All around us bad things are happening. Many people find different ways to deal with them. Most of the time people will try to block them out, but then it will lead to small things building up and then eventually leading to you exploding and wanting to make those problems disappear of the face of the earth. In the short story The Way Up To Heaven by Roald Dauhl Mrs. Foster agreed with that statement. Mr and Mrs. Foster lived in a very big house on East Sixty-second street. Mrs. Foster can't stand to be late to anything, but on the other hand Mr. Foster doesn't mind so much. In fact, almost all of the time he is trying to make Mrs.Foster go insane by making her wait unnecessarily. So when Mrs. Foster decides to take matters into her own hands it gets a little messy. In fact she ends up killing him. Many people could argue that she should not be justified for this act but they are wrong because he pushed her to explode. Mrs. Foster can justify herself. Mrs. Forster can justify herself because she killed him for all the right reasons. On page 266 it says “Mr. Foster may possibly have had a right to be irritated by this foolishness of his wife’s, but he could have no excuse for increase her missure by keeping her waiting unnecessarily.” In this quote it's …show more content…
Foster can be justified is because on page 272 It states “ At this point, Mrs. Foster suddenly Spotted a corner of something white wedged down in the crack of the seat on the side where Mr. Foster had been sitting. She reached over and pulled it out a small paper wrapped box and at the same time she couldn't help but realize that it was wedged deep down and firm like with the help of a hand.” This is very important because it gives Mrs. Foster another reason to commit the crime she had done. It also proves that Her husband does things on purpose to get her to go insane and he doesn't try to help her. So, Mrs foster can justify herself because she killed him for all the right
Those who choose to reject the pressures society employs to keep people docile and impressionable are punished. Kesey’s novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a prime example of those perspectives. Nurse Ratched used rules and psychological abuse to chip away at the individualism of her patients and gain power over them. McMurphy showed these oppressed people how to combat their oppressor and think for themselves. He was punished by Ratched, but served as a martyr for freedom and inspired Bromden to reject his imprisonment and escape the institution. However, we are forced to question whether Bromden actually escaped and on top of that, whether or not escape is even possible. The open-endedness of the story leaves the reader to question their individual essence, how they are being affected by their society, and if human beings are able to completely reject society while maintaining their
When individuals face obstacles in life, there is often two ways to respond to those hardships: some people choose to escape from the reality and live in an illusive world. Others choose to fight against the adversities and find a solution to solve the problems. These two ways may lead the individuals to a whole new perception. Those people who decide to escape may find themselves trapped into a worse or even disastrous situation and eventually lose all of their perceptions and hops to the world, and those who choose to fight against the obstacles may find themselves a good solution to the tragic world and turn their hopelessness into hopes. Margaret Laurence in her short story Horses of the Night discusses the idea of how individual’s responses
In Katherine Anne Porter’s, “The Future Is Now,” the author develops her argument through the use of rhetorical devices, as well as varying points of view, which greatly help emphasize her argument. In the second paragraph she notices a siren going off outside her home, she then starts to wonder about all the different things the siren could represent. As she considers all the possibilities she notices a man across the street who is consumed by a table he is carefully building. She fails to understand how a person can be so absorbed by something that they fail to notice something so alarming surrounding them. The primary argument the author is trying to make is that it is more important to exist and cherish life rather than always worry about
After reading the opening chapters, I was surprised by the laid back, casual attitude Foster displayed. He did not go about explaining certain aspects of previously written novels in a way that was hard to understand. Foster explained things in great deal, but in good taste. He did not go on with boring information; he simply got his point across in a way that made me want to know more. Not only was his way of thinking and expressing his thoughts interesting, but the subjects he tapped into were interesting also. Foster connected things that surround our average day lives to literature, and the effect it brings to the literature. For example, Foster discusses vampires in on of the first few chapters. The majority of people have seen numerous movies about vampires, making it easy to connect with what he was talking about. His overall tone and strategy of writing was relatable and the least bit overwhelming, which quickly grabbed my attention and made me interested in things I would not normally be interested in.
