The Role Of Penelope In Homer's Odyssey

Throughout the story they have same mindset and that too keep john. Abigail never had john but she does want him and of course elizabeth want him to because that her husband. The author brings these two characters that are very much so different together through a situational irony, by expecting the unexpected. Stated in the crucible “john i am waiting for you every night” her motive for trying to get john back is so strong, she'll do anything for this guy..... According to the story crucible ‘i think you must go to salem, john.

Although Lío has gone, he is always in Minerva’s thoughts and actions. A couple years later Minerva meets Manolo and marries him. They do not have a perfect relationship between Manolo’s cheating and money problems, they do come together for a common purpose, fighting against Trujillo. In Maria Teresa’s chapter she said, “Manolo and Minerva have explained everything. A national underground is forming”(466).

Marriage is usually perceived as a momentous event that finally unites man and wife as equals. However, in Zora Neale Hurston’s novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie, the protagonist, faces the contrary. Although her second husband, Jody, treated her as an equal during the beginning of their relationship, she eventually is treated as a lesser part of their union as he asserts his dominance over her. After the death of Jody, Janie eventually found Tea Cake, who treated her fairly throughout their relationship, as shown through his natural willingness and patience to teach her how to play checkers. With their relationship, Janie experienced a marriage where she had the right to make her own decisions and express herself.

Jenny as a believer of carving oneself's own path has sex with a , “Goner.” The brain injured ball turret gunner named Technical Sergeant Garp. Technical Sergeant Garp (who lives up to his label) and Jenny continues to have an always wanted child without sharing her life. She names her son after her father, but she only knew of his rank and last name. Jenny and Garp progress

She says he’s like her brother but I know better. Harry’s a little pato, a carbon, twice beat by me. On the nights I find her she clings to him like she’s his other nut, never wants to step outside for a minute.” (Drown P54) From this big part, it can fully explain and answer the second question.

While resting at the castle, he encounters the Lady of the Castle. Over time, she attempts to seduce him and he does his best to repel her efforts. “And so she tested him, pushed and probed, trying to tempt him, pretending love, and Gawain was so gracefully evasive that he seemed always polite, and nothing happened…”(page 104). Regrettably, while he was valiant in not letting her seduce him, he accepts the belt from her and keeps it from the king, whom he had a bargain with to give him whatever he had gotten from the day. Gawain later redeemed himself, when he and his guide were searching for the green knights home.

The final dissimilarity is how each of the stories end. Winnifred ends a changed person after witnessing the outcome of her brother’s charming, but manipulative attitude. After sternly ordering her daughter to clean up after a tantrum (which Zachary consistently avoided doing), she says to herself quietly, “Thank you, Zachary” (108 Wilson). This affirms that he changed her considerably into adulthood and remains there. In the latter, the author self-admittedly cannot help but be attached and devoted to her country as she explains, “But one thing is inalterable, for better or worse, for life.

In addition to the power that obviously lies with Maxim, is that which the novel 's narrator comes to hold when she learns of how Rebecca met with her end. For the second Mrs de Winter, power comes with knowledge. When her husband reveals to her the truth about what happened to his wife, she becomes empowered. For example, she is now able to handle Mrs Danvers wickedness as well as the shadowy legacy of Rebecca at Manderley, '”I 'm afraid it does not concern me very much what Mrs de Winter used to do […] I am Mrs de Winter now, you know” ' (du Maurier, 1938, p.326).

It is free verse and written in the vernacular, implying that it emulates the examples of discourse and lingual authority of discussion. Hughes then builds up the metaphor of a staircase further, as the mother portrays the challenges in her life using images like tacks, fragments, uncarpeted floor, and dark, dim corners. She urges her son not to turn back, in light of the fact that she never will. The expression crystal stair is captivating. It can be found in an assortment of writings from the nineteenth century, a few religious and some mainstream, and it is frequently used to propose the superb association or parade from earth to paradise.

Emilia also stood up for what she believed in and laid down her life doing so. After finding out her husband, Iago, was the one who had plotted the demise of so many around her, Emilia declared “Tis proper I obey him, but not right now” (5.2.233). Emilia knew she was expected to obey her husband, yet she was willing to lay down her life to alert others of the atrocious acts that her husband had committed. Not only did Emilia speak out against her husband, but was willing to lose her life in the process. She was able to find her voice and speak out to save those around her.

He 's a rescuer. ”(peffer pg 1). This shows Ashes, saying he 's always there when you need him no matter where you are he always seem to be there to help. One more quote is “Mom might not ever be caught without batteries or tissues, but she just called me Ashleigh, a name she didn 't even like- and never promised me anything. ”(Pfeffer pg 2).

Similarly the man overcame the woman in the relationship. Janie chose to conform to the outward marriage and new relationship. She became, in essence, a trophy wife. Janie followed the will of her husband, and not until years later questioned their relationship. As the story progresses, the internal strife between how Janie acts and how Janie feels shows the lack of the true Janie.

It is comparing Janie who is a human into something that has been taught to cater to the master. Janie felt as though she had been bosses over these years and with Joe 's death she was finally running away. This literary convention is important to the text because it allows readers to see what kind of things Janie was honestly going through while with her husband. She no longer felt as if she had to abide by anyone 's rules other than her own. This allowed her to gain the freedom she had been longing for.

Despite being the only female on a ranch full of foul-mouthed men, Curley 's wife exploits both her sexuality and her status to demonstrate power throughout the novel. For instance, when first meeting Curley’s wife she attempts to enhance her body for the new men: “She put her hands behind her back and leaned against the door frame so that her body was thrown forward” (31). From Curley’s wife’s actions we learn that since the beginning she finds it necessary to flaunt her body, instead of showing her real personality. Furthermore, she is using her physical attraction to portray an appearance that is automatically seducing in hopes of placing herself above the newly arriving men. After Crooks tells Curley’s wife to get out of the barn, she erupts

Torvald made all the arrangements in their life, so she never developed her own tastes or ideas for herself. Torvald admits some of the truth in what she says. It shall be different in the future, he vows, "playtime shall be over and lesson time shall begin." However, she says that he is not the person to educate herself. She isnt ready to bring up her children because she must do something in her life before being with them once more.