With this hope he created life and gave meaning to young adult who had never been given a chance. Her one single goal was consciously only of personal superiority and to melt away her inferiority. She became assertive and competitive and fought for what many thought was impossible. At a rapid pace, she began to believe in herself and that little girl who was psychologically unhealthy, bloomed into a psychologically healthy young woman whom future achievements were limitless. She created her own opportunities and gained her success.
However, in doing this she has lost all emotion, and is alienated from other people by her inability to relate to other people. Havisham, who had been showed up on her wedding day, desires to destroy all mankind, but locks herself in a room for twenty years and does not talk to anyone save Estella. In all three examples, the characters are alienated by their desires and their goals. Pip, a sadly ignorant child, was brought up “by hand” by his sister Mrs. Gargery. He illustrates his harsh childhood by saying that “Having at that time to find out for myself what the expression meant, and knowing her to have a hard and heavy hand, and to be much in the habit of laying it upon her husband as well as upon me, I supposed that Joe Gargery and I were both brought up by hand.” (5) Even as a child, because of this harsh upbringing and his somewhat secluded home, he is not able to grow up with the other children and thus, is different from them.
4. Can you imagine this story told any other way, perhaps as a Poe story, “The Casket of Homer Barron,” beginning, “The dozens of insults of that low-born Yankee I had borne as best I could, but when he ventured to injure my good name before all the town I vowed revenge”? Prof. McCleanhan Eng. 161 8 Jun. 2013 The story A Rose for Emily is about a lady Miss Emily Grierson who was controlled by her wealthy father and grew to be an old maid.
The doll has been passed down from generation to generation in Josephine’s family, and seems to represent the tragedy of each woman’s demise. Josephine’s mother, Manman, is not introduced to readers in good health, but throughout the story the theme of depression is emphasized by the mother’s rapid decline in health and appearance. When Manman is first introduced to readers she is not in good shape. “Her skin barely clung to her bones, falling in layers, flaps, on her face and neck.” Despite her appearance, it seems that she is holding onto some hope. She tells Josephine that the guards “have not treated me badly.” She also describes to her daughter how the food Josephine brings her lasts for many months.
The Story of an Hour As the title puts it, “The Story of an Hour” is a story that happens in one hour. This story mostly revolves around one woman, Louise Mallard. The story begins on a very sad note especially in the eyes of a reader. Mrs. Mallard is said to have a “heart trouble” (Chopin 1), so her sister Josephine felt that great care had to be taken when delivering the sad news of her husband Brently Mallard’s death. Upon the delivery of the news, she starts sobbing and grieving then goes to her room to be by herself.
This quote came from the narrator describing Mrs. Mallard, a woman who has just been notified her husband has been killed. She hysterically cried, at first. Now she has this warming sensation, a feeling of freedom. In the end though, her husband has not truly died. After feeling all of this freedom, she dies after seeing he is alive.
Which both the wives and husbands were forced to marry, without loving each other. “She lay stone-still (line 6-7)”, means that her marriage had killed part of who she was because she was displeased with her marriage. Another literary device that is used in this poetic sequence is metaphor, “the strange low sobs that shook their common bed (line 3)”. Since they were probably forced to marry, they probably forced to have sexual relationships, which was why the wife would cry in their bed. Another example of metaphor would be, “drink the pale drug of silence (line10)”, which would mean that she is suffering and that she has to suffer quietly, no one much know that suffers in this marriage.
The story made me experience an emotionally drastic change of mood; I had a melancholic spirit. I felt pity for Homer, who did not have any intention to marry Emily until he met his death in her bedroom. I also felt the same for Emily whose father; Mr. Grierson had rejected many suitors who had come to seek a hand in marriage to her. The girl later lacks someone to marry after her father’s demise until she becomes infatuated with Homer who was not interested in marriage. “A Rose For Emily” has had a profound impact on me.
Perkins Gilman’s short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper," is the disheartening tale of a woman suffering from depression and how severely her condition is misunderstood by those around her. The setting of the story is in itself a character in the narrator’s story. The old mansion with the yellow wallpaper has many symbols used by the authors to explain the desperation of the narrator’s desperate loneliness. The ironic part of this tale is that her cure of “rest” only pushes the narrator further into her madness. The woman in this story is an ironic symbol of all women in her time, she is unheard and alone in her illness.
She states, “She had a fine person, many brilliant attainments; but her mind was poor, her heart barren by nature” (Brontë 1.239). She describes Miss Ingram as beautiful but a shallow person with no depth. Along with Jane, Mr. Rochester seems to see this and her true aspiration of only marrying him for his money. On the other hand, Jane’s wittiness and sharp responses to Mr. Rochester confusing comments enraptures Mr. Rochester. Mrs. Reed and her children had always treated Jane with disrespect; but when Mrs. Reed is dying Jane forgets her harsh treatment and stays with her until she died.