The Relationships of Lizzie Borden Relationships are imperative part of our lives. The connections we have with are families differ from the connections with friends, teachers, and strangers. Relationship is an emotional or other connection between people (Dictionary.com). Love being a major part of relationships, which brings me to one of my older sisters. She is like my best friend; I tell her everything and always go to her for advice. Even though we are thousands of miles apart are love for each other never withers. It only grows stronger. The relationship between Lizzie Borden’s, her father, stepmother, and her sister can be misconstrued to be somewhat anomalous. What is my position on Lizzie Borden? My opinion …show more content…
When Lizzie was older the relationship seem somewhat better with her distant and forbidding father, but the relationship starting having its troubles and became somewhat distant. For example, it is said that Andrew Borden had cleared the garage of Lizzie’s pigeons by chopping off the heads to upset her. This event could have been a motive. It is said that Lizzie resented the fact that they did not leave with the towns elite. Even though her father was a wealthy man, he was frugal to a fault. His tightfistedness extended to his own family, the home lacked the rudimentary of conveniences, such as indoor plumbing. Which was not an optimum setting for Lizzie, so when it surfaced that Lizzie was shoplifting from local shops, it was said that her father subsidized. The relationship between Lizzie and her father became bitter when he married her stepmother, Abby Gray. The attempt to help his wife’s family financially created additional problems with Lizzie and …show more content…
Emma is not really explored until after the sordid murders. But Lizzie did state that she has always thought of Emma, not Abby, as her mother. During the trials Emma was there by her side, even though it was mentioned she was scared of Lizzie. After the murders Lizzie and Emma inherited their father’s estate, which they sold and bought a new home in the city’s most fashionable neighborhoods. They lived there for the following decade. Then in 1905, Emma abruptly moved out and became estranged from Lizzie. It was rumored that Emma disapproved of Lizzie’s relationship with actress Nance O’Neill. She was uncomfortable with Lizzie’s close friendship with the actress. Emma silence on the issue just drove the speculations that Emma became aware of new details on the murders. It was never truly known, just speculated why Emma moved out. But Lizzie’s sister never spoke to her after she moved
For instance, Abigail’s line to Betty, “Your mother is dead and buried,” can be perceived as something said out of pity in the text; as opposed to the film, where the cruel and cold tone of her voice is evident. Furthermore, The film exaggerates Abigail’s sinister and manipulating nature to eliminate anyone who interferes with what she wants. This is depicted in the film in multiple scenes, such as her accusation of witchcraft against Reverend Hale’s wife once he began showing opposition towards her; her attempts to persuade John Proctor into thinking she is victimized, as well as her attempt to persuade him into abandoning Salem together and boarding a ship. All of these scenes, absent from the text, exhibits Abigail’s psychosis, desperation, and the exceeding lengths she is willing to go through to get her
The research paper I am conducting is on Lizzie Borden who was accused of murdering her father and stepmother in 1892 with a hatchet. Due to failed investigation and lack of technology at the time, Lizzie was released and acquitted of all charges. In this paper I will point out what the police did not do properly during the investigation, as well as what I would have done differently.
Elizabeth Proctor is the wife of the main character John Proctor who was trying to save their marriage, but John’s affair with Abigail put Elizabeth in danger. Elizabeth’s goal is to save Proctor’s and her marriage by telling the truth to each other. But the truth may have later come back to “haunt” her and she came to a point where she didn't tell the truth about John in the court. Elizabeth feels pressured because of Abby and she want’s the truth about her to be out in the village so they do not have to suffer because of her. Proctor says, “I am only wondering how I may
It is clear that Francie loves Johnny more than anyone else in the world, nevertheless, she owes her motherly attributes to Sissy Rommely. Sissy, Francie’s aunt, is kind and caring toward all people regardless of the age, race or gender. Francie and all who know Sissy view Sissy as a mother figure, despite her promiscuous reputation. Francie believes that Sissy is loose with men because of her determination to give as much as she can to anyone. Francie adores Sissy, and Sissy’s maternal actions are the inspiration to Francie’s fantasies about starting a family of her own. Sissy makes frequent visits to the Nolan house and constantly checks on the children’s well-being, just as a mother would watch over her own children. If someone mistreats one of the children, such as Francie’s elementary school teacher, Sissy makes sure to give them a piece of her mind. Sissy’s protective nature of the Nolan children shows Francie the lifestyle of a caring mother.
Another characteristic the author exhibits is forgiveness. The struggles her parents cause her display this trait. For instance, Ma constantly neglects Murray as a child. Drugs and alcohol consume the parent’s lives, so Murray and her older sister do not receive the proper care they need. Also, Ma frequently spent her daughter’s money or sold their items without their consent. The readers are astonished when the author says many times that she forgives Ma and just moves on. An important scene in the story occurs when Murray looks back on her childhood and forgives her mom for all of her wrongs, and concludes her mom did the best that she could do. Many people would resent their parents after all the hardships they caused, and so does the author at first. But she finds it in her heart to forgive which shows her kindness and really displays how mature of a person she is.
