Anna Christie and Mat Burke: two individuals who emigrated from Europe as children to become a couple. Mat Burke, a seaman, unsure of his own self worth, falls in love with the daughter of a Swedish coal barge captain. The daughter of Chris Christophson reveals that she was not a nurse, but a prostitute, who left Minnesota in hopes of recuperating from a recent brothel raid. She expects little from him, but finds that her father is repentant and wanting to make amends for the years he abandoned her.
At the end of Anna Christie we believe that Anna and Mat Burke will make the attempt to find happiness with one another. Despite Anna's past, the couple will be wed. The future is not so bright. Mat Burke is set to sail to South Africa to earn his living. This means that he will be immediately separated from his wife, who he just found out was a prostitute. Time has not passed for the couple to mend their relationship that has been severely damaged by the discovery of Anne's past. Mat will be a newlywed, on a ship, separated from his wife, and he's not supposed to have doubts about her fidelity? It is only natural that he would doubt, and therefore suffer because of those doubts.
Mat Burke fell deeply in love with Anna Christie, so much in love that he is willing to overlook that she was a prostitute. He is uncomfortable with ladies and behaves inappropriately with her despite his best intentions (O'Neill 28-9). Being a sailor, his interactions with women tend to be with prostitutes; he is uncomfortable in his own skin. Strong and coarse, Mat Burke is concerned with his own libido, his own sense of pride. He wants Anna Christie to dull the angst in his pants and to make him a man in a way that no prostitute can: he wants her to quell his loneliness (O'Neill, 26). Being lonely, however, does not mean that he is suddenly supposed to forget the truth.
Anna Christie's love for Mat is an opportunity for her to be reborn, to leave the pain of rape behind. In the fog, on the barge, she has the opportunity to become a virgin again. Many used her body but she surrenders her heart to Mat alone. To become a virgin again, she must shed her pain, and the lie.
The complication between characters is especially shown in Anna and Sarah’s relationship. In the movie Anna is mad about Sarah coming to stay for a month. However, in the book she says “I wished everything was as perfect as the stone. I wished that Papa and Caleb and I were perfect for Sarah” (21). In the book Anna has no trouble liking Sarah, but in the movie Anna has a hard time letting go of her real mother and will not let Sarah get close to her. It is not until Sarah comforts Anna after a bad dream and tells her “when I was ten my mamma died” (which was not told in the book) that Sarah and Anna have a close relationship. After Sarah and Anna reach an understanding, Sarah tries to help Anna remember her mother by putting her mother’s candlesticks, quilt, a painting, and her picture back into the house. They also put flowers on her grave together. However, Anna and Sarah’s relationship is not the only one that takes a while to develop.
When Denny’s late wife Eve dies, his whole world is changed. Trish and Maxwell - the evil Twins - plot against Denny by pulling him into a major court battle. As a result, Denny is forced to sacrifice major opportunities in order to win custody of his daughter, Zoë. “ “I appreciate your generous offer,” he [Denny] said. “But I’m afraid certain things prevent me from leaving this country – or even this state – at the moment. So I have to decline.” (Stein 276) Luca Pantoni – a man that worked at Ferrari – asked Denny if he wanted to move out to Italy with his family where he could test cars for a living. With the major court battle going on Denny had to politely refuse the offer. Knowing Denny’s personality it would have been difficult for him to decline such a great offer, but at that moment he had to think about his family first. Next to Eve, Zoë is the most important person in Denny’s life. The death of Eve was unexpected for both Denny and Zoë, but Denny could not let his sadness and frustration show...
Through her emotional breakdowns and extensive grief, Ruth Fowler provokes her husband into committing homicide in order to appease her. During the weeks after the death of their son, Matt Fowler sees the pain and torment his wife goes through dealing with the fact that their son’s killer still walked the streets not persecuted for his crime. When talking to his friend Willis Trottier about his family after a night of poker, Matt Fowlers affirms, “She can’t even go out for cigarettes and aspirin. It’s killing her. […] Every day since he got out. I didn’t think about bail. I thought I wouldn’t have to worry about him for years. She sees him all the time. It makes her cry” (Dubus 2). In Matt Fowler’s recount, he describes his wife as being perpetually afflicted by the presence of their son’s killer, and he even goes further to claim that Richard Strout’s existence is resulting in the deterioration of Ruth Fowler’s health and wellbeing. Although it is too late for Matt Fowler to protect his own son, he feels obligated to guard his wife from the suffering inflicted by presence of their son’s murderer. Because of this marital responsibility brought about by Ruth Fowler’s teary performances, Matt Fowler kills Richard Strout in an effort to end his wife’s emo...
...mark instead of embracing the birth-mark that was given to her. Nathaniel Hawthorne reveals that desire for perfection is a dreadful objective. The Wilfred Owen reveals to his audience that if a person shows the reality, then let the person decide for how he or she wants to deal with things accordingly. The last lesson is never to live a life wanting to please others. Both the soldier and Georgiana wanted to please their lovers. Unfortunately, they end up hurting themselves. Georgiana’s death reveals that a person should never try putting his life in jeopardy. Georgiana and the soldier should not let people coerce them into doing a something they love. It is hard to depict what Aylmer sadness is after his wife dies. Aylmer possibly realizes that he took his wife for granted. The soldier realizes that trying to please another person ends up making life worse.
