Familial ties are what has the most influence on a person. In The Mill on the Floss, written by Helen Edmundson, Tom was the most influential person in shaping Maggie because she loved him greatly. Each time she changes herself it is triggered by Tom’s actions and each version of Maggie portrays a different aspect of Tom’s influences. Ultimately, Tom is the reason that Maggie changes herself this can be seen in many of their interactions.
From the beginning of the play, it can be seen how much love Maggie holds for Tom. She was always completely affectionate towards, often running up to him and kissing him. In scene four, after Maggie has cut her hair and everyone is laughing at her, the stage directions say, “Maggie goes to Tom for
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This is the first time in the play where she begins to speak for herself against Tom, at least at the end of the scene. It first starts out with her a Phillip professing their love for each other then Tom interrupting and demanding Maggie choose between them (Edmundson, 49-51). It is not until “he seizes her wrist and pulls her” (Edmundson, 51) away from Phillip that Maggie realizes that Tom is a bad influence on her. She realizes how he has never shown her the affection and love that she always willingly gave to him. At this point, she breaks from her submissive self to stand up to Tom. Maggie becomes version that falls in between First and Second Maggie: she is more certain of herself and settled into who she is. He is the one that forces her to change into this new person with renewed views on the world. Even though this Third Maggie has distanced herself from Tom, she still feels indebted to him. She seeks him out to ask permission to see Phillip after all this time. Tom still has power over her with the promise she made years ago that she cannot break. This promise would be the easiest to break without Tom even knowing what is going on because she has distanced herself from him. In this moment, when she has the upper hand of the situation, Maggie still puts herself beneath Tom and submits to his will. She says to him, “I do love you, so much. I won’t be naughty I promise I won’t. Please be good to me” (Edmundson, 63). Her
133). Daisy had to express to Tom that she had loved him in the past
Along with the character transformation in “A Doll’s House”, Tom, from “The Glass Menagerie”, also goes through some character changes. Throughout the entire play, Tom was working in a warehouse trying to support his family. While working there, he was struggling with his dreams of becoming a merchant marine. Towards the end of the play, when Tom introduces his friend Jim O’Connor to his sister Laura, his mother hopes that this could be a man that Laura could settle down with and someday marry. When Amanda finds out that Jim is already engaged, she blames Tom. She is furious that Tom brought a gentleman caller over
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In the world of Ralph Bradburry’s “heit 451”, censorship reigns supreme and deep thoughts are suppressed, specific stories echo messages that serve as warnings of the consequences of a society without intellectual freedom and human connection. In Fahrenheit 451 there is a group of people that memorize these books to teach humanity in their time of need. Some stories I believe are important to memorize are the movie “The Truman Show”, the book “Plato’s Apology”, and the show “The Last of Us”. Each one of these stories offer unique insights into human nature and the dangers of a dystopian society. One story I believe is important to carry on is the movie “The Truman Show” directed by Peter Weir.
Tom is the most important character, yet he is not a flawless figure. Tom is irritated and annoyed easily, impatient and ignorant. His anger is clearly displayed in scenes with Gwen who expresses illiterate and disrespectful comments towards Tom’s family. Tom develops to acquire his own appealing death, during the course of the play. He has been hesitant to speak about his death, as he ignores Meg’s attempt to begin a conversation on the matter: “Are you afraid? / You coming to the concert tonight?”. Gow signifies Tom’s acceptance by giving him King Lear’s lines about crawling towards death.
Maggie comes from a very strained family life, living in poverty. She lives in a horrific tenement in the Bowery neighborhood of New York’s Lower East Side, with her two younger brothers, Jimmie and Tommie. Jimmie is hardened against any sympathy due to the years he spent on the streets fighting with gangs and is currently working as a truck driver. Tommie was the infant of the family who passed away at a young age. The tenement is filled with argumentative feelings amongst her parents. Mary Johnson, Maggie’s mother, is an alcoholic and very aggressive. She has been noted for torturing Maggie with hateful words over actions that she has done. Mr. Johnson, the father, was also very aggressive with his children and an alcoholic like his wife, he too passed away. Maggie had a relationship with a friend of
On the first day of school Nash (who is gay) sees a new guy on the school bus and points him out to Maggie. Nash calls “dibs” over the new guy, Tom, which in their friendship would mean that he would “get” the thing without fighting over it. But in this case even though Nash called “dibs” Maggie struggles with letting him “have” Tom to himself. Maggie lets Nash have dibs on Tom at first because she thinks Tom wouldn’t like her anyway cense she is overweight. However, she can’t stop thinking about how much she likes him and also wonders if Tom might not like
Pete is the one that really teaches Maggie a lot about the upper class. He takes her to rich musicals and Theaters where their are a bunch of acts. Maggie just can’t believe that people live like that. Pete buys Maggie nice clothes and treats Maggie like she is royalty. Maggie likes Pete a lot and even leaves home to be with him.
