Theme Of Nature In King Lear

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" (130). Myrtle on the other hand is having affairs with Tom in order to feel the satisfaction of being in the upper class. Myrtle loved her husband Mr. Wilson when they got married, but she got very disappointed by her husband’s lack of money and the social status that she is suffering in for eleven years. Now she is regretting the day she married with him, her sister Catharine says “She really ought to get away from him.

Even though Lady Macduff and her son do not pose as a threat to Macbeth, Macbeth has them killed. Lady Macbeth, while sleepwalking, announces to her doctor and maid, “Will these hands ne’er be clean?” (5.1.45). Lady Macbeth is finally starting to realize that her husband has took his obsession with power too far. She expresses her guilt and remorse without even realizing it, showing that she truly regrets her actions.

In ‘The First Job’, pg. 53, Esperanza gets tricked by an old man to give her a kiss, and in ‘Red Clowns’, she even gets raped when her friend Sally abandons her at the carnival. But it’s not all about her as I said before, because ironically in ‘What Sally Said,”, pg. 92, Esperanza muses about how Sally was beaten by her father for petty things like talking with a boy, because he believed she would run away like his sisters did, showing that she isn’t the only one who has to put up with the abuse of the

Antigone Vs Hester Prynne In this play antigone is one of the main characters, she is seen as the play 's “Tragic Heroin”. She is a spoiled brat That wishes she was like her sister Ismene but will not say it. She wishes she was beautiful and could charm men like her sister but instead she scares them. Antigone has a meeting with her sister trying to persuade ismene to help her bury their brother polyneices.

In the time period where The Odyssey takes place, women are expected to be loyal and are punished severely if they are not. For men, however, the rules are a lot more lenient. When Odysseus arrives home and hears about what has been happening in his hall while he was away, he becomes furious. All of the suitors are killed swiftly with arrows or spears, but each maid sleeping with them is forced to “thrust her head into a noose and swung” because she is a “slut” and does not deserve “the clean death of a beast” (423). The suitors went after his wife and lived in his house for seven years, but they get a less severe punishment then the disloyal maids.

HOOK In the play medea the eponymous main character is already debased and seen as weak and powerless and is already surrendering to pain and melts away in her days, Her man left her. But later in the play she becomes empowered and comes up with this devious plan to get revenge. CONNECTION The same issue that she faces while trying to get over this terrible break up is the same issue she’ll resolve in the end.

In this case, both love & hate are shown. After hearing that Romeo has slain Tybalt & will be banished, Juliet cries for a long while about Romeo’s banishment, telling her parents it is due to Tybalt’s death. Her parents, feeling they need to do something to stop her endless weeping, set up a second marriage for her (not knowing about the first one) to the county Paris. When Lord Capulet tells her of this, instead of having his expected reaction, she refuses. Her father becomes enraged with her & begins to hate her actions, and tells her she will not be a part of the Capulet family anymore unless she accepts.

This revolution happens when she drops a giant bombshell on her children by admitting that she gradually poisoned her husband and eventually killed him (Adichie 290). You almost sense a turning point in Beatrice’s character, a revelation of sort however what we find is not a rejuvenated, powerful woman but rather a cold, departed being lacking any want to continue. The last chapter’s title, “A Different Silence” sums up our last defiance of Beatrice’s classic character traits. Kambili describes an unkempt woman who only nods and shakes her head from time to time (Adichie 296-298).

and she is deeply affected by all the tragedies in her life. She is a tragic character, who is unable to exist in the world which surrounds her so she makes up a better world in her imagination. The world she wishes to live in. People can sympathize with Blanche because of all the tragedy in her life. Susan Henthorne writes in her essay A Streetcar Named Desire, Death and desire bring Blanche to this low point in her life.

In the Homeless Bird, Koly was conned into a marriage to a boy who was sickly and in return became a widow after her ‘husband’ died. “While we were alone for a minute, Maa said, ‘The boy is much younger than they told us, and he is sickly” (Whelan, Chapter 1). With the lies and deceit of Koly’s in-laws, she suffered the consequences of being marked as a widow and experiences the pain it causes. By the theme of lies and deceit, the readers can actually visualize how much pain she should go through in following her life story. Meanwhile in the Odyssey, the family of Odysseus was driven by the fact that he will not ever return,

The main character, Rachel Watson, had recently divorced her husband, Tom, and found herself missing the seemingly perfect life she had with him. Much like Melinda, Rachel feels worthless and disapproves of her appearance as well after the divorce. Her becoming an alcoholic over time was the main cause of the split. When she was under the influence, she could be extremely aggressive and violent and then black out; at least according to Tom. After she would sober up, he would tell her all the horrible things she said and did while she was drunk, like the time she attacked him with a golf club.

Romeo 's personality of peace, loving, yet vengeful caused his own doom once he was exiled for killing Tybalt who killed Mercutio. Thus 'evidently causing pain for Juliet who lost both her lover and cousin. Juliet 's father arranging Juliet 's marriage to Paris made her mourning worse, already being married to Romeo yet being separated made her to reason with Friar Laurence. The plan that was supposed to reunite both Lovers indefinetly brought upon their own doom. Juliet herself drank the sleeping potion when Romeo was on his way earlier than anticipated, whom bought poison upon hearing of her "death" , planning to kill himslef on her tomb alongside her.

A year after Diana’s death she was not forgotten but acknowledged in different ways. In the article Time, Anne-Marie O’Neill and Kim Hubbard published an article on A Lesson in Loss. The article quotes “Her grieving ex-husband was touched the most by her death, Charles is the one showing the effects of his loss.” Charles is now the good guy who is the single parent.

In Scene 1 Act 2 she says “Let not thy mother lose her prayers, Hamlet; I pray thee stay with us; go not to Wittenberg" (1.2,18-19) she’s trying to protect Hamlet but not seeing that she’s actually hurting him. What made Hamlet mad was that she had married her uncle two months after his father’s death. Gertrude causes the main problem in Hamlet’s life and she does it by only thinking of herself.

Benvolio says this to Romeo, because Tybalt has just been killed because he killed Mercutio. “Romeo, away, be gone! / The citizens are up and Tybalt slain. ”(3.1.130-131) This supports that Tybalt is to blame because his death leads to a lot more events like the capulet finding out and being heartbroken, but Juliet is even more sad because Romeo has been punished to exile but her parents don’t know that they are married.