A Reading Of Paulo Coelhos Adultery

Linda went through a seven year concealment in her grandmother’s attic, where she manufactured her escape. She wouldn’t submit herself to Dr. Flint so she thought that if she slept with the neighbor Mr. Sands, who happens to be the father of her children Dr. Flint would sell her in disgust. Which he obviously didn’t, he made propositions that made Linda want to runaway even more. Linda wanted her children to have a good life and be free. This is what she thought until after Mr. Sands runs for congress and got married. “He had not emancipated my children and if he should die they would be at the mercy of his heirs.” (Jacobs, 105) Linda made sure that Ellen, her daughter was sent to New York for a better life and her son Benny would follow after. Which he did, but Linda was in for a surprise when she saw Ellen uneducated, like Mr. Sands promised to her. Linda ended up have to teach Ellen herself.

Furthermore, their maternal attitudes balance each other. Lenina is unable to grasp the concept of motherhood because of her “Beta- Mindedness,” a result of her conditioning. Linda, like Lenina, is unable to fully understand being a mother as well. Linda expresses obtrusive attempts at motherly affection. For example, she constantly refers to John as “baby” and says “come and lie down, Baby” (Huxley 111). Linda’s motherly affectation is a result of her being engulfed by shame, and causes her to feel the need to play a caring mother.

Sigmund Freud said, “A woman should soften but not weaken a man.” This quote exemplifies the character Casilda from Isabel Allende’s short story “The Judge’s Wife”. Although not seen by all as a main character, Casilda is the strongest and most evolutionary character of the short story. “The Judge’s Wife” is an exceptional tale that follows the progression of characters as they fight against their predetermined destinies and how they are viewed in others’ eyes. Casilda is a catalyst for the evolution of almost every character in the story. Not only does her character grow in “The Judge’s Wife”, but she is also a medium for the growth of the two other main characters in the story, Judge

Early in the book, Jacobs reflects back to the happiest point in her life in order to contrast between the carefree circumstances of her childhood, to the acrimony she faced in her later life. She centers in on her household and how they “shielded” her from the fact that she was “a piece of merchandise” (11, 12). Given

In “Lives of the Dead”, O’Brien’s own innocence is preserved through the memory of Linda, a memory that remains untarnished by the inevitable corruption that results from life. O’Brien’s writings “save Linda’s life. Not her body--her life” (236). Storytelling and memories preserve the value of Linda’s existence while simultaneously allowing O’Brien to process death and destruction in a way that maintains a degree of optimism regarding his own life and future. Juxtaposing the images of body and life emphasizes his desire to save the idea of Linda while accepting the loss of her physical presence. O’Brien rejects the idea of death as absolute and final; instead he suggests that “once you are alive, you can never be dead” (244). Linda’s death solidifies her importance in O’Brien’s own development; she teaches him about life and real love as much as in death as in life. O’Brien’s paradoxical statement defines the lasting impact of Linda on him; her presence in his stories keeps her alive through memory; memories that even her death

The Director described how all he wanted when he lost Linda was soma, so he could forget what happened and just be happy. Along with this, The Director ignored what happened all his life until he was forced to recognize it again. When The Director is united with his family, he runs from it, not accepting the truth, but searching for happiness in other ways, like soma. Aldous Huxley shows that the Director did not accept the truth of his love for Linda when The Director himself says “Don't imagine that I had any indecorous relation with the girl. Nothing emotional, nothing long drawn.

Wanting a connection and attention from others drives you to turn yourself into someone you may not always like. Lust and sex dumb you down to feel good but eventually kill you off in mental ways that you only crave it more. In “Lust” by Susan Minot, she develops her character not by physical appearance, but by her relationships with other characters as well as her own actions and feelings. She makes herself nameless and faceless, but gives us enough to understand her emotional detachment. Her character explores many fun lustful relationships and sexual encounters but that doesn’t fill the hollow void of despair to find love that she has, making her more helpless and distressed in search of a connection.

