Obedience was used in order to provide an example of how girls should act towards their superiors, in particular, their parents. A tremendous focus is on Little Red Riding Hood’s appearance as the superlative ‘prettiest’ displays, this leads people to be ‘fond’ and to ‘dote’ upon her, increasing her vulnerability as ‘predators’ are drawn to her or as Perrault wanted to show, men. Also, the repetition of the attributive ‘little’ alongside the common noun ‘girl’ highlights Little Red Riding Hood’s defencelessness. However, naivety is her ultimate downfall leading her to a grisly end. Despite the warnings that she should go straight to her Grandmother’s, Little Red Riding Hood becomes distracted by feminine pursuits, portrayed through the compound sentence “…gathering nuts, running after butterflies, and gathering bouquets of little flowers.” This emphasises her age and vulnerability as she isn’t aware of her surroundings and the danger they can impose.
‘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”.
This is seen when Steinbeck repeats red colour ‘Her fingernails were red’ and ‘red ostrich feathers’. Red colour has the connotation of love, passion and danger. The use of red colour with curley’s wife enforce the reader to think about her life as she have no love in her life, her passion, being an actress, died and she can be dangerous for Lennie because he is only one who is attracted towards her. Moreover, Steinbeck has also used simple short sentence ‘Her figure nails were red’ to put emphasis on the colour red and to keep the readers engaged by portraying his
The vivid childhood image of Sheila, is evoked through sound effects of crickets, which represent the camp. The cricket imagery recreates the atmosphere of the camp; the women’s experiences are as present now as the time of occurrence. Concluding with the song ‘‘After the ball is over’’ is ironic, yet enables the audience to visualise the loss of Sheila’s feminine hopes and dreams of love and marriage; these crumbled by the forced sexual behaviour she suffered during the POW camp. Misto depicts the experience of physical abuse of Bridie who is beaten by Lipstick Larry who ‘‘punched and hit’’ her. Additional sound effects persuade the audience to visualise the horrors of physical abuse.
Yellow, or gold, is an archetype that in a room is commonly the first color to be noticed. The gold around the red letter draws the attention of the public towards her scarlet letter, thus drawing attention to her sins. This shows her truth cannot be kept a secret. Lastly, as the novel is coming to a close, the narrator is describing the burial place and headstone of Hester Prynne. He describes that upon the tombstone, there appears to be a coat of arms that has inscribed on it, “On a field, sable, the letter A, gules.” Red is used to represent sin or passion.
It consists of the nude Venus and Cupid. The painting shows Cupid, stung by bees, complaining to mother, Venus, of the pain by small bees. Lucas had his friend, Melanchton, translate the text to him and gave him Venus’ response to her child as,”you are too small and your arrows are much more painful to victims.” The translation of the history allowed him to paint Venus and Cupid with strong sense of conflict. He showed Venus’ pale white body stand out in an attractive pose. Lucas’ vision of this painting defined his interests in the human body.
In the first stanza Cervantes expresses through imagery and anthropomorphism how a mother was sad to see that her children had left her, as they have grown into adults. The notion that these flowers represent children, comes from her use of anthropomorphism and imagery of the flowers detail, “the leaves of snapdragons withered / taking their shrill-colored mouths with them” (2-3). Cervantes gives the human quality of a mouth to the petals of a snapdragon (which look like lots of tiny mouths) and the mouth is stated as being shrill which means screaming. This imagery of tiny mouths screaming leads to the idea that these flowers represent playful screaming children. The first line that starts out the poem states, “when summer ended” (1).
The physical description which follows underlines how out of touch she is with the male world of the ranch. She is “heavily made up” whilst the “little bouquets of red ostrich feathers” seem almost laughably inappropriate. The repetition of red – which is a colour associated with passion and danger – is an early indication of Curley’s wife flirtatious character. This is an impression underlined by her body language as she leans against the door “so that her body was thrown forward” and by the fact that she speaks “playfully” in response to George who has just “brusquely” retorted: “Well he ain’t
This woman uses mental and emotional harassment to attempt at getting what she desires. Curley’s wife is repeatedly displayed as a tart. Her overly flirtatious personality leads to her inevitable peril. Steinbeck uses this character to represent a different type of person who attacks emotionally and physically in unique ways. One example of her harassment is displayed when she meets George and Lennie on the first day of their arrival.
examines the affects of colonialism on African people. The primary affects of colonialism that Maru deals with is the forced divisions and racial categories that where set in place between the people of Botswana. In the mist of all of the prejudice a love story emerged. Daniel Gover’s article "The Fairy Tale and the Nightmare," describes Maru as a “story of racial prejudice conquered by idealistic love functioning as a socially progressive force that advances mankind in the direction of racial equality" Maru explores the ability of people to love each other despite their differences. The story is set in the village of Dilepe.