When Abigail was talking to Proctor she says “She is telling lies to about me! She is a cold sniveling woman, and you bend to her!”(Page 15, act one) she is basically showing her jealousy towards his wife. This stirred up the witch trials because Abigail wanted to be with Proctor and she would do just about anything. The fact that John proctor realizes all of his flaws and confesses to all of his sins is another reason why he can be considered a tragic hero. When Proctor had to go to the court to get his wife out of being accused of upholding witchcraft he eventually confess to his sins he committed.
Nancy Smith Jacquelyne Kibler Eng 091 June 20th, 2013 A Good Man Is Hard to Find “‘She would of been a good woman,’ The Misfit said, ‘if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.’ ” (O'Connor 29) The Good Man is Hard to Find is a tragic story of a family who decided to go on a vacation, but got killed randomly on the road by a serial killer on the loose named “The Misfit”. The main character of the story is a grandmother. At first she seems to be the typical grandmother who still thinks that her son is a little boy and he has to do what she wants, although he is a grown up man. She wants to be right all the time and she acts as if she knows everything. Flannery O’Conner portrayed the unnamed grandmother in “A
What she dreams of there in the center of those wires is a world of precision efficiency and tidiness like a pocket watch with a glass back, a place where the schedule is unbreakable.” (Kesey 28,29) Through this quote you can tell the preciseness that Nurse has, she is not a lax person she is very stringent when it comes to the rules she has in the ward. ” So she really lets herself go and her painted smile twists, and she blows up bigger and bigger, big as a tractor… you can smell the machinery inside. She has to change back before she’s caught in the shape of her hideous real self.”(Kesey 5) Nurse ratchet rarely fails to show her façade, evidently in this quote. When Ratchet is out of character it is ephemeral it never lasts long. Kesey uses simile-comparing Ratchet to a roaring tractor to show her true side and what it is like when she shows her self, but then she quickly changes because she doesn’t want anyone to catch on to her.
Protection in the Midst of the Storm Mary Rowlandson develops the theme of God’s sovereignty clearly through her comments and use of Scripture in her work, A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson. She first addresses this theme in her first remove. In this portion of the book, Rowlandson laments about the condition of her wounded daughter and herself. God remains unmentioned throughout the entirety of this section as she describes the terror of being forced to live in “the resemblance of hell.” (45) She portrays in vivid detail the desolation of being captured while the rest of her family and friends are either slaughtered or separated. In her “at present worse than death” (45) condition, she focuses on survival and grieves her
Rosaleen believes that Lily should just leave the topic alone and that she may discover something she just does not want to know. Rosaleen fears that Lily will be more hurt by her discoveries in finding her past that happy and relieved, “ ‘Maybe she was. I can’t say. I just know some things are better left alone.’ ‘What do you mean? That I shouldn’t find out what I can about my own mother?’ ‘What if—’ She paused and rubbed the back of her neck, ‘What if you find out something you don’t wanna know?’ " (Kidd, 100) Another controversial view studied by Emanuel states that Lily must confront the hardship of her mother’s death head on and that it may have a
Hair spray? (Oates 323) You don’t see your sister using that junk.” Connie hated when her mother would do this. She would say she hated her mother and wish she were dead. But when she has to make a decision on whether to jeopardize her own life or her mother’s, she chooses to put hers in jeopardy. When it came to describing her sister June, Connie thought of her as just a 24 year old secretary who still lives at home with her parents.
She weathered the jilt by asking God to justify being left at the altar and granny takes it as jilt after not getting a sign from God. Although it is not known if God did what Granny asked of him. Years after the jilt the memory of throwing out the cake was a symbol that Granny was letting go of the pain she was left with when George left her at the altar. Before Granny died she had requested Cornelia to do one more thing for her. “I want you to find George.
Another instance is when she asks her mother for the quilts her grandmother had made, her mother said they were for Maggie; Dee's reply was, “Maggie wouldn't appreciate the quilts” and Maggie says, “Dee can have them” (Walker 2441). Furthermore, all of the things Dee ask for she wants to use them for decoration and not for everyday use. Dee also was not educated about her heritage. For instance, her mother called her “Dee” and in return she replied saying her new name was Wangero, followed by the statement, “Dee is dead and I can no longer bear the name of the people that oppress me” (Walker 2440). I believe there was no time during the story that she was oppressed or even mentioned
Throughout the story, we constantly hear of the grandmother’s judgmental views of the misfit. However, when she is faced with her death in the end, her hypocritical side shines through. She tells the Misfit that they are in the same category; that they are both good people. The grandmother, in her way of pleading, tries to convince the Misfit that he is indeed a “good man” even though she thought of him as a terrible person before he held her life in his
She reaches out to touch him on his shoulder and it is during this moment when he gets spooked and shoots her in the chest killing the woman. As the two henchmen drag the old lady away to be placed with the other family member The Misfit says to them, “ She would have been a good woman…If it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life….It’s no real pleasure it life” (273). In the End The Misfit’s understands what occurred in the grandmother’s final moments, and seems to recognize two things about her. First, he fully understands that despite her observable religious beliefs—which she conveys through her self-proclaimed identification as a “lady” and religious instruction—the grandmother is not, in fact, a good woman. She is flawed and weak, and her age grants her no