values, loyalties and emotions.
Family and relationships ‘My mother and I have a pretty good relationship, if a bit erratic. One minute we love each other to bits and spend hours in deep and meaningful conversation and the next minute we’ll be screeching at each other...’ pg. 5 Marchetta raises the issue of family and questions traditional ideas of what constitutes an ideal home life. The text presents us with many versions of family relationship and while some are healthy (although still passionate like that of Josie and Christina) there are many fractured relationships in the novel. Josie is at first embarrassed by her illegitimacy and her Italian Nonna, but as the text progresses her preconceptions are challenged and she has to rethink ideas about her own family
She plied the poor little creature with everything, all the 188 sandwiches, all the bread and butter, and every time her cup was empty she filled it with tea, 189 cream and sugar. People always said sugar was so nourishing. As for herself she didn't eat; 190 she smoked and looked away tactfully so that the other should not be shy. 191 192 And really the effect of that slight meal was marvellous. When the tea-table was carried 193 away a new being, a light, frail creature with tangled hair, dark lips, deep, lighted eyes, lay 194 back in the big chair in a kind of sweet languor, looking at the blaze.
In desperate need to feel loved Crane sets out on a mission to be married. She later marries a man that she’s not really interested in only marrying him to gain popularity. While reading the story I could feel the pain and imagine how hard she struggled to feel accepted. As being the only darkest in my family I often struggle to be notice and accepted too. This novel to me is altogether depressing and very hard to read without crying.
“The inexhaustible charm that rose and fell”(120) in Daisy's voice captured everyone she met, and held them close to her heart. She had thought she loved Gatsby with all her heart, but she knew things had to change. After the murder of Myrtle, she had to choose between the man she loved, and the man she would come to love. She had to forget about true love and think about her child's need for her father. Tom said he loved Daisy, but “his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.”(20).
Love drives the heart of the story. Nicks love for his cousin and his new found friends. Gatsby’s love for Daisy, Toms love for Daisy as well as his woman on the side, Myrtle and of course Myrtle’s husbands love for her, which leads him to the tragic ending of the film. The Classism is clearly shown that Gatsby’s soul reason for desiring and acquiring wealth is solely to capture the woman of his dreams heart by means of showing he can continue the rich and lavish lifestyle she has grown used to while married to her rich polo player of a husband. Also shown by the poor car mechanic husband of Myrtle being happily married and in love with his woman while the rich Tom comes around to woo his wife away secretly on her desire for a more financially stable and available man in her life.