The three scariest objects in this book are the “beast”, women, and trails. The book The Wind Through the Keyhole by Stephen King is a very spooky book. The objects mean a whole lot to the plot in this book. The reason women are scary in this book is because the way they are thought of “They eat men, is what I’ve heard”(43,King). The reason they are talking about women is because they heard of a group of women in the forest that are savages and kill for sport. The problem is that they needed to go through that forest to reach to closest village in one night because there train derailed and they need a lot of people to hopefully get it back on the track. Of course they chose to go through the forest because it was there best option if they wanted to live the night from the beast. They arrived at the “savages” camp and realized that the women were not savages at all but monsters in size they where twice as big as any of them. The women didn’t help the rest of there crew with the train and the others died from the best, but the women helped the guys from the beast at night and was able to hurt the beast by shooting it in the leg. …show more content…
The trails are spooky because most of the beast kills have taken place on trails.
All but 3 beast murders have happened on the trials. The reason the beast is able to kill so many people on these trails is because they do not have nights which prohibits the beast from beasty. The trails are always dark and in the middle of the woods or in the middle of nowhere. Only one person has been able to live a beast attack on a trail and that is a little boy that saw all of his friends and family be torn apart piece by piece limb by limb he heard all the sounds all the
screams. The scariest object is by far the beast. A town first finds out the beast because there was a mas murder at someone’s house it killed about 8 people in just a couple of minutes the only survivor said. The beast first appears in chapter 2 the beast is described as a shape shifting man thing. They found out the beast can change into anything and anyone at night but during day the beast is forced to stay as a man with a blue tattoo on his leg. Many people are to afraid to come out at night for anything because they said if the beast is out there they are not coming back. Also if it can kill around 8 people in just a couple of minutes I would never go outside I would be in my bed with my window and door locked and blocked and a gun in my hands hoping and praying it would not find me and if it did oh well I am going to die that night along with everyone else in my neighborhood. The reason I chose the beast, women, and trials as the spookiest things are because you wouldn’t expect them to do anything to you or to kill your but they can and sometimes they will. The last thing I want to do with any beast of any kind nearby me is make it mad and run.
E.K. Hornbeck through his language in “Inherit the Wind” (1955) tries to show the town of Hillsboro the way that their thoughts are harmful and wrong. Hornbeck backs that up by using a sarcastic tone to show them how ridiculous they are being, by using metaphors and similies to give the citizens context from the outside world that they might not always consider due to their closed mindedness, and by using syntax to prove that he is better than them and making himself and his views credible. His purpose is to get the town to change their viewpoint so they can see that they need to move forward with the time. He establishes a superior relationship with his audience of small town people with narrow viewpoints who need to learn to be more accepting.
Since the beginning of time, women have been seen as different from men. Their beauty and charms have been interpreted as both endearing and deadly to men. In the Bible, it was Eve’s mistake that led to humanity’s exile from the Garden of Eden. However, unlike in the Bible, in today’s world, women who drive men to ruin do not do so through simple mistakes and misunderstandings, they do so while fully aware of what effects their sexuality can cause. One thing remains constant through these portrayals of women, and that is that they are portrayed as flawed creations and therefore monstrous. It is a woman’s sex drive and sexuality that can lead to her monstrosity. The femme fatale is an enticing, exquisitely beautiful, erotic character who plays the ultimate trick of nature: she displays her beauty, captures the man and goes in for the kill. Films such as Adrian Lyne’s Fatal Attraction and stories such as Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Wife of Bath’s Tale, and Sir Gawain the Green Knight use the femme fatale as a means of making a woman into a monster; the femme fatale can never win in the battle of the sexes. But what is it that makes the femme fatale such a dangerously character for the hero as well as the readers or viewers?
Women are nurtured with different ideals than men, they are taught to behave a certain way and look a certain way. Virtuous, quiet, obedient, and proper, those are some of the attributes or values that young girls are taught to be like, that they carry with them for the majority of their lives. The cave is a familiar setting, in some way a sense of security even though it may not have a good impact, we are frightened to break free of what has been taught for generations. In the Allegory of the Cave, the prisoners were kept in the dark for so long they never questioned why; similarly, as children, it’s ingrained in to their minds they behave that way subconsciously without asking why they should be any different. As a child, I was influenced by my mother’s teachings but as a curious child I also questioned why, like why men were allowed to speak their minds but women were not, or why the men got to wear whatever they wanted while women had to stay modest. I often used to question, but as I grew older I stopped and understood that was the way it was always going to be. Childhood is comparable to oblivion in many aspects, the naivety in children overlook the prejudice of the world by being entranced by the world they conjured in their mind. The prisoners were so caught up in the shadows, they
b. Thesis Statement: Stephen King uses many different elements in order to scare his readers. The elements include supernatural elements, real life scenarios, and fear of the unknown.
In her critical essay, Anne K. Mellor is arguing that the deaths of the women in the text and the birth of the creature all represent Frankenstein’s desire to create a male dominated society while completely destroying the need for women. As Mellor states, “by stealing the female’s control over reproduction, Frankenstein has eliminated the female’s primary biological function and source of cultural power” (355). If Frankenstein were able to construct men from pieces of random corpses successfully, he would obliterate the woman’s primary function in society: to birth babies. Mellor states that Frankenstein’s primary motivation for his horrific actions is fueled by his fear of female sexuality. The treatment of females in this text is a reflection of the repression of sexual desire in the 18th century.
