One became a nun; another turned to prostitution; two went to jail; and the last died at age seven when a raged Jack threw her off the roof when he was in an uncontrollable rage. The anger that Valerie tried to keep in check for years finally explodes when Jack started to abuse one of their grandchildren. Valerie grabbed the nearest item which was a heavy cast iron skillet … and hit him as hard as she could on Jack’s head, making him die. I think the theme is love, fear, rage, regret, and the patterns of brutality and silence can haunt generations of one family. The mom, Valerie, gets damaged emotionally and physically-changing her
Sykes was very ungrateful and didn’t appreciate his wife, he tried to get her out of the way so he can be with his mistress Bertha. The saying “Karma is a bitch,” relates to the story because, Sykes tried poisoning his wife with a rattlesnake, but instead he was bitten and died from the poison. The story unfolds when Sykes got home and verbally abused his wife, but she stood up and faced him without any fear in her eyes, that was the breaking point for Delia, despite all her hard work he didn’t appreciate her, so she decided to stand up for herself and no longer endure her husband’s abuse. Sykes character unfolds when the narrator painted a picture of what he really is and his thoughts against his wife, he was wicked and cruel against his wife but was sweet and caring towards his mistress Bertha. He would go all out just to get Delia out of his way of being happy with his mistress.
But the lady was too much afraid of his husband. She started living with her husband again. But Rudy was continuous to follow Kelly. Kelly was beaten by her husband again and this time Rudy tried to save her. Rudy helped her file for divorce.
Like the ranch-hands, she is desperately lonely and has broken dreams of a better life. Curley’s wife: Of Mice and Menis not kind in its portrayal of women. In fact, women are treated with contempt throughout the course of the book. Steinbeck generally depicts women as troublemakers who bring ruin on men and drive them mad. Curley’s wife, who walks the ranch as a temptress, seems to be a prime example of this destructive tendency—Curley’s already bad temper has only worsened since their wedding.
Spousal abuse has been going on for centuries. Trapping women and men in relationships, they don’t want to be in, but are scared to leave because of the given consequences. The fact that Deliah feels trapped in this relationship can be because of her race, the amount of years put in her relationship with skyes, and because of her low-self-esteem and confidence in herself. It is said to be that one out of every three women worldwide experience some type of abusive violence in a relationship. Deliah was married to Skyes for fifteen years.
It is, therefore, the motivating factor behind the two women’s search of liberation. Both women are oppressed by their husbands, and this curtails their happiness. In The Yellow Wallpaper,” John, a narrator’s spouse, confines his wife in a room with barred windows and hideous wallpaper that is yellow by its color at the countryside vacation house because she is ill. He deprives her freedom of communication by confining her in the room. He also puts her under the intense scrutiny.
When he hears Terri’s story about her ex-husband he is quick to correct her saying that it was not love her ex-husband had for her. Terri, Mel McGinnis’s wife, believes love to be something entirely different than what Mel believes. As Terri begins to explain what she thinks love is, she explains the story of her past with her ex- husband named Ed. She describes her relationship with Ed as being very abusive and violent, yet he still loved her. Ed supposedly loved her so much that he in a furious passion beat her and dragged her around his house like
The one relationship that was affected severely by the fact that he is passion’s slave is the relationship between him and his mother, Gertrude. What triggers the immediate conflict between the two of them is the fact that almost immediately after the death of Hamlet Sr., she chose to marry his brother Claudius “But two months dead”; whom also turns out to be the killer of Hamlet Sr. It is a clear indication to the audience that Hamlet is not in agreement of this marriage; this in turn leads to conflict between them continuously through the play. “Now could I drink hot blood…Soft! Now to my mother.” “I will speak daggers to her but use none.” Hamlet uses daggers as a reference to the fact that he will speak his anger rather than physically hurting her.
For example, Ted Bundy chose many of his victims based on their resemblance to his former girlfriend who broke an engagement she had with Bundy (Fido M. 300). Another example is Jerome Henry Brudos who never felt accepted by his mother (Hale 39). This caused a feeling of humiliation and rejection for him, leading him to murder many women to transfer his hatred. Similarly, Hale describes how Richard Biegenwald murdered many men and women due to humiliation from his alcoholic father who had no interest in his wife and his son Richard (40). Lastly Robert Hansen, described as a skinny pimply-faced social reject, murdered many women due to his continual rejection in adolescence (Hale
Belle got pregnant by a man who obviously didn’t want to have a baby with her who kicked her in her stomach in a public area causing her to lose her child. Soon after the man disappeared and was never seen again. She began to meet other men who she then married and a few months later went missing and she collect their insurance money and went on to find another man. Gary Ridgway known as the “Green River Killer” Ridgway was another young man who had a very controlling mother, who later in life had some type of sexual desire. According to Ridgeway he didn’t like or wanted to pay prostitutes to have sex with him.