Randomness is the major factor involved in the ascension of Carrie and descending of Hurstwood. The lesser factors encompass will, looks, and gender. Carrie would have never been equip by men to succeed if she were not a pretty girl. Mr. Hurstwood would not have had as much loss if he had not lost some of his will. The lesson variables would not matter if it were not for the random events. By chance, and her appearance, Carrie was taken in by Mr. Drouet. From there, she met Mr. Hurstwood, who won her affection with attention and romance. Eventually, he tricked her to go to New York City. This city allowed her to become an actress simply because someone noticed something they liked when she was a choir girl. The only reason she had been hired
Humans are not born with a label, they are taught to adhere to certain principles after suffering judgement from others. It is often found that gender is a barrier that prevents humans from experimenting. One finds that he or she cannot partake in an activity in fear of being judged and labeled. The poem Bedecked by Victoria Redel criticizes people’s judgement on her son, as he does not conform to societal standards. Gender and their associated stereotypes are presented in the poem through mundane items, purposeful diction, and the the motif of jewels.
...action or an effect that may be out of their control. However, people are fundamentally able to control their actions and are therefore responsible for what they choose to do. Snow Falling on Cedars emphasizes the idea that free will rules over fate which can be understood from the last sentence in the novel: “accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart”. While chance, fate, or accidents happen and interfere with the lives of characters such as Ishmael and Hatsue or somehow create uncontrollable events, there is always the ability for each individual to act against these forces and exert their will to do what is right. People do not feel or act by accident; every decision that is made is based on intention. Therefore, people are responsible for what they choose to do and are ultimately, in control of their own fate.
The outcome of things depends on both the power of the individual and destiny because they tie in with each other. Things do not just happen, randomly, they happen for a reason only to be seen at the end of things. For example, Jim was raised by his parents in Virginia until they died, upon which his relatives shipped him west to his grandparents. This is part of his journey through life which was predetermined. Jim, as an adult writing, realizes that Destiny makes our decisions and nothing need be worried about because he "did not say my prayers that night [the first night on the farm in Nebraska]: here, I felt, what would be would be." (7) The next big chance Jim takes where his is unsure of what will happen is going to college. Over there he befriends Gaston Cleric, a Classics Instructor. Later on Cleric gets a job at Harvard that "he would like to take me East with him. To my astonishment, gran...
...re the reader is not able to make any solid connection with any of these characters. It is arguably only through the stories foreshadowing where both authors prepare us with little details like the mileage of the car written down by the grandmother in O’Connor’s story likewise the boys preparation of the stones in Jackson’s Lottery that would inevitably help the reader to comprehend how both these author’s reached the horrifically shocking climatic endings in both short stories. I believe the authors similar use of these three variables help the reader to understand the message being delivered through these stories of the human condition and its effects on a society that only embraces its traditional moral beliefs and values.
The "you" in Lorrie Moore's "How" is almost the completely opposite of the stereotypical roles we have assigned to men and women. "You" is assumed to be a female, mainly because of the fact that the other partner in the relationship is a male. Moore never specifies whether "you" is a female or male but because of the American view of a relationship, readers assume that "you" is a female. The narrator leaves you wondering how the characteristics of "you" contribute to the epigraph from Beckett. If the "you" is a female, then the epigraph explains why the female acts the way she does.
Kate Chopin the author of "The Storm" and Shirley Jackson, the author of "The Lottery", both hit on key points of human nature. In "The Storm" Chopin writes about a storm that tears apart a family. The family starts to compromise some of their rules. Some of these compromises are more severe than others. "The Lottery" is all about a modern day sacrifice for crops. A town comes together just to kill one of their own, but in this story people begin to question their sacred tradition that has been going for ages. Even though these two stories are so different the two authors do a great job in point out the weaknesses of the human nature. These authors challenge the man versus himself mindset and also man versus society, in multiple ways.
Chance and coincidence has effected everyone before. It can be seen that both in fiction and in reality, people’s lives are greatly impacted and changed by chance and coincidence. In Romeo and Juliet, a play by William Shakespeare, this theme of chance and coincidence is relevant throughout the duration of the story. The two lovers, Romeo and Juliet, are each impacted by this, drastically. Chance and coincidence impact many things between them, including how they meet, why they cannot be together, and ultimately their deaths.
