Essay Character Study in Manual Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman

The Memoir Spider Eaters by Rae Yang is her personal account of her life during the Maoist revolution. In addition, she reminisces about her trials and tribulations during her active participation in the culture revolution and the great North Wilderness. Her family also had various misfortunes due to these changing ideological beliefs spread by the revolution. This memoir illustrates in great detail what Yang experienced under communist rule. Spider Eaters opened up a door to a young girl and her families struggle to be good Samaritans under communist rule and their final disillusionment of the revolution they whole heartedly believed in. Yang and her family struggled with the vast ideological changes during the Maoist Revolution, in turn,

This image illustrates how Trujillo's system truly brunts the lives of Patria, her sisters, and their fellow people. To them, Trujillo is almost godlike. He usually gives them arcane commandments, smites those who contravene his power, and is delimited by wealth. Patria shows her disbelief in how callously God is behaving toward her because of her child's death. Throughout In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez’s Patria Mirabal develops from an optimistic young Catholic girl to a woman who doubts; subsequently, that educators can further come to understand the influence of God on one’s actions.

The Kiss of the Spider Woman tells us of the story of Molina, a transgender male in jail for perversion of a minor, and Valentin, a political prisoner. As the novel progresses, both characters change through their shared experiences, quarrels, ideology, compassion, care, and eventually, their relationship. Molina’s blatant gayness is evident, while Valentin’s sexuality eventually proves contingent in spite of his apparent masculinity. Despite Valentin’s love for a bourgois, Marta, Molina inflicts a new desire in him. This is plain to see in the last story in the novel: the Spider Woman. While in a dream produced by an injection of Morphine, Valentin tells his love, Marta, a story about a woman trapped in a web which comes out of her body. Like Molina, the Spider Woman both disgusts and soothes Valentin.

Reading through the whole essay, there are many appealing strategies found in order to strengthen the essay academically. Brooks attracts the audience with a pathos-style strategy, giving specific movie examples to straighten up the essay. The movie Night of the Living Dead resonates the viewers with an image of a flesh-eating and harmful zombie figure instead of a harmless voodoo-created zombie, which makes the notion of zombies transformed into a horrifying figure, provoking the sense of fear of audience with emotional appeal. The revolutionary creation of zombie film was led by George A. Romero, the father of the entirely new horror genre. In his work, zombies are characterized as a form of undead

The film fails to demonstrate each of the sister’s perspective as they fight against Trujillo’s regime and their personal struggles as women in the Dominican Republic during the 1960s. While the novel focuses on all the sisters’ lives as they fought for freedom and equal rights in the corrupt government, the film focuses on Minerva’s perspective as the first sister who decided to stand up against the unfairness of Trujillo’s rule. The focus on Minerva’s perspective in the film, leads the viewer into believing that the other sisters weren’t as important as Minerva when trying to fight Trujillo, “But then again, here in that little room was the same Patria Mercedes, who wouldn’t have hurt a butterfly, shouting, “Amen to the revolution.” And so we were born in the spirit of the vengeful Lord, no longer His lambs.” (Chapter 8) The quote said by Patria in Chapter 8, shows how she risks her faith when trying to protect the life of the innocent. She would rather throw down a vicious dictator than have young innocent people killed. The film fails to demonstrate the strong themes of women and courage expressed through the novel. The film chooses to skip over many important events, such as Patria knocking over the statue of the Virgin Mary to save her

Patria is exposed to the truth that Trujillo was not the god-like entity she perceived him to be. In Patria’s mind there is no separation between god and Trujillo; they are one. Patria is finally coming face to face with the problems within the Dominican Republic. This revelation foreshadows how Patria will become involved with the regime and what part she might play.

When a man greets Taylor on the street, he warns her about the special kind of poison in the spider walking across the pavement. From this, Kingsolver’s beliefs on feminism come out when she writes, “I never could figure out why men thought they could impress a woman by making the world out to be such a big dangerous deal” (51). Taylor’s thoughts on the stranger’s words reflect Kingsolver’s feelings about a man’s role in society. “Men… making the world out to be such a big dangerous deal” is showing how men attempt to gain power over women and make them dependent on men. However, the women in this book help develop the idea that women don’t depend on men. Mattie and Lou Ann are two other strong, female characters who also act as a way to address the social issue of equality between men and women. Mattie runs her own business and understands cars, just as most people would think only men can do. She beats the stigma that men are the breadwinners of the family. Meanwhile, Lou Ann raises her son without the presence of a father while Taylor discovers herself while raising Turtle on her own. Kingsolver purposely includes these women in her novel to prove that women can be

