Jubilee by Margret walker is a novel on the story of vyry a slave who since a child went through many struggles starting with the death of het mother and beging her life journey when forced to move into the " bug house" with her biological father. Miss Salina, Master Dutton’s wife, doesn’t like Vyry because since Vyry is also Dutton’s daughter, Vyry looks as if she could be twins with Lillian, who is Salina’s daughter. Dutton isn’t that hateful towards his slaves. He has conversations with them and everything and there’s this occasion where Vyry forgets to throw out something that Lillian used to pee during the night so Salina throws it on Vyry and another times Vyry is being punished by being hanged by her thumbs in a closet and John Dutton comes and he takes Vyry out of there and he gets mad at Salina. While Vyry is in the Big House, she works with Aunt Sally in the kitchen.
William Shakespeare is a renounced poet and playwright; he is most famous for his creative linguistic devices and his ability to incorporate many significant and relevant themes into his writing. Romeo and Juliet, being one of Shakespeare’s most credited plays, utilizes the themes of love, hatred, conflict and anger. Shakespeare successfully portrays all these themes through strong emotions. Similarly Robert Browning conveys strong feeling such as hatred, betrayal and love which becomes overt. Browning’s poem ‘The Laboratory’ is about a scorned woman’s desired to kill her lover’s mistress, and any other woman he may have had an affair with.
His need for revenge was so great that he would do and did the unthinkable; Arthur Dimmesdale was trapped inside a prison of guilt, and Roger Chillingworth mentally tortured him. Chillingworth was not interested in justice because he sought the deliberate destruction of others rather than addressing the wrong doings of their actions. His desire to hurt others stands in contrast to Hester and Dimmesdale's sin, which had love, not hate, as its intent. Another way and the most common way that The Scarlet Letter is interpreted can be through sin, because sin plays one of the biggest roles in the novel. It was due to the sin of Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale that Pearl was consummated, but it was a sin that came out of love for each other.
The veil that was supposed to make Mr. Hooper an idea turns him into a symbol of evil causing him to further treasure sin. Because of his own arrogance, the veil corrupts him and projects him as a source of evil. While unsure of what specific lesson Hawthorne was trying to teach in writing his parable, many ideas can be gained from this story. The most important that sticks out is that one is enlightened to the fact that we all are guilty of sins and should be able to admit to them. We are taught that one consequence of guilt, hypocrisy and arrogance is displacement from
In this story, Hester is convicted of committing adultery with the Reverend in her town, and is left to raise her new offspring by herself in the outskirts of her town. When Hester married Roger Chillingworth, she told him that she does not love him, but he still marries her because he loves her. The author of this work uses imagery in light of George Chbosky’s quote. Another example, is when Hester decides to stay close to her town where she committed adultery instead of leaving to another town to start over again. She makes this decision to remain close to her secret lover, Reverend Dimmesdale.
After the deaths of the village’s herbalist, Anys and Mem, Elinor and Anna take advantage of Anys herbalist house and together they continue what Anys used to do in order to help cure the village from the plague. As Anna and Elinor create new herbs to cure the sick people, Anna starts to realize that she is a person that loves to help people. Toward the end of the book Anna comes across Mary Wick ford that she helps in order to keep the mine as she places herself at risk almost killing herself. Through this Anna’s ego starts unveil of what type of person she really is.Throughout the book, each conflict that occurred for instance the plague hitting Eyam, Anna helping Mary keep her mine, delivering Mary’s baby successfully and being able to overcome her grieve of losing her family (her 2 kids and her husband) shows that she is a strong and heroic person. When a person is faced with issues the outcome reveals their true inner
christina delahys November 8, 2012 Delores English 114 Violence out of Love In the novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz, the characters Beli, Oscar and Lola are all confronted with indescribable violence when trying to find love due to the curse of the “fuku”. The brutal violence that occurs within the novel easily relates back to the curse caused by the love of Abelard for his daughter by betraying Trujillo’s demands. Each character throughout the novel experiences great hardships and obstacles while trying to find true love. Although Beli, Oscar and Lola constantly attempt to find love, they always fail to do so with many instances resulting in violence. The well-known ‘fuku’ curse is the sole reason love is unattainable and violence is abundant in the Cabral family.
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston is a novel about an African American woman named Janie and her struggle to find true love and meaning in her life. While Janie is the main character, her Grandmother Nanny is the person who sets Janie on her life’s journey to find happiness. However, Nanny’s decisions were based on her slave ideals and were not what Janie desired for her own life. As a former slave, Nanny had been raped by her white master and gave birth to her daughter who became Janie’s mom. When the white master is sent off to war, his jealous wife threatens to whip Nanny and to sell off her baby.
The scarlet letter which stands for the ignominious Puritan punishment for Adultery is skilfully used by Hawthorne to denounce their rigidity. It is used as if it were a magical mirror, it magnifies the protagonists’ stances on the Puritans’ creed and judgement and has a deep impact on the characters’ development and how Hawthorne has lead them on different paths. First and foremost, the scarlet letter, as the symbol of the Puritan rigid conception of life, enables the narrator to depict the Puritans’ punishment as overreacting to a so-called sinful behaviour. As far as Hester Prynne is concerned, the scarlet letter, which first symbolises her sin, enables her to become, in the end, the embodiment of virtue and freedom of thought and to lie in sharp contrast with the Puritans. On the contrary, imprisoned in the Puritan way of thinking, the scarlet letter leads Arthur Dimmesdale to his fall.
All of my books are basically romances; they’re stories about reconnecting with community”(Williams). The disorders in life that The Narrator and Dr. Jekyll experience on the edge of being inhuman, “My Characters are not people. They are machines that do a job. They are machines designed to destroy themselves” (Williams). Through the minds of Palahniuk and Stevenson a common ground is reached in the two books Fight Club and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; both the narrator and Dr. Jekyll create their own misfortune in trying to fix the problems of the world, or better yet what they perceive the problems to be.