Strangeworth writes letters to the people of the town pointing out their flaws. The reason she does this is because she thinks its her duty to keep the town alert to the evil of the world, “ it was Miss. Strangeworth's duty to keep her town alert to it” (Jackson 210). Yet that is not what entirely makes her evil its the fact that she has no compunction when it comes to her letters. There is also the fact that she has a dissolute feeling when she knows the people that she mailed the letters to will read them.
In “The Possibility of Evil” by Shirley Jackson, the author gives a positive image on reader’s opinion(s) of the main by using both character and behaviour traits. Miss Strangeworth is described as an innocent, responsible, caring, elderly woman who is well respected by everyone in the town. Jackson makes Miss Strangeworth seem innocent by describing her having “blue eyes wide with wonder” because it creates an image in your mind of her having a nice look that makes her seem innocent. Jackson also makes Miss Strangeworth seem well respected by everyone in town. “When she came into the grocery, half a dozen people turned away from the shelves and counters to wave at her or call out good morning.” This is because everyone would want to greet Miss Strangeworth out of passion and respect they had for her since she was well know by everyone.
The role that Ophelia plays in Hamlet is in some ways peripheral to the plot; she is included solely to develop Hamlet's role in the play and it not the key to any of the events in the play. The symbolism of much of her language, however, does add to the range of meanings conveyed by the dialogue; an example of this is when she is throwing flowers around after her father's death. Flower imagery is used on the one hand to symbolize her purity. But in her "mad" scene, her throwing down the flowers has been interpreted as her 'symbolically deflowering herself ‘. In this scene, which depicts the peak of Ophelia's
I took the Orchid to be a symbol for New Pretty Town, saying that the pretty form of life is unsustainable and that we need diversity to survive. Finally, as she begins to assimilate into the Smoke way of life, without all of the fancy technology of her old life, she begins to realize the natural beauty of the world. As Tally says, “Nature… at least didn’t
The way she treats her children is un-motherly and selfish, for example when “she had not noticed that her children’s clothes were ruined: had not even scolded them about that” (White 263). In itself, it does not sound so bad, but when the story continues it says that even though she didn’t care about that, once “she found out about the unicorn later in the evening she had them whipped for it” (White 263). This also seems not too absurd, since she is punishing them for a wrongdoing. Although that is what it seems she is doing from an outside perspective, her actual intentions are clear when it continues saying that her reasons for beating them are because “she had spent an unsuccessful day with the English knights.” (White 263). Her reasons to punish her children were not their actions, but because of her own selfish reasons, it shows how twisted she is for behaving this way with her own
Nevertheless, perhaps because Dolly is the most important influence in his personality development, Collin remains an outsider in the town, never becoming a man of business like Riley Henderson or a political figure like Junius Candle—two characters who seem to serve as foils for him. Although Dolly Talbo at first has her doubts about the wisdom of trying to raise Collin in a household of women, she soon accepts him, allowing him to accompany her and Catherine on their excursions to the River Woods to gather roots and herbs. Dolly's mail order customers write to praise her "dropsy cure," but her shyness makes her an outsider in the town. Most of her neighbors consider her mentally slow, and her eccentric behavior has been the subject of comment even before she and her friends run away from home to live in a tree-house. Although she has never before opposed Verena's "household rules," Dolly refuses to allow exploitation of "the cure" she insists that she must have one thing that belongs to her alone and that this formula is the only thing she has ever kept from her sister.
This caused her to be humiliated and punished in front of the whole town. Hester Prynne unquestionably the protagonist of this novel even though she had committed sin at the beginning. Hester Prynne was given the chance for this story to never leave the town and she wouldn’t have had to wear the letter “A”, but she decided to stay in the town and succumb everything that was given to her. She tried to accomplish the best and succumb all of the punishments that were meant to diminish her. She constantly made herself useful towards the other people, and used the talents and gifts that were given to change the meaning of her punishment into her becoming he legend of her Puritan Age.
These rancid gems clearly negate any notion that she will fall into glitzy, fluffy descriptions of the beauty of dew drops forming on her rose bushes. Still, the next time that she shares a story that describes what we might call a “highly spiritual” near death experience, deeply moving notions of the lack of self and existing as rays of light that people generally
Relationships Assignment Pamela Macintyre Question 1: Personal Power: The meaning of Personal power is your own ability to make your own decisions. For example, in the movie ‘Mean Girls’ The “Plastics” have no control over their decisions and just follow orders; Whereas Janice and Damien can choose and make their own decisions. Social Power: Mean Girls shows the social power through “The Plastics”. Regina George is described as ‘Flawless, hot and awesome’ but people just see the cover of a vindictive, backstabbing high school girl. She created a ‘Burn Book’ so she could judge them based upon money, actions, race and sexuality for example she refused to go anywhere near Janice after claiming she was a ‘lesbian’.
Pearl said she had not been made at all but that she had been plucked by her mother off the wild rose bush that grew by the prison door. 6. He persuades Governor Bellingham and Mr. Wilson that Hester should be allowed to keep Pearl because God has given Hester both a blessing and a reminder of her