Cordelia's Influence

This passage conveys the first and only sparks of defiance from Ophelia. When her father gave her similar advice, she caved in and agreed to his wishes. She was playing the role of the typical Elizabethan female, women who were expected to be submissive and weak. Ophelia simply wanted to make the men in her life happy, however, and those sparks of rebellion were soon extinguished.

After she established the bond, Elizabeth strengthens it with a promise and displays her own self-courage. Women in power were not always great leaders, and were seen as weak in war. To oppose the view of women being weak in war, Elizabeth uses pathos in her speech to present herself as not only a queen but a fighter as

Character’s relationships with power change a lot over the course of Octavia Butler’s Kindred. One of the most important character changes in the book is Kevin Franklin and Dana’s relationship, and how is changed after living in the 1800’s. Kevin is introduced in the book as Dana’s middle aged husband who she met while working in a “slave market”. Both of them are inspiring writers looking to make a life out of their passion. Before both Kevin and Dana are sent back into slavery time their relationship is very normal. Their marriage is very stable, although they go through different problems surrounding power. Kevin is very dominant towards Dana and at times believes he is better than her. Kevin constantly asks Dana to type out drafts of his

Cordelia’s bedroom after school in the spring. The four girls are playing dolls while it rains outside. Its very loud and thunder is rumbling. To occupy their time they have taken to the indoors and their imaginations. Elaine is sitting on the side, watching the other girls play intuitively, trying her best to understand how in which she should behave being that she is still unsure of “girlish rituals.”

Despite its first performance being in 1608 where women were not allowed to take part in theatre, William Shakespeare’s King Lear is arguably dominated by the female characters. The story focuses on a king who is driven into madness and decides to handover his power to his two eldest daughters, Regan and Goneril. These two daughters are exceptionally important to the development of the play since it can be argued that they are the ones commanding a fair share of the events that take place. This can also be said about Cordelia. According to Kate Downey Hickey and Catherine S. Cox, Cordelia is the essence of the play as she offers truth and evasiveness. In the following, the role of women will be discussed in King Lear. How are the female characters

In conjunction with a battle of the sexes, is the battle within genders. The power play between, Griet and Catherina is one such example and just one of the many female struggles within the novel. Cornelia is wary of the threat Griet poses to her family, especially fearing the attention her father is giving Griet, “I was wary of Cornelia and could not be fond of her in the way I came to be of the

On the other hand, Antigone fought and rebelled against the conduct expected from her and explored the reality of who she is and how she felt. Freeing her true self and being unapologetic about it. This left her standing alone on her rebellion and with several people against her. Fear did not stop Antigone from defying what was socially correct, even if it meant challenging a man or even a king. The need Antigone felt to follow her beliefs was greater than the

The story started back in the beginning. She had a rough childhood; even though she lived in a wealthy household, her parents treated her harshly. They weren’t bad parents. They were just tough parents. Around the age of 15 Cordelia Crowden was fed up with everyone. She was always overlooked, and everyone always looked to her brother Felix. This is what created the divide.

The central narrative of My Antonia could be a check upon the interests, and tho' in his fib Jim seldom says something directly concerning the concept of the past, the general tone of the novel is very unhappy. Jim’s motive for writing his story is to do to change some association between his gift as a high-powered any professional person and his nonexistent past on the NE grassland ; in re-creating that past, the novel represent each Jim’s retention and his feelings concerning his recollections. in addition, inside the narrative itself, persona usually look rachis yearningly toward the past that they need losing, particularly when Book I. Life in blackness Hawk, Jim and Ántonia recall their Day on the farm Lena appearance back toward her spirit together with her family; the Shimerdas and therefore the Russian mirror on their lives in their several home countries before they immigrated to the United Country .

Throughout My Antonia, the difference between immigrants and native lifestyles are shown. While neither Jim not Antonia is rich, Jim is definitely more well off than her. He knows the language and has enough that he can have more opportunities. Antonia realizes that her life is going to be more difficult and that she will have to work more because of her mother’s decision to move to America. She tells Jim that “if I live here, like you, that is different. Things will be easy for you. But they will be hard for us,” (90) and knows that her gentle personality might be at stake. This also foreshadows future events where Antonia struggles as an immigrant farmer. It adds obstacles to her life which might lead to them drifting apart in their friendship, even complete separation. This relates to the world in how immigrants had a harder time getting going in life. Antonia’s mother has already become changed because of poverty. She is grasping, selfish, and believes everyone should help her family. Jim’s grandmother defends her, knowing that, “a body never knows what traits poverty might bring out in them,” (60), though it is socially unacceptable. The pressures of helping her family led Antonia to not be educated and become a farmer. She is happy, but this leads to Jim being away, “twenty years before I kept my promise,” (211) as he is a successful lawyer and travels. They still have old connections, though being from Bohemia did change Antonia’s life and where it could have gone.

Transition... Being civil is normally is very misunderstood by the public. In the story of vendetta she says she want revenge on a guy and starts to train a dog. She trained a dog to kill on a demand. She felt it was okay since she wasn't the one killing him, the dog was. Another case when this implied is in Antigone: Creon felt it was okay to blame one of the brothers for fighting and not give him a funeral. He also felt that whoever went against him should get punished.

In my Antonia a bohemian girl named Antonia and her family has just moved to the prairie land of Black Hawk, Nebraska. At the same time a boy named Jim Burden, whose parents had both died, was moving to Black Hawk, Nebraska to live with his grandparents. None of Antonia’s family could speak English, so the father, Mr. Shimerda, asks Jim Burden to teach Antonia how to speak English. Jim begins to give Antonia reading lessons, and eventually Jim and Antonia start to spend a lot of their time together.

1. Mr. Shimerda begs Jim to “Te-e-ach, te-e-ach my Antonia” in Book I, Section III (just at the end). Who learns more through their relationship, Jim or Antonia?

Bianca was described as sweet and quiet. She never spoke out of turn, and was always obedient, qualities that men desired in their future wives. For the majority of the book, this is how Bianca acts, but the audience watching the play is able to see small parts where there is another side of Bianca a side that she keeps hidden from the males in her society. One clear example of this is in Act 1 Scene 1 when Bianca whispers to her sister Katherine so that no one else can hear her;

    Shakespeare also plays with the role of strong women as undesirable, even evil.  As we see throughout many of his plays “it is common in Shakespeare’s plays… for the good characters to easily fall victim to their evil counterparts” (Peterson 12).  This is particularly true of Cordelia and King Lear in the play, King Lear, as both become victims of Regan’s and Goneril’s plotting (Shakespeare V.iii.276-280).  “Women as the most evil of characters is not a new experiment for Shakespeare” (Peterson 8).