At first, Brabantio believes that his daughter was tricked by Othello, that he stole her away with his magic spells and witchcraft. However, in reality, Desdemona had wanted to marry Othello all along, despite their differences and her father’s warnings. Desdemona let herself marry a man of which her father did not approve. This witchcraft Brabantio believes Othello possesses is advice to Desdemona. This acted as a warning that Desdemona should never have become involved with such a “Moor”.
Tom is married to Daisy Buchanan and had a beautiful daughter with her. Although Tom had said his vows to Daisy and kissed her on their wedding day, he cheats on her, hits her, and shows no affection towards his daughter. When Tom found out that his wife had begun relations with Jay Gatsby, he set his mind only on Gatsby and wanted to fill his knowledge with Gatsby’s every move. Once he found out all about Gatsby, Tom confronted him in front of Daisy about all the illegal things Tom has heard. Hoping to end relations between Daisy and Jay, Tom did not hold back when confronting Gatsby.
The second death in this novella is Curley’s wife, a flirtatious person who likes to get around. She doesn’t like her husband who’s pugnacious. The death of Curley’s wife was caused by breaking her neck. Lennie wasn’t doing it to be mean he did it because she wouldn’t stop screaming and he didn’t want to get in trouble with George. “Please don’t,” he begged.
When told that his daughter, Betty, was ill because of "unnatural causes," Paris quickly interjected, "No, no. There be no unnatural causes here." The Reverend denied this all even with seeing the girls dancing in the woods. With Reverend being in denial, he was unable to consider all causes of the problem. He was so quick to blow off the idea that witchcraft caused her sickness because he was too worried his reputation would get shot with that possibility.
Why did Hester name her child Pearl? “…she names the infant ‘Pearl,’ as being of great price, -- purchased with all she had, -- her mother’s only treasure!” 2. What does the Scarlet Letter mean to Pearl? At this point, the A is a fascination. As a baby, Pearl seems instinctively drawn the A. Symbolically, this suggests a connection between the baby and the A as they are born from the same sin, but some may speculate that the decorative nature of the letter during a time period of particularly bland dress would draw one’s attention.
Other families have suffered losses because of the feud between these two families that lasted for generations. Most of these deaths would never have occurred if the two families were not fighting. Furthermore, Friar Lawrence told Lord Capulet that Juliet sought advice to avoid the marriage to Paris without disobeying her father; she even threatened to kill herself in his chamber if the Friar refused to help (5:3:236-241). Lord Capulet should not have yelled or threatened Juliet over an arranged marriage to Paris. He pressured her into drinking the concoction out of desperation.
69-70 ) This made Juliet miserable over Romeo's banishment, meanwhile her parents thought her unhappiness was over Tybalt's death. Then, Juliet's parents, trying to make her happy, moved up her wedding date, only to make her even more depressed due to the fact she was already married to Romeo. All of this led up to Juliet's fake death, which caused both of their deaths. Romeo and Juliet are at fault for their own deaths. Romeo and Juliet did not have to keep their love a secret.
Manheimer believes that although ‘standard rhetoric’ would render a motherless child vulnerable, “nineteenth century novels resound with the success of orphans” (533), and though this could be true for Emma Woodhouse it was certainly not beneficial to Anne Elliot. No excuse can be made for the Bennett’s, but they certainly provide the most amusing display of bad parenting within the Austen stable. Manheimer also asserts that “Terrible mothers are often inadvertently helpful to their daughters” which she strongly makes a case for in the realm of Mrs. Bennett (530). The Bennett’s Pride and Prejudice is universally accepted as a love story; the love story of Elizabeth Bennett and Fitzwilliam Darcy. It’s easy to make the assumption that these two characters, having had an antagonistic first encounter, must
· He tells Ophelia he loves her and does not love her, thinks she should never have trusted him but wants her to go away to a nunnery for her own protection. He calls himself a liar, but when he discovers Ophelia is dead, Hamlet's reaction suggests that he did, love her. · · I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers · Could not, with all their quantity of love, · Make up my sum. · · Hamlet does not always tell the truth, but there is enough evidence to suggest that Hamlet probably did love Ophelia. 4.
Suddenly he became obsessed with it. He constantly told her negative things about the birthmark, making her adopt his point of view. However, she was not force to drink the liquid even though he was criticizing the “odious hand” (1036). What to blame may be her obsessive love for her husband and his obsession with perfection. She did not hate the birthmark before Aylmer began to criticize it.