Rosemary has faith that she can deliver the child. Without proof, Rosemary holds to the belief that her child is alive and she can free him. By choosing to be a real mother to her child, she ultimately chooses faith in the Devil. As the all evidence continues to tell Rosemary that something is wrong, Rosemary’s desire to have a child and take care of it alters her decision to take action against the cult. So she ultimately makes the choice to ride out the horrible pain her pregnancy was giving her, not really believing the depth of the conspiracy, until the choice is actually made for her.
In Jacobean times women were seen as inferior and even in the Victoria era, thus she required external forces to crush her conscience to allow her to fulfil her ambition. Yet she is afraid her feminine qualities will prevent her from achieving the murder of King Duncan. Which would gradually lead to her mental breakdown. Regicide was considered a mortal sin in Jacobean times, one God couldn't forgive. Whereas Browning’s protagonist in The Laboratory sustains her feminine qualities this is reflected in the line “The colours too grim” in which she is referring to her dislike of the colour of poison and that it needs to be 'brightened' up in order to convince her victim to drink it.
In order to express her feminist ideas, Atwood uses criticisms of Offred and Janine’s complacency juxtaposed with positive feminist role models like Moira. When Offred has the affair with the commander, she is helping to sate the loneliness and desires of a man who is part of her oppression. She is therefore partly responsible for her oppression because she is helping her oppressor. As Barbara Ehrenriech¹ said, Offred’s character ‘has sunk too far into the...household she serves’. Although this can be seen as a failure of Atwood to create a strong feminist character, it seems to be more intended as an anti-role model, making Offred’s complicity obviously undesirable.
“It was wrong to open other people's letters, but it was right, it was essential, for her to know everything.” (144). She feels guilt for doing what she knows is wrong, but her desire to control all aspects of life, as if she were an author, leads her to feel that her actions are not only justified, but right. When Briony decides that Robbie was guilty of raping Lola, she wants no evidence to the contrary. Her thoughts are that, “Everything connected. It was her own discovery.
Her insanity drives her to challenge the status quo. "Miss Emily's story constitutes a warning against the sin of pride: heroic isolation pushed too far ends in homicidal maddness" (Brooks 14). Miss Emily, as many critics would have us believe, was not wholly responsible for her actions, her crimes. From her birth Emily is manipulated by a father whoe
For example, turning down Mr. Collins may demonstrateher as a no-brainer woman among the society at that time. But by rejecting him, this suggests that Elizabeth places her own judgment over social pressures to comfort. In spite of the fact that she has been forced to get married with Mr. Collins by her mother, she persists to her strong position of rejecting his proposal. Plus, although Lady Catherine tries to strong-arm her into rejecting any proposal from Mr. Darcy, Elizabeth gets angry and asks her to get away. Hence, it can be noticed how Austen stresses on the empowerment of women through Elizabeth’s
The third part was Gynocritics, which tried to “revise Freudian structures and... emphasized a Pre-Oedipal phase wherein the daughter's bond to her mother inscribes the key factor in gender identity” (Lee). All three parts relate back to Morag’s character. Morag is a writer and would like to agree with the Androgynist poetics and the notion that creativity is genderless and does not pertain to a particular sex but she faces the problem that arises with the Female Aesthetic where emphasis is put on the physical part of being a female. Morag is insecure when she is young because she does not know how to flirt and use that side of her femininity. She feels like will not “ever attain the status of high
Lear is overwhelmed by grief from being betrayed by his daughters. Because Lear gave all control to his daughters, his ability to serve justice was gone. Without his power to serve justice, Lear cannot do much against his daughters’ wills. Justice must exist to shield defenceless people, like Lear, to prevent the people from abusing their powers. It can do this by acting as a weapon that punishes the unjust.
Margaret Atwood makes use of several dichotomies throughout her novel, all to demonstrate how the truth is in the eye of the beholder. On the surface, the novel appears to be about a well put together woman searching for her father; however, in reality, this novel dives deep into a person’s essential nature where appearance and reality are anything but the same. She reminds readers that in reality, appearances barely scratch the surface of the truth. In Surfacing, Atwood relates new experiences to previous events that affect the narrator’s adult life, therefore ruining many of her relationships between her and loved ones. In the novel, the story places a position on the narrator’s feelings towards the blue bird known as the heron.
The story is told within the context of this sentence. Celie, the protagonist in the novel is silenced when she is denied agency in shaping her own life experiences. The silencing in its different forms begins, when Celie is raped and impregnated at the age of fourteen. Her silencing is also due to her dependency on patriarchal support, deprivation of education, has her self- esteem diminished and any form of love that she has or receives wiped out. The rape and other forms of silencing, also encountered by other women in the novel, make them embrace subjectivity and the patriarchal rule.