1. “Three sons, two daughters. The dire wolf is the sigil of your House. Your children were meant to have these pups, my lord.” (Martin 19) Context: They have found 5 pups from the dead dire wolf. Assuming it was their mother and the pups that were recovered was still alive and looks like they were newly born. Lord Stark think that they should kill the pups together with the others. However, the children of Lord Stark wanted to keep them. To convince him, Jon Snow, the bastard of Lord Stark told him this. Analysis: Even though he was not included to the trueborn children of Lord Stark he wanted the pups to be saved. By doing that he used their family as an example, even if it excludes him in the picture. He was very brave to do that because …show more content…
“A princess. Dany thought. She had forgotten what that was like. Perhaps she never really known.” (Martin 28) Context: Daenerys’ brother was talking to her and telling him that he should wear the dress that was given to her. Telling her that she should look like a princess because there is some visitor that is coming that day. And then when she heard that, she had thought that she never felt like to be a princess or have forgotten it already. Analysis: This was a like questioning herself if she have ever felt to be a princess. She was a princess though, but they lose their kingdom because it was taken away from them. She forgot how that felt because she was still young and maybe she was not in the right mind back then when she was still a princess. She also followed her thoughts with thinking about if she did became a princess. This is significant because it shows some story deeper within it. It tells that she had forgotten to be a princess because she was a princess before, but now she is not anymore. It is a powerful piece to use for literary because it has deeper …show more content…
Fixed marriages for the sake of ownership and family’s name. It happened a lot back in the days, but it was not that common now. Another is that his sister was only thirteen, considering that It would be child abuse today. However, at that time it was normal for them and men are often superior. It was also like selling his sister, in return, he would get a home for himself that he always wanted. Back in that time, lands and homes are much bigger deal that your family and dignity. Using those words make me so mad about him. It was really horrible and degrading for her sister. This is a very powerful use of words and thought for literature because it expresses some kind of
Alyss concludes, “This marriage would please her mother, for her family’s sake” (Beddor 171). Alyss acts as a people pleaser when she accepts Leopold’s proposal. She doesn’t love Leopold, but accepts his proposal only to make her mother happy. Alyss has decided to no longer stand out and become like “every women” (Beddor 191). Alyss desires to conform and submit to ideas of society. She becomes normal and no longer stands out like odd Alyss. Mrs. Liddell exclaims “ The dress she had purchased months before, but which Alyss had always refused to wear it because she feared it would make her look normal”, Alyss now wears it ( Beddor 151). Alyss starts to dress like everyone in England. She no longer looks like a former Wonderlander, but becomes by all appearances a proper young
Here, Alyss learned that she would need to live up to the real world responsibilities that people have to live up to everyday. Once in England, she was staying with a family that constantly tormented her about her claims of living in Wonderland, which caused her to lose faith in the place where she grew up and had to treat her beliefs and childhood as if they did not exist in order to live a normal life. Alyss even said, “Yes, it was a solution… Become just like everyone else.” (148) She began to accept the life of a normal girl and took on responsibilities like getting married. “If she’d had time to think about it, Alice might have stopped herself, considering the idea too whimsical. But the words had a force of their own, and only after she said them aloud did she realize just how appropriate the idea was. ‘Let’s have a masquerade.’” (172) At this point in time, Alyss Heart, or Alice Liddell, had just begun to take on the responsibility that any young adult would take at her
She gets to the point and proves that in our current world we tend to say more than we should, when just a couple of words can do the same. In her writing, it is evident that the little sentences and words are what make the poem overall that perfect dream she wishes she were part of.
do his bidding. When a certain Byram B. White tried to get rich, Stark had him
critique the misogyny and misrepresentations of marriages put forth by male poets, such as John Donne,
“Like a river flows so surely to the sea darling, so it goes some things are meant to be.” In literature there have been a copious amount of works that can be attributed to the theme of love and marriage. These works convey the thoughts and actions in which we as people handle every day, and are meant to depict how both love and marriage can effect one’s life. This theme is evident in both “The Storm” by Kate Chopin and “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Gilman; both stories have the underlying theme of love and marriage, but are interpreted in different ways. Both in “The Storm” and in “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the women are the main focus of the story. In “The Storm” you have Calixta, a seemingly happy married woman who cheats on her husband with an “old-time infatuation” during a storm, and then proceeds to go about the rest of her day as if nothing has happened when her husband and son return. Then you have “The Yellow Wallpaper” where the narrator—who remains nameless—is basically kept prisoner in her own house by her husband and eventually is driven to the point of insanity.
