She was finally died of an accident, but continued to bother him even after he had married the heroin. Rebecca was a perfect example of a femme fatale, she was a wonderful woman with a distorted heart. She went against all the basic rule a good wife and had a very strong power over de Winter. She ruined herself as well as Mr. de Winter Secondly, is the frequent using of low key lighting. Right from the beginning of the film, with the heroin began to narrate the story, a dark, misty ,gothic ruin of a old manor building was presented to the audience through low key lighting technique.
Justine Moritz is a minor character who is of major importance in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Justine only appears briefly, but makes a strong impression on the two main characters who are either directly or indirectly responsible for her death. She becomes the victim of the inaction of Victor Frankenstein, the actions of the Creature, and of the inadequacies of the justice system. Justine isn’t a fully realized character; she is the object and the subject of guilt, blame and injustice. A detailed physical description of Justine is never provided, but her personality is captured when Elizabeth writes how she can change Victor’s despondency into joy from a simple glance.
Some might even say Shelley ardently agreed with the position in which they found themselves and the securely fixed roles during the Victorian era. Caroline Frankenstein, for example, from the beginning is the embodiment of the idealised female. She is initially presented as the perfect daughter, nursing her father lovingly till his death, and progresses on to the perfect wife, though one might argue that she never ‘progresses’ at all . She remains pale, lacking the life and vigour the men in the book so often posses, and as a result the reader pushes her to the side as a minor character. But although at first Frankenstein may give the reader the impression that women have very little impact in the novel, Shelley slyly uses them to deconstruct the power and control that men had been enjoying for years .
The book has three basic narrators: Robert Walton, Victor Frankenstein, and Frankenstein's monster. The female characters are very weak in this novel, especially Elizabeth, Victor's cousin/fiancé (no they aren't from Arkansas). She is portrayed as the perfect woman, especially after Victor's mother, Caroline dies. She takes the place of the mother figure in the household. But just like all the female characters in the story, her character has little substance.
Edward, concerned for Bella's life and convinced that the fetus is a monster as it continues to develop with unnatural rapidity, urges her to have an abortion. However, Bella feels a connection with her unborn baby and refuses. The novel's second part is written from the perspective of shape-shifter Jacob Black, and lasts throughout Bella's pregnancy and childbirth. Jacob's Quileute wolf pack, not knowing what danger the unborn child may pose, plan to destroy it, also killing Bella. Jacob vehemently protests this decision and leaves, forming his own pack with Leah and Seth Clearwater.
She will not let this go so she regrettably hides in her dream world. Her fatal flaw will ultimately lead to her downfall when she becomes an alcoholic with nowhere to go to make the polka music go away. Therefore, characters take advantage of her and have sexual relations with her easily. Blanche is a tragic heroine because she has all the factors that make up a tragic hero. Other factors that make Blanche a tragic hero is those tragic heroes are responsible for his/her own fate.
Essay on Beowulf: Grendel’s mom: Hero or Monster. A hero, in the book Beowulf is described as someone that, “[bares] himself [or herself] with valour; / and... [takes] no advantage...(watches and controls) their god-sent strength and... natural powers” (2176-2184). When Grendel’s mother attacks Heorot after Beowulf defeated her son by ripping his arm out of his socket, she sneaks in and steals a very important person. “She pounced and [had] taken one of the retainers in a tight hold, / then headed for the fen” (1294-1295). At first glance Grendel’s moms actions seem very monster-like, but looking back into Beowulf it is clear that this is not the case.
The debilitated women in Frankenstein imitate what was socially expected of women in her time, while the monster demonstrates the only alternative available that is self-education. The monster's practice of education is congruent to the Wollstonecraft’s argument for self-education. The monster recalls his when his winter was spent in studying his friends and ‘learned and applied the words, ‘fire,’ ‘milk, ‘bread,’ and ‘wood’’. The repetition of fire is metonymic for the monster’s angst and as a result of his fury, all the weak women die, whilst the strong and educated women remain unharmed – primarily Safie as well as Agatha DeLacey. Safie however is an incredibly strong female character, offsetting the uneducated women.
Both Dora and Jane are quiet young when they first encounter some kind of hysteria, or symptoms of hysteria. In Jane’s case her first encounter would we the incident at the Red Room (Bronte 12). The Red Room incident is perhaps most important in establishing the rigid structure of patriarchy because we see that the image that appears before her in the ghostly pale moonlight as she imagines is that of her dead uncle, Mr. Reed (Bronte 12). We see earlier in the story that Jane is being punished by Aunt, for “misbehaving” with her cousin John (Bronte 10). The idea that her aunt would lock her away in the Red Room, the place where her husband had lain before his death, shows us what kind of fear her aunt wants to invoke in the child.
They write that Macbeth emerges as a man who is “completely confident in his grab for power.” Lady Macbeth, the one who told Macbeth to simply wash the blood off of his hands, ends up roaming around in her sleep through “the castle corridors at night bemoaning her unclean hands following the murder of Duncan and his guards.” At first, Macbeth was a kind man, but he became “completely remorseless in his bid for the crown.” And Lady Macbeth was fixed upon power and prayed that spirits would help her by getting rid of her feminine aspects. At the end of the tragedy, she became “a guilt-ridden somnambulist.” The authors believe the source of their “role reversal revolves around the question of gender.” Lady Macbeth is the antecedent of her own role reversal. It is “her own desire for some sort of power and the attempted overthrow or altering of the patriarchal order of her society.” that orders a yielding role. Lady Macbeth was entirely inapt for this role. The only character to recognize that Macbeth has a feminine side is Macduff.