Molly's Death in Silas Marner At the moment, Silas is like a snail in a shell, waiting to come out and excel. Godfrey has a big surprise waiting for him on New Years Eve. His previous wife, Molly, is planning on showing up and avenge him for leaving him. She has not only come alone, but with her child. Molly is addicted to opium and needs another shot to energise her walk towards the Squire's house in the deep snow. She immediately collapses and the poor child is left alone. She manages to find a way towards the town and is mainly attracted to the bright light of Silas' house. Silas was suffering from another one of his fits and the child manages to find refuge from the weather in his house. As he regains consciousness he realises the new arrival and thinks it is his gold as this was of the same colour as her hair. Silas decides to go into Squire's house to report the death of Molly and the discovery of the new joy in his life. When Silas invites himself in the back door of the party, Godfrey is one of the first people to see him. When Silas begins to speak about the dead woman in the snow, Godfrey immediately realizes that she's his wife. As the evening progresses it soon becomes obvious that Silas has become attached to his newly found treasure. When the women of the household ask to hold her, Silas protests, saying, "I can't part with it, I can't let it go." On the other hand Godfrey now knows that Molly is gone for good, he will be free to marry Nancy. On chapter fourteen, Silas's new life with the child, whom he decides to name Eppie. She has replaced the stolen money "The money's gone I don't know where, and this is come from I don't know where." It seems that Nancy is not totally happy with her life as wife of Godfrey. Although she loves him very much and is happy when he is happy, she desperately desires children.
For example, James becomes more involved in his family members lives after Kathleen's passing. Initially, James only paid attention to Kathleen as she was his first daughter and he was clearly obsessed with her. His other children were raised by Materia, but when both Materia and Kathleen died, he stepped in to raise them as a single father. James shows his strength by emerging himself into his family to help the entire family cope. In contrast, Nathan turned his attention to others when his family needed him the most. After learning from his children that his youngest daughter, Rith May, was killed, he said, "she wasn't baptized yet" (Kingsolver 368). Nathan then goes into the village center and attempts to baptize the Congolese children with the rain water. This sends a haunting message to the Price family that Nathan shows no regard for his family members feelings. Instead of helping his family, he turns them away and focuses on his religion. This turns out to be a detrimental mistake as his family leaves him in the Congo. In addition, James attempt to fill the void left by Kathleen in a healthy way by raising Kathleen's daughter Lily. James takes her in and deceives his other daughters about Lily's true mother as he adopts his daughter's child as his own. This is a healthy way to fill Kathleen's void as he is taking in another child and
Molly, but on the other we can see that he is trying to avoid trouble
The Awakening by Kate Chopin ends with the death of the main character, Edna Pontellier. Stripping off her clothes, she swims out to sea until her arms can no longer support her, and she drowns. It was not necessarily a suicide, neither was it necessarily the best option for escaping her problems.
Poets Louise Gluck and Percy Bysshe Shelley use symbols and poetic techniques to convey themes of human experience such as death and haunting memories. In the poem, “Gretel in darkness,” Louise Gluck draws out a childhood fairytale and suffuses it with two fundamental human experiences - guilt and fear. In “Ozymandias”, Percy Bysshe Shelley discusses the idea that time and nature stops for no one. The poems reinforce the main themes by a variety of techniques.
The Novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte took a surprising twist when Bertha "Mason" Rochester was introduced. Bertha leaves a traumatizing impression on Jane’s conscious. However, this particular misfortunate event was insidiously accumulating prior to Jane’s arrival at Thornfield. Through Bertha, the potential alternative dark turn of events of Jane’s past are realized, thus bringing Jane closer to finding herself.
The story of Daisy Miller starts off in Vevey, Switzerland with Winterbourne and Daisy meeting through Daisy's brother Randolph. Winterbourne is immediately attracted to her stating, "she was strikingly, admirably pretty" (James 470). The story continues with Winterbourne giving Daisy a tour of the Chateau de Chillon, and Winterbourne returning to Geneva, where he had an older women waiting for him. Daisy ends up meeting an Italian man, Giovanelli, which eventually leads to her death of malaria. Although the characters seem simple enough, they symbolize much more than themselves. In Henry James's Daisy Miller, Daisy symbolizes all American women who travel abroad to Europe, while Winterbourne symbolizes the European mentality of American tourists.
