In the short fiction, Chopin explores her belief that marriage and freedom cannot exist together by using two powerful ironies: situational irony and dramatic irony. Kate Chopin first uses a situational irony to suggest that the women in the nineteenth century did not always feel sorrowful for their husband’s death. The situational irony happened right after Mrs. Mallard heard about the news of her husband’s death. In contrast to the grief and sorrow that Mrs. Mallard was supposed to feel, the things around her were described with a joyful mood “open window… comfortable, roomy armchair… trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life… countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves” (Chopin 1). The event is an example of a situational irony because the mood of the event was happy, which is different from what one would have expected.
Ethan Frome Research Paper Alina Dyak #4 10/27/2010 Period 4 The book Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton takes place during harsh economic struggles do to the war. The main character struggles to earn a suitable income, and mainly enters a marriage for financial support after his mother dies. Zeena, Ethan Frome’s wife, helps Ethan Frome survive, however, she does not enlighten Fromes life with joy. The main character on the other hand, finds love when he enters into an affair with Mattie, Zeena’s cousin and maid. After meeting Zeena Ethan Frome is caught between 2 woman, one that can provide him with love and compassion, and his wife, who he relies on for economic support.
Both of these texts offer varying conflicting perspectives, which ultimately shape the audiences view of the situation, events and people involved. Conflicting perspectives often arise from bias in the author of a text. This is the case in all of Hughes’s Birthday Letters poems, including The Minotaur. After his wife’s suicide, society blamed Hughes and his unfaithfulness, for the unfortunate death. Hughes uses his poem, The Minotaur, to try to manipulate the audience to see a different view of their marriage, and to make people feel sympathetic towards him.
On the other hand when I finished reading “The Story of an Hour” I was shocked and confused. I didn’t understand the death of Mrs. Millard. I think the author could have elaborated more on her death. The ending of the story didn’t make me happy like “Clever Manka.” It made me sad that seeing her husband alive has caused her to die. I guess her ready for the world of possibilities came crashing down when she saw her husband walking through that door.
The valley of ashes emulates this moral decay through the unpleasant events that take place there. Nick recognizes the fragile state of George Wilson after he uncovers the truth of Myrtle’s infidelity, “He had discovered that Myrtle had some sort of life apart from him in another world, and the shock had made him physically sick” (124). George is stricken with “shock” upon apprehending the grave news. Myrtle had taken advantage of her husband’s trusting disposition as she fluttered carelessly into “another world” of wealth and glamor. Morality aside, she “[walks] through her husband as if he were a ghost” (26), completely disregarding his emotions.
Really unpack the symbolic possibilities. Gatsby didn’t marry Gatsby because he was poor, and Tom was rich, in the simplest of terms. But when you delve deeper the problem for Daisy now is that her marriage with Tom is a failure, and a man she loves, rich beyond his means, has basically knocked on her door asking for her. I think Daisy sobs not only because now Gatsby is a class above her, but she know they can never be together. She comes from one social status the wealthy, sophisticated community of West egg.
Hamlet Project Quotes 1. HORATIO: - “This bodes some strange eruption to our State” - Horatio is talking about the affects the ghost will cause. - “This will cause problems in the State” 2. HAMLET: - “But I have that within which passeth show; These but trappings and suits of woe” - Hamlet is talking to his mother about how he can’t fully display his emotions about his fathers death. - “ I have feelings that i can’t act and these feelings are my outside feelings of grief” 3.
Paul ponders, “[f]our days left now. I must go and see Kemmerich’s mother [now]” (180). Baumer faces adversity by pulling himself together and informing Kemmerich’s mother on the news of her son’s death, resulting in the downfall of his esteem because of the injustice in his premature death. As Baumer’s esteem is weakened, the soldiers from Owen’s poem have high esteems due to the adversities they face. The soldiers from Wilfred Owen’s poem have solid esteem due to the fact that they are facing the hardships and challenges of assuming the role of combatants.
The arrival at the Kinchen funeral home with all the intermediate family members in their black clothes walking through the front door towards the body. My mom with her siblings and my grandma stood on the sides of his casket with their heads held high. Then my uncles and my dad stood at the door into the room. People begin walking through the door greeting my uncles and my dad giving them their grievance then walking towards the front to see the body and give their respects. However, my younger cousins began talking forcing me to hush them, while I was wishing in my head that I were that young to not understanding what was happening.
Instead of meaning violence and death the mother is talking about how her husband was from a good background and talking about family blood. The mother uses this connotation of the word blood many times throughout the play; when talking with the father she talks about the death of her son, ‘I wet my hands with his blood and licked them with my tongue because it was mine’ This man was her son, and came from her therefore she sees his blood no different from her own. Looking at blood in this sense the reader can see the association the two words blood and wedding have. A wedding is the unity of two people as already stated. The joining of two families that could also mean the joining of family blood, each others blood was their own once the bride and groom were married.