...nd that the only way to save her is to kill her. Revealing that Carrie's conception was a result of what may have been marital rape (although she admits she enjoyed the sex), she stabs Carrie in the shoulder with a kitchen knife, but Carrie kills her mother by stopping her heart.
She did it because she had been the object of every prank throughout her life, and she finally had enough. Carrie is the story of a girl who has been the odd one all her life, the misfit, the picked on loser. Carrie was left at the bad end of every cruel joke, the object of any malicious prank. We first see this in the opening scene of the book, all the girls are in the showers after gym class and Carrie is the last to leave the showers. When she comes out, she has blood running down her leg, which we know is from her period. When all the girls in the showers nearby her see this occurring and circle her and start chanting "PER-iod, PER-iod, PER-iod!" (King 7). The use of capital letters along with separating the word period into two shows the genuine cohesiveness of all the girls bullying carrying and how aggressive they were being towards her. When they started throwing tampons at her, "They flew like snow and the chant became: "Plug it up, plug it up, plug it up, plug it-"" (King 8). This just furthers the argument of how cruel people were to Carrie. As we all know, Chris Hargenson was always the worst one of all the people who picked on Carrie. She would just do uncalled for malicious things from the get go, like call Carrie and ask her if she knew pip poop was spelled like C-A-R-R-I-E. Chris is the girl whom had the idea to dump pigs blood onto Carrie at
Mirroring the life and ambition of Dreiser, the characters in An American Tragedy and Sister Carrie demonstrate the same goals and hopes for their lives. Like Dreiser, both Clyde and Carrie came from modest roots. In American society at the turn of the century, however, it is money that ultimately makes the man. As a result, both characters spend their lives working their way into this mold, even at the cost of compromising themselves.
...mopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse” (568). Rather than conveying the internalized thoughts and concerns of Carrie herself, Dreiser presents his readers with a general setting of the external challenges Carrie—and by extension a populace of late nineteenth century women—faces. Dreiser’s text demonstrates the struggle of being a woman subject to low wages, aggressive bosses and submissive work. In addition, Carrie does not have any vocational skillset that would afford her a “respectable” place in the workforce. Rather, Dreiser authentically portrays the ruthless nature of city life, predatory men and a capitalist driven economy. Instead of depicting the relationship between Carrie, her sister and the individuals she meets in the city, Dreiser’s naturalistic style focuses on her ability to survive and flourish within her environment by all means necessary.
Loader’s characterization of Carrie is disconnected with a 7 years olds mind set, in that Carrie doesn 't get distracted by all the animals ‘Her dislike of them was quickly forgotten as she saw cages filled with furry puppies, all looking adorable.’Whilst this showed Carrie looking at the animals it doesn 't show her scattered thoughts similar to most 7 year olds. This leaves Carrie feeling like a flat character and limits the connection with the reader. Loader also has the children controlling the money, ‘for children controlled the money’, which doesn’t link with a 7 year old who would not know the correct amount of money and the value of
Gould suggests in his Wonderful Life that “replaying life’s tape” (Gould 1989 p51), setting time back to a point previous to the present day and letting events play out, would result in outcomes markedly different from actual history. He posits that we would see radical differences between the results obtained from the replay, and the results obtained from actual history, if even an event seen to be unimportant was altered by a small amount. This is Gould’s concept of the contingency of outcomes. Gould’s idea suggests that results are highly dependent on the events preceding their conception, that they are reliant on their initial conditions. He considers the concept important as it represents the ability of the individual to have large effects on the final outcome of history (Gould 2002 p1341).
Out of all the short stories that were assigned, it can be seen that they have all one thing in common. They all show the realms of violence each of them different. The story “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson is a story where violence is shown in the most barbarous way possible. But with it, the author wants us to understand that violence is abhorrent and “The Lottery” shows that violent behavior can even corrupt the most innocent minds.
Intriguingly, free will and fate are paired up in an a way that ultimetely decides the outcome of King Lear. Gloucester, and other characters, believe that a higher power predetermined their lives; there seems to be more occurrences of free will taking place than fate, but the role of a destiny does play an important task in the end. This respect in the belief of fate plays a significant role in King Lear’s characters lives, which consequently leads the readers to question whether or not the importance of fate in the play is as strong as the characters believe. The question of whether the characters acted under their predetermined destiny or free will is left to interpretation.