In Flowers in the Attic, V.C Andrews creates a family tree that is doomed to repeat the sins of its past. The family name, Dollanganger, is a play on word of the word doppelganger, which means a double of a person. This doppelganger effect creates confusing doubles between Christopher Sr. and Christopher Jr., referred to as Chris, who look and act the same, and Corrine and Cathy, who are jealous of each other. The doppelganger effect causes confusion in the nuclear family relationships between the grandmother, Corrine, Cathy, Christopher, and Chris. Corrine and her mother look nothing alike, but they are examples of doppelganger personalities. Corrine is a beautiful woman who uses sexuality and money to get what she wants. Her mother is …show more content…
Cathy always felt like she was competing with her mother for attention for her father and her brother. “The Electra Complex is a psychoanalytic term used to describe a girl 's sense of competition with her mother for the affections of her father” (Cherry). Cathy has always felt competition with her mother for her father’s attention. However, she knew that her mother could give her father things she could not, like sex and the body image of a woman. So, when Christopher dies, this competition with her mother is transferred to Christopher, Cathy’s brother, who is exactly like Christopher. The Electra complex gives no solution to this competitive family relationship, but Cathy wins Chris’s love over her mother because Corrine turns into a heartless, selfish …show more content…
Frist, Corrine and her mother are an example of a doppelganger because their personalities are the same and her mother treated her like how Corrine treats her children. Continuing mother daughter relationships, Cathy and Corrine are practically doppelgangers to each other because Cathy desires to be a better version of her mother and wants to win the rivalry between them. Then, since Cathy has unacceptable feeling for her father, Christopher and Cathy have a complex father-daughter relationship that is nearly inappropriate. Also, Christopher Sr., and Christopher Jr., are the closest doppelganger in the family because they are similar in appearance and personality. Finally, Cathy and Chris have a relationship because they each represent a better version of their parents. If they continued to live their normal life while their father was still alive they could have escaped the history of their parents
External conflicts between the main characters, Cathy and Adam, reflect the idea of good versus evil in their relationship. Cathy, who is much like Satan, creates a huge fight between Adam and his brother Charles with her manipulations. Later, she ruins Adam's dreams and breaks his heart when she shoots him and leaves, sending Adam into a deep depression. After twelve years, Adam snaps out of his dream world and confronts Cathy. Cathy is now called Kate and works in a whore house called Faye's. Despite her actions, Adam realizes that he doesn't even hate Cathy for the hurt she has caused him. He finds peace with himself, renewing his once abandoned relationship with his sons.
Introduced by Steinbeck with a discussion of monstrosity in humans, Cathy walked through life with the vestments of a human but the soul of a devil. Though Cathy maintained a façade of innocence to ward off suspicion, the darkness of her soul was revealed in her few moments of weakness throughout the novel. From the time she was a child, Cathy had “face of innocence” and beauty that attracted children and adults alike (73). Behind her wide eyes, however, something darker lurked. As described by Steinbeck, “…she had some quality that made people look…back at her, troubled at something foreign. Something looked out of her eyes, and was never there when one looked again” (73). Cathy was skilled at using her natural beauty and poise to manipulate others, always maintaining her impeccable appearance. The events of her childhood, however, revealed her to be a creature much darker than her attractiveness would suggest. Her parents died in a mysterious fire, and the lives of the men she manipulated were without exception destroyed. When she finally arrived on the doorstep of Charles and Adam Trask’s farmhouse, her deception continued; she entranced Adam and the two eloped within months. Adam fell head-over-heels for his golden bride. He and many others saw nothing but goodness and virtue in her hazel eyes. Samuel Hamilton, however, saw something more. As he described after his chilling first
Catherine Earnshaw ~ She is the daughter of Mr. Earnshaw and the sister of Hindley. She is also Heathcliff’s foster sister. Heathcliff and Catherine are in love, but she marries Edgar Linton instead. When Cathy died, she wanted both Heathcliff and Edgar to suffer because Edgar never understood why she loved Heathcliff and Heathcliff because he never knew why she married Edgar.
Catherine Ames lives as a cruel, scheming, sadistic creature who knows how to manipulate others into doing any act she desires. Cathy destroys lives without penance. She acts as the embodiment of pure wickedness, driven by low self-esteem, desperation, and a love of power. Since she possesses no conscience, Cathy does not allow herself an honest choice at which path to go down throughout her life. Steinbeck uses her character to describe how society becomes blinded by the need for control, while some may just be born blind.