1. (T, P) You could see that the luxurious daydreams that fill her day at the beginning of the story show how ungrateful she is of what she has. She clearly does not value what she has based on the amount of time she takes to fanaticize about the amount of things, she wish she had. The price for greediness, pretention, and pride is steep, reluctance to admit the truth of her status. Maupassant purpose of writing this story is that, people
As a young child, Cersei received a prophecy from a wicked fortune teller named Maggy where she presented her with three prophecies, but out of the three one would affect her entire character. The one main prophecy promised her three children and that they will all die, so this drove Cersei to become an extremely protective mother. Cersei goes to any length no matter the consequences and takes great pain to shield her younger children, Tommen, Myrcella, and Joffrey. ¨Love no one but your children¨ are words spoken by Cersei that showcases that she is loyal to
“She lay awake, gazing upon the debris that cluttered their matrimonial trail. Not an image left standing along the way. Anything like flowers had long ago been drowned in the salty stream that had been pressed from her heart. Her tears, her sweat, her blood. She had brought love to the union and he had brought a longing after the flesh. Two months after the wedding, he had given her the first brutal beating. She had the memory of his numerous trips to Orlando with all of his wages when he had returned to her penniless, even before the first year had passed. She was young and soft then, but now she thought of her knotty, muscles limbs, her harsh knuckly hands, and drew herself up into an unhappy little ball in the middle of the big feather bed. Too late now to hope for love, even if it were not Bertha it would be someone else. This case differed from the others only in that she was bolder than the others. Too late for everything except her little home. She had built it for her old days, and planted one by one the trees and flowers there. It was lovely to her, lovely.” (Hurston 680).
Back in the old days, women were practically enslaved in marriages. Meaning they really did not have any rights and their masters were their own husbands. Kate Chopin, author of many different short stories, wrote a few stories where the female character shows signs of her being in an enslaved marriage. Kate Chopin stories have a common theme of, women suffering from being enslaved in a marriage and denial of any type of freedom. To prove this, in Kate Chopin stories it shows, one woman cheating and dishonoring her current husband with one of her old lover is “The Storm”.
The poem becomes personal on line 10 when she uses the first person and says “I lost my mother’s watch”. She is letting the reader know what she has lost in reality. Then she gets sidetracked to mention other things she has lost; she then mentions other things she has lost of much more importance such as houses, continents, realms, and cities, but then again mentions it was not so hard to lose those things. But in the end, mention the loss that really matters. She remembers the qualities of the lover she lost.
Throughout the story there are several aspects of the Protagonist’s character that play a major role in the shaping of her future. During her childhood she often demonstrates a sense of fear when she is sent to her bedroom. “We were afraid of the inside, the room were we slept (pg. 549).” She is intimidated by her personal space because she does not have control over it. Later, she gains control by adding lace to her side of the room; symbolically adding personality to herself and slipping into womanhood. When she felt uncomfortable she exercised her imagination, to psychologically regain control over the confusion in her life. Her subconscious effort to control confusing times were carried on to her later years as she was constantly put in difficult situations, which helped her to adjust quickly to change during adulthood. The dreams she created changed when she began to place emphasis on her appearance-that which she could control, other than past dreams of heroism that seemed so distant from reality. The Protagonist filled her childhood with much pride and maintained a consistent focused upon the activities that filled her childhood. She relished working at the side of her father, taking immense pride in every aspect of her assigned duties. She proclaimed, “I worked willingly under his eyes, and with a feeling of pride (pg. 551)” Once after her father introduced her to a feed sales man as “my new hired man (pg. 551),” the Protagonist was flooded with pride as she “turned away and raked furiously, red in the face with pleasure (pg. 551).” In her later years her pride helped her to assemble strong self-confidence she used in her years of growing. Passion and depth were characteristics that impacted her future as a woman. Her passion and depth was revealed early on in the story ...
She takes the time to map out the ways in which marriage was degraded and then popularized to suite the changing needs of those in power. She uses a historical argument focusing on Catholic Church as an historic institution to show this fluid progression. Her piece also reminded me of Foucault because she is trying to show the ways in which the definition of marriage changes based on historical and social context. She especially focuses on a modern idea of companionate marriage, and how the ideal is steeped in unrealistic classist
Many short story writers have written about the gender and role of woman in society. Some of these stories express what Barbara Walter calls, “The Cult of True Womanhood” meaning the separation of both man and woman in social, political and economic spheres. In order to be considered a “true woman” woman were to abide by the set of standards that were given to her. Women were expected to live by the four main principal virtues - piety, purity, submissiveness, and domestication. In Kate Chopin’s short story, “The Storm,” Calixta the main female character breaks away from “The Cult of True Womanhood” when she has a sexual encounter with her past lover Alcée. The storm goes through many twists and turns that tie with their adulterous actions. Although she breaks away from the four main principal virtues, she in the end is considered to be pure innocent of heart because the action in which occurred happened instantly, and as white as she was, she was taken away from her innocence.
In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen shows examples of how most marriages were not always for love but more as a formal agreement arranged by the two families. Marriage was seen a holy matrimony for two people but living happil...