She finds daily work challenges and working with driven people to be highly motivating and she sees herself as a “star” at work. Based on her beliefs of what makes a good parent, she is also highly motivated to be a devoted mother at home. The motivators are conflicting and she is feeling pressured, guilty, unhappy and stressed, The MARS model of individual behaviour and performance is a good illustration of Anna’s current difficult situation. Her behaviour and performance is deteriorating as role perceptions and situational factors clash with her motivators. Motivation – Anna much prefers the daily challenges of working on a client site over working on internal office projects.
Explore the ways that Tennessee Williams constructs the character of Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire and Willy Russell constructs the character of Rita in Educating Rita in light of the opinion that they have the desire to escape reality and fulfil their fantasies. Despite being set in different periods of history, both plays ‘Educating Rita’ and ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ share similar themes of the fine line between fantasy and reality, and losing yourself in the former. In 1945 Tennessee Williams began work on the play ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’, and with the war ending in the same year, the play to reflects the cultural tensions of World War 2. Many felt uncomfortable being an environment with so many nationalities they were only a few years ago at war with. Cultural tensions are present in Blanche’s remark that Stanley is a ‘Polack’; during World War 2, the Polish were seen as the enemy; Blanche using this insult is not because she is against Polacks, but is her taking advantage of the frequently used insult at the time.
Despite being written during patriarchal Jacobean society, the protagonist is a female, which is was highly unusual in those days. Of course this protagonist is Lady Macbeth. Throughout the play, through Lady Macbeth's actions we are forced to believe that she is evil. In contrast, the novel John Steinbeck tells a story of dreams, hopes and loneliness. We are introduced to a majorly significant and complex character, named Curley’s wife.
She knows what is happening to her family members as they are taken away, but she only seems to worry about her own life. This allows us to see that the grandmother is uncaring and selfish. Even though she is a victim in this tragic event, she is also somewhat of the person who caused it. After all, she is the one who chose that specific route, but that could just be a sick twist of fate. Throughout the story, we constantly hear of the grandmother’s judgmental views of the misfit.
She learned to dress, act and interact with the rich and powerful to get what she wanted. My first impression of her was that she was a well-dressed and very well spoken woman. When she said that she had come from being poor to marrying rich I immediately thought of the bourgeoisie and the “new money” class. Sayles used her expertise with dealing with wealthy people as role models in her achieved status. She used it to her advantage and also created a career for herself as a “self help consultant,” helping people that were just like her to gain a higher status in society.
As I Lay Dying “A mother’s love is instinctual, unconditional, and forever.”- Anonymous. The novel, As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner is about a family, the Bundren’s journey across the Mississippi river in order to bury their beloved mother, Addie, who resented the life she lived. Although Addie is dead throughout most of the story she remains as important and constant as she was alive as she is deceased. Addie wasn’t the best example of a mother. Out of all her four children Addie loved Jewel the most, which is the child she conceived with another man.
She cannot let go, and blames her sister for the death of her son. She wants revenge, but also feels that she needs it and cannot let go. She had her son taken from her by her sister, as she had her child illegitimately and caused shame upon her family. You have sympathy for her here as she does not deserve to have her son taken away from her. It seems unfair, as she loves her child but she knew the consequences of having a child outside marriage, so knew what would happen to her and her son.
“The picture of that girl, the fact that she had lived neighbor to that girl for twenty years, and had let her die for lack of life, was suddenly more than [Mrs. Hale] could bear” (194). She feels responsible and blames herself for what has happened to Minnie. She believes that the reason that she stayed away - “because it weren’t cheerful” (192) was the very reason she should have gone to see Minnie. She reacts to her refusal to visit Minnie as a crime in itself. “Oh, I wish I’d come over here once in a while!” she cried.
This shows how she is handicapped by the fact that she is a woman, in a society controlled by men. Her arrest is not justified by any suspicion; instead she is arrested simply by default after the murder of her husband, Camillo. In her trial Vittoria is similarly scolded by her social superiors for her ‘lavish
First of all, Neil Herbert finally realizes that Mrs. Forrester was actually no one without her husband; and that it was her husband that made her valuable, by what he said about her to people. I think that at this point Neil understands who she really was and stops loving her, since she is not the wonderful woman she used to be. The captain’s death also affects Mrs. Forrester since, she is now no one, and especially because people who used to love her, are not interested in her anymore. I think this death is the key to her sudden change in personality. I think Mr. Forrester death, was actually more than one person death, it was actually the death of a whole atmosphere that used to take place in Sweet