When a person attempts to control someone else’s life, it only reflects the lack of control they have on their own. My mother always used to tell me “don’t let someone change who you are, to become what they need.” After reading the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman I thought of my mother’s saying. This short story is very interesting. It begins by the perspective of a women who is suffering from temporary nervous depression. The narrator begins by describing a huge mansion that she and her husband, John, have rented for the summer. John is a mysterious man who is also a physician. Their move into the country is partially motivated by his desire to expose his suffering wife to its clean air and calm life so she
Mental illness and madness is a theme often explored in literature and the range of texts exploring these is tremendously varied. Various factors can threaten a character's sanity, ranging from traumatic events which trigger a decline to pressure from more vast, impersonal sources. Generally speaking, writers have tried to show that most threats to sanity comprise a combination of long-term and short-term factors - the burning of the library in Mervyn Peake's novel 'Titus Groan' precipitated Lord Sepulchrave's descent into madness, but a longer term problem can be discerned in the weight of tradition which caused him to worry 'that with him the line of Groan should perish'. Such interplay between the acute and the chronic is, it would seem, a matter of agreement between authors who explored this issue. The manner in which characters respond to these threats is not. In some works the threatened character succeeds in becoming empowered - they find a way to maintain themselves and emerge from the ordeal undefeated, if not unbowed. Esther Greenwood as portrayed in Sylvia Plath's autobiographical novel 'The Bell Jar' is one such character, although the question always remains whether such a victory is a permanent solution. In many other works the only option for the characters is escape. This may be an escape from reality as described in Roald Dahl's short story 'Georgy Porgy'. It may be an escape from self-awareness as shown in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's novella 'The Yellow Wallpaper'. The ultimate escape is self-destruction - Sepulchrave's death in 'Titus Groan' and Sylvia Plath's real-life suicide in 1963 (barely three weeks after 'The Bell Jar' was published) ca...
Each of us had very bad things happen during our time of being in charge. O’Brien’s leader learns a valuable lesson in the jungles of Vietnam. O’Brien’s character Lieutenant Cross is in command of a group of men in the middle of the Vietnam war. While Lieutenant Cross and his men are on a normal patrol in the “Than Khe area” (O’Brien1521) they are ordered to destroy some enemy vietnamese tunnels. O’Brien states Lieutenant Cross, “He carried … the responsibility for the lives of his men” (O’Brien 1519). O’Brien’s Lieutenant Cross is enjoying the lovely vision of a girl he left behind. O’Brien writes Lieutenant Cross, “he loved her so much and could not stop thinking about her” (O’Brien 1520). Because O’Brien’s leader is distracted by the images of the girl he left behind, it will ultimately lead to Lieutenant Cross’s misfortune. I had a similar role in my department that I worked in; one of my main responsibilities was to protect my co-workers from injury. My department was located in the center of a tool making plant and was incredibly hot, because it had very large furnaces. Although the dangers in my department were not as life changing as that of O’Brien’s leader they still could be serious and I was about to learn just how serious. On the day of my misfortune, I was helping a co-worker fix one of the furnaces in the department. My distraction was too much trust in my
Faith in Christ is the stronghold for Helen Burns. She considers living to the glory of God the purpose of her life. Her troubles and sorrows do not sway her faith, for she declares it her “duty to bear it” (56). For Helen, living a fruitful life means imitating the character of Christ. When Jane inquires why she allows her superiors to treat her unjustly, Helen first replies that Christ said “Love you enemies; bless them that curse you” and later says “we are…burdened with the faults in this world: but…we shall put them off in putting off our corruptible bodies” (58). Helen lives not for this world, but for “eternity…a mighty home” (59). She submits purely to God, because “God is good” (83). She understands His love, living “in ca...
