Character: Professor McGonagall
Professor McGonagall is a high-ranking woman in the wizard world and also the head of the Gryffindor House at Hogwarts. Minerva McGonagall is extremely stern and severe in her punishments but she is fair enough in her decision making. Her devotion to the letter of the law is impressive but a bit cold, and we constantly feel that she could never become a warm and wise figure like Dumbledore. Rowling named her after a notoriously bad nineteenth-century Scottish poet named William McGonagall who was nevertheless highly confident of his own talents. Minerva McGonagall was an extremely talented and powerful witch with a variety of magical abilities. For example during the Battle of Hogwarts, her abilities enabled her to fend off many dark wizards.
Moreover, Minerva could also hold off Voldemort for a short time. Professor Minerva McGonagall had a very strong leadership skills and she was a very strong leader. As such, she is able to take charge in any situation within a minute. In this story, When Dumbledore was gone; she stepped in to fill his shoes. In the upstart of the Battle of Hogwarts, McGonagall ousted the current headmaster who named Severus Snape and took charge of the school and securing it against Voldemort and his Death Easters. In addition, McGonagall was very intelligent and wise witch. Her intelligence is shown in many ways throughout the series. She has always shown the ability to make wise choices and decision. Example in 1998, McGonagall solved a riddle without hesitation to allow Amycus Carrow into the Ravenclaw Tower. Her intelligence gave her the option to become a Ravenclaw.
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...d Schultz (2005) stated that intellectualization is “thinking about events in a cold, clinical way. This defense mechanism allows us to avoid thinking about the stressful, emotional aspect of the situation and instead focus only on the intellectual component” (p. 58). Professor McGonagall always gave guidelines and advices to Harry Potter because she was worried about the safety of Harry Potter. She is anxiety and concern about Harry Potter will be attacked and harmed by someone or creature in school area. Moreover, Professor McGonagall always tracked Harry Potter and knew more about him. This is the way for Professor McGonagall to avoid thinking about the safety of him.
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Minerva is able to show her courage at a dinner party thrown by Trujillo, the dictator at the time. At the party she went to reluctantly, Trujillo asks Minerva to dance. Knowing of Trujillo’s offensive past with females, she is hesitant to accept, but says
Minerva is very rebellious, she doesn't like to listen when told to do something and she doesn't
In The Time of the Butterflies, chapter six briefly explain why Minerva action against Trujillo led to the sister death. Minerva slapping Trujillo in the face was a sign of bravery that she was not going to let Trujillo dilated her action like he did to a bunch of other women. It was clearly shown that Trujillo wasn’t going to let this slide by, instead build various events to make her suffer, making her commit to this actions which eventually will give Trujillo a reason for murdering the sisters’.“ pg 83-101”. This evidence shows that Minerva is willing to break out from the barriers that society and Trujillo dictatorship is implementing on them, and make a change for the better. “Women hold their beaded evening bags over their head, trying to protect their foundering hairdo after Minerva slap Trujillo”(pg 100). This shows how during the era that Trujillo govern fear was upon every individual that step in the shadow of Trujillo even if you didn 't have anything to do with it. “But el jefe has other plans for me,” A mind of her own, this little cibaeña”(Trujillo), her smirks, rubbing his cheek, then turns to Don Manuel”(pg 101). This evidence shows that Trujillo had other plans to handles his
Over the course of the novel, the Mirabal sisters have shown a strong desire to be in the revolution and free their country from the cruel hands of Trujillo and his regime whilst putting their families in danger. Minerva is the first to give into the revolution as she leaves her children with her sisters and mother while she goes on to try and free the country. “I, who treasured my children more than my own life, couldn’t believe my sister would leave her son for anything…..”(155).Though abandoning her child must be a hard thing to do, Minerva does this, which strongly portrays her dedication to the revolution is stronger than her dedications to her children. They allow their homes to be ‘invaded’ by the revolutionaries; allow their hom...
The sisters receive a warning “Avoid the pass” (Alvarez 291), this moment in the story foreshadows the eventual demise of the sisters, which Minerva chooses to ignore. Minerva doesn’t know that this is a viable warning, Alvarez creates suspense in this moment and countless others throughout the story. Alvarez continues to create suspense when Minerva suspects that the soldier was a plant and declares “it was a movie scene that became suddenly, terrifyingly real. How foolish we’d been, picking him up on this lonely country road. I began chatting him up, trying to catch him in a lie...I’ll coax it out of him, I thought”(Alvarez 291). Minerva goes on to interrogate the soldier to find out if he be will the cause of her and her sisters
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“But Minerva, your own child—" I began and then I saw it did hurt her to make this sacrifice she was convinced she needed to make” (155). Minerva asks her sister to take her son, Manolito, because she is going to be moving a lot for her revolutionary activities. Her sister Patria at first doesn't understand how she could give up her child; but she realizes that it isn't that Minerva doesn't care. She's making an immense sacrifice for what she believes in. Minerva has consistently sacrifice herself in her combat of injustice, and expects the same of those around her. When Minerva got out of prison, she talks about sacrificing her peace of mind, “I hid my anxieties and gave everyone a bright smile. If they had only known how frail was their iron-will heroine.” (259) In the end Minerva finally sacrifices her life along with most of her other sisters.
Minerva’s rebellion was caused by both Sinita and Trujillo. Sinita’s role was opening Minerva’s eyes to the real Trujillo. For example, Sinita told her about how “Three of her uncles were even friends of Trujillo. But they turned
Minerva does not try and escape even though she “is always sad like a house on fire—always something wrong. She has many troubles, but the big one is her husband who left and keeps leaving” (Cisneros 63). Minerva is clearly unhappy, but because she is accepting of her role and she will not leave him. She does not have the power to leave her husband and if she tried she would probably be beaten or worse. Esperanza wants to help Minerva but there is nothing that she can do for her: “Next week she comes over black and blue and asks what can she do? Minerva. I don’t know which way she’ll go. There is nothing I can do” (Cisneros 63). Esperanza knows that she cannot do anything for Minerva. It will take the power of Minerva removing herself from the abusive situation to actually save herself. Minerva having no power in her marriage is a clear relationship back to the theme of women accepting their role with men as their superior.
The portrayal of female characters in British literature has most often reflected the larger perception of women by society during the time of a work’s publication. In this regard, the immensely popular Harry Potter series written by author J.K. Rowling is certainly no exception. The circumstances for women in late 20th century Britain have improved and in many ways are nearing equality with men, yet a notable upper barrier to success still remains. Rowling captures this gender dynamic throughout the Harry Potter series by including a diverse cast of resilient female characters who are not allowed to take on the same leadership roles dominated by the men at Hogwarts, at the Ministry of Magic, in quidditch, and during the Triwizard tournament. The novels also center on an important theme of motherly love that Rowling uses to explore the sacrifices women must make in order to raise their children well. Such issues have been present in British literature for well over a century, with each generation seeing steps toward equality, both for the fictitious characters and the women of a given time period. The Harry Potter series, therefore, constitutes a reflection of female status in modern Britain that has advanced, but remains perpetually flawed.
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