Blaming External Pressure for the Tragic Decline of Tess in Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Second, women in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest are portrayed as sex objects throughout the novel. Vera, Dale Harding’s wife is a very desirable woman, and she knows it. She uses her looks and broken promises to get what she wants. During the novel she comes to see her husband Dale Harding, who everyone suspects is in there for being a homosexual. The black boy brings Vera in the ward and yells over to Dale “‘look here who come to visit you, I tole her it wun’t visitin’ hours but you know she jus’ sweet-talk me into bringin’ her right on over here anyhow’”(Kesey 182). After walking Vera to her husband the black boy walks off but not before he says “‘Don’t you forget now, you hear?’” (Kesey 182). This leads the reader to believe she used her sexuality and made some kind of sexual promise to the aid to get into the ward when it was not visiting hours. Next, Candy is a loose woman who pleasures men for money. During the novel she attends the fishing trip with McMurphy, while the men are fishing McMurphy finds Candy and Billy talking to one another, he asks “would you two like to be

She flirts with many men and young adults throughout the play, which makes the reader feel a lack of sympathy for her as the men she desired ended up becoming major contributors to her eventual downfall, in particular Stanley.

Instead of leaving him, she exposes all of the

During the story, after all the troubles and hardship she faces throughout, she finds her courage to stand up for herself in the closet. In the book, when she finds her courage she is with Andy Evans. He traps

She soon realizes that her son betrays her breaking the trust and relationship of a mother and child. Tom should feel inclination to uphold his part of the deal as Roxy is his true mother. Just as Tom loses everything but Chambers is then given everything he never thought he would have. Chambers is then released from slavery and given the inheritance. The horrors of slavery though have scared him from beyond repair.

Heather tells Melinda that they can’t be friends anymore and Melinda gets mad because she feels like she is the one who took Heather under wing since she was brand new to the area and didn’t know anyone. Now Heather goes to sit with “The Martha” group and Melinda is left to sit by herself at lunch every day. Melinda starts getting depressed that she has nobody to talk to and she starts skipping class and getting bad grades, her parents and teachers notice this new change in her but think she is just trying to get attention from them so they just sort of ignore it but her art teacher doesn’t and encourages her to speak and show her expressions through her artwork. Melinda then becomes friends with a guy names David Petrakis who is her lab partner in science and he is pushes Melinda to speak up. A little while later Melinda sees her old friend from middle school, Rachel start dating Andy Evans, the boy who raped her and she wants to worn her but doesn’t want to speak so she tells her by passing notes to her while they are in the

Tess tries to show excitement to Mick, her current boyfriend, after starting her new job as an assistant for Katherine Parker. Katherine explains to Tess their relationship is a “two way street,” essentially making Tess believe that working for her first female employer will easier while even holding the possibility of advancing her career. With every reason to be joyful, Tess could not wait to Tell Mick about the new opportunity, but Mick is a sexist 80s working man in the 1980s: getting the pizza home before it gets cold has more importance than his girlfriend’s career. Cyndy is not supportive of Tess either—something uncharacteristic of a best friend. As the film progresses, Tess receives a visit from Cindy at work while working on a big deal for Trask Industries. Cyndy has witnessed Tess’s extraordinary and questionable strategy to make it big, and Cyndy confronts her. Acknowledging her recklessness, Tess swears that she will come clean when the time is right and that she knows what she is doing. Cyndy replies, “Yeah, so do I. Screwin' up your life!” (59) Although Tess has no moral support, she seizes the opportunity and eventually thrives. Mick and Cyndy are both limited by a lack of vision and ambition, and Nichols’ negative portrayal of these working-class stiffs further suggests that the film has a pro-capitalist agenda. Nichols infers that if you have the resourcefulness like Tess, you can succeed in America. Mick and Cyndy, on the other hand, are

Afterwards, the group attends a party where Dr. Barnes tells Sister Bates (Eden’s ex) that he is still mad at Doctor Eden. She begins to tell him that he wants Nurse Linley, who is known as Doctor Barnes' fiancée. After they talk about it, Sister Bates stops

Moreover, the town who originally made Tess feel like an outsider was shown from the start. The fact that she is late to the lottery and yet still eager is the first sign of showing that she did not fit in with her community. Even though the town treated her tardiness in an abundant way, several people did not and felt the need to say a comment, “in voices just loud enough to be heard across the crowd, ‘Here comes your Missus Hutchinson,’” (433). Another example that displays how the town acted in not so nice way towards Tess and her

disregards Todd’s feelings for her, slowly crushing his dream life. Faye’s insincere discernment of love is

Even in her state of anger she cannot help but once again be the restrained and subdued one in their relationship. Despite all of the happiness she has found with Rochester she still cannot bring herself to stay in a relationship in which she sacrifices part of herself, because she doesn’t know how to reconcile her need feel like she belongs and is taken care of while at the same time remaining uncorrupted.

     Thomas Hardy often alludes to his heroine as the "soft and silent Tess."  "Soft" certainly insinuates her beauty, which Harrtainly insinuates her beauty, which Hardy stresses as her downfall.  However, it seems that Tess's silence is the all-pervading reason for her tragedies.  "The two men she encounters in her life steal her voice: one with violence, the other with his own language"(Jacobus 47).  Tess struggles with the damage that these men cause until redeeming herself through innocence.

Moreover, Mary evolves that story and explains to her grandmother, Mrs. Tilford, that she saw the two women kissing through the keyhole in the door. Mary knew the power that her grandmother had over the school. Mrs. Tilford is one of the main financial contributors to the school. She is also a wealthy, influential older woman who is well respected throughout the town. But, because of her adolescence, Mary did not know the underlying effects of telling the lie to such a powerful person within the community. Mary does not realize that her actions have given Mrs. Tilford the power to ruin the school, the women’s reputations, and most importantly their lives. Although Karen and Martha never committed the act they were accused of, the lie spreads all over the town and ultimately results in the closing of the school and ruining their lives.

After receiving the news about the murder, Jimmy explodes with emotions. “I remember, I was more afraid of my little daughter than I ever was of being in prison” (Dennis 34). This quote shows the fatherly love Jimmy had for Katie. It compared the strength Jimmy had through the rough times in jail and how afraid he was of losing Katie. Ultimately, Jimmy follows the wrong path. Jimmy not only fails to find his daughter’s murderer, but he also kills Dave along too. By looking though a psychoanalytic lens, one can interpret Jimmy’s fatherly instincts which are to try to unearth his daughter’s murderer no matter the cost.

    Aside from the internal and external conflicts which impact Amanda, Williams's strongly expresses his indictment through his very own character, Tom. Tom is merely a victim of both societal conflicts and his own guilt caused by his decision to seek fulfillment within his own life, rather than surrender to the unsatisfying life which his mother had created for him. One of the greatest factors in Tom’s lifestyle that creates his desire to escape this sense of imprisonment, is society's overall attitude toward homosexuality, specifically within his mother. Amanda stated, “I took that horrible novel back to the library- yes! That hideous book by that insane Mr. Lawrence. I cannot control the output of diseased minds or people who cater to them- but I won’t let such filth brought into my house” (Williams 759). Because 1930’s society does not allow homosexuality to be expressed openly, literature is the closest way which allows him to express himself. The simple fact that his novels are the one way which allows him to gain any sense of satisfaction is taken away by his