Fifth Business Quotes

The Portrayal of the Plight of Women by the Author, In Their Particular Period of Time

Loneliness and exclusion from society hurts and affects everyone; the emotional strain a person endures from it creates the image they present to others, but deep down they are not the display image they manufacture. As an illustration, while opening up to Lennie in the barn Curley’s wife states, “I get lonely… You can talk to people, but I can’t talk to nobody but Curley. Else he gets mad.

She and her father prove they are dynamic characters because they both thought of Diana as a troublemaker and a monster at first, but now they think of her as a sweet, pretty, and shy girl. They continue to progress that way of thinking throughout the story, and keep thinking the nice things. Diana also begins to think of Lissa of a nice friend, rather than a snob like she thought in the beginning. Therefore making them round characters.

	Although Dunstan and Percy are very much opposites throughout the novel, there is one area in which they are both the same- neither one of them is able to form warm, lasting human relationships. At the beginning of their marriage, Percy is unable to be faithful to Leola, but claims that since he "still loves her, the encounters with the other ladies didn’t really count." Percy is still unable to be faithful to Leola later on in their marriage, due to his failing efforts to bring up to "his standards". When Leola later dies, Percy does not even come home for her funeral. Dunstan is not able to form lasting relationships either. When he

The novel “Fifth Business” is written by Canadian Author Robertson Davies. It is about a man named Dunstan Ramsay, and his memoir that he wrote to the headmaster of the university that he taught at after he directed a disrespectful towards Dunstan. The memoir visits Dunstan’s child hood in Deptford, Ontario where, through a series of unfortunate events his life becomes entangled with Mary Dempster’s, and she has an effect on the rest of his life. Women play a large role in Fifth Business because of how they affect Dunstan Ramsay. Robertson Davies presents women collectively to fully develop the character of Dunstan Ramsay. These women help to shape Dunstan into the man he is through Mrs. Depster’s Miracles and Liesl revealing to him that he

In addition to his commitment to Mary Dempster, Dunstan felt responsible for the premature birth of her son Paul Dempster, which led him to also care for Paul.

Princess Diana reported that her prime motivation was to try and help the most vulnerable people in society. She stated to the BBC’s Martin Bashir “It is a goal and an essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.”(Bulman,2017) Diana was influenced by a need to serve others,as she had the drive to make people feel loved and cared for. She believed that the best way to help someone heal was by offering them affection and kind words. Diana utilized herself as a public figure to distribute her charity works to increase global awareness for the greater good.

Finally, throughout the novel, Mary Dempster has an impactful role in the growth of Dunstan Ramsay. Mary teaches Dunny to disregard the moral rules of society, and to behave in a manner that is unselfish and for the betterment of others. Dunny admires Mary

In contrast, when we interpret Mary Dempster along Jungian archetypes, we see her in various roles and see her as a dynamic character who changes as much as Dunny does in the novel since she is arguably, one of the active agents for change in Dunny's life. Firstly, she is the mother figure, bringing forth a weakened child into the world. She then becomes a type of a savior figure, not only because of her appearance to Dunny as he crawls through the mud in World War I, but also because she gave of herself unselfishly to the drifter in the grave pit. After this incident she is not crazy, but distracted. She becomes the Jungian outcast in the novel since the small town mentality cannot accept why she would ever prostate herself to a drifter. Mary becomes other things through the novel. This is just a start. The point is

Lastly the dependence of men plays an extremely large role in this book. Williams uses Blanche’s and Stella’s dependence on men to expose and critique the treatment of women during the transition from the old to the new South. Both Blanche and Stella see male companions as their only means to achieve happiness, and they depend on men for both their sustenance and their self-image. Blanche recognizes that Stella could be happier without her physically abusive husband, Stanley. Yet, the alternative Blanche

     At the same time, the readings of the women's masculinity and androgyny must be similarly reconsidered. While Irving reads Lena as one who "conforms more readily than Ántonia" and assimilates in a manner "too complete" in that "she, like Jim, is lethargic" (100), I would argue that Lena's refusal to marry and her achievement of the independent, successful life she sought belie any ready categorization of reinforced hegemony, undermining standard patriarchal demands; and her success can be contrasted with Jim's loveless marriage and the vague reference to the "disappointments" that have failed to quell his "naturally romantic and ardent disposition" (4). Similarly, as Gilbert and Gubar highlight, the happiness of the "masculine" hired girls stands in stark contrast with the emotional restriction to which town wives are subjected: "Energetic and jolly, Mrs. Harling must stop all the activities of her household so as to devote herself entirely to her husband" (197). While it may be true that "their disturbing androgynous qualities, and their unwillingness to accept traditional female roles" position the hired girls as "outsiders" (Wussow 52) and that these facts can be read as critical of the feminine, it seems more

To analyze the impact of women in the picture, one must examine Philip Marlowe, the hero and epitome of masculinity. Throughout the

Thesis: Princess Diana was a very kind hearted woman, noble by blood, famous by marriage, but used her public light in a positive way.

All characters in the novel are living in a man’s world; nevertheless, the author has tried to change this world by the help of her characters. She shows a myriad of opportunities and different paths of life that woman can take, and more importantly she does not show a perfect world, where women get everything they want, she shows a world where woman do make mistakes, but at the same time they are the ones that pay for these mistakes and correct them.

The resentment within the young girl’s family is essential to the novel because one can understand the young girl better as she makes her decision.