Tess

She was a victim of the salacious flattery she offered her lovers the while among the living. More sinful than her exploitation of men through sex without love was the overwhelming and ridiculously insincere compliments that she gave men; those lies are now represented by the feces in which she exists.

This displays Tess' integrity and strong nature to the reader, and gives us (the readers) another reason to like Tess. Another way in which Hardy shows Tess' goodness and purity (and resultantly winning the affection and sympathy of the readers) is by portraying Tess as 'a maiden of the land' (Chapter XXI)a woman who is wholly at one with nature. Tess is always seen to be comfortable outdoors: 'Every contour of the surrounding hills was as well loved and as personal as that of her

“Here, she said to herself, had been the scene of her guilt, and here should be the scene of her earthly punishment; and so, perchance, the torture of her daily shame would at length purge her soul, and work out another purity than that which she had lost; more saint-like, because the result of martyrdom” (55). Narrator to reader.

In the cast of The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven it’s when he shouts, and some cops show up a few minutes later, in the case of A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings its when the chicken coop is turned into an attraction. Both events show how both the angel and the narrator must deal with the culture around them. Its not that angels found that people find his interesting or trapped him within the chicken coop. However, in The Lone Ranger and Fistfight in Heaven the narrator tries a different approach and starts to act how culture expect him to be unlike the angel that is confused all the time about what is going on throughout the

Her most discernible feature is the fact that she has been married five times. In those marriages, she admits that the husbands she preferred were the ones that were rich and old. Using intimacy, or the lack of it, as her power, her husbands would give her what she wanted (usually money) to satisfy his need for intimacy. Within these marriages, she falls into the stereotype of greedy and manipulative. Her marriages were for the money and she would receive more money when she decided to be creative and tease or guilt-trip them. However, just because she uses her sexual lifestyle to earn more money, does not make her lustful. Instead, it makes her cunning because she understands what she needs to do to make men dance to her tune and she makes it her strength. She becomes a master at using sex as a bargaining tool and is proud of it. The societal niceties of her era that say the amount of marriages she has and how she manipulates her significant other is disgraceful, but she is not ashamed of it. She is more than a pretty face and a stereotype. She is a proud woman and with the desire to live a comfy lifestyle, she stays unwavering to the slander she must face. Her character is brought to life written in between the lines. Behind her obvious characteristics holds depths and reasoning a real person could empathize

The term angel is derived from the Greek word angelos , meaning “messenger.” This word represents an earlier Hebrew word, mal’akh that is also interpreted as the role of messenger or minister. It is safe to say that many people will regard angels as messengers between Heaven and earth. In many biblical stories, angels are sending messages. Some messages are announcements of birth like the ones that were sent to Abraham and to Samson’s father. Other messages encourage actions as the ones did to Elijah and David. In these cases, angels were bringing messages from the divine world, or Heaven, to men and women in the earthly human world. It is believed that the messages with angels also work in the reversed sense as well; meaning from human being to angel to God. It is said that ‘the soul speaks to the angel, the angel to the cherub, the cherub to God.’ This type of communication would explain the

Mary hurried to a town in the hill country of Judea and she enters into the home of Zechariah greeted Elizabeth. When she heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. Then, Mary sings a song that praises God and stays with Elizabeth for another three months and returns home.

First the author uses symbols to help describe the Angel and portray how weak the angel actually is. The Angel’s wings symbolize strength and power. While the Angel is in the cage his wings are beat up and he is weak, but over time his wings begin to heal and he becomes more powerful. It says, “... and at the beginning of December some large, stiff feathers began to grow on his wings,” (367). This line demonstrates the power the Angel is obtaining and soon after he

The novels ‘Lady Audely’s secret’, Rebecca’, and ‘The wasp Factory’ possess analogous elements of the gothic. They present diverging concepts of femininity rebelling against imposed gender stereotypes, and focalise on the usually marginalised ‘abjected’ figures of society. (Kristeva, 1982:3) This essay aims to argue how the gendered the monster are embodiments of social anxieties and ideologies and how challenge these projections. Mutual notions within the texts such as: the use of gothic tropes, uncanny gender subverting society’s ideals, and monsters as metaphors will be explored.