In “The Birthmark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, one of the main characters has a birthmark across her face that the author directly says is a symbol of her mortality. Hawthorne states that it is reflective of her flaws and humanity. Her birthmark symbolizes how interwoven flaws are and how crucial they are to who a person is.
Silas' background consisted of poverty, hardships, and hard work. He acquired his own wealth and that opened doors that were unknown to him or his family. The Colonel's background and attributes led him into an awkward situation of always attempting to appear in society as something that he is not. He is a common, vulgar man, doing his best to appear sophisticated, educated, and knowledgeable, when, in fact, it is only his wealth that connects him to the upper class. His incredible wealth places within him the motivation and false sense of obligation to conform to the tastes and pre...
The theme the author uses in both the beginning and the ending has something that has to do with Mrs. Mallard’s heart trouble, in both physically and mentally. In the beginning, it tells us “Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble” (524) as a medical term. But over time, we see that its more on her psychological mind and is more of an emotional state than a medical condition. In the ending the author compared Mrs. Mallard’s death to heart disease “When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease of joy that kills” (525). Ironically the story is telling us that Louise was happy that she was free but became dissatisfied about Brently’s return which to her means that he has taken her
Death is a major facet of “The Story of an Hour.” In “The Story of an Hour,” Kate Chopin uses death to show how locked down Louis Mallard felt in her marriage. The main character’s husband, reportedly killed in an accident, sets the stage for her to begin a metaphorical rebirth. She must begin the process of grieving while trying to collect herself emotionally. In order to do this, she goes to her room for an hour to think in solitude, and it dawns on her that she will finally be free to do whatever she pleases. As she emerges from her room with a new sense of self and descends the stairs, her husband nonchalantly strolls in through the front door. Having her dreams of freedom taken away so quickly left her in a state of despair from which she could not emotionally handle. This turmoil, causing her heart to take its last beat, completed the cycle of death.
“Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For ne’er saw true beauty till this night.”- Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet was written by William Shakespeare, it was a play, publicized in 1597. It was tragic drama about two people who fell in love, but their families didn’t approve their relationship. In the end, the two lovers committed suicide. Since, Romeo and Juliet committed suicide, there is absolutely a cause for this incident, their parents. 3 main points I think their parents caused this, is one, if their parents didn’t have bad history, Romeos and Juliet’s love would have been approved. Two, if the parents didn’t push Juliet into marriage with Paris. And third, Juliet’s wedding changes.
Romeo and Juliet, a play written by William Shakespeare, has a tragic ending for the two star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet. There are many characters you could blame for the death of the two main characters such as Mercutio, The Nurse, or the feuding families, but the ending of this story ultimately comes down to three important characters. In the tragic play, Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet were not the only characters to blame for their own deaths. Friar Laurence and Tybalt were major reasons for the deaths of these two star-crossed lovers.
In this play death is a horrible thing, especially when there are people to blame for these deaths. Romeo and Juliet is a tragic love story that ends in two star crossed lovers taking their lives for each other. Their forbidden love was the cause of their death. There were also people who caused the tragic event but it finally ended their family feuds. Once everyone found out about their deaths the Prince was disappointed because the people who caused these deaths were their families feud. In the play, Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, there are three characters to blame the deaths of Romeo and Juliet, they are Friar Lawrence, Tybalt, and Capulet.
Love. Murder. Suicide. All of the things that can make up a good novel or play. There is this concept that love is pain which probably stems from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet takes place in Verona with an unset time period but more likely to have been before the 1500s. Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet are two teenagers who meet and fall in love, regardless of the fact that their parents have a rivalry that no one seems to know the reason for anymore. In the end, which was told in the prologue (Shakespeare, 13), Romeo and Juliet kill themselves. When people die, some look to place the blame on who's responsible for one’s death. The people who are most responsible for Romeo and Juliet’s death are Romeo himself, the Capulets,
William Shakespeare’s most recognized play, Romeo and Juliet, has inspired and moved audiences for centuries. It is a story of two kids of opposing houses falling in love, only to be torn apart by destiny, and end up taking their own lives so they can truly be together. While the ending seems to be of the sick twists of fate, there seems to be a more austere underlying cause. Romeo and Juliet did not die at the hands of destiny, it was their foolish and immature decisions that led them to their tragic end.