The tale Puss-in-Boots starts with the character of Puss, a distinguished ginger tom whose abilities are impressive. He is proud of his talent to woo cats, his acrobatics, and his great musical voice. Puss wears the boots that a young cavalry officer threw at him during one of his nocturnal songs. That young man called for Puss to go up to his balcony, and once up, the cat smiled, and the man replied to him with the same mischievous smile. From that moment, they became inseparable, and Puss got a new job as the man's right arm. Puss helped his master in multiple ways, using his ingenuity for his many conquests, keeping him warm at night, stealing food for them both, and getting more fortune due to their cheating at gambling. Puss mentions that …show more content…
The master compares the lady to a princess who is locked up in a tower, living next to a quick-tempered old man. She is only allowed to leave the house on Sundays, and in the company of her grumpy hag. The young woman was married to a stingy old man named Signor Panteleone, but her marriage was not consummated as she was still a virgin due to his impotence. At the beginning, Puss ignores him since his master was a regular customer in the brothels, and he had even courted the ladies of the convent; therefore, little did he know about true love. Concurrently, Puss was proud of himself as he was responsible for his master seeing the young woman's face and her smile, and consequently, for he falling in love with …show more content…
Tabby confesses him that Panteleone's wife is a poor unhappy and lonely young woman who is tied to an old jealous and impotent old man. Then, when Puss talks to her about his master and his love for her, Tabby joins the plan. Puss's master writes a love letter to the beautiful woman, and the Puss is responsible for carrying it to Tabby, and Tabby to her friend. Just after Panteleone's wife has read the letter, she starts to cry, and sends him a little note asking him to meet. Puss's master decides to serenade her that evening, hence he buys an old guitar and goes to the piazza with a quirky costume. The piazza is so noisy that the young woman is not able to hear the serenade, therefore he orders Puss to climb the balcony and to catch her attention. Not only was the young woman captivated by his voice, but also everybody in the piazza stopped to do their tasks and listened to him. Suddenly, the hag closes the lady's shutters, and the serenade
From the combination of enjambed and end-stopped lines, the reader almost physically feels the emphasis on certain lines, but also feels confusion where a line does not end. Although the poem lacks a rhyme scheme, lines like “…not long after the disaster / as our train was passing Astor” and “…my eyes and ears…I couldn't think or hear,” display internal rhyme. The tone of the narrator changes multiple times throughout the poem. It begins with a seemingly sad train ride, but quickly escalates when “a girl came flying down the aisle.” During the grand entrance, imagery helps show the importance of the girl and how her visit took place in a short period of time. After the girl’s entrance, the narrator describes the girl as a “spector,” or ghost-like figure in a calm, but confused tone. The turning point of the poem occurs when the girl “stopped for me [the narrator]” and then “we [the girl and the narrator] dove under the river.” The narrator speaks in a fast, hectic tone because the girl “squeez[ed] till the birds began to stir” and causes her to not “think or hear / or breathe or see.” Then, the tone dramatically changes, and becomes calm when the narrator says, “so silently I thanked her,” showing the moment of
treats her like garbage, after Gatsby admits that he is "new money." She wants to keep her
As the plot progresses, Sethe is confronted with elements of her haunting past: traumatic experiences from her life as a slave, her daunting escape, and the measures she took to keep her family safe from her hellish owner plague Sethe into the present and force her to come to terms with the past. A definitive theme observed in the novel is slavery’s dehumanization of both master and servant. Slave owners beat their slaves regularly to subjugate them and instill the idea that they were only livestock. After losing most of the Sweet Home men, the Schoolteacher sets his sights on Sethe and her children in order to make Sweet Home “worth the trouble it was causing him” (Morrison 227).
A couple days later, Nick and Tom are going to New York City when Tom decides to stop in an ashen, industrial dumping ground town in order to pick up his lover, Myrtle. Although her husband, George Wilson, greets the two men, he remains oblivious to the fact that his wife is involved in an affair. Nick, Tom, and Myrtle then continue on to New York City and hold a gaudy party at a small apartment Tom keeps in the city to carry on his relationship with Myrtle. The party promptly comes to an end when Myrtle begins taunting Tom about Daisy and he ends the argument by breaking her nose.
He never wanted to give up on her, so he tried to recreate their past in hopes of rekindling a love they once had. “Gatsby's gospel of hedonism is reflected in his house, wild parties, clothing, roadster, and particularly in his blatant wooing of another man's wife. Daisy, a rather soiled and cheapened figure, is Gatsby's ultimate goal in his concept of the American dream. However, he falls victim to his own preaching. He comes to believe himself omniscient-above the restrictions of society and morality. His presumption extends to a belief that he can even transcend the natural boundaries placed upon human beings. He will win back Daisy by recapturing the past” (Pearson). Gatsby lies about his lifestyle including the parties, clothing, and almost all of the other aspects he reveals about himself, to impress his teenage love, Daisy, who also happens to be Tom’s wife. He believes he can win Daisy back from her husband by throwing lavish parties, and putting on a deceitful lifestyle in an attempt to lead her in believing he qualified to be one of the elite. “The book's chief characters are blind, and they behave blindly. Gatsby does not see Daisy's vicious emptiness, and Daisy, deluded, thinks she will reward her gold-hatted lover until he tries to force from her an affirmation she is too weak to make. Tom is blind to his hypocrisy; with "a short deft movement" he breaks Myrtle's nose for daring to mention the
Puss in Boots, like many folk and fairy tales is found in varying versions of the same story. Two of the many versions of this tale which are still told today are the classic version by Charles Perrault and one retold by Harry Robinson, an Okanagan Native Storyteller. Robinson's version was recorded and then transcribed and may be found in 'Write It On Your Heart - The Epic World of an Okanagan Storyteller.' This paper will examine and compare the content of both these tales with regards to plot and attempt to explain why the differences and similarities occur with regards to characters and places.