I chose to do my analysis on the short story, “The Story Of An Hour”. The themes I see in this story is the quest for identity/coming of age, romantic/love, birth, and death. It is about a woman named Mrs. Mallard. She was an elderly lady and had a heart complications. Her sister Josephine and her husband’s friend Richards had to break the news to her that her husband, Brently Mallard, has been killed in a railroad disaster. Mrs. Mallard was sorrowful and sobbed in her sisters’ arms. After her grieving process, she wanted to be alone, so she went to her room and locked herself in. As she sat in the window, she seem to be calmer and accepted her husband’s death. She was not distressed of what had happened. She began to say the words “free” and her heart

Most people would do whatever it takes to keep those they love safe, even if it means harming those who try to bring harm upon them. This was shown by the character Ultima in the novel Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya in which Ultima plays a good character with special powers that she uses to do things like save and protect lives. The powers that Ultima possesed were used in various ways such as healing wounds, saving lives and getting rid of people who tried to bring harm upon the family. Ultima was a really calm and spiritual person which is proven in the situation where she tries to lift the curse placed upon Antonio’s uncle lucas’s life, but she assures Prudencio (Lucas’s father) that “life is never beyond hope” (96). Ultima succeeded in saving the life of lucas who did not deserve to have his life threatened in the first place.If she was evil or a witch she more than likely would not have helped Lucas and he would have died.

Nearly all heroes are faced with a variety of inconceivable tasks which in turn help to overcome obstacles that the character may face. In Spider-Man, Peter Parker is forced to overcome these impediments so that he can help protect the people in his city. The task that first illustrates this quest is Spider-Man’s revenge on the man who killed his uncle and committed robbery. To catch this criminal, though, Spider-Man has to learn how to use his mind: thinking quickly and on-the-spot. Not only does it take courage for Spider-Man to defeat this criminal, it takes quick reflexes that only his “spidey senses” can offer him. In the end, Spider-Man tricks the man and is successful in turning him into the police. Another example of a

Matt is the clone of El Patron, a drug lord and the the ruler of Opium. Matt grew up in a peaceful and secluded field with his caretaker, Celia, but as he grows older he becomes an outcast and goes through hardships that ultimately change him. In Nancy Farmer’s “The House of the Scorpion” Matt goes through hardships in which he develops traits of braveness, confliction and determination; these hardships and traits help Matt mature and grow as a character throughout the novel, allowing the development of Matt’s morality and the development of the story.

Roberto Benigni’s Life Is Beautiful, is a film that is set in a concentration camp and combines comedy with the seriousness of the extermination of the Jews in Nazi Germany. Benigni’s task in making this film was significant, by taking a tremendous risk, making a “comedy about the Holocaust.” And the fact that he pulled it off so well, despite the expected controversy it has aroused in some quarters, is downright miraculous. Benigni initially accesses the emotions of his audience through simple comedy. And the film is a comic attack on Fascism.

That being said, he has a feministic view of society. Moreover he views his relationship with Valentin rather well as he considers himself to be the submissive female that transforms into the manipulator, that tricks Valentin into eating the prison food, so that he can intentionally take care of him. However Puig is making the reader realize that Molina is enduring an internal struggle. The struggle is that Molina is stuck between telling the Warden the information that he is trying to get from Valentin, yet insisting that Valentin tell him nothing of his political life. These combinations create the angst within the character and the ultimate suspense of the piece as a whole.

Molina chooses to escape the men’s shared harsh reality through stories and fantasies, and Valentin through his political vision and his studying, which he keeps up religiously, saying that he has to “keep up with [his] reading schedule, you know that”, as it has apparently become such a routine for him, known by Molina, that he feels unable to miss a day, perhaps worried that this will hinder his much-needed-for escape from reality.

During the Brazilian military dictatorship, which lasted from 1964 to 1985, many Marxists, students, and unemployed workers formed coalitions to oppose authoritarian regime. Those who protested or pursued armed conflict were incarcerated and subsequently tortured. The film Kiss of the Spider Woman, based on the novel with the same name by Manuel Puig and directed by Héctor Babenco, explores the relationship between two inmates, Valentin Arregui, a political prisoner and Marxist and Luis Molina, a pedophile and homosexual. In prison, the tortured Valentin is unhappy because he is detached from his mission to defend his leftist ideology and displaces his aggression