Mary's Submissive Attitude Towards Her Husband

When most people get married, they go into the marriage with the expectations and hopes that everything will go as planned, that they will always get along, and that the responsibilities will be evenly divided between both spouses. And for two working spouses who have children, they share the expectation that no one parent will be more of a caretaker than the other. Eric Bartels, a feature writer for the Portland Tribune in Portland, Oregon, feels as if he has personal experience as to what it is like to be on the receiving end of his wife’s irrational—or at least in his eyes—anger. Bartels informs his readers of the anger his wife projects

With consistent persuasion from John, Mary agrees to talk to the Mr. Danforth, the judge over looking the trial, about faults in her accusations. She admits to faking and only cried spirits because the other girls were (pg. 100). With this event, Mary demonstrates that she does not have integrity. Regret, accompanied with pity, assists Mary in convincing Mr. Danforth but it does not work in her favor because he does not want to backtrack on previous convictions made. Feelings of regret are very influential in determining a persons actions. Miller uses Mary, who has now shown to be morally uncertain, as a scapegoat for all the girls who are fabricating seeing the devil. As tensions rise, Mary becomes unsettled by the consequences that follow lying under oath. Swapping sides once again to save her life, she proclaims, “I’ll not hang with you! I love God, I love God” (pg. 110). Striking emotion from her declaration tells a story of discord between her ethical thinking. She is now only worried about her life and the author incorporates pathos to make her claim stronger. Fear is the single greatest motivator for humans and Mary is fearful. John will see the repercussions of these actions by facing death later in the book. Due to Mary's incapacity of raining truthful, an innocent citizen would sentenced to

Mary Warren’s behavior foreshadow about her testimony in court by giving Elizabeth a doll she made, “a popper,” which later leads to her arrest. They found a needle inside the doll, in the same spot Abigail was stabbed in. She seems to be manipulated by Abigail, due to the fact that she feared to have to testify against her in court. “She’ll kill me for sayin’ that! Abby’ll charge lechery on you, Mr. Proctor!” Mary kept saying over and over again that she cannot, which also indicates that she knows that Abigail will do something terrible to her.

Acting without thinking can lead to many consequences. You can do many things to avoid those consequences, one being deception. In the short story, Lamb to the Slaughter, by Roal Dahl, Mary Maloney is misjudged based on her appearance. This enables her to successfully deceive those around her. Mary Maloney deceives those around her by using her ‘perfect pregnant wife’ image to her advantage.

Immediately, the purpose of Mary’s captivity was ransom. Ransom is inferred from the document outlined as, “They called me to them to inquire how much my husband would give to redeem me.” The word “redeem” leads readers to inquire her freedom counted on loved ones giving up money for her

Throughout history the importance of women in society has been overlooked, and if not overlooked, then insufficiently attended to. It is only in the last century that societal convention has started to recognize the acts and achievements of women. The women in Robertson Davies’ novel Fifth Business have similarly essential interactions with Dunstan Ramsay, but as supporting characters are, to varying degrees, partially developed. First, Mary Dempster acts as an isolated friend to Ramsay and serves as catalyst for the novel’s main events, namely Ramsay’s departure to war and his study of hagiology. Thereafter another woman, Diana Marfleet, champions Dustan’s physical and mental rehabilitation and is responsible for his rebirth after World War

Obviously, Mary knows that she is not controlling anybody; however, the girls continue to fake it and when everyone else in the courtroom begins to believe it, Mary does too. One of the main people that influences Mary is Judge Danforth, which is shown by this quote: “Danforth: What is it, child? But Abigail, pointing with fear, is now raising up her frightened eyes, her awed face, toward the ceiling - the girls are doing the same - and now Hathorne, Hale, Putnam, Cheever, Herrick, and Danforth do the same. What’s there? He lowers his eyes from the ceiling, and now he is frightened; there is real tension in his voice.

Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark” examine the complex relationship between a husband and wife. The two works take two different approaches to convey the same message: Marriage is not a fairytale, it requires sacrifice and unselfish behavior in order to work. Relationships are difficult to begin and harder to maintain. Mr. and Mrs. Mallard and Aylmer and Georgiana are two relationships that shatter the surreal perception of marriage and expose readers to the raw truth, marriage is not a fairytale.

Ryan specifically uses cultural surroundings to shape Mary as a rebellious individual who is determined, curious, and adventurous. To display she is determined, Ryan states, "No longer caring about the consequences, I slip out of my room and march down the hall and up the steps toward where the Outsider is being kept"(78). The reader can infer that the culture has established certain rules and regulations, so that people do not find out too much information on the secrets the Sisters are keeping. This leads Mary to being determined and able to sneak around the Cathedral to find the answers she is looking for, like how and why the Outsider, Gabrielle, came to their isolated village. To reveal that Mary is adventurous and curious, Ryan expresses,

Mary is grateful because she gets a heads-up about the truth. Huck and Mary both devise a plan where Mary stays at a friend’s house. Before Mary leaves, Huck wrote a note where the money is located. Mary is forever grateful and even tells him that she will never forget him.

" But this still does not make up for the fact that she killed her own husband on instinct. This murder was not deliberate, “If you’re too tired to eat out,” she went on, “it’s still not too late. There’s plenty of meat and stuff in the freezer, and you can have it right here and not even move out of the chair” as you can see from this quote, Mary genuinely cared for the comfort of her husband, Patrick. She truly loved to luxuriate in the presence of her husband, why would she ever want to hurt him if he was the father of her own

After she kills Patrick, a part of her alibi is to use cooking the supper as a way to cover up the murder: using her image as an ordinary housewife to help portray this. The quote, ‘I know Patrick would never forgive me, God bless his soul, if I allowed you to remain in his house without offering you decent hospitality. Why don't you eat up that lamb that's in the oven. It'll be cooked just right by now,’ shows how Mary was using her stereotype to get away with murder. It doesn’t make sense to link her with the murder as she is just filling in her duties as a housewife, and offering it the Patricks friends (the detectives.)

The book doesn’t mention Mary wanting to get revenge, in fact it emphasizes on the fact that she does not want Elizabeth hurt. This shows that Mary is not the bad guy and we should be more on her side as the innocent one. Elizabeth, on the other hand wants Mary dead as soon as possible, which makes her seem like the villain, and no one roots for the villain.

Joanne and Marty Doe raised their daughter Mary in a small conservative town. Mary comes from an upper-class wealthy family and Mary’s parents have always made it clear to Mary that she is only to be married upon their approval. Ideal candidates for marriage include but are not limited to being a wealthy professional from her background and earning at least $200,000 a year. If Mary does not comply with the conditions she will be cut off from the family and will not receive an inheritance.

But as Healy tries every trick in the book to keep Ted in the dark, at the same time, unsuspecting Mary is in for a slick, yet half-baked scam in love.