Mary Prince first discloses thus to readers when introducing Mrs.Williams. She described her mistress as “ a kind-hearted woman, and she treated all her slaves well.”(231) On the other hand, Mary Prince described her master as "A very harsh, selfish man. His wife was herself much afraid of him and during his stay at home, seldom there tissue her usual kindness to the slaves.”(232) Despite not being directly stated, readers can infer that Mrs.Williams’s fear of her husband, derived from physical abuse as well. More evident brutality of slave owners is displayed within Mary Prince’s master Dickey, after going ashore at the grand Quay. Mary Prince remembers, “I found my master beating Miss D----dreadfully. I strove with all my strength to get her away from him; for she was all black and blue with bruises. He had beat her with his fist, and almost killed her.”(249) Master Dickey being very drunk, had beat his wife as if he would beat any other slave. With Miss Dickey being beaten, she too, suffered physical
The story begins with the Marquise de Merteuil corresponding with Vicomte de Valmont regarding a luscious new act of ‘revenge’, as she describes it, against the Comte de Gercourt. The young Cecile de Volanges has just come home from the convent and her marriage to Gercourt has been arranged. However, before he can wed the innocent child, Merteuil proposes Valmont ‘educate’ her, thus spoiling Gercourt’s fancy for untarnished convent girls. Valmont is uninterested in such an easy seduction and is far more aroused by the thought of lulling The Presidente’ de Tourvel, the very epitome of virtue, into submission. And so the tale unfolds.
My new mistress proved to be all she appeared when I first met her at the door, —a woman of the kindest heart and finest feelings. She had never had a slave under her control previously to myself, and prior to her marriage she had been dependent upon her own industry for a living. She was by trade a weaver; and by constant application to her business, she had been in a good degree preserved from the blighting and dehumanizing effects of slavery. I was utterly astonished at her goodness. I scarcely knew how to behave towards her. She was entirely unlike
Daisy appears to be a pure and innocent southern belle, but under that mask is a careless, manipulative character, similar to a siren. Nick described Daisy as, “my cousin, who began to ask me questions in her low, thrilling voice. It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again. Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered "Listen," a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour.” (Fitzgerald 33). At the ending of The Great Gatsby, Daisy broke her promise to Gatsby, not agreeing to run away with Gatsby, after she put him under the false impression that she longed to be with him. Later that day, when Gatsby was shot due to Daisy’s mistake, Daisy ran away with Tom and never attended Gatsby’s funeral. The act of her not attending Gatsby’s funeral, who was supposed to be her long lost love, showed that she never truly cared for Gatsby in the way that he cared for her. In the end, Daisy used her wealth to manipulate others and run away for her problems. Similar to The Great Gatsby, Powaqqatsi presents beauty on the outside, but corruption on the inside. Powaqqatsi
“The Wife of Bath’s Tale” is written in an entertaining and adventurous spirit, but serves a higher purpose by illustrating the century’s view of courtly love. Hundreds, if not thousands, of other pieces of literature written in the same century prevail to commemorate the coupling of breathtaking princesses with lionhearted knights after going through unimaginable adventures, but only a slight few examine the viability of such courtly love and the related dilemmas that always succeed. “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” shows that women desire most their husband’s love, Overall, “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” shows that the meaning of true love does not stay consistent, whether between singular or separate communities and remains timeless as the depictions of love from this 14th century tale still hold true today.
Perrault's "Puss in Boots" is the charming tale of a boy who is delivered into good fortune through the clever cunning of his cat, and this story carries with it a basic plot, structure and theme commonly found in works of this genre.
The tale of Sleeping Beauty is influenced by oral folklore and various written versions. Today fairytales are told as a domain for the entertainment and teachings of children. In traditional storytelling, peasants transmitted folklore orally around campfires to audiences of mixed ages. However, during the 17th century, peasant tales, such as Sleeping Beauty, were altered by writers like Charles Perrault’s, to appeal to the courts of aristocracy. Thus the characters of Sleeping Beauty adorned a courtly air to appeal to the crown, such as Louis XIV of France. Throughout history, various cultural influences transformed the tale of Sleeping Beauty through the manipulation of various social forces to achieve better entertainment purposes and reflect Christian beliefs and customs. In addition, the moral of the tale conveys a message that women remain passive in hope to marry her true lov...
In ‘My Last Duchess,’ the speaker is conveyed as being controlling, arrogant, malicious, and capricious. The Duke shows signs of jealousy and over-protection towards his first wife. On the other hand, the narrator in ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ is portrayed as who has lost touch with reality, someone clearly insane. There a few hints that this character may be lonely and withdrawn. After Porphyria enters the room he is in, the tension immediately drops and the mood warms.
As it can be seen from the characteristics of the two servants, they have some differences. These differences not only affect their characteristics but also their relationships with others too. In the book we can see two servants with different relationships with the same person who is Prosp...