Bradstreet’s use of metaphor allows her to relate the complex relationships of being a parent to being an author. When the narrator calls her creation her “ ill-formed offspring of [her] feeble brain” she draws parallels between how parents can feel about their children when frustrated (line 1). The narrator refers to her work as a “ rambling brat” to show how difficult it is to accept something she has created (7). The narrator seems to feel this difficulty not only as an author but also as a mother. As a frustrated parent feels the narrator once again uses the metaphor of a child to describe how an author feels when their work does not turn out how they wanted.
Case Study Journal The case study “Sharing the Secret” is a gripping examination of adults having to hide and secretly deal with their experience with incest. Molestation is horrible but incest takes it to a whole neither level, and this case study shows the hardships and tribulations that someone has growing up after being a victim of incest. The most aggravating part of the study for me was the fact that all of these women had been pretty much brainwashed by their attacker. It relates to the subject of Public and Private Selves in our class text book. These women, after being victimized, are under an extreme amount of mental turmoil and because of their age the girls aren’t well respected by adults.
When reading this poem it seems short and a bit confusing to the reader, but once the reader finds something to apply it to, doors open to many new meanings. The poem contains a theme of madness against sanity, and remains open to a variety of deeper meanings. I applied this poem to Amy Tans book, The Bonesetter’s Daughter, because both the poem and the book contain a theme of rebellion, as well as madness. The Bonesetter’s Daughter focuses on the relationship experienced between a mother and her daughter. The book goes through three different time phrases from modern day California to the lives of Precious Auntie and Luling, and then transitions to Ruth understanding more about her mother and the wonderful person she didn’t see her for when she was growing up.
Macbeth Essay In the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare corruption is everywhere whether it is intentional or unintentional some of the most unexpected characters become corrupted. Furthermore when ambition goes unchecked by moral boundaries corruption is created and in turn it leads to devastation. Corruption is most evident in the three witches in Macbeth as they are very deceitful. In addition corruption and unchecked morals are also found in the two main characters, Lady Macbeth and Macbeth, in each situation there ambition which was created by the witches leads to the pair committing more and more cruel acts. This transformation is first true with Macbeth who changes completely from a genuine courageous solider to a bloodthirsty person
In the previous vignette Esperanza was scolded by a nun who said Esperanza lives in an ugly house across the school and even though she didn’t live there she was too embarrassed to tell the nun that she didn’t live there(Cisneros 45). Another theme in this vignette is sexuality. Esperanza is growing up to become a woman as shown in Vignettes “Marin”, “Boys and Girls”, “Sally”, and “Edna’s Ruthie” in which Esperanza is learning how to be a woman. Esperanza’s shame of her feet is an obstacle of her development in becoming a woman and she has to overcome that shame to become a woman as she did in the vignette. When
In The Snow Child the themes of sex and violence are closely linked. This tale is particularly disturbing, with the rape of a dead chid at the end of the tale. The Snow Child is violent from the very opening where the Count and Countess coming across “a hole in the snow; this hole is filled with blood”. This has violent connotations as it is never explained why the hole is filled with blood. The Countess’ plan to kill the child is also violent as she wants to be “rid of her” and hopes that the child will drown.
Major Characters; Carla - As the oldest amongst the four girls, she feels left out and out of place when her family moved to the United States and finds it hard to fit in her new social and cultural environment. She was harassed at school by malicious and prejudiced boys, and felt isolated by her limited English language abilities. Her discomfort with puberty was exacerbated by an encounter with a perverted American exhibitionist in a car. She dealt with these issues later in life by becoming a psychologist and analyzing her family's sort of mental issues. Sandra - Her artistic abilities were frustrated as a child by poor art instruction and a terrible fall which badly broke her arm.
She gains more emphasis of the tone towards the end of the poem, when she is taking the fall off of the window ledge. The poem uses first person point of view. “I apologize for disappointing you.” (lines 5-6). This causes the poem to be even more melancholy and sad, than it would be if the poet were to have used third person limited point of view, because the reader would not feel the intense emotion behind the words of the speaker. The poet uses simile throughout the poem to explain that if she were something different than herself, then she would meet the expectations of her parents.
In Arthur Miller's The Crucible Abigail William's traumatic childhood has turned her into a vindictive person who's need for self-preservation has driven her to value nothing but her own life. Horrid incidents such as the grisly one Abigail sustained can have such a tremendous impact on a child's perspective and personality. The lack of attention and love Abigail received during her childhood has furthermore induced her to act very brutally towards people in order to fulfill her urges and needs. The traumatic events a child has experienced can have various complex influences on their development. For example the exposure of ruthless acts of violence inflicted on the child's parent can manipulate the child's attitude as well as behavioral
The course of enacting revenge is symbolically signified through the fervour of allegations of witchcraft, which destroys all judgment and creates a sense of belonging with the members of the community that have been involved in monstrous actions, such as killing babies and communicating with the devil. Miller, having been blamed of being a communist along with many of his friends, is critical of this hysteria. Despite some of his characters’ legitimate fear of witchcraft, the fervour surrounding their accusations leads to innocent people being accused of wrongdoing to satisfy vengeful grudges and create a sense of belonging. Abigail accuses Elizabeth of witchcraft in order to seek revenge, as Elizabeth acknowledges when she says, Abigail ‘thinks to kill me, then to take my place’. This shows Abigails desire to belong not only to proctor but also within the community, by taking Elizabeth’s position.