Margarethe’s family is falling and breaking apart, she had no one to stay with until Luykas Schoonmaker or the “master” takes the threes in. Iris falls in love with his assistant, Caspar, and finds that she has a good eye for painting. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister basically tells the story of Cinderella through the perspective of Clara’s step sister, Iris, who is her only friend. The girls struggle to keep their family from poverty and grow up in a world where they are judged by their appearance. Characters in this story are motivated by both circumstances and desires.
Intermingled within her thoughts that seem to mean nothing, she expresses her grief as well as dropping subtle hints that Hamlet is the reason why she has gone insane. Ophelia has a difficult time dealing with her father's death, and ultimately ends up going mad because she can't cope with it. Unlike Laertes, Hamlet, and Fortinbras who have the option to revenge their fathers' death, Ophelia, cannot take revenge on Hamlet, because in the time period the play was written, it was improper for women to do so. Ophelia was completely devastated over her father's death, "He is dead, Gone to thy deathbed, He will never come again." When she is introduced as being mad in the play in Act IV, scene 5, she makes many references to her father's death through a song she sings.
From the perspective we watch them through the viewpoint of a play which allows us to make our own opinions of the characters. Tennessee Williams exhibits how in out of place Blanche is in their house with nobody siding with her, especially her own sister who chooses her partner over her sister, triggering the audience to feel pity for Blanche. Throughout the scene Stanley is messing with Blanche while Blanche is frantically trying to avoid him, "I warn you, don't, I'm in danger!" The panic in her voice could be that she is aware of what is
This is tied into the 1920s though the new morals and standards of young women that were coming to power in the 1920’s. As they were in the hotel, Gatsby springs up and says “She never loved you, do you hear? He cried. She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me. It was a terrible mistake, but in her heart she never loved anyone except me” (137) Gatsby is telling of how Daisy Buchanan is no longer loyal to Tom and how she now wants him back because he has run into money.
It is not an oversight that Curley’s wife, although a relatively minor character, was left nameless in Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. She is not in the story as someone to relate to, and by giving her a name, it would bring more similarity to the reader. Her status also has to do with this. She is not regarded as anything significant, therefore she does not need a name. Steinbeck leaves her unnamed so she lacks something that makes her appear as an equal individual.
The main causes of Romeo and Juliet’s death are the friar, their own emotions, and their feuding families. Friar Laurence and his lack of communication play a large role in the suicide of Romeo and Juliet. The friar told the messenger that couldn’t send the letter that, “The letter was not nice, but full of charge / Of dear import; and the neglecting it / may do much danger” (5.2.18-20). The friar was too slow in sending the letter of his plan to Romeo, who
At the end of the play, he tells Nora “You talk like a child. You don't understand the conditions of the world in which you live” which not only insults Nora by saying she is acting childish but is also incompetent of understanding her own basic freedoms as a woman during that time period (Act III lines 1038-39). Torvald’s character, no matter how much he loves her, display views against the idea of feminism because he is not willing to allow her to take care of him financially which was the entire conflict of the play. An issue regarding a loan Nora withdrawls sets the plot of the play. Although her motives were
Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House ends on either a very negative note, or a very positive note depending upon how one views such situations. At the end of the story, Nora Helmer leaves her oppressive, belittling husband, and children - who are hardly her children - behind to rediscover and educate herself. Ibsen states, “The wife in the play ends by having no idea of what is right or wrong; natural feeling on one hand and belief in authority on the other have altogether bewildered her.” (Ibsen. 409) Nora’s situation was a very unique one with many tunnels and slides to be trekked. Her exit was a fully rational, completely acceptable action.
Explore the ways in which poor communication in act 3 scene 5 contributes to the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. Two of the most wealthiest and superior families in Verona, Montague's and Capulet's, are engaged in a deadly feud. No one can remember how it started, but it involves everyone from servants to distant relatives. Romeo and Juliet merge at Juliet's party not knowing each others identity. They fall in love rapidly, however can't communicate well as their families don't know and are meant to be sworn enemies.
Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet is one of William Shakespeare’s most famous plays. This is probably because at the time that it was written it had themes of forbidden love a theme that was never touched upon before Shakespeare. The story is about two young people who are from feuding families who at one families masquerade ball fall in love at first sight, and even when one parent tells Juliet to marry someone else she refuses and would rather be disowned than marry some one else. To be able to be with Romeo she takes a poison that would make her appear dead. When Romeo hears of her ‘death’ he is so distraught and depressed that he kills himself at the side of her death bed.