The Atypical Woman in a Typical World Do many people know who Anne Spencer is? Probably not. Anne Spencer was a Harlem Renaissance poet who actually lived in Lynchburg, Virginia. She immensely enjoyed working in her garden and spending time in Edankraal, a small cottage in her garden where she wrote most of her poetry. Though Anne was a hard worker, she definitely was not a typical woman of the early 20th century.
“She was from Pasadena, this six-foot-two marvel of a woman. It was not so much because she was an extraordinary cook- and she would pointedly remind us that she was a cook, not a chef” (Kehoe 1). Julia Child was an extraordinary woman who had a passion for cooking that she didn’t even know could change the way people cook. Julia Child most definitely influenced cooking for generations to come with her passion for cooking and love for food.
Amy Beach was a very famous and influential composer and pianist from New Hampshire, United States. She fought long and hard to get to where she got in her lifetime. Back in the late 1800’s, it was hard for women to get noticed because they believe that their role in society was to stay at home and take care of the family. Amy Beach defeated all the odds of a female gender role in her lifetime. She became a role model for young girls wanting to become a composer or becoming anything they wanted to be, as long as they fought for it. She has made an enormous impact on music in America. The following paper will discuss Beach’s life, her struggles, her musical training, how her music was shaped by the society she lived in and famous compositions
Lisa Hooker Campbell is an active volunteer in the Nashville area. She has served on numerous boards and chaired several of Nashville's most prominent philanthropic events.
The themes of this book were many. Some were well developed and appropriate to the story, but others seemed unnecessary. The books major themes were marriage and unhappiness, while the book also deals with depression, and making choices. This book follows several marriages and families, and these themes proved themselves to be very important and essential in Anna Karenina.
Christie was born on September 15, 1890 in Torquay, Devon, England to Frederick Alvah Miller and Clarissa Margaret Boehmer. Her father was a wealthy American stockbroker and her mother was from a European family that had been under financial strain. Christie’s early years had a major impact on her life as she got older, and her ability to write unique stories with unexpected endings. Three of Christie’s most successful works were her novels The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Ten Little Indians, and Mrs. McGinty’s Dead.
Anna Quindlen describes in the essay “Abortion is too Complex to Feel one Way About” the different situation that we as a human race are put in everyday. She talks about the topic of abortion in a way that one feels they have had to make the decision of whether or not a person is pro-choice or pro-life. She uses references that are of different personal experiences in the essay that are vital to the audience. Quindlen is writing to state her point that one should never put their self in this situation because one should take the proper responsibility. In this paper you will read about the conflict with abortion and what Quindlen thinks about this issue.
In the novel Anna Karenina , Tolstoy leads the reader through Anna Arkadyevna Karenin's life and all the people who surround her. The reader follows Anna as she sorts out a fight between her brother Stepan and his wife Dolly. Next the reader finds themselves trailing Anna as she dances away from a Moscow ball with Count Vronsky's heart. The path this novel takes then forks as the reader begins to follow Levin and his pursuit of the young and beautiful Kitty who was once a friend of Anna's before Vronsky. The story bounces back and forth between these two characters as Anna plunges into an affair with Vronsky that produces an illegitimate child, and Levin marries his true love Kitty. Anna then finds herself in a divorce resulting from her affair while Levin and Kitty are expecting their first child. The reader follows Anna and Levin through marriage, divorce, childbirth, death, heartbreak and utter happiness. In the novel Anna Karenina , the narrator gives the reader a view of various characters true natures through indirect characterization.
It is one thing for them to have a secret relationship far away from home, but having that same relationship while being in their hometown requires a great deal of commitment. By deciding to visit Anna in S-, Gurov was committing to help grow their relationship. When Anna responded by going to visit she too showed that she was committing to the growth of their relationship, albeit not as much because she would not have Gurov visit her in S- but only that she would visit him. Gurov noted how much their relationship had grown when they came together once and Anna was starting to realize what was going on “It was evident to him that this love of theirs would not soon be over… Anna grew more and more attached to him.” This signaled the transition from simply just being two strangers meeting to being two lovers willing to do anything for each
Consciously, Anna might believe she is a victim of circumstance, however, subconsciously she is aware that she is the creator of her own circumstance. When she cries out “God forgive me,” she symbolizes a need for self-forgiveness and the forgiveness of her husband (139). Instead of being honest with her husband and herself, she fails to take responsibility and never admits to the affair. Without taking responsibility of her actions, she returns to an unsatisfying marriage and continues to use faith to guide her destiny. When she leaves Dimitri after the affair, she claims, “it is a good thing I am going away...It is fate”(141). Failing to recognize the revelation of her own faults confines her to return to an unhappy marriage, meanwhile her belief in predetermined fate distorts her level of responsibility and robs her of growing from the
In addition, He argues that its not only a coincidence because they also have similarities in the way of behavior from an unsettled state of mind. However, O'Neill frequently used surrounding people and his family as a model of the play, and his mother Era who is the source of Mary is also shown many times as a model. That is to say, it is not unusual just to see similarity with Mary. However, as we spread this consideration from the viewpoint of similarity with other plays, we can see the singularity of Nina. For example, there is a similarity between Nina and Anna who appears in Anna Christie. Nina look back on the past when she was a war nurse and says “For giving my cool clean body to men which hot hands and greedy eyes which they called love! Ugh!” At this scene, she confesses shamelessly that she had sexual intercourse with an unspecified number of men. Her figure here strongly overlaps with Anna who declare her sexual past with