Our lives aren’t furtive, just our feelings towards people like you” (50). Andre’s mother is repeatedly bashed at by Cal because of her “disapproval” on Andre’s homosexuality. Where in the text does it state that Andre’s mother directly disapproved of his homosexuality? All it states is that Andre was AFRAID of her disapproval. What happens at the climax of the play?
However, Shakespeare makes it clear that in fact others’ narrow-mindedness is key to Richard’s success. In addition, the women in King Richard III are able to see through Richard’s duplicity but have no influence with which to expose him. Shakespeare explores the inherent sexism of Yorkist society and how it leaves the women with no control. Richard’s eventual downfall comes as a result of insatiable greed and paranoia, and his fear of losing power clouds his sight, preventing him from comprehending those around him and ultimately leading to his death. However, even once Richard realises he can do nothing to prevent his defeat, he asserts that he would rather fulfil his hellish role with pride than retreat in cowardice.
Miss Schwartz is a people pleaser, and she must learn to treat herself with dignity. Multiple times in the story Miss Schwartz does not take responsibility for her actions. After taking the dress from the department store Lena is not sure about bringing the dress back. The narrator states, “she would have gone back with the dress, but did not know how to go about it.” Miss Schwartz knows that it is wrong to steal, but she does not truly want to return the dress. To take the blame off herself she makes up the excuse
As I said before in the beginning of the book Romeo and Juliet, Romeo is gloomy and feeling hopeless about love because Rosaline (the women he “loves”) is not going to get married. He says: “She is too fair, too wise, wisely to far, To merit bliss by making
“Friar Lawrence, less ambitious and more desperate than his fellow manipulators, does not hope that Juliet’s death will dissolve the families’ hatreds but only that it will give Romeo and chance to come and carry her off” (Snyder). At this point Romeo and Juliet’s relationship could not solve the problems between the families and the Friar was only uniting them. This is what made the Friar so repulsive. Even now after deaths and family issues, He treated the situation like a game. “Hold, daughter, I do spy a kind of hope, / Which craves as desperate an execution / As that is desperate which we would prevent (4.1.69-71).
Initially, McMurphy attempted to go against the norm by refusing to shower and have his temperature checked. However, his attempts proved feeble against Ratched because she ultimately had control and his solo efforts could not overcome Ratched. Additionally, Bromden stated “She’ll go on winning just like the Combine, because she has all the power of the Combine behind her.”(133). The reason in this statement is that the power of an individual is subordinate to the power of the society. Meaning McMurphy was nearly an ant and Nurse Ratched a child with a magnifying-glass.
Depicting women as unnatural entities, voiceless and agent less, to their male counterparts destroys any shot of redemption for the fairer sex, so Conrad aligns all the women in the narrative with unreality to evolve the importance of separate realms. By holding ignorant ideas, such as Marlow's aunt, or exotic appearances, such as Kurtz's mistress, the women are discounted as impractical, or if they hold some merit, they are viewed as eerie. Either way, they are made of none of the material found in the world of men, and so disaster befalls the men that dare breach the boundary between the worlds. The first women that Conrad's main character, Marlow, recounts are the two knitters at the Company office in Brussels. The younger one greets the men who come in for examinations before they leave for the "unknown," African wilderness, creating the illusion of a comfortable environment in what is otherwise an unsettling experience (Conrad 8).
Pride can easily be depicted as the story progresses to the very end and not only from a few minor characters, but from major characters as well. Prejudice As the novel progresses on, another prevailing theme, aside from pride, is prejudice. During the ball, Elizabeth immediately depicts prejudice towards Darcy. Darcy comes off as pompous and snobby, “[he is] the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world.” (18) His reasoning for not wanting to dance with Elizabeth was also what made Elizabeth prejudice towards Darcy, she showed “no… cordial feelings towards him” (19) by the end of the night. Mrs. Gardiner also displays her prejudice as she is the one that doesn’t want Elizabeth to associate with Wickham because of his impoverishment.
They have been conditioned to remain silent in the face of abuse as it shows “patience” Subjugation and injustice is normalized and soon becomes the status quo. The minute women start speaking about being granted their Shar’i rights-they are immediately labelled as selfish and blamed for not fulfilling their duties as “good Muslim women” and that they should simply deploy the virtue of patience and wait for their reward in the Afterlife. Muslim women who acquired feminist consciousness and sought equal rights were under pressure to conform to nationalist priorities and the women who braved trying to change the ancient and traditional laws by inculcating Islamic texts came under fire and their efforts were construed as a kind of
And since, in her opinions, it’s an “astonishment that Wickham should marry a girl whom it was impossible he could marry for money”, the union of these two disgraceful people is both surprising and amusing news. Lydia would have attached herself to any other officer, clearly implies that there is no love in this relationship. The fact that Wickham has been such a scammer before shows that he does have commitment, but it’s commitment to the money, not the girl he marries. With that, there are high doubts that there could be understanding between two people, who marries each other not out of love and commitment, but because of lust and money. Next, Austen describes the marriage between Mr. Collins and Charlotte Lucas as a typical marriage during the Regency Period, which completely lacks love, but includes a moderate degree of understanding and a lot of commitment.