• Elegy is also considered an epic poem: ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events • In the elegy, mention of Mercutio was left out and positive comments of Romeo’s behaviour, believed that Benvolio was homosexual. • Situation: Mercutio and Tybalt verbally and physically fight, resulting in the deaths. • Importance of passage: scene is considered the turning point of the play because it is where Romeo becomes exiled and the plan created by the Friar and the deaths come into play. • Structure: Component of elegy: dactylic hexameter followed by dactylic pentameter, with iambic pentameter for the second stanza/paragraph (from line 165) • Dactylic hexameter: meter used in an elegy, for the first line. Follows this pattern: — U | — U | — U | — U | — u u | — X (note that — is a long syllable, u a short syllable and U either one long or two shorts and X is an ancep (long) syllable).
These caused the post modern versions of her stories to adopt dualisms of combining sexual desires with naivety and give alternative interpretations that perhaps the male characters suffered victimisation instead. Within “The Bloody Chamber”, based on the fairy tale of Blue Beard, the dualism Carter builds is evident in the young girls’ character. Firstly, the fairytale depictions portray the girl as innocent, weak and naive with the use of lexis such as “girlhood”, “bony hips, my nervous pianist’s fingers” and “I thought I must truly love him” – therefore conforming to the gender constructs of gothic literature. Nonetheless, Carter’s use of sexually explicit language such as “young girl’s pointed breasts” and “now teasingly caressed me, egregious, insinuating, nudging between my thighs” provides the character with a sexually adventurous nature, and as a result the story moves away from the usual depictions of women and thus gothic conventions. Carter’s use of the narrative in first person gives a foresight into the girl’s mind, therefore suggesting due to the hyperbolic and romanticising language of “that magic place” when describing her wedding night that she is not entirely victimised by the male character but by
Although we see how destructive Proctor’s sin has been and how flawed he is as a result, we admire his determination to atone and sympathise with his dilemma. We see how Proctor realises his mistakes and how he acts differently around Abigail after the sin has been committed, ‘I will cut off my hand before I reach for you again’. This shows how he is devoted to Elizabeth and knows he has done wrong, with the extent of using harsh verbs, such as ‘cut’ to imply the force he feels towards her. The severance that Proctor has implied makes him gain our admiration as he shows his willingness to atone. The relationship between Proctor and Abigail is used as a heat metaphor, built on lust not love.
Rubbish at Adultery The title of the poem “Rubbish at Adultery” written by Sophie Hannah sets a straight forward tone that person involved in the adultery is ‘rubbish’ in his act. Hannah uses manifold structure, tone and language to paint humorous picture of an unfaithful relationship. The poem commences with the persona being irritated by the man who has come to have physical relationship with her. ‘Must I give up another night,’ suggests although they made several attempts earlier to have affair, nevertheless, the man has not extended his co-operation and wanted her to listen to his grievances every time they met. This idea is reinforced through the alliterated words ‘whinge and wine’.
English Monologue LADY MACBETH Intro Enters, looking frustrated. To “look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it”, how canst I hast wished upon this terrible thing? Yet how canst it be that my time as Queen is so short-lived whence I was so cunning? I plotted and schemed, leaving nay room for mistake. All these inexcusable, yet necessary, deeds that I have committed art for what?
Machado way of expressing his ironical approach to writing gives the women characters a dilemma attitude especially when he infers that the best way to define love in the world is not worth one kiss from the girl you love(pg 60). Allende on the other hand foreshadows much of the sensuality of the stories in the Prologue, as the Carle and Luna rest after love making, and in the painting that is their images, their skin gleaming moistly and lying in intimate complicity. Onetti portrays love and women as geared by unreasoned sexual desires and so women presents a distorted image of men, but Allende depicts women as the main cause of suffering irresponsible men inflict left to rear the children in
A tragic hero will effectively gain our fear and pity if he is a good mixture of good and evil. Ophelia can be viewed as a tragic hero in this play. We first meet Ophelia in Act 1, Scene 3 where she is warned by her brother Laertes that Hamlet is playing with her and that she should not keep her "chaste treasure open" suggesting that his sister has no 'worth of her own except in her sex'. Ophelia hears her brother but sticks up for herself and defends her relationship with Hamlet. She even turns Laertes' lesson around to focus on him and how he is doing exactly what he is telling Ophelia not to do.
In the story both the characterization and conflict help to show how “pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.” The characterization of the narrator allows the reader to see the problem brought about by having too much pride. The author’s use of indirect characterization in “The Scarlet Ibis” is one way the story relates to the quote. In the beginning of the story, the narrator said, “It was bad enough having an invalid brother, but having one who possibly was not all there was unbearable, so I began to make plans to kill him by smothering him with a pillow.” This demonstrates that the narrator has a hard time dealing with his brother’s disability. The author allows the reader to see how desperate the narrator is to have a typical life with an ordinary family. The narrator feels that it is one thing for Doodle to be disabled, but he would rather do away with Doodle than deal with the embarrassment of having him in his life if he were mentally weak as well.
This tale seems too bizarre and melodramatic which creates a fictional sense, and so, contradicts the narrator‘s main point. The opening story of the unanswered letter is able to catch the reader off guard when it takes an unsuspected turn in the end. In the beginning, I predicted that the heartfelt letter from Rat Kiley was going to sway Curt Lemon’s sister into his arms. The nightmarish ending gives the reader a bitter hearty taste of what a true war story is all about. Also, the smooth transition between hilarity and sorrow in his letter was heartbreaking, which I thought could be anything but
Through the novel, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the reader learns that the Puritan religion looks down on sinning and punishes sinners harshly. Through several examples throughout the text, the reader can conclude that Hawthorne did not agree with the Puritans’ attitude toward sin. Hawthorne uses satire throughout the novel to make fun of the Puritan views. The main character of the novel is Hester Prynne, who is found cheating on her husband. As a result, she is forced to wear a sewn scarlet “A” on her clothing.