In Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” and both, Browning’s Victorian Dramatic Monologue “The Laboratory” there is a variety of disturbed characters. In Macbeth it is Lady Macbeth who is driven to guilt due to her, convincing her husband to murder King Duncan. In the Laboratory, a woman discovers her husband has been unfaithful to her and is trying to further his own social standing by sleeping with women of higher social order than he is. She’s obsessed to gain her revenge through her obsession of “poison.” In Act 5 Scene 1 of Macbeth, Shakespeare has used the technique of Dramatic Monologue. Act 5, Scene 1 is the sleepwalking scene which already shows her disturbed mind to the audience.
The two heroines being contrasted are Emily Grierson and Alice Kingsleigh. Emily Grierson truly wanted to get married and meet men, but while her father was alive, she was not permitted to socialize and meet men. “We remembered all the young men her father had driven away…” (Faulkner 4) Due to her father’s overprotectiveness, she did not know how to flirt with men, so when a fellow by the name of Homer came by, she fell in love with him knowing that he was not the marrying type. Instead of using her charms to win him over, she lost all confidence once her
She became ill and unable to care for herself. She died. The two defendants were convicted of manslaughter through failing to care for her or summons help when she became helpless. A Duty Through one’s Official Position Dytham (1979) A police officer witnessed a violent attack on the victim, but took no steps to intervene or summon help; instead he drove away from the scene. The officer was guilty of willfully and without reasonable excuse neglecting to perform his duty.
ENG 112 03/19/2012 A Conversation with My Father A Conversation with My Father is a conversation between the author and her father. The story also includes another story about a woman who was left alone by her son, even though she loves him so much, and she became a “ junkie” in order to maintain their close relationship. A conversation between the writer and her father about is the way of view. Their points of view about the society is totally different. Grace Paley’s father asks her to write a short simple story by the way she used to write.
All he wanted was for fair trials to be conducted and evidence to be looked for, because he was a very just individual and when a debate of who had authority he said “we vote by name in this society, not by acreage” (1. 28). John committed adultery with one of his maidservants, Abigail Williams. When questioned about the emotion that John displayed toward Abby, he said “the promise that a stallion gives a mare I gave that girl”, basically, it was only out of instinct. Proctor really Bates 2 regretted, and felt very upset for his cheating on Elizabeth.
I try and voice the life of the slave times and express to the people just exactly what went on behind closed doors. Maybe the situations are real maybe some are just to have an imagination. I want my reader to be invloved in what I write also ( which excites me). I like to incoorperate the black history we have lived and died through, the temptations around us, the whippings, the lost lies and the blank truths. My theme that I wanted people to see was the double standard of what is was like than.
Crystal Starks English Composition II - Section 020 - Fall 2011 September 17, 2011 The Wicker Husband: Simply Miserable Misery loves company; always has and always will. There are some people who decide to stay away from the common, the norm and the judgmental eyes of the miserable. Ursula Willis-Jones wrote a short story about this concept in “The Wicker Husband”. She wrote of a girl that lived amongst envious villagers who didn’t appreciate what they had. The envious villagers attempted to sabotage the girl because of jealousy but in turn lost all their valuables because they had neglected to appreciate them.
The husband has treated his wife poorly and accuses her of adultery, when he himself is the one committing such acts. The husband is doing this because he will benefit from a divorce. The fact that the husband is committing adultery while accusing his wife of doing so, shows the fact that women at this time were very oppressed and held by a double standard. Men were allowed to commit adultery while women were not. This shows the hypocrisy and blasphemy of mens actions at this time in history.
Racism and Ethnicities, a Comparison between “Country Lovers” and “What it’s like to be a Black Girl” DeShawn D Gibbs ENG125: Introduction to Literature May 14, 2012 Ashford University Instructor: Daniel Murphy Racism and Ethnicities, a Comparison between “Country Lovers” and “What it’s like to be a Black Girl” From the first paragraph of the short story “Country Lovers” and the first stanza of the poem “What it’s like to be a Black Girl”, there is a strong presence of racism. The two main character, the protagonist are black females. Both women are seen as victims struggling with racial discrimination. In our society, some degree of racial discrimination is tolerated. In some communities, it’s the norm.
105-106)”…any man is so very a fool to be married to hell.”(I.I. 121) The men of Pauda believed that the shrew they saw was the person Katherina wanted to be. As the story goes on it becomes evident that her shrewish behavior is a mask to cover her feelings that she does want to be married. Katherina wanted to be married for love, not for dowery. Proof of her desire to be married can be assumed in her silence when Petruchio’s talk to her father, Baptista, about taking Katherina’s hand in marriage.