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Jealousy in A Winter's Tale
By the time Leontes has become certain his suspicions that his wife is
having an affair are true he is undoubtedly in the grip of a mental
illness. This is the main reason behind the development of his
jealousy of Polixenes. Leontes and Polixenes have been close friends
since an early age but Leontes seems to forget this friendship whilst
jealousy takes him over as he think he is seeing his wife moving away
from him.
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The problem, ironically, is started by Leontes. Leontes is desperate
for Polixenes to stay longer with him in Sicily but Polixenes refuses
on the grounds that he has a child back in Bohemia and that he must go
home and be an active king again. Leontes fails to tempt Polixenes
into staying an extra few weeks due to the blunt way in which he tries
to persuade Polixenes. For example Leontes says simply “Stay your
thanks a while, and pay them when you part” without making an effort
at arguing why he would like Polixenes to stay. Leontes then invites
his wife to try persuading Polixenes to stay. She succeeds in talking
Polixenes round into staying. This is the first point at which Leontes
feels there is some kind of chemistry between Polixenes and Hermione
and the start of his jealousy towards the two. Leontes feels that
Polixenes is only staying as his love, Hermione, has asked him to.
Leontes later says of Hermione “Let what is dead in Sicily be cheap”
referring to what Leontes senses at that moment when Hermione succeeds
in persuading Polixenes to stay. Leontes sees what he describes as
their “whispering”, their “cheek to cheek”, their “meeting noses” and
their “kissing with inside lip” at that moment. What Leontes describes
he has seen is probably his imagination turning kisses of greetings
into intimate gestures of their apparent love.
Leontes recognises the intimacy in Hermione and Polixenes’
relationship. He sees the holding of hands and the friendly
conversations they have together. This is the basic reason for Leontes
to be at the hands of his lost son, which he exiled and sentenced to
In the book Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, secrets cause much distrust aimed at the secret holder and pain to the ones either holding or discovering the secret with examples found in secrets like those of Rochester really being the gypsy, Jane's secret reading spot, Mrs. Reed keeping the letter from Jane, and Mr. Rochester's wife in the attic. When Mr. Rochester is disguised as the gypsy and tells the ladies these mysterious fortunes, it in cases hurts some mentally, but more importantly in Jane's case it leads to distrust of Mr. Rochester. As John finds out Jane's secret reading spot he loses more trust in the so called "naughty child" and causes Jane the pain of knowing she no longer has a safe place in Gateshead. Once Jane finds out that Mrs. Reed had kept the letter from her Uncle away from her, she loses almost all of her waning trust in her. Lastly, when Jane found out that Mr. Rochester is married it is what leads Jane leave him for lack of trust, and it also pains Mr. Rochester with the loss of his beloved Jane. Lets not get ahead of ourselves though and talk in more detail about Mr. Rochester and his time as a gypsy.
“The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self- respect springs”- Joan Didion. Self respect and self esteem are two things many people can not live without. Everyday people are forced to make tough decisions which can alter their self respect or self esteem. The play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, and the movie Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck both show the theme only through self- respect and self- esteem can people live with themselves.
After reading Fences, it is clear that there is much conflict between Troy and his son Cory due to Troy’s failed aspirations and jealousy of Cory’s success, as well as a significant generational gap.
