Abigail's shrewd behavior is most likely from growing up an orphan and never acquiring a parent's unconditional love. According to the online article The Effects of Parents on a Child's Psychological Development a child who receives minimal love from a parent are more likely to develop into an adult with lower self-worth, feelings of inadequacy, limiting beliefs and insecurity which can result in suspicion and jealousy in relationships. Although Abigail was taken in by her Uncle he was far too interested in the way he was perceived by the community to care about Abigail at all "…now when some good respect is rising for me in the parish, you compromise my very character. I have given you a home, child, I have put clothes upon your back…" The absence of a parent figure in Abigail's life have made it oblige to look after herself when something has gone awry. In the midst of taking care of herself Abigail had an affair with John Proctor who gave her a sense of security and belonging which she wasn't able to receive from Reverend Parris.
Cornered into admitting to participating in dark magic, she still cannot take responsibility for her actions and instead accuses others of cooperating with the devil. A final example of untruthfulness appears when Reverend Samuel Parris, Abigail’s uncle, questions Abigail after he catches her dancing with the other girls in the forest. Abigail fibs instead of telling the truth. Parris desperately tries to save his daughter, Betty Parris, from a sickness that takes hold after he catches them dancing while Abigail chooses, instead of potentially helping Betty, to tell him, “There is nothin’ more. I swear it uncle” (Miller 11).
At first readers are made to feel bad for him but then you quickly realise that Parris is just worried about his reputation. He's afraid that if people think there's witchcraft in his household, he'll lose his position as minister of Salem. Parris says ‘Now tell me true, Abigail. And I pray you feel the weight of truth upon you, for now my ministry is at stake, my ministry and perhaps your cousin’s life.’ This shows that even though his daughter should be his main priority, he cares far more about his ranking in the community and his business in the ministry. Miller also presents Parris as a man that is extremely pleased with himself and he believes that he should be shown more respect than he is been given.
He warns George and Lennie about her, despite the fact that they haven’t met her yet. This is significant as the structure of the novel means that our views are already prejudiced before we even see Curley’s wife. I think that Steinbeck has done this to show how easy it is to prejudge by listening to others, and that this might mean you don’t give people a chance-like what happens to Curley’s wife. Candy uses the word ‘tart’ to describe her and makes her sound like an object by informing George about Candy’s glove and what he uses it for. George is immediately disgusted by this ‘that’s a dirty thing to tell around’ and we can already see a negative view of Curley’s wife forming in his mind.
They show hate to one another and he wants everyone to come together. II. Body- A. Anger- He sees no change in who he is and he wakes up feeling like he's not going anywhere. He thinks people do not care, because of the color of his skin. B. Unloved- The changes he and his brother went through were so different that they don't feel like brothers anymore.
The family has no real connection or love up until they come across the Misfit and his gang of murderers. When the Grandmother says at the end, "You're one of my children," she makes the first connection in the story (O’Connery 152). In O’Connor’s stories all are sinners, but she believes that they can all be saved even the worst of them. Most stories by O’Connor have religion and in “a good man is hard to find” she utilizes someone’s “last words” to show that even in the end religion is still there. In the story “a good man is hard to find” the author uses the theme as well as the setting to show some aspects of religion in her
Danielle Schaub agrees that “the villagers' fear of changing either the course of the lottery or the ritualistic objects discloses to what extent they are caught in the web of tradition” (Schaub 82). The villagers’ treatment of the box represents their thinking on the subject of the lottery as a whole: they're a bit terrified by both the box and the lottery, but they're also too frightened (and, perhaps even fascinated), to drop either one. Like the lottery as a whole, the black box has no functionality except during this two hours every June: "It had spent one year in Mr. Graves's barn and another year underfoot in the post office and sometimes it was set on a shelf in the Martin grocery and left there" (Jackson 244). The purpose of the box, like the lottery itself, has become obscure with the passage of time. It is well worn, but the villagers are reluctant to let it go, again, like the lottery
In Arthur Millers The Crucible, Act II, Scene ii negatively alters the audience perceptions of the principle characters. Act II, scene ii changes the way the audience will think about Abigail Williams. First, when Abigail states “I have once or twice played the shovel board. But I have no joy in it”. (Page1) This shows that Abigail is not happy with her life right now.
Miss Strangeworth wrote this letter to Helen and Dan Crane because she didn't agree with their parenting skills, so to Miss Strangeworth they were wrong. Throughout the whole story, Miss Strangeworth showed symbols that related to her malicious ways and how she felt she was better compared to the rest of her town. A symbol in the story that relates how Miss Strangeworth feels empowered in her town, was when she would always write her cruel letters. Miss Strangeworth would write the anonymous letters in her trimmed quill pen, although she had a gold-frost fountain pen. This is a symbol because Miss Strangeworth feels as the people who she is sending these letters to are not important enough to her to use the gold pen.
Her lack of identity and foundation negatively influences Hamlet such that he is also found lacking of the same. While it may not be completely necessary, since he is older, there still needs to be a little tie between a sturdy, knowledgeable, intelligent mother and his own life. When the queen acts as stubbornly as she does, and sees no wrong in the virtually adulterous acts which she has committed, it leads Hamlet to realize what he grew up with, a heartless witch. In the "Explanation of Hamlet's Madness" as published in the American Journal of Psychology, Ernest Jones examines Hamlet's reactions and emotions concerning his mother. He explains that while the actual event of his mother's second marriage isn't necessarily the direct cause of Hamlet's madness, "it must be because the news has awakened into activity some slumbering memory, which is so painful that it may not become conscious" (Jones 93).