The two choices are: fit into society expectations or be shut out. Gilman illustrates a character who is battling an internal fight from depression while struggling with the way society characterizes her. Over the progression of her mental illness she becomes aware of how the men in her life treat her. We start to realize that despite how she is viewed, she is a strong woman; she puts her emotions to the side and puts on a happy face for her husband: “I cry at nothing, and cry most of the time. Of course I don't when John is here, or anybody else, but when I am alone” (277). It is easy to relate to Gilman's narrator because we able to empathize with her thoughts and feelings. Even though we as a reader have to build an image of the character without the use of even a name the woman's writing gives us insight on her feelings. The protagonist’s will is constantly being attacked by outside forces, such as her husband, her brother, and the caretakers, as well as fighting with her internal thoughts. The peeling of the wallpaper and the action of her ripping it off the wall is her mind's way of being released from its restrains; the action is comparable to
At first the woman seems to be living in a fantasy as she characterizes her husband and caretaker as kind and concerned with her well being, when in reality they are suppressive and limiting. To begin with, the woman of the story explains how, “[her husband was] very careful and loving, and hardly lets [her] stir without special direction” (Gilman 239). This quote shows the woman’s inconsistency with reality as she does not recognize that her husband had brought her to an asylum in order to “cure” her illness. Her husband explicitly explains to the woman that the place he is taking her only has “one window and not room for two beds” further displaying how he will isolate her from society and the family. Her unwillingness to realize her husbands intentions, displays her blindness to her own repression in her marriage. In addition, the woman explains how much she enjoys writing in order to explain her own thoughts and feelings because she is not allowed to say them out loud. She goes on to say that her husband,” hates to have [her] write a word” and hurriedly tries to hide away her notebook (Gilman ___). This
In society today, if we were to travel across the world or walk down the streets of Cincinnati, the injustice and suffering of many people is apparent. We acknowledge suffering exists yet, in protecting our own self from misfortune and deviating from the crowd, we tend to feel bad for a moment and then move on. Merely allowing strings to guide our motives, accepting the suffering that these people face is the fault of their own. The purpose for this short story is to encourage a turning away from conventional standards and to recognize the innocence of suffering.
The decision of Adam and Cal Trask to overcome their struggles and Cathy’s decision to succumb to evil prove that the choice of what to do with one’s life is completely up to the individual. John Steinbeck’s use of the biblical story of Cain and Abel builds on the idea that a person is completely responsible for choosing what becomes of them in result of a word, an action and a memory. Undoubtedly everyone has the choice whether or not they wish to triumph over the pain and the sins they are struggling with. After all, look at Ghandi he witnessed children burdened with evil inheritance walk away surmounted because of their strength to rein over evil.
You have to stick up for yourself and be brave if you want to accomplish anything, and if you don't then you will never be happy. For example, in the book Fever 1793, the character Mattie is risking to take the little girl Nell. She is risking to take Nell because she could of got yellow fever. She was being brave because she wanted to help Nell because her mother has passed and Mattie didn't just want to leave her. After a while, Mattie is happy that she took Nell because they become really good friends. If she would of never been brave to take Nell, then she would have been upset with herself. So Mattie was being brave by helping Nell and she was happy that she helped her.
Bronte uses the stern housekeeper in the novel to influence Jane. The stern and disproving Mrs. Fairfax signifies the distress and turmoil that is soon to take place with the pending wedding. The housekeeper was often a terror to other servants in the home, and is the character of many stories haunting (Huggert 33). Mrs. Fairfax adhering to her role as housekeeper attempts to stir terror in Jane about marrying Rochester by telling her to distrust him (263; ch. 24). We find that Mrs. Fairfax’s warning does indeed take a toll on Jane’s behavior toward Rochester. After treating Rochester coolly for weeks, Jane says, "Mrs. Fairfax, I saw, approved me" (272; ch. 25).
Many see Gertrude as a voiceless character, that she is simple minded or witless. It is important to note, that whether she is a strong character or not in the play, she is innocent of murder. She has no part in the murder of her husband, but that does not mean she is not an adulterer. Hamlet sees Gertrude’s moral offence and is disgusted by it. In Hamlet’s mind, Gertrude was guilty simply by association with Claudius. Though, would Hamlet have condemned her to the same fate as Claudius in the end? Could Hamlet have murdered his mother if not for the ghost’s intervention on her behalf? The closest we may ever come to knowing is in act three in the closet scene.