1. “Both ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ and ‘The Bloody Chamber’ deal with the perennial feminist theme of the confinement of women in particular rooms, chambers, houses and roles”. Discuss. This is essay attempt to discuss the role of the women in literature, both about the protagonists and the authors of the stories. As an example two influential short stories will be discussed in depth in order to shed light into the lives of the two authors and their stories.
Without fresh stories of Mrs. Torrens he is bored and unexcited. Like the Geraniums Kathleen Torrens has flair, and personality. They poke fun at her but secretly wished their wives were more like her, “seizing their wives for love-making held onto the visions of Mrs. Torrens.. As she walked the fence.” The towns opinion is that she is crazy, which we can tell she clearly is. “momma can’t drive properly when you do that” is an indication the children also know. She is also in many way superior to the other men’s wives.
How does Miller present Abigail in Act 1 of ‘The Crucible’? Abigail is portrayed very early on in act 1 as a girl who very much lacks respect for others. Specifically Elizabeth Proctor, whom she describes as a “bitter woman” when talking to her uncle, Reverend Parris. The adjective “bitter” suggests that Goody Proctor only thinks of herself and expresses intense hostility. Miller uses irony in this as it is in fact Abigail who shows these attributes towards Elizabeth after Abby’s affair with John Proctor and becomes jealous of their marriage.
Josie could not forgive Nonna because she was always mentioning Christina’s mistake of sleeping with Micheal Andretti. Nonna was a hypocrite; she had always treated Christina badly because of her one mistake. Josie said that Nonna had the hide seventeen years ago to treat Mama the way she did when all the time she had done worse. Nonna slept with an Australian while she was married. Josie resents Nonna’s interference in both hers’ and Mama’s lives and despises her grandmother for being set in her ways.
SOCI 3356 Queer Identities MW 2/1/2012 Butch, according to the dictionary, means "a female homosexual with mannish or aggressive traits (The New Oxford American Dictionary)." A stone butch has been so battered by homophobia and sexism and the intractable human fear of difference overall that her emotions have turned to stone she doesn't know how to express the love she does feel, and is terrified of the love that others want to give her. A stone butch has every reason to feel the blues. From her earliest memories, Jess Goldberg knew she was painfully different from other girls. She hates wearing dresses.
Because of her hate towards Proctor’s wife, Elizabeth, Abigail creates demented tales, directed at abolishing the “problem.” Though Abigail’s wild canards seem quite obtuse in civilization today, at the time her acts fell to justification. Furthermore, because of Abigail’s childlike disposition in wiggling her way out of punishment as well as her lust and love for John Proctor, she found deceiving the people of Salem easy, seeing as the threat of witchcraft and demons loomed dangerously in the hearts and minds of all who lived there. Though the
She became mean too since she was lonely and the men rejected her. Curley’s wife was so lonely that she looked like a desperate, sour woman but when she died “the meanness and the plannings and the discontent and the ache for attention were all gone from her face. She was very pretty and simple, and her face was sweet and young.” (Steinbeck109). Loneliness had affected Curley’s wife so much that the only time she looked happy and in peace when she died. Loneliness had made her so much harm in the way that she was better off dead because she did not have the lonely feeling anymore and she looked like what she was- a young sweet, pretty, simple girl.
(Macbeth I, v, 26) Lady Macbeth made Macbeth feel bad about himself, by lowering his manhood and bravery. Lady Macbeth deceives everyone so well that people were scared to tell her about Duncan’s death, not thinking she can handle it. “Look like an innocent flower /but be the serpent under it” (Macbeth I, IV, 65-66) this means to look innocent and pure but to be evil on the inside. At first Lady Macbeth is able to keep her cool and not think anything of the deed. Macbeth on the other hand cannot sleep and starts to see things.
In Jing-Mei’s point of view she was rude to her mom by bringing back terrible memories. While Jing-Mei’s mom was yelling at her, Jing-Mei brought up “I wish I were dead like them.” (Tan41). What Jing-Mei means is she wants to be dead like her past siblings. Before Jing-Mei was born her mom had other children but they all died, so Jing-Mei was the only one that lived. In Amy’s point of view she was rude to David her “best friend”.
Me sista, she had to leave us” May doesn’t even belong with her mother anymore because she is dead “Mungi and the stingray lay around in my beating mind” May remembered the stingrays pain just like the pain her mother would have gone through “Everything, through Aunty’s tired eyes, was bad luck. Bad luck until she won the Tip Top Bread Grocery Grab. After the win everything seemed to be a game, a gamble” May felt she could belong with her aunty. But after her aunty winning something she is now a drinker and a gambler. May doesn’t want to belong to