The Madness that is Abigail Williams: Her Intentions in The Crucible “How hard it is when pretense falls! But it falls, it falls!” With these chilling and ominous words, Abigail’s twisted sense of revenge rings hollow in Arthur Miller’s terrifying play, The Crucible. A masterpiece of its time, The Crucible brings forth the true horrors man is capable of: deception and vengefulness. No character presents these values as well as Abigail, whose lust and heartbreak for John Proctor results in a homicidal goose chase. Because of her hate towards Proctor’s wife, Elizabeth, Abigail creates demented tales, directed at abolishing the “problem.” Though Abigail’s wild canards seem quite obtuse in civilization today, at the time her acts fell to justification.
Examples like Hester’s alienation during the scaffold scene, Pearl being shunned by children, and Dimmesdale’s isolation caused by his thoughts and intentions contributed to the novel’s prestige and grandeur. A great story with such emotional significance like this one with always be treasured. Isolation is not only experienced in this tale; it is experienced by everyone in everyday life. the evil of isolation can be a physically, morally, and socially tortuous event in Devoid of any social contact, save that of her daughter, Hester must endure of lonely existence. "In all her intercourse with society, save that of her daughter, there was nothing that made [Hester] feel as if she belonged
A young couple has humiliated Miss.Brill because of her scarf that moment she notices that everyone looks at her as an ugly woman. She goes home and takes off her scarf and sits in her dark room. First of all, in the story of “shame” Richard is a poor boy without a father, living in ghetto. There is a girl at school named Helene that he is in love with. Unlike Richard, Helene is well off, wears clean clothes, and is very smart in school.
Nevertheless, Elizabeth Barrett Browning advocates that the strength of love can help overcome the obstacles. In contrast, F. Scott Fitzgerald sees the world dissolved in excessive corruption shown through The Great Gatsby as it exemplifies the failure of the American Dream as well as the broken world where love struggles to exist. Love through the two texts is shown to be powerful and necessary for fulfilment. The love presented through the Sonnets from the Portuguese suggests that her life was completely changed as a result of the dominance of love. Prior to this her life was shown as dark and deathly through the personification of the “mystic shape” that moves behind her.
Alicia My Story tells of the effects of when a cruel and sad situation is suddenly and without warning thrust upon the life of a young girl. In this story, I believe that one of the most important parts of the story is maintaining the will to live, because existing for no reason or living without a purpose is practically the same as being dead. In fact it is probably worse. When the body and soul are both destroyed the person can now rest in peace but, when the body is well but the soul has been crushed the person has to suffer through each day. It is truly amazing how Alicia keeps her cause for existence despite the fact that her mind is being fed far more horrors than she can bear.
Words such as 'secret', 'poison', and 'awful' are used in conjunction to describe Chup. The negative connotations in these words indicate that all things related to Chup are somehow insidious in nature. Therefore, by stating that Chup is a "place of shadows", 'shadows' become just as insidious as Chup. As Haroun approaches the Twilight Strip, Butt notices that Haroun was suffering from "a Heart-Shadow (121)", the symptoms of which are manifested in Haroun's thoughts: 'With our absurd armada,' he despaired, 'how can we ever succeed in that world…. The closer they came…the more formidable the prospect of the Chupwala Army became.
Lily’s experiences and trials throughout the novel allows readers to share the importance of truth and accepting the realities of life. Sue Monk Kidd also explores the importance of forgiveness, racism and maternal love. Alone, exposing her to lies, distrust, and secrecy Lily’s father raised her. Since her mother’s death Lily’s father turned malicious, punishing Lily for irrational errors by kneeling on grits. The constant mental neglect along with lies created doubt in Lily’s mind, never forgiving herself nor her father for the death of her mother.
There were times where Bone recalls “afterward, Mama would cry and wash my face and tell me not to be so stubborn, not to make him so mad” (Allison 110) which places the blame completely on Bone. I think the biggest factor into engagement was Anney’s refusal to leave Glen even after she knew, Bone’s lack of identity, the pre-existing idea that the family was trash, and her constant desire to please her mother even telling her mother “I could never hate you” after she witnesses the abuse. As Bone gets older she finds even more reason to blame herself for the abuse. She even blames her looks saying that her ugliness explains why Daddy Glen is
She knows what is happening to her family members as they are taken away, but she only seems to worry about her own life. This allows us to see that the grandmother is uncaring and selfish. Even though she is a victim in this tragic event, she is also somewhat of the person who caused it. After all, she is the one who chose that specific route, but that could just be a sick twist of fate. Throughout the story, we constantly hear of the grandmother’s judgmental views of the misfit.
Everything about this song appealed to me; the lyrics: “Drink up baby doll, Are you in or are you out? Leave your things behind 'Cause it's all going off without you, Excuse me too busy you're writing your tragedy These mishaps You bubble-wrap When you've no idea what you're like”-Imogen Heap. The lyrics to me express the dynamics of life, we do write our own tragedies. The different lines of fate are ignited by the many different decisions that we make in our lives; they are all somehow connected. The lyrics may sound a bit dark, but it has the very opposite effect on me.