The relationship between the Borden sisters and their stepmother was never close. Hannah H. Gifford, who made clothing for the Borden family, recalled a conversation in which Lizzie called Abby Durfee “a mean good for nothing thing.” They called her “Mrs. Borden” and the girls felt Abby was only married to their father for his money. Lizzie and Emma Borden could never accept their stepmother and father's relationship. The sisters also had conflicts with their father, they didn't agree with his decisions to divide the family property. The Borden sisters were not the only two people who had issues with Andrew Borden. Mr. Borden was not a respected man in Fall River and fell ill before the murders happened. His second wife believed he was poisoned by someone who gave him contaminated meat. …show more content…
However, the case was never solved and the offender was never found.
On the morning of August 4th, 1882, Andrew and Abby Borden were murdered in their home. At eleven o’clock that day Lizzie Borden alerted the maid, Bridget, that someone had murdered her parents. Mr. Bordens body was found on the couch in the family's living room and Abby Borden was found in the upstairs bedroom. It is said that Mr. Borden was murdered while he was sleeping and Mrs. Borden was murdered while making the bed in the upstairs room. Both victims were killed by a hatchet or axe with many blows to the head. The famous rhyme says, “Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done she gave her father forty-one.” Later investigation showed that this rhyme was false and that each victim was hit twenty times,
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While being jailed she began to write poetry again. A collection later to be known as “The Trails End” foretelling what would happen to Bonnie and Clyde as she put “Some day they'll go down together / And they'll bury them side by side / To few it'll be grief / to the law a relief / but it's death for Bonnie and Clyde.”2 After getting out their sprees started to reign again because they were in desperate need of money. They had decided to rob the hardware store that sat directly across from the Kauffman town courthouse. They were both overwhelmed by excitement, until they heard the alarm go
In 1900, a man by the name of John Hossack was brutally murdered while he laid rest in his bed. John suffered from two blows to his head by an axe. His wife Margret of 32 years was the first to become a suspect. “Margret Hossack claimed to be innocent, but stories of domestic troubles and abuse provided prosecutors with a motive for the crime. Neighbors and family members were reluctant to talk about what they knew concerning the couple’s troubled marriage.” (Iowa) According to the previous source, Margret claimed she had been sleeping next to her husband during the time of the murder and claims she did not hear a thing.
Eliza’s blatant disregard for the concern of those around her contributed heavily to her demise. Had she listened to her friends and family when they told her to marry Mr...
Although John Proctor had an affair, he still cared deeply for his wife Elizabeth. Abigail’s whole purpose for the witch trials was to have Elizabeth convicted and killed so she coul...
One of the most important conflicts that transpire is between Abigail and John, and Abigail’s jealously towards John’s wife Goody Proctor. The first case of jealously and conflict between these characters is when John has called Abigail to the woods to confront her about the accusations her and the other girls have been making. Abigail thinks differently; she believes that John is calling her to the woods to tell her that he wants to be with her. This is not the case though, John says he comes in friendly but he later reveals his true intentions and tells Abigail that she is not to call out Elizabeth’s name. Abigail proclaims “: Oh, I marvel how such a strong man may let such a sickly wife be— Proctor, angered-at himself as well: You’ll speak nothing’ of Elizabeth.” Abigail: she is blackening my name in the village! She is telling lies about me! She is a cold, snivelling woman, and you bend to her! Let her turn you like a- Proctor, shaking her: Do you look for whipping’? Abigail refers to Goody Proctor as “ a snivelling woman” to make John believe that she is upset that Goody Proctor is vilifying her reputation in the town. The real reasoning behind Abigail insulting her is not because she thinks her name is being blackened but she is trying to cover up her unrequited feelings she has for John. Abigail is later brought up in the Proctor household...
Both Emily and Maggie show resentment towards their sisters. The sisters who God rewarded with good looks and poise. Emily's mother points out the "poisonous feeling" between the sisters, feelings she contributed to by her inability to balance the "hurts and needs" of the two.
