Hag Seed Analysis

Sheltered in a barn, he is soon located by soldiers who shoot him. As he dies, he reads southern newspapers, finding he is despised even in the South. He is heartbroken. Bella meanwhile frees herself using scissors from her pocket, and goes to visit Mr. Stanton to reveal her part in the plan,

He had heard it before. He loved his brother but had learned to ignore his occasional “do as I say, not as I do” tirades. Tony, by contrast, was desperately trying to give his little brother information he thought he needed, the kind of information that Tony never got. Tony felt his brother’s life could be saved, even if he felt his own had already, at age fourteen, passed the point of no return.’ Tony was hopeful that his brother would grow up to become successful, however his outlook changed one day when he found out that Wes was selling.

She was surprised that he was telling his personal story to them, so had a debate about the importance of ‘person’ against Tony. Unlike tony, she strongly took a stance that the literature professor would never should give irrelevant personal anecdote to her students and considered a waste of time to do so. When they were having arguments, Tom Newhouse, professor emeritus, stepped into the Hub Pub. Although Janet did not wanted obnoxious Newhouse to disrupt them, Newhouse did actually recognized her and came up to their table. In the middle of conversation, he brought up James Cox and how he deliberately wrote the paper. However, Janet’s question whether James, who was caught for plagiarism in her class, actually wrote the essay or not, upset Newhouse and made him leave the

Macaria relinquishes her role as a monstrous mother, beating her daughter into feministic submission. She enlists Tony‘s compliance to Mexican machismo to safeguard Marcela’s feminine virtue and supposed “goodness.” Tony exerts control over Marcela through the continued threat of domestic violence. Initially modernity defines Tony’s relationship with his wife, Marcela Polk, and he does not beat his wife as Macaria wishes, but showers her with cheap gifts as his paltry pay provides.

After he is ridiculed for eating a different lunch than others, he contemplates, “the pain and sadness seemed to spread to my soul, and I felt for the first time what the grown-ups call, la tristesa de la vida” (Anaya 59). Tony is no longer a child under the protection of his mother and goes to school to become a “man of learning.” He becomes lonely because his classmates do not understand his culture and vice versa. As Antonio goes through the process of coming-of-age, he experiences the pain, suffering, loneliness, and misunderstanding that comes with

He runs away. With help of Miss Merrill, his biology teacher, he returns home to a "separate peace" with his father and a new understanding of the trade-offs between loyalty and responsibility.

overcome their fears. Through the actions and decisions of the characters the themes of fear and

Throughout Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood, Felix talks to the imaginary ghost of his daughter, Miranda. Though Felix is cognizant of the complex illusion he creates in Miranda, he continues to indulge himself and cultivate her image, allowing her to age as a child. At the end of the novel, Felix picks up the silver framed photo of Miranda laughing happily on her swing. Even though she is lost in the past, she is also here watching. However, Miranda is fading and Feliz can barely sense her. Feliz starts to question why he has been keeping her tethered to him all this time and forcing her to do his bidding. He finally sets Miranda free because that is what she truly wanted. In the final chapters of Shakespeare Saved My Life, Laura Bates reiterates

Don’t attempt to change your fate, I’m warning you. “The Masque of the Red Death” and “The Monkey’s Paw” are examples of why not to mess with your fate. In both stories, the characters attempted changing their fate and ends in a very bad outcome. The characters, both learned that if you try changing your fate there is going be a horrific consequence.

The novel tells us that the fear of failure is the greatest obstacle to happiness. “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” So often we hide behind excuses of not being able to do this or that, but the real story is that we are too afraid to take a chance. It is our

Individual reactions to situations of external or internal conflict are reflected in much of literature. In the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, the character of Hamlet must deal with both external and internal conflict. He faces the death of his father, the knowledge that his uncle Claudius is his father's murderer and the knowledge that he must take revenge. Hamlet's responses to these external conflicts and his own internal views proclaim his nature and character.

Hamlet is a normal girl attending middle school, except her 7 year old sister, Dezzie, is going to middle school with her. If that's not bad enough, her parents are Shakespeare obsessed and they have a scheduled appearance in Hamlet's English class, because they are doing the play, A Midsummers nights dreamy. To top it all off a secret admirer is leaving an army of origami pigs in her locker, and she's not getting any closer to her crush Carter Teegan. When Dezzie meets 2 girls named Saber and Mauri, they act nice to her but Hamlet knows they are just using her to do good on their Shakespeare project. Hamlet is trying to get Dezzie to realize, but she can't. While all of this is happening Hamlet is struggling in math class. She has to go get

For example, he has a loving family who would always be there to support him. In conclusion, the conflicts in the story, person versus society and person versus self, show the need to be optimistic during tough times.

Mark gets proof of Tony’s treachery and he explains this to Hubbard who tactically gets the door key from Tony’s raincoat and he also discovers that Swann has put the latch key back in its hiding place after unlocking the door and it was the one found in Margot’s purse. Margot is released who tries to enter the house with the key in her purse but fails but in the process proves her innocence about the hidden key. After discovering that he has no key, Tony gets Margot’s handbag from the police station but fails to open the door with it and he relies on the hidden key and thus proving his guilt. Tony’s ways are blocked and he has to admit his defeat. Final scenes of the film expose Tony’s villainy and how it gets defeated by the sharp

In modern society humans stand up and fight for what they think is right and fair. Human beings have the desire to avenge what they think is wrong. The theme of revenge has a major effect in the play Hamlet and is a constant throughout the play, it underlies almost every scene. In the play Hamlet, William Shakespeare examines the theme of revenge through the erratic thoughts and actions of the characters Hamlet, Laertes, and Fortinbras. The main revenge plots in the play is Hamlet’s aim to avenge his father, Hamlet Sr, Laertes’ aim to avenge the murder of his father, Polonius, and Fortinbras’ aim to avenge the death of his father, Fortinbras. Having lost their fathers, Hamlet, Laertes and Fortinbras take vengeance on the people that killed them. These plots play a major role in the play presenting the theme of revenge to the audience.