How Does Transparency Affect Mae's Time In The Circles

Millicent’s journey is figuring out whether or not she wants to be in a high school sorority. Her call of action occurs when she is nominated to participate in the process of initiation to be a part of the sorority. She refuses enrolling at first because her good friend wasn’t invited to be a part of the initiation process as well. She is persuaded by her sister’s past experience with being in that sorority which becomes the supernatural aid for her. Then, she finally decides to go through the process and abide by all of the rules that they give her which is the crossing of the first threshold. Next, she enters the belly of the whale when she completely becomes submissive and completes the first task that would be the start of many. “Tomorrow she would come to school, proudly, laughingly, without lipstick, with her brown hair straight and shoulder length and then everybody would know.” She then undergoes a long road of trials which includes not wearing makeup or doing her hair, wearing certain types of clothing, starting certain conversations, and not talking to boys. Next, she has a meeting with a goddess or in other words her “big sister” in the sorority who would end up bossing her around, but she has to learn to love and respect her. Then, she is tempted to talk to a boy that approaches her during initiation, but she knows she is being watched so she has to try her hardest to not steer off of her original journey. “I won’t say anything she thought, I’ll

Moreover, the fluidity, represented by the thoughts of the characters, is enhanced by the form of the novel: Mrs Dalloway is not divided into chapters; thus, it does not leave behind a sense of completeness. It is largely intertwined with the narration of Clarissa and that of the other characters and the action largely takes place in the mind. This is presented in form of free indirect discourse: the narrative conveys the thoughts of the selected character. This leaves the readers with an impressionistic story. To demonstrate how different characters bring about unequal messages, here is an illustration from the work: when Clarissa is strolling the streets of London, she and Septimus both see the same car. The vehicle leads them to different thoughts: for Septimus it is seeing in it the power of the modern world, which “was about to burst into flames” (13) or rather the oppressive relationship of technology and war, which ultimately leads to his suicide. He is bound by the internal, his suffering thoughts cannot help but to be captured in the memories of the World War I he fought in. For Clarissa, hearing the noise of the car provokes her to think she has heard “a pistol shot in the street” (12) (which later turns out to be true). By using such a form of representation, Woolf points to the invisible connections of people in a dehumanised, yet technology-bound, world, which create between them a form of interaction that serves as compensation for what Septimus (and

She provides the conflict by causing Ethan’s inner turmoil. She helps move the story along because of the thought she evokes in Ethan such as the thought of leaving his wife. However Ethan’s morals would never let him actually leave his wife supporting the theme of Moral Isolation

In the book Walk Two Moons there is a girl, her name is Sal, she has many things that change her life which are the internal and external conflict. For example she met someone who then starts to like, and Gram is in the hospital, she has many feelings about this and it changes her life, but these are just the few internal and external conflicts that change her life.

Lastly, her family betrayed her by not listening to her side of the story after her sister told lies about her, and they betrayed her when they acted as if they did not care if she moved out of the house. In all of these actions, the family itself and certain members of the family are portrayed as uncaring, unsupportive, disrespectful, conniving, deceitful, and hateful to Sister. Through every action of the family, Sister is treated harshly, and she tries to not let this bother her. Yet, anger and bitterness build up inside of her until she cannot take it anymore. Consequently, it built up so much inside of her that it severely affected Sister so profoundly that she moved away from her home to get away from her family.

She uses her desire to further her education, an escape plan with her sister, and her shame from being a forager to motivate her to bring a change into her life. Despite the constrictions

Both of these conflicts between the individuals were instigated due to envy. The conflict within the novel between Alice and Avalon is evident in the quote from page 28“ Alice’s eyes had narrowed when Mitch greeted me”. This particular quote provides the reader with the sole reason as to why the conflict between Alice and Avalon was initiated. This quote, moreover, conveys Alice’s fondness of Mitch and how she did not want Avalon to develop a relationship with him as she was perceived as a threat to Alice and her social status thus the need for Alice to actuate in a hostile demeanor towards Avalon. Furthermore, envy is the prime instigator of the conflict Avalon experienced between both Alice and Sukey which had detrimental impacts on Avalon’s self-esteem and the people around her. This is evident in the quote from page 260 “ I was jealous. I really wanted to have a best friend and be popular. This quote reveals the sole purpose of the conflict which was initiated between her and Avalon due to her envious feelings of Avalon’s “perfect” life in comparison to her own, which then further led to her need to cope with her emotions through inaugurating a hate campaign towards Avalon under the guise “ Dragon Girl” which prompts Avalon to demean herself as she was seldomly subjected to any form of social conflict prior to migrating to the

In Annie’s second dream we see her with the Red Girl, who her mother disapproves of, sitting on the sand and watching the ships; “... filled with people on a cruise steam by. We sent confusing signals to the ships, causing them to crash on some nearby rocks. How we laughed as their cries of joy turned into cries of sorrow.”(70-71). This is a sign of Annie rebelling against her mother’s orders by being with the Red Girl who her mom believes is a bad influence on Annie and doesn’t fit her mother's standards. Annie’s mother also would not approve of her enjoying a destruction of life. The Red Girl who Annie chooses to imitate does not fit her family's standards but she is also anti establishment. After the Red Girl left the island Annie continued to grow and finally heal her relationship with her mother.