not want to give up his good name; he would rather give up his life,
In Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, many of the characters all experience their own conflicts and struggles. Throughout the story the main characters, Dick and Perry, are described during the murder of the Clutter family, but the author also tells stories of their childhood. Their current life is shown to be vastly different than how it used to be in the sense that, they never used to commit crimes and they had a good early life. This changes when the characters begin experiencing more stress-filled and harsh events that result in their later lives as criminals. The quote, “inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It’s a constant struggle as to which one will win and one cannot exist without the other,” describes the lives of Dick and Perry appropriately. Throughout the book, Capote uses all three rhetorical appeals and strategies to write about the internal
It is believed by many that it is human nature to deem themselves to be a tantamount to God. Such is the case when one decides to take revenge against those who wrong him. Though vengeance seems like the perfect way to achieve justice, a sense of equity, in actuality it is merely an unsatisfactory hypocritical action. This is the definitive realization of the protagonist, Edmond Dantès in Alexandre Dumas’ “The Count of Monte Cristo”. The protagonist comes to understand that after a lifetime of searching for justice, he really only yearns justice from himself. Akin to many of Alexandre Dumas’ other masterpieces, “The Count of Monte Cristo” is a dramatic tale of mystery and intrigue that paints a dazzling, dueling, exuberant vision of the Napoleonic era in France. In this thrilling adventure, Edmond Dantès is toiling with the endeavor of attaining ultimate revenge, after being punished by his enemies and thrown into a secret dungeon in the Chateau d’If. He reluctantly learns that his long intolerable years in captivity, miraculous escape and carefully wrought revenge are all merely vital parts in his journey of awakening to the notion that there is no such thing as happiness or unhappiness, there is merely the comparison between the two. Ultimately, the irony that Dumas is presenting through this novel suggests that the inability to attain happiness through the hypocrisy that is revenge is because one is really avenging their own self. This becomes evident through his dramatic transformations from a naïve, young sailor, to a cold, cynical mastermind of vengeance, and finally to a remorseful, humble man who is simply content.
If you were to ask me if In Cold Blood by Truman Capote is worthy enough to be a novel I would defiantly say yes. When I initially started reading the book I didn’t think it would be a good book, but as I read more and more of the story it became very interesting. In my opinion, Truman Capote made the book so that every part that you read makes you wonder what is going to happen next. In Cold Blood is a Fiction/Literature book, which is a book that is “created from the imagination, not presented as fact, though it may be based on a true story or situation.” "fiction". Encyclopedia Britannica. Encyclopedia Britannica Online. Encyclopedia Britannica Inc., 2016. Web. 21 Mar. 2016 . There are some points that you can bring up to reflect on this
Rick Riordan once said, “Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related for better or for worse...and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum.”. Families are the foundation of a person’s life, and contribute in the molding of how a person turns out for the rest of their life. Families can be very united allowing a person to grow up to do something extraordinary with their life; however they can also be disastrous and separated causing people to face larger issues with themselves in the future. In the novel In Cold Blood written by Truman Capote, one of the themes the author develops is of family life, the novel shows how any family can be destroyed, and is a factor into shaping a person to whom they will be.
In the novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, the character Catherine Earnshaw is used to deliver the powerful theme of civility at war with passion. In the story, Bronte portrays the two clashing forces as a major storm that causes turmoil in the novel’s setting. While Heathcliff represents passion, Edgar displays the attributes of civility. *2*However, Catherine Earnshaw becomes the living symbol of the antithesis. She becomes the eye of the hurricane where all the turmoil and conflicts of the characters meet. Catherine finds herself tangled in an imbalance between Edgar and Heathcliff, or between civility and passion, which eventually tears her apart emotionally and physically.
1. “Then, touching the brim of his cap, he headed for home and the day’s work, unaware that it would be his last.” (page 15, paragraph 1)
Through self-centered and narcissistic characters, Emily Bronte’s classic novel, “Wuthering Heights” illustrates a deliberate and poetic understanding of what greed is. Encouraged by love, fear, and revenge, Catherine Earnshaw, Heathcliff, and Linton Heathcliff all commit a sin called selfishness.
On the face of it, it would seem that the relationship between Catherine and Heathcliff is self-destructive to an extreme. Due to the lovers’ precarious circumstances, passionate personalities and class divisions, it seems that fate transpires to keep them apart and therefore the hopelessness of their situation drives them to self destruction. However, although the relationship is undeniably self-destructive, there are elements within it that suggest the pain Heathcliff and Catherine put each other through is atoned for to an extent when they share their brief moments of harmony.
Emily Bronte, who never had the benefit of former schooling, wrote Wuthering Heights. Bronte has been declared as a “romantic rebel” because she ignored the repressive conventions of her day and made passion part of the novelistic tradition. Unlike stereotypical novels, Wuthering Heights has no true heroes or villains.
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