If I had to pick a character to relate to in the taboo that is ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, I would have to admit to sympathizing with- perhaps even interjecting myself into- Annabelle’s character the most. The issue with this is she’s the character who is used as a plot device- so what does that say about my opinion of myself? The fact that I can see myself in what I would consider to be the most bland character of the entire play has to say something about my own psychological state- or perhaps it has something to say about the role women are given in literature and art altogether. The reason I feel so strongly about Annabelle isn’t because I consider her pretty, gracious or naive like so many of the men around her do. I feel connected to her …show more content…
From the beginning of the play we see that her Father is looking for a suitable husband for her, we then find out that she has somehow gotten into the mess that is her love affair (with her brother no less), and suddenly she’s pregnant and in a panic. Forced to marry a man who turns out to be quite cruel just to try to save her reputation, the entire play suggests Annabella’s life has been a whirlwind experience and she’s had very little say about any of it. My life can’t begin to encapsulate the drama that Annabella’s overwhelmingly does, but I can relate to the feeling of a lack of control. Last summer I moved to England, a brilliant adventure that was supposed to result in my attendance of Cambridge, opportunities to travel that I wouldn’t have had in the United States, and a new experience altogether. It failed of course, and to no fault of my own, but I couldn’t help but feel like a failure. I suffered with depression for three months following and I don’t ever recall just feeling so morbidly anxious, and lonely, and upset. After that phase passed I was whacked in the face with school, and college, and too many things I hadn’t thought of before. I felt like the world was falling apart and there was nothing I could do to stop it. One crumbling piece at a time, I was waiting for my turn to fall off the edge. Of course I don’t feel that way anymore, I’m
She sees her father old and suffering, his wife sent him out to get money through begging; and he rants on about how his daughters left him to basically rot and how they have not honored him nor do they show gratitude towards him for all that he has done for them (Chapter 21). She gives into her feelings of shame at leaving him to become the withered old man that he is and she takes him in believing that she must take care of him because no one else would; because it is his spirit and willpower burning inside of her. But soon she understands her mistake in letting her father back into he life. "[She] suddenly realized that [she] had come back to where [she] had started twenty years ago when [she] began [her] fight for freedom. But in [her] rebellious youth, [she] thought [she] could escape by running away. And now [she] realized that the shadow of the burden was always following [her], and [there she] stood face to face with it again (Chapter 21)." Though the many years apart had changed her, made her better, her father was still the same man. He still had the same thoughts and ways and that was not going to change even on his death bed; she had let herself back into contact with the tyrant that had ruled over her as a child, her life had made a complete
Throughout the play She Kills Monsters, different feelings and opinions arose. Primarily, it was not appealing to my taste of genres, and I couldn’t care less about what appeared to be a nerdy play, additionally it made me feel puzzled. Secondly, the play was entertaining and humorous. Lastly, the role-playing of the characters in this world of fantasy was amusing and enlightening. Although the play’s genre was fantasy and adventure, I speculated that it illustrated important values that we should incorporate in our lives.
also gives you an attachment to her character, as you see her conflicted emotions of
Ralph Waldo Emerson once said “To be great is to be misunderstood”. That is the quote I was pondering during the opening scene of She Kills Monsters when the narrator introduced the main characters Tilly and Agnes Evans. Agnes was described as average in all aspects of her life while her younger sister Tilly was a world class computer gamer while as being considered weird by most of her peers. But after Agnes wishes for her life not to be normal her family got involved in a car accident. Tilly and her parents died and Agnes was left with a changed life and few memories of her sister that she barely even knew. While Agnes was cleaning her sisters room she found her sister’s journal and her curiosity compelled her to find out more about her and the computer game she always uses to play. This decision leads her play the game that takes on an adventure where she discovers a lot about herself and develops what she feels is an actually relationship with her sister. During this adventure of a play many themes were explored but the main two that had the strongest presence were how your sexual orientation affects people in society, and how strong regret is as an emotion. Overall I was shocked on how beautifully the play was executed from the unexpected comedy, the bold costume designs, and talking about issues that are very relevant in our lives today.
... stresses, changes, and issues that typical adolescents have to deal with. She still had to figure out what her plans were for her future, which ended up changing due to the accident; she still had relationships that developed or ended, and she had to figure out how to deal with those stressors; she still had to go through the process of finding out who she was and what her identity meant like other adolescents her age; and she had to deal with the transition from being a typical teenager to an emerging adult. The entire novel centers on these changes and how Anna reacts to the many twists that come up in her life, and because of this, the novel shows what it is like to live through the adolescent stage of life.