When two siblings are born together, and are close in age, many people wonder whether they will be the same or different altogether. A “River Runs through it” shows two brothers who grew up in the same household, and grew up loving to do the same activity fly fishing. Both brothers were raised in a very strict presbyterian household. Norman is the older brother, and he is much more responsible and family orientated. Paul is the irresponsible younger brother; Paul as an adult was not at home much anymore. Both brothers were loved equally as children, but how they view and use love is what separates them. Paul and Norman differ in behavior and character.
“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering” (Lucas). Truly few human beings know the darkside like Cathy Ames.The character that everybody is supposed to despise, even if one loves to hate Cathy, she is a wicked woman. While some people may argue that she changes during John Steinbeck's East of Eden, her motivation for every evil deed she commits is the same: Cathy longs to be in control of her entire existence.
Catherine and Heathcliff have had an indisputable connection from the very beginning of the story. A special connection Catherine doesn’t want to admit to, but truly knows it’s there. From their exuberant adventures on the moors, to them making memories in the same household, and eventually Heathcliff’s desire for Catherine’s ghost to haunt him. It’s obvious they would’ve spent the rest of their waking moments together if it wasn’t for their difference in status. Otherwise, they could live the life they are supposed to live. Everything from how compatible and seemingly destined they are for each other, to the unfortunate turn of events that undoubtedly keep them apart. Their lifelong relationship plays a vital role in understanding this story and is expressed through the novel’s use of
Catherine first becomes exposed to the opposing forces as she experiments with her desires for love and a better quality of life. *6* Because she constantly shifts priorities from one man to the other, her love for Heathcliff and Edgar results in a destructive disequilibrium. *1*In the novel, Cathy is portrayed as a lady with untamable emotions. *7* In her childhood she learns to l...
The scene showing the point of similarity is that her grandfather scene Helen misses the train \ enough to train .
The main character Adam Trask proves that by letting go of Cathy and deciding to create a new type of Eden that mankind holds the ultimate decision to rise above their destines. After finding Cathy and marrying her, Adam believes that he has found the missing part of his life. Cathy becomes the emblem of perfection and a key to happiness for him. As Adam continues to fall in love with her he starts to fall more out of touch with reality causing him to miss the obvious signals that Cathy does not feel the same way about him. Her manipulative ways are able to fool Adam’s kindness. Adam, being too naive to pay attention the obvious indications that Cathy does not love him is left in complete shock after she shoots and leaves him after the birth of their sons. After centralizing his dream around creating his own Eden with Cathy as his own Eve, he se...
Another thing that could be a component in Connie's double life is that she is constantly compared to her older sister June. This comparison is
Doppelgangers are still a mystery, we don’t know if they are factual or not. For all we know and the stories shown on the internet it could be all fictitious they’re still hasn’t been scientific evidence to prove this paranormal sighting. There could still be an incredibly long time waiting for this to be proven. “Sightings and reports have been around for centuries and a great deal of superstition has developed around them.”
A doppelganger or twin is an apparition or double of a living person or thing. Poe uses this technique in the Black cat mostly. He goes into detail about the second cat saying
Her selfishness lies within the reality that she married Linton for the things he could have provided for her. Nothing parted Catherine and Heathcliff. Not God, nor Satan, it was Catherine herself – Catherine was the cause of her broken heart. Along with breaking her heart, she also broke Heathcliff’s, which led him to loathe and yearn for vengeance against what Heathcliff thought was the cause of Catherine’s death – her daughter.
Cathy Linton, daughter of Edgar Linton and Catherine Earnshaw, demonstrates traits from her parents. In fact, these very traits can explain a lot about her and her actions. Her mother, Catherine Earnshaw, was born to a more “hot” and strong family, the Earnshaw family. As a child, Catherine was a more masculine girl, asking a whip from her father going into town, and she was always strong and powerful, having strong actions and opinions. Cathy’s father, Edgar Linton, grew up in a fancier house with manners. His family, the Linton family, could be described as “cool” and generally weaker than the Earnshaw family. Together, he and Catherine married to create a marriage of opposite personalities. One side, Catherine, was much stronger and more dominant in the relationship. The other side, Edgar, was much weaker in the relationship, and he ge...