He tried to smile at her. Suddenly she put her arms round him and kisses him again and again” (127). Since Linda has an emotional attachment to John, she has a personality different from the other citizens of the World State Society. However, despite the motherly connection that she could have continued with John, she chooses to sell her life to the drug soma. When Lenina lays dying in the hospital with John next to her, she unconsciously chooses her life of sex and soma she used to have over John: “She knew him for John, her son, but fancied him an intruder into that paradisal Malpais where she had been spending her soma-holiday with Popé” (205). In the very end, Linda suppresses her emotional love for John with soma and goes back to the principles and pleasantries of the World State Society.

Linda, for all her warmth and goodness, goes along with her husband and sons in the best success-manual tradition.  She tries to protect them from the forces outside and fails.  The memory of her suffering and her fidelity does not keep Willy and Happy from sex or Biff from wandering.  Miller's irony goes still deeper.  While Linda is a mirror of goodness and the source of the family's sense of identity, she is not protection - by her silence and her support, she unwittingly cooperates

Adultery was considered one of most heinous crimes according to the Puritan religion. Nathaniel Hawthorne shows the different ways that sin can affect the lives of many. From the beginning of The Scarlet Letter, sin is the main focus of the novel and how it can ruin people's lives. Throughout The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne makes use of the structure of the novel to effectively show how sin has a lasting impact on the characters.

Later, Linda turns out to be a genuine person, very precious and willing to give, and, in spite of the cruel way in which the news were given to her. Linda becomes the one with the power of giving new life. At that point, she chooses instinctively not to repeat the actions of her birth mother. With the play of events Linda attempts to connect the presence she felt her entire life being Linden. “ I had never before thought of the presence in relation to my twin, who’d grown up not an hours drive away from me, but that night the combination of the phone call out of the blue and twelve-letter word in my puzzle set my thoughts flowing.” (Erdrich page 3)

Junot Diaz, the author of “A Cheaters Guide to Love” writes his short story with many different references to anti-feminism. He writes about women in different ways to show them as powerless, and un-superior to the main character in the short story. From this short story, Diaz conveys the main characters ways when he shows the him talking about, the girl he calls to have sex with, the women at the yoga class, and the files read at the end of the story that show the fifty girls he cheated on his fiancé with. Diaz creates his main character and puts him in the second person to relate to the reader, but show his anti-feministic signs.

Linda is given nothing but motive for wanting her husband, Willy, to die because of the ways he mistreats her. For example, during a family conversation in Act I, Linda, trying to put in a few words, says, "Maybe things are beginning to change-," with Willy coming in right after her, "(wildly enthused, to Linda)Stop interrupting!..."(1187) Linda, trying desperately to be a part of the conversation, is constantly denied her voice. Always under Willy's control,

Has there? […] And seeing that, you ought to be a little more promiscuous…’” (34-6). The lack of emotional attachment between individuals is also reinforced when Lenina enters the elevator. At this point, she notices how many of the men she has engaged in sexual relations with, knowing this does not distress the men nor Lenina, instead, it is an achievement: “The lift was crowded with men from the Alpha Changing Rooms, Lenina’s entry was greeted by many friendly nods and smiles. She was a popular girl and, at one time or another had spent a night with almost all of them” (49). Furthermore, the concept of superficial relationships is also alluded to in “Brave New World”. Lenina contemplates partaking in other relationships while being involved with Henry, although Fanny explains that she must make an effort to engage in other sexual confrontations to avoid being categorised as an outcast: “‘I really do think you ought to be careful. It is such horribly bad form to go on and on like this with one man […] And you know how strongly the DHC objects to anything intense or long drawn’” (34). Lenina therefore partially participates in other relationships simply for personal gain, even though she does not entirely agree with the concept: “‘You’re quite right, Fanny. As usual. I’ll make the effort’” (37). Linda’s conditioned ways of living

Linda, for all her warmth and goodness, goes along with her husband and sons in the best success-manual tradition.  She tries to protect them from the forces outside and fails.  The memory of her suffering and her fidelity does not keep Willy and Happy from sex or Biff from wandering.  Miller's irony goes still deeper.  While Linda is a mirror of goodness and the source of the family's sense of identity, she is not protection