The society was still not satisfied with this punishment and chose to pass their negativity on to their offspring. "Thus the young and pure would be taught to look at her, with the scarlet letter flaming on her breast…as the figure, the body, the reality of sin" (83). The mothers of the children in the community would point her out and tell their children not to be like her. They would use her as an example of the consequences of being an individual and going against society's rules. "Children too young to comprehend wherefore this women so be shut out from the sphere of human charities… coming forth along the pathway that lead town ward; and, discerning the scarlet letter on her breast, would scamper off with a strange, contagious fear" (85). The fact that the community went to so much trouble to never let her forget what she had done, and the fact that she accepts societies condemnation, says she does not run away from her problems. As much as the community tries to totally ostracize her from everything, both physically and mentally she still sticks with it and that shows how she willingly accepts the consequences of her past decisions.

Finally, the reader is introduced to the character around whom the story is centered, the accursed murderess, Mrs. Wright. She is depicted to be a person of great life and vitality in her younger years, yet her life as Mrs. Wright is portrayed as one of grim sameness, maintaining a humorless daily grind, devoid of life as one regards it in a normal social sense. Although it is clear to the reader that Mrs. Wright is indeed the culprit, she is portrayed sympathetically because of that very lack of normalcy in her daily routine. Where she was once a girl of fun and laughter, it is clear that over the years she has been forced into a reclusive shell by a marriage to a man who has been singularly oppressive. It is equally clear that she finally was brought to her personal breaking point, dealing with her situation in a manner that was at once final and yet inconclusive, depending on the outcome of the legal investigation. It is notable that regardless of the outcome, Mrs. Wright had finally realized a state of peace within herself, a state which had been denied her for the duration of her relationship with the deceased.

An online tool, TruYou, is used as a representation of oneself, where an individual’s information is stored as a profile. For the same reason as before -for a good impression in and outside of the Circle- Mae unconsciously created a “second Mae” that only contains her positive interests and personalities, and perhaps, some fake information combined for perfection. Though calling this identity “perfect,” online identities, like what Mercer says, are less colorful and complex than the real person. However, with Mae’s increased reliance on technology, she deceives herself into believing that the perfect “second Mae” is her true persona; ultimately transforming her original character with this perfect but fake and fragile

The main characters do have their own share of sorrows, with Ness’ family being in debt, Paula being exploited for her psychic powers, Jeff ‘s distant relationship with his father, and the Prince’s emotionally traumatizing training. However, they are constantly surrounded by other people’s sufferings, as they journey to fight the dark power in cause of it all. Corrupt politicians, job loss, alcoholism, and heartbreak are all problems that exist in the

In the Joseph Conrad’s novel, Heart of Darkness, Marlow, the main character, shows his opinion of women in a well masked, descriptive manner. Although women are not given a large speaking role ,the readers still feel their presence throughout the novel. In the scene at the Central Station, the description of the symbols in the painting,the blindfold, the torch, and the darkness, allow the readers to see the darkness in the world and the thought that women should not be exposed to that darkness. Marlow believe that women are too fragile to know the truth and should instead be left in their beautiful, untouched world.

In this passage from Jane Austen’s novel, Persuasion, she highlights Anne’s distracted thoughts and emotions of distraught as she had overheard the conversation between Wentworth and Louisa. Through the literary devices of speech and point of view of the author, Austen illustrates Anne’s inner struggle of her past sentiments.

Mae Holland is an ambitious, intelligent young-woman and the main character in Dave Eggers’ novel The Circle. Although her character is paramount to telling the novel’s main story (detailing the prominence of the monopolistic, power-hungry tech company known as “The Circle”), she is hardly a protagonist, with her being ill-informed at best at the book’s beginning, and complicit in the Circle’s nefarious doings by the novel’s conclusion. Mae is an exceptionally bland character who offers little interesting internal dialogue and who’s only notable overarching character trait is her ever-present insecurity and her need to please others. Arguably, it could be said that Mae truly is not the main character of The Circle at all; Rather The Circle company itself, or more precisely Mae’s relationship with the The Circle (and by association its dystopian philosophies) are what take center stage. As a character, Mae is malleable; a clean slate waiting to take orders and eager to agree with her superiors, she yearns for attention from others, is figuratively trapped inside The Circle’s elaborate campus, and acts as a mouthpiece for the The Circle’s leaders; repeating whatever they want her to say. Due to the fact that Mae Holland possess these characteristics, she is comparable to a parrot.