"(PROLOGUE 16-28)" In those lines Antigone shows that her “love” for her brother will leave her “hating” her sister. Ismene is fearful of burying Polyneices, “But think of the danger! Think of what Creon will do!” (PROLOGUE 34). Her devotion to her family is not as strong as Antigones. By accepting the obligation to bury Polyneices, Antigone acts as if she has no choice.
Change comes with certain adjustments, and everyone deals with these adjustments differently; therefore, ultimately, the poet suggests that if these adjustments are not met with reality at the right time, it can be costly to everyone involved. In Nepinak’s poem, he describes the grandmother as an old fashioned woman living in the modern day world. The unfamiliarity of her surroundings causes her to constantly live her life within her dreams. The words “berries” and “roots” create an image of the nature she was once surrounded in and suggests her longing to be back in that environment. She takes comfort in the nostalgia of her past, which in turn becomes detrimental to her abilities to cope with the present, and ultimately the future.
While her getting worse than before, it dramatically shows the procedure of being enlightened in case of rising of female powers. There are several evidences that may represent narrator’s mental instability and they seem to be originated from John’s oppressive way to treat her. The narrator is afraid that John doesn't seem to understand her state fully enough. "Personally, I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change, would do me good." (1279) She knows doing her favorite work―writing―and traveling around beautiful places may be helpful to recover her nervous hypochondria, but she just tries not to make John irritated by doing nothing.
While ignorance can bring you happiness in the immediate future, it eventually takes its toll on one’s mental state. Living in the present may be more fitting for nescience, but in the long term when knowledge inevitably catches up one generally feels worse about what they did not know and they regret. If someone’s husband is cheating on their wife, and she does not find out about it until much time has passed, there is more significance to the problem when she does find out. Time causes secrets to gain importance -- it takes away the immediate response to something and may help someone be ready for the truth when it comes; a property most beneficial in the short
She is first perceived as a weak character who Iago says keeps many thoughts to herself: "She puts her tongue a little in her heart," meaning that many of her most critical thoughts remain unsaid. Even Desdemona has to encourage her to speak. This silence throughout much of the play may be one cause of her drastically changing at the end. Initially Emilia sets out to please Iago without question, as this was her role as an Elizabethan wife, however at the end she speaks against him when she realizes his true intentions. Her change at the end of the play could show that she’s isn’t an outsider, as she now has her own opinion and her own voice like many of the other characters within the play.
She says “One may also lose one’s sense of humor. That’s the easiest to lose and the hardest to survive without” (Mairs 48). Although she’s lost almost all usage of her left hand and still has a blind spot in her right eye, Mairs continues to do the things she loves. She doesn’t dwell on the fact that she can no longer run, let alone walk without a cane. While she is upset by this, she instead thinks about the things she can do such as, “writing, teaching, raising children and cats and plants and snakes, reading, speaking publicly about MS and depression, even playing bridge” (Mairs 48) In the essay Mairs talks about two women, both with MS, living completely different lives.
At a young age Dickson lost her cousin and close friend Sophia Holland, which disturbed her deeply. Dickinson was also very close to nature and as a young woman enjoyed being outdoors. It is possible that Dickinson’s fear of death, as evident in this stanza, stems from events in her past such as the passing of her cousin and the only way she feels able to comprehend such a loss is through the use of figurative language with the theme of nature, to bring the topic of death to life a bit more. However, looking at this poem differently, it could be suggested that maybe death is something Dickinson longs for. ‘I willed me Keepsakes’ in the third stanza of this poem is simply stating that the person whose dying is prepared to die, they are ‘will(ing)’ to greet death.
Duffy’s clever use of enjambment starts off the second stanza slow but soon picks up the pace; further emphasizing this uneasy road that leads to foreign land. Duffy begins to feel ostracized as the one thing that distinguishes her best is considered wrong, her accent. A bit of culture shock is experienced, practices which she deems odd, are acceptable and common. “I want our own country”; it is interesting how Duffy uses the pronouns ‘you’ and ‘I’. She refers to herself in the 3rd person to address her concerns and relate to her readers; she uses the 1st person to express personal statements.
The evil that I felt was portrayed in Charlotte Temple is not the independence Charlotte wants, but the realization that she can’t get her independence happily without the financial and emotional assistance that others can give her. She even admits her confinement to being reliant on others after the letter from her parents. She says, “I will not wound the hearts of those dear parents who make my happiness the whole study of their lives…"(Rowson 46). This evil element of trying to discover her own independence taunts Charlotte throughout the text. Charlotte Temple, by Susannah Rowson was popular in the 19th Century simply because it was just that; simple.
Brill is not medicated to help her suppress her feelings and is a single elderly lady. In both stories escaping their own sense of self is something I also see. In both stories there is a lot of imagination built in to both main characters. The continuous change in Miss Brill’s short story was not that dynamic but I feel as if it was more changing than “the yellow wall paper. The scene in the yellow wall paper seemed to be confined to one room where Miss Brill short story moved from scene to scene.