Despite Buckley’s young age when Susie first disappeared, his life is greatly affected by the loss. He is extremely angry and resentful towards his parents. Buckley feels that his relationship with his father is shadowed by his inability to move past the loss of Susie. The tension between them peaks when Jack tells Buckley he cannot use Susie’s old clothes in his garden, but it is not simply about the garden. The garden is symbolic of new life and growth in the future and Susie’s shirts symbolize her existence. Although Susie’s clothes would no longer be intact, they would become part of the garden, just as Susie will always be part of the family even though she is no longer with them. This scene is also important for Jack and Buckley’s relationship because Buckley finally tells his father how isolated he feels. Abigail and Buckley’s relationship, on the other hand, is not so easily patched. Buckley is bitter that his mother missed so many important events in his life. The
Author also surprises readers, when he introduces conflict between a couple that used to love each other deeply. Diverting the story from love to betrayal, author develops an irony. In the story, reader sees two examples of betrayal. Ms. Maloney, while talking with her tired husband, finds out her husband no longer want to keep their marriage. Without giving any kind of reason, Patrick betrays her wife with a decision of breaking marriage. Mary shocks, when her husband, boldly, says, “ This is going to be bit shock of you”(P. Maloney) Author creates a total opposite picture of Patrick by describing him as a husband who used to give her wife surprises; he is now giving her shock in the middle of her pregnancy. Mary, who was previously shown as “anxiety less”(Dahl), with “a slow smiling air”(Dahl) and “curiously tranquil”(Dahl), had began to get upset and now inculcate her eye with a “bewildered look.” After betrayed by her husband, she, without any argue, she goes to the basement to look for frozen food. She decides to have leg of a lamb as a last dinner with her husband, but she smashes the frozen leg in to Patrick’s head with killing him. Mary betrays her husband by killing him and takes revenge of her betrayal. Later, Author confirms her as a murdered with the statement of “I’ve killed him”(Mary) from her own lips. Dahl, in the story,
The complication that initiated Abigail to start the Salem Witch Trials was her affair with John Proctor. Abigail worked as a maid for the Proctors, John and his wife, Elizabeth; it came to be known by Elizabeth that John and Abigail had an affair. As said by Elizabeth in act III on page 113 of The Crucible, “I came to think he fancied her. And so one night I lost my wits, I think, and put her out on the highroad.” Elizabeth decided to discharge her from the house. Abigail went to live with her uncle, Parris, in Salem. After this event in the novel, Abigail despises Elizabeth, and wants revenge on her. John went to Salem after he heard about the witch findings; Abigail caught up to him in private and
The girl distrusts her mother and believes her to be out of touch, while helping her father in "his real work" (468). Surprisingly, the girl's desire to avoid the manifestation of her femininity in womanly tasks, such as cooking and cleaning, influences her into feeling that her mother is "plotting now to get [her] to stay in the house [. . ]. and keep [her] from working for [her] father" (469). The girl chooses to dismiss her mother, thereby dismissing her own future role as a housewife.
At the beginning of the series The Evil Queen vows to destroy Snow White’s happiness and sent all of the characters to a town called Story Brook in a life separated from all of their loved ones but failed to get rid of Emma Swan, daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming, because they sent her away another the other realm before The Evil Queen could send her dark spell. Eventually in that first season Emma defeats the Evil Queen as a part of her destiny as the chosen one. Sure they got off to a bad start but a few episodes later they became very close friends and moreover, family. First of all, they share a son. When Emma was sent to the other realm she grew up an orphan, got in wrong paths and got pregnant to a man she loved very much but
During the next weeks, Elizabeth was plagued by the memories of her aunt’s face as she spoke of the missing girls, and told her friends of her suspicions, and they told her that the cellar was supposedly haunted, and dared her to go down and talk to the ghost, or whatever was down there.
On August 4th, 1892, a horrific murder took place. On that day, a young woman named Lizzie Borden was accused for murder, but some think she is innocent. I believe Lizzie Borden is guilty. She did not have good relationship with her step-mother, there were no signs of anyone trying to break into the Borden home, and she was lying about where she was when the murder occurred, she said she was outside in the backyard but there were no footprints or anything to prove she was. Lizzie Borden is guilty and here are 3 reasons why.
Lizzie and Emma ended up living together for a short time. Eventually Lizzie moved out into her own home.
Although Jewett and Freeman both have poverty-stricken female protagonists, each women’s intentions are driven by different circumstances. Even though Sylvia’s house is described as “the best thrift of an old-fashioned farmstead, though on such a small scale that it seemed like a hermitage”, being poor is not what prompts Sylvia’s motives. She is driven by animal rights to seize the power to make her own decision to reveal the heron’s location. Whereas, the barn is much nicer than the house that Mother and the children currently live in. Mother interrogates father, stating, “you’re lodgin’ your dumb beasts better than you are your own flesh an’ blood. I want to know if you think it’s right” (C666). The sense of poverty within the decomposing house influences Mother to go against father and make the barn into their new updated living quarters. The circumstances that both protagonists were confronted with fueled their compassion to overcome the obstacles each were faced with.
Even so, the domestic system the men have set up for their wives and their disregard for them after the rules and boundaries have been laid down prove to be the men's downfall. The evidence that Mrs. Wright killed her husband is woven into Mrs. Hale's and Mrs. Peters's conversations about Mrs. Wright's sawing and her pet bird. The knots in her quilt match those in the rope used to strangle Mr. Wright, and the bird, the last symbol of Mrs. Wright's vitality to be taken by her husband, is found dead. Unable to play the role of subservient wife anymore, Mrs. Wright is foreign to herself and therefore lives a lie. As Mrs. Hale proclaims, "It looks as if she didn't know what she was about!" (1177).