In reading this story we find a woman tired of being a mother, a wife and of her life in general. "The sight of them made her so sad and sick she did not want to ever see them again" (35). Do you not see what she is thinking? They are sucking the life out of me. Why did I choose to get married? I could have been anything, instead I am the mother of this child and the wife of this man and am here to take care of their needs. Who will take care of my needs? She feels that she is some how letting herself ease away and needs to regain her identity. She soon isolates herself even more by moving into another room maybe thinking she will be able to find the part of herself she has lost. "She was a young queen, a virgin in a tower, she was the previous inhabitant, the girl with all the energies. She tried these personalities on like costumes" (38).
...41). By play's end, we are confronted with her madness, the result of an excruciating tension between her identity as a woman and the desire to accommodate a misconceived and fatally monstrous masculinity.
In "Preparatives to Love: Seduction as Fiction in the Works of Eliza Haywood", Ros Ballaster critically examines the active role that seduction plays in the passionate lives of the heroines presented in the writing of "the undisputed Queen of Romance," Eliza Haywood. Ros Ballaster's primary argument refers to Eliza Haywood's "creation of a specifically feminine authorial persona with a direct address to female readers, which is seen both as a form of scandalous prostitution and a seduction of other women." (53) Ballaster asserts that, though her work undergoes a well-defined stylistic change, related to the moral perspective of her career after 1740, "throughout her work there is a remarkable consistency in her presentation of sexual desire and in her view of fiction's role in the stimulation or repression of sexual passion in female readers." (55)
There is a reason why our lives do not turn out the way we plan. Freud’s theory of unconscious, notes that there are repression by the mind which causes discussion that are unattended. This could stem from dreams, mistakes being said, and different kinds of forgetfulness (Feist & Feist , 2009, p. 25). This is similar to Jung’s personal unconscious, which can be easily recalled, some have difficulty retrieving remembers, and others are beyond the range of consciousness (Feist & Feist , 2009, p. 105). The unconscious issue that Anne may have had stem from the fact that she was taking care of her father and unknowing forgetting to take care of herself. As a result, she started to feeling the physicals neglect.
Frank is a middle aged white male who is straight, Fiona is a white female who is in her mid twenties she is also straight. Carl is a 12 year old boy and there is no indication if he straight or gay but with the way things seem I would say straight, Veronica is also in her mid twinties she is a straight African American woman. Debbie is a young white girl who is interested in males. Lip is about 19 he is a white male interested in women and Ian is about 18 and he is gay and nobody knows but his older brother Lip.
The plays, A Doll House and Trifles, brilliantly depict the male dominated relationships that were prominent in each playwright’s society. The play, A Doll House, by Henrik Ibsen, shows how women are seen as nothing more than a pretty face. On the other hand, Trifles, by Susan Glaspell, presents the idea that women are loyal to their husbands so they will do as their husbands wish. The concept of women being viewed as harmless creatures by men because they see them as unintelligent is prominent in both works and serves as the focus of each playwright’s critique of the attitudes toward marriage in their own respective societies.
Sara experiences a couple of changes with regards to how she was and how she felt towards Anna. At the point when Sara fell pregnant with Anna, she had "not by any means considered the specifics of this life she was carrying. She had thought of this girl just regarding what she would have the capacity to improve the situation the little girl she was so desperate to save . Once more, her dreams for the child were no less commended; she planed for her
Her role as a wife and a mother starts to become her daily routine, and she is not satisfied with it. She tries her best to satiate herself. She starts making efforts to achieve different approaches to satisfy these efforts but still “she does not get pleasure in her duties” (Goodwin 39), and this is the reason why she always get dissatisfaction in her life. Her dissatisfaction with this role in life also leads the narrator protagonist to try on other roles. Though she tries on many, none of these seem to satisfy her either; she "tried these personalities on like costumes, then discarded them" (Goodwin 38). Her inability to find any role that satisfies her probably contributes to her general sense of helplessness, and continues to withdraw from her family. Since she cannot find any particular role that suits her, she attempts not to have any role at all; the coldness and isolation of the undecorated white room make it seem that she is trying to empty herself of her previous life.
Margaret Edson sets up Vivian’s soliloquies in a way that tracks the character’s decay. In the earlier soliloquies, Vivian establishes herself as a great literary scholar with an immense ego. However, throughout the play, viewers are exposed to increasingly morbid passages in which Vivian breaks the fourth wall in order to speak directly to the audience to convey her ever-increasing affliction. As the play progresses we witness Vivian’s destruction as her situation gets the best of her. Margaret Edson’s use of soliloquies greatly aids the audience in capturing the essence of Vivian Bearing’s suffering.
...nt, independent, and thoughtful character, there is an undertone running throughout he novel that suggests that she has failed to adopt the befitting social role for a woman. Ultimately, she is portrayed as irrational and emotionally labile, driven by insatiable desires: "I don't know myself," says Anna as she sinks near to her lowest ebb; "I only know my appetites, as the French say."15