Terry Lee English 10 Period 7 Medea: Embed I. 1-61 Nurse’s Lament When Jason abandoned Medea and has married King Creon’s daughter, Nurse felt pity for Medea. Medea’s truth love toward Jason has led her to abandon her family, and now she is “crying to herself for her dear father, her home, her own land, all those things she left behind” (41-42). After “their fine love’s grown sick, diseased”, Nurse lamented the tragic story of Medea and Jason. (22) II.
Rossetti shows us she resents men and the power they have over women and also the weakness and few liberties that women have in this period. Rossetti chooses a first person narrative in this poem so the narrator can address her questions and laments to Kate. We are taken through an emotional journey with the maiden where we are told what happened to her. This explains her initial anger at Cousin Kate. The maidens Questions in the first stanza express her anger and confusion at the experiences she has had to endure.
Intermingled within her thoughts that seem to mean nothing, she expresses her grief as well as dropping subtle hints that Hamlet is the reason why she has gone insane. Ophelia has a difficult time dealing with her father's death, and ultimately ends up going mad because she can't cope with it. Unlike Laertes, Hamlet, and Fortinbras who have the option to revenge their fathers' death, Ophelia, cannot take revenge on Hamlet, because in the time period the play was written, it was improper for women to do so. Ophelia was completely devastated over her father's death, "He is dead, Gone to thy deathbed, He will never come again." When she is introduced as being mad in the play in Act IV, scene 5, she makes many references to her father's death through a song she sings.
Throughout the story Granny Watherall expresses herself through verbal communications and also her inner self-talk. Granny appears to be in denial of her death and has a hard time accepting her sickness that is pointed out by others. Fuming with anger and depression from her past, Granny cannot let go the thought of things such as, her first love George who left her on the wedding, to the death of her husband John and her daughter Hapsy. Granny’s psychological stresses give her difficulties in her death bed. In 1969, a psychologist by the name of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross came up with a method of supporting and counseling personal trauma associated with death and dying called “Stages of Grief”.
It’s dreadful when a man can’t trust his wife; it’s even worse when a man’s wife leaves him. Both scenarios are terrible, yet is it worse to lose your wife or to be second guessing her every intention? In the story “The Other Two” we see Waythorn lose trust in his wife due to her lack of truth about her previous marriages. In the story “A Temporary Matter” we see a couple that has lost the spark in their relationship after Shoba gave birth to a still borne, ultimately leading to her ending the relationship with Shukumar. Both of these stories show how any relationship, if not kept healthy, honest, and maintained can lead to a lack of trust or in severe cases, a breakup.
Compare and Contrast Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” and William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” are two short stories that hold many similarities and differences. Both of these stories are based on women who go from being depressed and lonely to insane. As a girl Emily’s father rejected all of her boyfriends causing her to never marry and become the talk of the town. The narrator of Gilman’s story who suffers from depression is forced to stay in her bedroom where she becomes delusional. Both of these stories portray many similarities and differences in the setting, characterization and symbolism, and most of all, how men have isolated these women from the real world driving them insane.
The reading shows the positive change that has taken over the feminine world from the eighteenth century until now. This story tells of Mrs. Mallard, who is suffering from heart trouble and is told false news of her husband’s death. “She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same with a paralyzed inability to except its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister’s arms. When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone.
Ruth, who suffers from her inability to distinguish reality from illusion, was a victim of a horrible relationship. She admits “ I had a boyfriend who tied me up and put me in a wardrobe so I wouldn’t run away” in the name of love. She tells the she “cried for days” after he left her. This twisted irony directly reflects her incapability to differentiate what is love and what she is told or deludes to be love. The play “Cosi” demonstrates that relationships that are based on love that is not genuine will easily perish, through exemplifying the failed relationships of the
Before Juliet meet’s Romeo, Lady Capulet is very distant from her daughter which is shown in several circumstances including when Lady Capulet announces “Nurse, give leave awhile. We must talk in secret. - nurse, come back again” (I, iii, 8-9). This quote is significant because it shows that just being alone with Juliet makes her nervous and shows the rift between them. After Juliet has refused to marry Paris, Lady Capulet gets very upset but even she is shocked by Lord Capulet’s reaction and shows this by saying “fie, fie, what, are you mad?” (III, iiiii, 163).
Women of the time were forced into settings they loathed, which is where the narrator finds herself day after day. Gilman uses the old room and its surroundings as a symbol for her helplessness and sorrow; the suffer feels run down, much life the old mansion. Ironically, all those around the narrator keep throwing her into the room and it only makes her worse; eventually making her want to jump out the barred windows. Much has changed in the treatment of depressed women, “Yellow Wall paper” serve as good documentation of past