From the start of the book we can see that women in the book are
In the text the role of the female monster is played by Grendel 's mother. In which she has the embodiment of masculine energy and goes against the social expectations of what a woman should be and do in society. For example, Grendel’s mother has characteristics in which at the time warrior men should only have. In this society in the text women are monsters when they seek vengeance whereas men are seen as heros. For example,” Sorrowful journey to avenge her slain son” (1276-1278) In this quote we get the understanding that once her son was killed she wanted to kill the person who killed her son because of the love that she had for him and for that she was seen as a monster because that wasn’t an expected behavior of women to have in this society. In Beowulf this made her an outcast because she was seen as if she wasn 't fulfilling her womanly duties since she had the behavior trait of vendanges for her son. This is what made her a monster. If you aren’t the ideal women during this time then you are outcasted.That is why Grendel’s mother is seen as a monster and isn’t even given a name of her own. She is identified as “Grendel’s
In conclusion, the development of the folktales leads to the obtaining of ideas about gender. In many ways our society supports the idea that women seem underestimated as well as physically and mentally weak in comparison with the men who is portrayed as intelligent and superior. This can be shown in many ways in the different versions of this folktale through the concepts of symbolic characters, plot and narrative perspective.
The role of female characters in literature has gone through many transformations and radical changes. Until recently, women were often perceived as the other sex by many cultures. The remains can still be witnessed is several societies around the world. This notion obviously enabled the same view to thrive in literature. In epic fantasy, women can rarely stand alone. Many female characters’ purpose in the genre consists of the beautiful prize for the hero, the nurturing caregiver, or the villain itself. Many of the most popular epic fantasy novels seldom break away from that convention. Philip Pullman created His Dark Materials and inevitably put a new spin to females in epic fantasy. Not only did Pullman write one of the two main protagonists female, he created a noteworthy female villain as well. Pullman’s His Dark Materials not only challenges female norms in epic fantasy by creating Mrs. Coulter as a multi-faceted powerful woman and Lyra as a more modern embodiment of Eve, the trilogy manages to reimagine the role of women since the biblical period.
From the beginning of time in history, women have always been portrayed as and seen as the submissive sex. Women especially during the time period of the 1800s were characterized as passive, disposable, and serving an utilitarian function. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a prime example displaying the depiction of women. The women in Frankenstein represent the treatment of women in the early 1800’s. Shelley’s incorporation of suffering and death of her female characters portrays that in the 1800’s it was acceptable. The women in the novel are treated as property and have minimal rights in comparison to the male characters. The feminist critic would find that in Frankenstein the women characters are treated like second class citizens. The three brutal murders of the innocent women are gothic elements which illustrates that women are inferior in the novel. Mary Shelley, through her novel Frankenstein, was able to give the reader a good sense of women’s role as the submissive sex, through the characters experiences of horrific events including but not limited to brutal murder and degradation, which is illuminated by her personal life experiences and time period of romanticism.
For centuries, women have been forced to live life on the outskirts of a male-dominated society. During the 1800’s, the opportunities for women were extremely limited and Mary Shelly does an excellent job portraying this in her gothic novel, Frankenstein. Furthermore, in this novel, Mary Shelly shows how society considers women to be possessions rather than independent human beings. In addition, the female characters rely heavily on men for support and survival, thus proving their inability to do it on their own. Lastly, the female characters in this novel are in many ways victimized by the male characters.
...present powerful characters, while females represent unimportant characters. Unaware of the influence of society’s perception of the importance of sexes, literature and culture go unchanged. Although fairytales such as Sleeping Beauty produce charming entertainment for children, their remains a didactic message that lays hidden beneath the surface; teaching future generations to be submissive to the inequalities of their gender. Feminist critic the works of former literature, highlighting sexual discriminations, and broadcasting their own versions of former works, that paints a composite image of women’s oppression (Feminist Theory and Criticism). Women of the twenty-first century serge forward investigating, and highlighting the inequalities of their race in effort to organize a better social life for women of the future (Feminist Theory and Criticism).
It must also be noted there are no women in the story with prominent roles. The hero's wife is long dead and his daughter has been married and gone for many years. Any women in the story are merely in the background, unnamed and colorless-totally insignificant. Mann has purposely left them out because they are life givers, the symbol of fertility and birth. (The only one scene where women have an active role is in the degrading and violently promiscuous dream.)
In chapter two, the narrator goes to the British Museum in search of answers. During research, she uncovers that women are common topics of literature. However, none of the literature written about them is penned by women. When she reveals her findings for the definition of woman, she uses words such as weak, inferior, vane, and etc. that define woman. I think the narrator uses these words to emphasize the way men perceive women as being the weaker sex.
Later on in the story, the narrator begins to act different from the social norms. It may have been portrayed as her going mental. “I wonder how it was done and who did it, and what they did it for. Round and round and round – round and round and round – it makes me dizzy!” (Gilman 325). The narrator also notices how other women were affected by the pressure and social stigma from society. “Sometimes I think there are a great many women behind, and sometimes only one, and she crawls around fast, and her crawling shakes it all over” (Gilman 325). Many other women in that era are being suppressed, not just the