This value of hardwork is proven when she describes herself as a women who can hunt and work outside all day. She is a single mother and it is apparent that she is devoted to her family because of how hard she works to support their needs. Maggie is the youngest daughter of the narrator; she has many of the same values as her mother.
For Maggie, “a small ragged girl,” tears, blood, and cursing are more normal than not. Granted, the character of Maggie knew that there did
First off, the story begins with Tom’s guardian, Aunt Polly, screaming for him to return home. Batzer stated that this was metaphorically, an adult pulling
Johnson never gives Maggie the support that she needed, and neither does her brother, Jimmie. With an alcoholic mother, who can be referred to as a savage, and a violent brother; Maggie attempts to escape from the constant chaos in her home. Mrs. Johnson is constantly worried about her reputation and what her neighbors think. She doesn’t want the neighbors to think she accepts a daughter who sells her body for money. She wants to be seen as "proper" and the ideal mother.
Pete is man whom Maggie perceives to be her moral equal in the slums, and a gateway to a better life. Maggie's mother upset with this telling her “Yeh’ve gone t’ d’ devil, Mag Johnson, yehs knows yehs have gone t’ d’ devil. Yer a disgrace t’ yer people” (49) an ironic statement because at that time Maggie was seen to be the angel of the tenements. Maggie's sense of purity and endearment causes her to become naive to his true personality. Maggie fell for the first set of open arms, when those open arms closed on her Maggie had no place to fall back to.
She is spontaneous and natural, her impulsive nature is illustrated when she cuts her hair following a casual remark by her father that she should have it cut short. She immediately regrets it when her brother Tom and other members of her family ridicule her. During her childhood Maggie's numerous frustrations are vented by hammering nails into a fetish doll in the attic. Maggie is imaginative, well read and very intelligent, however she is denied the education afforded to her brother Tom who is not nearly as clever as she is. Mr Stelling her brother's tutor recognises her potential but scorns the serious education of women:
The sharp and unruly main character of The Mill on the Floss is Maggie Tulliver. She is a “‘gell gone nine,’” at the outset of the story, the daughter of the miller Mr. Tulliver, and lives with her family on the banks of the Floss (Eliot 8, 9, 12). When Mr. and Mrs. Tulliver begin discussing the issue of Tom's education in their first conversation of the story, they segue into discussion of his sister. While Mrs. Tulliver derides Maggie for being unsensible, brown-skinned, and altogether unlike her side of the family, Mr. Tulliver defends her, saying “‘she's a straight, black-eyed wench as anybody need wish to see. I don't know i' what she's behind other folks's children; and she can read almost as well as the parson,’” (Eliot 12). Maggie's parents further describe her physiognomy for the reader later in this conversation. From Mrs. Tulliver's perspective, her daughter's hair exemplifies the issue with Maggie's character. “‘But her hair won't curl all I can do with it… an' there's her cousin Lucy's got a row o' curls round her head, an' not a hair out o' place,’” Mrs. Tulliver frets (Eliot 12, 13). Maggie’s mother feels that her daughter is a comical mistake, with her “dark, heavy locks,” “air of a small Shetland pony,” and likeness to “‘a Bedlam creature,’” (Eliot 12, 13). Because of this dissatisfaction, Mrs. Tulliver is forever attempting to make her daughter more similar to herself and to “‘other folks’s’” respectable, curly-haired children. Later in the story, Maggie’s character is further established by juxtaposition to her brother Tom. Tom Tulliver differs from Maggie not only in appearance, but also in garnering motherly affection: Mrs. Tulliver continually speaks of him with great approbation and pride, greeting him as “‘my sweet lad!’”on his return from school (Eliot 30). In addition to this contrast in affection, a contrast in physical character is evident between the siblings. Tom is described as “a lad with light-brown hair, cheeks of cream and roses, full lips, indeterminate nose and eyebrows… the generic character to boyhood,” while Maggie is “moulded and colored with the most decided intention,” a “dark-eyed, demonstrative, rebellious girl,” though it is noted that these physical appearances