Compare the presentation of female characters in The Crucible, Othello and Enduring Love Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is a play set in Puritanical New England, 1692. Miller wrote the play as an allegorical statement against McCarthyism in the US. Abigail, one of the central female characters, was the previous mistress of John Proctor; the play’s protagonist, portrayed as a tragic, noble hero and therefore Abigail, who was his mistress who he no longer has feelings for, and causes him trouble, is bound to be seen in an inverted light to the one John Proctor is seen in. Certainly Arthur Miller goes to great length to use Abigail as the anti-hero to John Proctor’s noble, almost incorruptible (if it weren’t for his affair) figure. Miller takes the “woman scorned” approach to his character of Abigail.
In Goblin Market, the Goblin men tempt both of the sisters, Laura and Lizzie. “ Laura bowed her head to hear/ Lizzie veiled her blushes” (Rossetti 34-35.) It seems that of the two, Laura is more interested in hearing about what the Goblins have to offer. As the narrative progresses, it seems that Laura is more than just interested in the fruit. A tailed Goblin offers her a taste, “The whisk-tailed merchant bade her taste”(107.)
Have you won him too?” [p. 151], she is referring to the townspeople of Salem as the hypocrites and questioning John’s integrity and strength. Further, she takes it upon herself to redress these hypocrisies; however, she herself is a hypocrite due to her fornication and adultery with Proctor, yet she considers herself holy. By informing the reader that her motive was not only revenge but to "cleanse" the town, Miller deprives the reader of the opportunity to form his own opinion on the conflict of the story. If the reader does not know that Abigail had this plan, than he has the ability to expand his knowledge and wonder if the conflict was real or a
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.
As Antonia Fraser revealed in her biography Maria Antoinette: The Journey, Marie-Antoinette's reputation for sweetness and kindness became even more entrenched in 1774, when as the new Queen she asked the people to be relieved of a tax called "The Queen's belt," a tradition at the beginning of each reign. "Belts are no longer worn," she quipped. It was the onslaught of a propaganda that later ruined her reputation. Unhappy Marriage “Maria Antoinette was not satisfied by her marriage.”7 In fact, as Maria’s lady in waiting Campan wrote in her diary The Memoirs of Maria Antoinette, Louis was insensible and egocentric. Although Louis became a devoted husband and he admired Marie's character, in her early years in France his apathy made Maria Antoinette feel isolated.
After tapping into his feminist side, he goes on to boldly challenge not “the law” as a whole, but the individuality/exceptions that should spring forth when needed. Using his character Polly Baker, who after being drawn into court for birthing another bastard child, reasons with the Judges saying, “ but since laws are sometimes unreasonable in themselves….I take the Liberty to say that I think this law to be unreasonable within itself”. And after setting the premise on individuality, Franklin drops a satirical bombshell by Polly Baker’s claim that “those very people you all know he is now become a magistrate of this
Through The Alchemist; Ben Jonson demonstrates how the characters are eager to satisfy their greedy desires without considering the outcome of those actions. Throughout the play, the characters blindly act without considering what may happen in the future as the results of their foolish decisions. The Alchemist was performed in 1610; during the severe plague in London. Jonson wrote this play for citizens of London who were returning home after the plague ended. However, some of the Londoners’ homes might have been used for scheme businesses, such as Lovewit’s.
In William Golding’s book Lord of the Flies uses many items such as fire, Piggy’s glasses, and the conch to symbolize moral destruction of the boys. His argument that this book explains how today society is; and how they will act if they were stranded on an island. How these things are important to everyday living. Plus we take those simple things for granted. First, what the fire symbolizes is sanity.
He has shown this throughout the novel by showing how Curley’s wife was ignored by the men, how Crooks was discriminated against because of the color of his skin, and how Lennie ultimately died because no one understood him. John Steinbeck masterfully used symbolism to reflect society during the 1930’s. Because of this novel we get a true view on how life was during this time. He had a true realist perspective and it unquestionably was evident throughout the novel. Even in today’s society, though, the message that Steinbeck wished to display would have been seen as applicable.
Dickens demonstrations here that Tiny Tim is the most vulnerable of all the lower class yet he is one of the most giving and happy members of the lower class, which puts shame on Scrooge and his fellow upper class men. I was going to write about how Dickens uses the 3 ghosts to turn Scrooge around which shows the people of his time how anyone can change and has good in them and that it is not hard to change, just to accept the others around you. Not only did Charles Dickens pen a novella that will be seen for many decades to come, Dickens uses this novella to try and get his point across to the people of his time, and how in which both the upper and middle classes were to get along and how to get along with each other. Dickens does socially commentate on his time more than trying to pen this novella into a religious moral