Catherine Jarnshaw Character Analysis

His excuses swell to the extent that when the truth unfolds, his mental stability plummets. Other than the burdens that lace his curse, Oedipus’s upbringing was painless. He has never had to sweat over money, abuse, or lack of control over his own decisions. His gradual rise to power furthers the understanding of his pleasant life. In opposition, Hurston’s own upbringing is greatly opposite of her character’s, Janie, thus prompting the contradictory differences between their stories.

In the text, Georgiana demonstrates her tolerance towards Alymer, as she remains obedient, and faithful, as his experiment reveals her a narrow chance of success. She is too tolerant to him, which made her easy to manipulate and control, as Hawthorn writes, “Much as he had accomplished, she could not but observe that his most splendid success were almost invariably failures, if compared with the ideal at which he aimed” (8). Although she noticed the slight chance of success, she still viewed her husband as a god, who she must not reason with further. Jane, on the other hand was intolerant to her husband. She was aware of the mistreatment by her husband, which ultimately compelled her to get revenge against him by making him faint, as Gilman writes “Now why should that man have fainted?

I am a spiteful man.” (The Notes from the Underground, Part 1, Book 1, page 1). The narrator calls himself spiteful, but later, he claims that he is not spiteful, but he just wants to act as he is. However, in reality he has no character.

If by some grace of God Lennie had survived this episode, later down the line it would occur again. Lennie would be dealing with a cycle of living hell and George prevents him from

“‘I don’t like it, Atticus, I don’t like it at all,’ was Aunt Alexandra’s assessment of these events. ‘That man seems to have a permanent running grudge against everybody connected with that case. I know how that kind are about paying off grudges, but I don’t understand why he should harbor one—he had his way in court, didn’t he?’” (335) From intruding a judge’s house to humiliating and harassing Helen Robinson, Bob Ewell is consistently intimidating Maycomb. Atticus is not a perfect character because he doesn’t realize that his weakness is not believing that Bob is mistreating the town.

In the beginning of act two we see that Kat has Bianca’s hands tied, and is refusing to untie her hands because she wants to know the name of the man she loves. Kat is doing this as she wants what her sister has which is men falling head over heels for her left and right. Kat then begins to yell at her sister, that’s when their father comes in and tells Kat

Her boredom with this lifestyle and personality is apparent through her narrative in which she describes her tendency to change personality as “the way some women change fashion” (Flynn 222). Her primary nature is quite ferocious and strays from the nature of the typical American wife. Amy’s main personality can be described as a “chillingly monstrous female figure” and a “cunning villain” who commits many unforgivable acts (Orman 7, 9). These unforgivable acts help describe her many deviant character

The other women in the novel: Liza and Olive Hamilton, Abra Bacon, and even Steinbeck's mother are described to be caring, affectionate, and loving, all the characteristic of a mother, which contrast to Cathy. Although Charles can appear dark natured, there are moment where he expresses human emotions like love and guilt, Cathy expenses none of this because she is inhuman. In addition, to her son, Cal can become dark, however, he has illustrate he can conquer over sin and live a high-minded life. “What made Kate so effective was the fact that she had either learned it or had been born with the knowledge” (241). Therefore, Cathy places an important role in the plot of evil is human nature.

The Emalia-Desdemona relationship is an interesting and complicated one. At first glance, it might seem that Emalia serves as the jaded foil to Desdemona’s innocent naivety about love. However, a closer, sympathetic look at Emalia shows she has plenty of reasons to be as hardened as she has become. The role of Iago’s wife can’t be an easy one, and he is usually too concerned with revenge to pay much attention to her. He’s arguably one of the cruelest Shakespearean villains, and Emalia is just trying to survive unscathed.

The animosity towards each other is as if they have “bad blood” towards each other. They can’t stand what the other does. They get satisfaction out of “one upping” the other. Such as when Blanche will try and tell Stella how horrible he is while Stanley wants to destroy Blanche’s social pretensions. To sum, the hatred between the characters of Blanche and Stanley in Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire is due to their conflicting personalities and the way they see Stella’s life should be.

The silence is leered because it’s mean-spirited, even though Danny and Reuven don’t dislike each other. The fact that Danny won’t acknowledge Reuven makes Reuven very hurt, and Reuven begins to wish that Danny Saunders would go to hell. The silence

Jason is stuck in the past and cannot move forward because of the hate that he has for Caddy. He becomes “a laughing stock in the town” and does nothing productive to improve his life. Jason holds onto the grudge he has for Caddy and thinks that blaming her and stealing from Ms. Quentin will improve his life in some way. Jason is never able to become successful and is stuck in his current situation because he cannot forgive Caddy. Jason’s anger in his past prevents him from being productive and doing something that will improve his life in the

Tom tires to buy Daisy with material things, such as the pearls, but ultimately she detests the pearls since they signify her loveless marriage. Earlier on, we find out that Daisy hasn’t been happy with her own marriage, as she states, “Well, I’ve had a very bad time”

This symbolizes Brown leaving his good conscience behind and becoming engulfed in the evil of his distorted reality. When he realizes this, he begins to deny the truth that he is also morally flawed. Therefore, the physical path disappears as well as his emotional path within himself that gives him direction to his life; when his emotional path disappears, he becomes spiritually lost and does not know how he should live his life anymore. Without a pure conscience, Brown does not know how to function as a member of a Puritan society which results in Brown being a social outcast and bitter toward his wife and the townspeople. Likewise, Montresor’s journey begins in a carnival where Fortunato, drunk and alone, becomes lured by Montresor by offering Fortunato some Amontillado.