And how Nea deals with this events. This story is written with the immature and unreliable 12-year old perspective. These two sisters have grown together all through their life’s, creating a strong bound, and the fact that her family and a “old guy” is taking away her sister is something she can’t stand. In the end Nea believes that she is saving Sourdi from Mr.Chhay and her mother. However what Nea does not understand in all her youth and idealism , is that sourdi does not want to be saved: She willfully accepts her fate and her marriage to Mr.Chhay because she finds financial stability and a secure future.
Furthermore, in this story Mrs. Mallard Mallard has no issue about money. Since she is ill, Mrs. Mallard has always been told what to do and unable to make choices for herself. In “Story of an Hour” Mrs. Mallard finds herself unexpected freedom from male oppression; despite being transient. Also, how Choppin utilizes three different emotions to build up tension for the reader. Kate Chopin, in “The Story of an Hour” provides us how society describes Mrs. Mallard’s husband as the perfect man in marriage and by presenting the readers with a woman who is clearly overjoyed of the fact of her husband’s death.
Being known as Mrs. Mallard is accustomed to Louise, but the desire for that seems to be missing. After hearing of her husband’s death, she feels a “possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being” (14). She believes that freedom can finally stand as her first name. Bondage and oppression are lifted from her shoulders, or so she thinks. Louise thinks she is free from the binding of her marriage, but the whole time her life remains constant, despite her unawareness.
She cares for her master and does all that she can to make his life longer and happier. She acquiesces in the fact that slaves should not read and write. Like Mama in A Raisin in the Sun, she believes in God and his grace. She is conscious of what is right but the change in Rissa from the traditional mammy of the myth to the rebellious mother occurs when her son Hannibal is blinded by Hiram’s son Everett. Though she knows that her master has been all along a good man and a kind one, she is not able to forgive him.
Even though at the time such action was a crime, she had her own viable reasons to do so. As Nora has said, she did it for her husband, and not only for his health but also his pride. Torvald is a very prideful man who has always been the major financial contributor of the family, and as he became ill, he was no longer to support the family as before. Under the circumstances, borrowing money from someone else to cure his illness would be a harm toward Torvald’s personal pride, as he would never allow his family to be in debt, let alone having his wife to leave the comfortable household to work in order to pay for him. Therefore Torvald’s pride left Nora with no choice but to borrow from Krogstad and
Through everything with her dad and everyone’s disapproval Desdemona remained positive with all the hardships she went through and kept a good attitude. Another good thing she did was fulfilled her correct roles and duties such as being a good wife, helping others, and being faithful and loyal. At any moment Desdemona could have left Othello because all of the chaos she had to go through, but she didn’t, instead she stuck by his side through thick and thin. An example of this would be one of her final words to Othello “And you have mercy on me too! I never did anything wrong to you in my life.
First she accepts losing everything just to be honest then even after her bad treatment, she comes back to save her father. She was a loyal, honest person who loved her father deeply even though she could not express it in words. In the end the truth came out and Cordelia was King Lear’s only actual daughter willing to sacrifice everything and anything for
Even after Ismene warns Antigone about burying her brother, she is unstoppable. She goes on with what she partakes to be right even though she does not receive help from her sister. On the part of Creon, he upholds his dedication to leadership so much that he ignores the plea by his son to spare Antigone. He thinks that the only reason which makes his son do that is that he is loyal to Antigone. Therefore, both characters have this tendency to trust themselves and it brings both good and adverse effects to them.
In another light, her decision was not a truly a loss. Through this, she was able to embrace her individuality, free from the ties of her father’s expectations and the distress in the toxic relationship between herself and her family. In a sense, she finds solace, and alleviation of pain. A part of her will always have She struggles because throughout her childhood she experiences two juxtaposing versions of her father, one of which cannot be reconciled. She does everything in her power to make her home everything her families was not.
A Hidden Crime “There is a comfort in knowing that you don’t have to pretend anymore, that you are going to do everything within your power to heal.” -Ellen Bass. Family is meant to be our love, support and comfort zone no matter what we go through, unfortunately that's not the case for everyone. I have a close friend along with her younger sisters that feel uncomfortable whenever their uncle visits. As a family, their uncle acts respectful in public but different when he is alone with the girls. One day there was a knock on the door and one of the younger sisters went over to open it, when the uncle entered he reached over for a handshake and as soon as he realized they were alone his other hand swinged back under for a tight grip.