Willy’s downfall is a result of his reluctance to face his shame, his guilt towards his affair and the way Biff’s life turned out, and the social pressures of success. Willy denies the feeling of shame, affecting him and his family. Willy turns to another woman out of loneliness for Linda, deeply within; his feelings of shame are related to the need of a woman. Shame, inadequacy and inferiority evince the need to “be liked and never want” (Arthur Miller 21). This is apparent within Willy and his sons.
Does she do it? Nope. She selfishly chooses to continue their near-obligatory marriage. In doing so, she strikes within him a spark of jealousy and anger towards Heathcliff, though she is really to blame. Heathcliff, on the other hand, carries a doubly bitter discontent for life than
Whether Catherine's behaviour in these chapters can be viewed as anything but disgusting is highly subjective, as 'disgust' is perhaps too harsh. In my opinion the better fitted word would be disappointed, however Catherine's demanding behaviour towards Nelly is that of disrespectful and this in turn can be interpreted as a disgusting behaviour. In chapter 9 Catherine tells Nelly that she has "accepted" Edgar Linton as her future husband. Nelly is quite interrogative at the revelation and questions Catherine on her choice, only to get back dismissive and pompous answers. Catherine's behaviour here is quite appalling, she uses imperatives: "be quick, and tell me I am wrong", and has an overly assertive tone: "you're silly, Nelly".
So Victor does just that, but after it awakes, he is filled with disgust and hates his creation because in his eyes it is ugly. “But now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.” (Page 56) A true mother doesn’t care what their child looks like, they love it anyways. Next, the major theme of this novel is the women’s role in families. During Victor’s dream, he sees Elizabeth turn into the corps of his mother. This reinforces the idea that women are frail and weak.
The words are the most sabotaged of all; diminished by dislike and discontent. Even the fridge joins in the conspiracy, supporting the hostility and inner loathing. The irony of the verb ‘awoke’ gives powerful expression to the recognition of finality, it suggests that being awake to your life brings pain with the revelation. Recognition has a price, once admitted to full consciouness, there is no retreat, no grace. But one day we woke to our disgrace; our house a coldness of rooms, each nursing a thickening cyst of dust and gloom.
3.05 Fascination with Fear Part A The theme I developed from Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Premature Burial” is Man must ignore the darker possibilities in life in order to survive. Examples from the text include the narrators experience he told about in the story. He awoke to the smell of dirt, nothing but darkness, the feeling of wood all around him, and silence of a sea that overwhelms. Since he cannot open the coffin he thinks he is in, he realizes that he must have fallen under an attack catalepsy in the presence of people who knew not of his condition. He screams, then to be shaken by four people, making him realize he is really in the tiny sleeping berths of a ship.
Since Lady Macbeth set him up to this by insulting his manhood, Macbeth took a turn for the worst when he started experiencing fear and guilt. You’d think he’d put an end to all of this negativity by this point, yet it actually drags out and he continues with doing malicious, unlawful acts. Eventually this leads to more trouble for Macbeth; He begins to struggle with hallucinations and sleeplessness, causing him to become extremely paranoid. He began to lose his human qualities during this process of regaining his ‘so-called’ manhood, as his killing spree was pretty much a joke on his actual manliness. Macbeth’s decadence then led to his marriage to slowly fall apart.
It is evident when he states, “Every night I was oppressed by a slow fever, and I became nervous to a most painful degree; the fall of a leaf startled me, and I shunned my fellow creatures as if I had been quality of a crime” (Frankenstein 34). Victor had become obsessed because he was growing apart from the world and put all his energy into his monster. In the same manner, Macbeth’s ambition also became obsessive. In the beginning Macbeth had no plan to betray King Duncan and to take over the throne. However, all this changed when the three witches planted the seed of betrayal in him and when Lady Macbeth encouraged him to kill King Duncan and become king.
Naturally, cannibalistic horses are non-existent and these are highly unnatural because horses are not carnivores. Besides physical omens, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth begin to suffer mentally. Macbeth’s sanity first starts slipping when he hears voices and has terrible nightmares. Moments before Duncan’s murder, Macbeth describes, “Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse…” Ironically, nature’s wrath envelops the country seconds later, and Macbeth’s dream soon abuse his sleep. “These terrible dreams shake us nightly,” Macbeth proclaims, “Sleep no more!” His dreams become so bad that he finds Duncan to be luckier than him because he rest peacefully, while Macbeth would rather be dead.
This is revealed when she says, “But Hindley hated him, and to say the truth I did the same”. This makes it clear that Heathcliff did not give off a good first impression. Furthermore, when discussing Earnshaw, Nelly says, “He took to Heathcliff strangely”. By saying “strangely”, it suggests that Nelly thinks very little of Heathcliff and is surprised that someone should actually like him. She also says that she couldn’t dote on Heathcliff and wonders why Mr Earnshaw admired him so much.