As the “fair” lady is depicted by the words “scan,” “lip,” and “sip,” her femininity is noticeable even after her spouse’s death. In rendezvous with the lover, she part with him “with a shudderful kiss” (46). The kiss “before the brass” (46) shows her not only her female sexuality and passionate love for the lover, but also her fear of committing the sinful and immoral

This quote proves its connection to sin as more than some thread, but as making her a

Her creations kept her company and she played games all day with them, she talked to them, she had a good heart albeit considered insane. She always had her creations with her but the only problem was, she couldn't tell the difference between her creations and real people. So if somebody made her mad she would have a really hard time dealing with it, her creations normally just disappeared when she got upset with them and since real people didn't do that she would get angrier leading to her attacking them. Nobody seemed to like to be around her too much, she recently turned nine and she seemed to become more twisted and backwards it seemed. She talked to herself and she seemed to talk to her creations a lot more, she seemed to always talk about how the world seemed to be perfect. There was no such thing as hunger, there was no such thing as true death unless it was written in the fate of the person who dies. She talked about the world as if it was one large story, she said that everything that everybody did was controlled. She would be the one to break the cycle. She had a therapist, but she always just talked about how she wouldn't follow the rules of the world and because of that she was viewed as the insane one. Her therapist would ask her what she meant, she would only respond with “Our world is being read right now, you don't know it. But the reader who is reading right now must be rather interested in our actions

The angel becomes very sickly and frail during the winter and Pelayo and Elisenda worry he may die. He starts molting his feathers all over the place making a huge mess. Elisenda tires of cleaning up after him. She shoos him away as a nuisance, but he seems to be everywhere. He is omnipresent, a symbolism for God.

Contrary to to traditional Mother roles in gothic literature, the Mother in ‘The Bloody Chamber’ embodies Strength and Courage. Through Carters feminist style of writing, the mother is seen as a knight in shining armour. The ‘indomitable’ (p1) woman is a figure of strength and courage; she has shot ‘a man – eating tiger with her own hand” (p2), and holding all the traits of a masculine hero. Traditionally, these traits symbolise her possession of the power traditionally possessed by men. Moreover, her overwhelming power is influential; she is in the position of true power, in no way passive or innocent. The passing down of her husband’s “antique service revolver” (p2) contradicts societies expectation of women. Traditionally, possessions are handed down to a fathers heir, however the mother receives this symbolic item instead. This item represents both the mothers strength and her physical power. Yet she is equipped with ‘maternal telepathy’(p41), which adds another dimension to her empowerment as it is a feminine strength, suggesting Carter is employing the notion that women may embrace their femininity whilst still retaining an advantage over men. However, her masculine qualities cannot be ignored. The windswept image is one of strength, portrayed towards the end of the novel, when she saves the damsel in distress, a role usually dominated by men. Her ‘white mane’ (p40) and “wild” appearance alludes to the image of a hunting lioness, a symbol of strength. She is the embodiment of “furious justice”. This

It is clear that “the bad” means succumbing to the violation by Alec, being his mistress and giving a birth to an illegitimate child―that is, her way of life as an fallen woman in the Victorian era. Her words, which tell Angel to educate Liza-Lu to be an ideal woman for him, can mean that Angel as a husband should subject her sister under the system of patriarchy. Here is a hint that Tess values spiritualized and virginal woman―an ideal female in the Victorian age called an angel in the house―rather than a woman who is such an unconventional woman as Tess herself. Her wish to accompany Angel with Liza-Lu as a clamp between him and Tess is equal to her giving up herself soiled with “the bad.” In this time, at last, not only the narrator and Angel but also Tess herself gets rid of her body, “flesh.” There remains a problem in Tess of the