In Source #3, the text states, “In the week before the murder, following an apparent family argument, Lizzie and her sister Emma left by coach for New Bedford. When Lizzie returned, she chose to stay in a rooming house for four days, rather than in her own room in the family residence.”Already having a tense relationship with her mother, an argument like this may have made Lizzie so angry that she would kill her step mother. Lizzie also had problems with her father. One of the problems she had with him was when she built a roost for pigeons and her father beheaded all of the pigeons because he thought that it attracted boys. Maybe just like her stepmother, this argument pushed Lizzie over the edge and killed her father as well. This is the first reason why I believe that Lizzie is
Elizabeth’s relationship with her half sister Queen Mary was mediocre. It seemed like they did not talk as much as some sisters do. They did love each other though because when Queen Mary was on the deathbed she refused to sign the paper that would have Elizabeth killed. If she didn’t really love her sister, she would have let them kill her and allow the Duke of Norfolk to take over as king. The Duke of Norfolk was Elizabeth’s cousin and wished to be king more than anything else. On the other hand, Mary called her sister a bastard and other bad names.
Abigail, the manipulative, selfish, vengeful, liar causes so much destruction in Salem because of her impulsive need to have John and power in her hands. Elizabeth, the loving, reasonable yet judgemental wife just wants to see the good in John even though their the bond was broken. Both of these women encountered stressful situations and tough decisions but their response is what makes up their personality. These two contradicting characters make up a large role in this play and continue to add a suspenseful taste that made the play much more
Hossack, dealt with the mental abuse for quite some time. She felt alone and the women from the town never came to visit. Mental abuse can kill a soul, if letting it happen for so long. Ms. Hossack had had enough of the mental abuse and snapped. She snapped when he killed her only happiness left. Mr. Hossack would not let her sing and she loved when the bird sang which made her sing in a shallow voice. After the bird, had died when Mr. Hossack killed the bird, while he was sleeping she killed Mr. Hossack with an axe while he was sleeping. She was arrested at his funeral then, got sentenced life in prison. After a couple of months, she was released for a second trial. Even though, 9 jurors voted her guilty 3 of them did not. Ms. Hossack was not charged with the second crime.
“Some day they’ll go down together…But it’s death for Bonnie and Clyde” (Guinn 313). The quote from above was the last poem written by Bonnie Parker, but the question remains: was Bonnie a cold-blooded killer that deserved to die, or was she just a girl who fell for the wrong boy? This eventually leads to her joining in to a life of crime. A look at the life of the “Cigar-Smoking Gun Moll” as everyone referred to her, will prove that the ambush that took her life was unjust.
Brenda Andrew was a stay at home mom and a Sunday school teacher. She married her high school sweetheart. When she was 40 her and her husband separated. She started seeing an insurance agent, and the two of them convinced her husband to take out a million dollar insurance policy. Andrew then shot her husband to death. Her and her lover were arrested and sentenced to death.
Both Persuasion by jane Austen and Little Women by Louisa May Alcott tell stories of families of sisters in the nineteenth-century in England and in America. The former is the story of Anne Elliot who had given up Fredrick Wentworth eight years prior to the novel's setting after she was "persuaded" to do so by her old family friend, Lady Russell. Realizing that she has made a terribe mistake once Fredrick returns, wealthier and more professionally sucessful, Anne struggles within herself regarding how much to reveal her feelings for him. In the lather, four sisters: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy grow up during the American Civil War with her father, Reverand March faraway as a champlain to the union army and her mother Marmee struggling to make ends meet. Very different in personalities, the sisters confront hardship growing pains and the possibility of developing their own individual talents.
In the novel To Kill a MockingBird the character Boo Radley is a boy who does not set foot outside of his house unless it is night. Boo Radley remain in the imaginations of the other characters Scout, Dill, and Jem. The fear and fascination of the character Boo lingers in the children's mind however the relationships between Boo Radley and the children change all throughout the novel. At first the children fear Boo but later they outgrow their fear and establish a relationship with him after he saves them from Bob Ewell.
Another important relationship that deeply impacted Henchard’s emotional stability was that of him and Elizabeth-Jane. At the start of the novel Henchard sells his daughter and wife, so already he has a rocky relationship with his child. He missed her grow up and he knows it. When she comes back into his life he becomes nervous and possessive, not wanting to lose her again. Henchard prompts Elizabeth-Jane to take his name. Shortly after he finds out that she is not his child but the child of Newson, the man who Henchard sold her to. However, Elizabeth-Jane is unaware of who her real father is as Michael told her that he is her biological father. Emotions take over yet again, and Henchard