Character Analysis Of Philematium In The Haunted House

One of the first characters the audience is introduced to in the play is Reverend Parris. Parris is portrayed as

Peony was heartbroken at the fact that she had to marry someone who she hasn’t met, and the only person on her mind was the stranger she met. When Peony’s mother finds out she went outside the family villa, she was locked inside her room until it was time for her to be wed. Her tutors and food were brought inside her room for her since she wasn’t allowed to leave. She was forced to enhance her skills in womanly activities such as embroidery and playing of the zither, which is a stringed instrument. Not only did she receive lessons from her tutors, which were her aunts, she also read more about The Peony Pavilion, and devoted her time to reading and writing down any commentary or understanding she had to each part of the opera. She spent so much time and effort into her writing in order to take her mind off of her wedding that she

     The other view that Glaspell shows in this play is a sympathy that the reader grows for the women. How they are forced to follow the men. Like when they are asked to get close to the fire, they do it even though Mrs. Peters

At the beginning of the short drama, “Trifles,” Mrs. Peters, the sheriff’s wife, is painted as timid and submissive wife. She willingly submits herself to the responsibilities she has as a wife. As the play unfolds, Mrs. Peter’s submissiveness begins to diminish. Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale work together to uncover the murder of Minnie Wright’s husband. When the women find the evidence, they refuse to share it with the men. Mrs. Peter’s character transforms into a more confident individual over the course of the play.

The Haunting of Hill House is considered a classic to many people. It has a certain sense of feeling missing from today's novels. The Haunting of Hill House has suspense, horror, a little bit of romance, and an ending that will leave you thinking for days. Shirley Jackson is well known for her twisted work. At the beginning of the book, you our introduced to a character that has a major impact on all of its "guests". Hill House. "Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against the hills, holding darkness within." This is just one of the chilling sentences from the opening paragraph. The fear begins to set in. Shortly after, you are introduced to the strong yet cautious Dr. John

Betty Parris’s considerable power throughout the first act is observed by her ability to single-handedly initiate chaos and hysteria within the town for her own personal benefit. This power is first witnessed following Susanna Walcott’s explanation concerning the possibility of a supernatural cause to Betty’s illness, leading Abigail to advise her Uncle about “the rumor of witchcraft [that] is all about: [She] thinks [he'd] best go down and deny it [himself]. The parlor’s packed with people, sir” (10). This is the first hint that others in the town believe in the presence and of the beginnings of the hysteria that follows. Betty started this rumor in the town by pretending to act sick so that she would not get punished for dancing in the woods.

The play consists of four vital characters, which should not be that hard to point out based on the title of the play: Vanya, who is the play’s protagonist, Sonia, Masha, and Spike. Durang also included three supporting characters to the storyline: Cassandra and Nina, which are featured in the play quite often, and Hootie Pie, who is never physically seen by the audience. Cassandra, the maid of the house, believes in voodoo and predicts prophecies that no one believes in. The role of Cassandra brings comic relief to the play. Nina, the young neighbor, is sweet and innocent, which causes Masha to be jealous of her youth. The entire cast is head over heels for Nina and her bubbly personality. Lastly, there is Hootie Pie, Masha’s personal assistant. Although Hootie Pie is never seen on stage, the audience is made aware that she tells Masha to sell the house. Hootie Pie also gives Masha bad advice about her relationship with Spike for her own selfish reasons.

It is also notable that the protagonist’s room is located at the top of the mansion and was formerly a nursery. At the top of the mansion, she is far away from everyone and everything and can only look out from her barred window. This is similar to the tale of Rapunzel, a girl trapped in a tower with no one to communicate with. The narrator’s room being a former nursery and playroom may also give insight to John’s attitude towards her, in that he sees her as a child that needs to be pacified and doted on rather than a grown woman that can make her own choices about her illness and its treatment. The yellow wallpaper that decorates the room is what catches the narrator’s eye, as she finds it unbearably

Artemis recognizes Phaedra’s nobility and honour, telling Theseus she came also for, “…[his] wife’s frenzied lust, or in a way, / nobility.” (Euripides, 1300-1301) Artemis recognizes Phaedra’s concern to maintain her reputation, as well as her struggle to fight off the emotional attachment to Hippolytus instilled in her by the goddess Aphrodite.

This book report is over Haunted Houses by Patricia D. Netzley. The book is part of a series called The Mystery Library. The main goal of the series is to examine strange and often unbelieveable or unexplainable events. The author’s writes this series and her other books for the age range of kids to young adults. This book in particular goes into depth about the history of haunted house and everything surrounding them like sightings, ghosts, poltergeist, speaking to spirits, and investigation.

The plays, Trifles and A Dollhouse use the literary tool of symbolism to portray the way women were treated throughout the nineteenth century. Susan Glaspell uses the bird cage and the dead bird to signify the role and life of women in marriage and society, whereas Henrik Ibsen uses the dollhouse. These symbols allow the reader to recognize the plays main similarities in the treatment of women, such as men dismissing women as trivial and treating them like property; however, the plays portray the women’s lifestyles as different which seal their fates.

Primarily, Plath illuminates her emphasis on contrast through the use of caesuras. The first caesura, “Two girls there are: within the house” (1), introduces the foil of Persephone’s dual personalities. This is significant as it elucidates the concept of there being two people within one character setting. In this case the two girls portrayed in the house allude to the existent impression that women are two-faced. Women are known to have two sides for they only ultimately show what is perceived as face-value, and preserve their other individual persona hidden. Similarly, Plath uses a second example of a caesura, “One sits; the other, without” (2), to clarify the erratic contrast amongst her two personalities. This is

In the society of the 1920s when the play was written, the confinement of women was at an all-time high, however the breakout of women’s rights was just starting. The tone of this play helps show just this view, by promoting a character such as Mrs. Peters, who is stuck on whose side be on in the mystery of the murder. As they uncover the motive of Mrs. Wright, Mrs. Peters character begins to understand her, although the deceased husband was murdered in such a gruesome way, and know there should be a punishment for the crime for the crime because of her background with her husband as sheriff, who said she is “married to the law”, she comprehends the “stillness” that Mrs. Wright must have felt, with the house being as gloomy as it was on a bright character such as she before she was married. Such as

The Winchester house is one of the oddest and one of most haunted houses in the world. It is located in northern California. It cost over $20,000,000 to make. The owner, Mrs. Winchester, was rich because her family made the Winchester repeating rifle known as “The gun that won the west”. The house has 160 rooms and there are spirits in each room. The builders had to keep remaking rooms that if Mrs. Winchester kept them all she would have 600 rooms. So when they were done with the house, which took over 30 years to make, there were stairs that led to the ceiling and doors that led to walls.

Philia is one of the three kinds of love expressed in the play. The type of love that Philia represents is a love in between friends and family, a love that is not sexual or romantic. In the play this kind of love is shown in