‘Flowers’ by Robin Jenkins is a short story about a young girl who has been evacuated to the Highlands during WW2 and dislikes it so much that she decides to break the rules. She rebels by going to the beach where the fighter jets practise bombing and finds a gruesome scene. This short story deals with a less pleasant side of life concerned with the consequences of war and the loneliness of the main character Margaret. In this essay I will show unpleasant life can be. Robin Jenkins first shows you how different the little girl is, “red eyed dissenter”.
She becomes almost paralyzed while trembling because of her incapability to do anything and knowing nothing about how to help the fawn. “She was thinking , I must do something, I must do something, but the immediacy of the tiny creature, its extraordinary physical beauty and terrible frailty distracted her, scattered her thoughts like a flock of birds frightened by a gunshot,” ( Oates 499) up until Lyle Carter arrives. Both female also tries to stop each conflict by asking to end the conversation. Along with similarities, both
The story goes by and the setting does not change, that is why the woman goes crazier and starts crawling into the wallpaper trying to help get the woman out. It is not to late before she realizes that she is insane and the woman she tries to get out of the wallpaper is only herself. There is also some kind of irony in the story because her husband puts her into that room without activity or work to help her problem. But the irony is that instead of helping her, it just makes the woman more insane because she imagines more things. The setting impacted the character in the story because the woman was in that lonely room the whole time and the woman just felt more insane.
Are Louise Mallard and the unnamed narrator of “The Yellow Wallpaper” symbolically the same woman? Wives, who would rather die than continue in the Victorian Era of Matrimony, voice their marriage issue in two poems The Yellow Wallpaper written by Charlotte Gilman’s and Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin. Both women lived in a patriarchal society. A climate that demands women to be completely subservient to their husband’s in marriage. The issue exposes their feeling of imprisonment not freedom.
Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns bacon” described her writing style the best. The poems talks about the lynching of the late Emmitt Till. The poem was based mainly on regret, guilt, and hatred. Gwendolyn uses code names like “HE” and “HAND” and also “Fine Prince” to describe the men in the poem. The turning point in this poem was when Gwendolyn said “She heard no hoof-beat of the horse and saw no flash of the shining steel.” This line describes how Carolyn realized that Roy was not the man he appeared to be and she grows to be angry and disgusted with him and “her hatred for him bursts into glorious flowers”.
She takes the patients freedom away, and makes their stay at the hospital even worse. She does not let the men get a say in what they want, if they want something they get it after a long time, or they just do not get it at all. She knows the weak spots for all the patients, and just where to peck at them. The patients try to please her during the group meetings by telling her their darkest secrets, and then they feel deeply ashamed for how she made them act, even though they have done nothing. She maintains her power by the use of shame and guilt against the patients, making them feel horrible.
Kerry “teetered on the brink of a big black abyss” according to the personal diary she kept in prison. The word teetered suggests she progressed unsteadily, as if she was about to fall and give up at any moment. This is powerful in positioning viewers to feel appreciation for her as she wobbled unconfidently along the tightrope that would determine her fate. The word “abyss” illustrates a giant void in her life – she could fall at any moment and essentially become a meaningless failure for the rest of her life. In addition, visuals assist in pushing the viewer to feel admiration.
He controls her to the max. He forced her to sleep in the highest, dirtiest room in the house, knowing the room looked like a prison. The depressed, trapped woman is the narrator in the story, the yellow wallpaper. In actuality she’s a writer, it’s her passion. Journaling gets her feelings out and makes it real for her, but her husband takes the journal away from her and tells her she’s not allowed to write anymore.
Punishment in The Scarlet Letter In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, physical punsihment is nothing compared to how the mind can cause punishment. In the Scarlet Letter, Hester Phynne is isolated by the members of Purtian society and left with her child Pearl, a constent reminder of her sin. Dimmesdale’s choice to not feese up to his sin leaves him with mental punishment that makes him sicker and weaker. Chillingsworth does not receive pain, but he does inflict pain to those around him. The main characters of The Scarlet Letter are left to tourment by themselves, the worst punishment of them all.
Just like what the devil did to Eve, he promised her that the forbidden fruit would give her sensations beyond her wildest beliefs but ended up getting her kicked out of Eden and punished humans for eternity. The ocean is like this to Edna because it promises freedom, which is exactly what she has been looking for, and it ends up being the death of a woman who already has a good amount of independence. Chopin also makes Edna seem less than holy in this passage because after all, she is a woman and since her transformation stumbled and was never truly completed, she is stuck between a sacred figure and just another failure. Edna decides to kill herself on her way to beach because of her suffering and search for more and more freedom. The weather amplifies the feeling of pain and hopelessness, the sun is hot and the water seems like the perfect relief to get away from everything.