Porphyria's Lover Quotes

Indeed, her entire speech within the poem is negative, detailing how Porphyro is a "traitor" to the ritual of St. Agnes, since he is not the vision she had previously seen. Instead, Porphyro displays obsessive behaviour in the face of such negativity – hiding in a cupboard and laying out a full meal demonstrating behaviour "consistent with being a voyeur". Certainly, Porphyro 's speech patterns suggest an overexcitement perhaps brought on by unfamiliarity. Although this may also be brought on by the supposed consummation of their love, the splintered syntax of "This is no dream, my bride, my Madeline!" suggests a certain desperation to convince Madeline of their love in spite of her obvious unhappiness. However, the castle 's becoming the "final tomb" of romance is alluded to directly after the sexual encounter between the two, with the suggestion that "St. Agnes ' moon hath set". The unsuccessful conclusion of the superstition appears to have led to the ritual 's death, and with Porphyro 's voyeuristic and obsessive behaviour, any notion of romance.

A4. There are a few characteristics that Antonia exhibits that lead to Cather's admiration of her. One of them is Antonia's ability to be a hard worker. For example, after Antonia's father died, she helped her mother and brother work in the fields. One quote that proves this is "If I rode over to see her where she was ploughing, she stopped at the end of the row to chat for a moment, then gripped her plough handles, clicked to her team, and waded on down the furrow, making me feel like she was now grown up and had no time for me". This quote shows that Antonia was growing up and becoming a hard worker in the aftermath of her father's death because she only talked to Jim for a moment before going back to work. Another characteristic that Antonia exhibits that led to Cather's admiration of her is her

Throughout The Oresteia, the themes of justice and revenge are often used as reasoning for certain events that take place. In many instances, the characters refer to certain events as revenge, while others see them as justice. For example, Clytemnestra kills her wife in pursuit of justice, and can be displayed as just due to her motives and reasoning. Orestes’ killing of Clytemnestra may be viewed as just in his eyes, but in reality, is revenge. In The Oresteia, revenge, often portrayed as a selfish act, regards experiencing a spiteful joy caused by retaliation, while justice is displayed primarily as a rational decision, rather than an emotional one.

Mayella Ewell, a character in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee(1), is a girl who symbolizes as a mockingbird. To begin with, Mayella, a 19 year old, is the victim of rape by an accused man, Tom Robinson. When Tom is brought to the witness stand his lawyer, Atticus Finch, questions him. This leads to Tom explaining what happened and he says, “She says what her papa do to her don’t count” (Lee 221). This quote shows how Mayella Ewell is being sexually abused by her father. She is trying to kiss Tom and says that she’s never kissed a man before, except for her father. Mayella’s father is ruining her innocence which changes her as a person. In addition, Mayella is a very lonely, sad, and friendless girl. Scout describes Mayella as

Quote: “Your ma talks about being ready for marriage like she was dishing up a plate of enchiladas” (Esquivel 29).

When Aunt Alexandra comes to live with the Finch family, she suggests Atticus get rid of Calpurnia. I think that she wants the family cook to leave because she is not related to the Finches. In previous chapters, she has explained the importance of the family name and how Scout should act more like a Finch. While Alexandra thinks that only blood related relatives should be included in a family, Atticus’s idea of family (one of the themes in the book) is to be kind, and loyal. He does consider Calpurnia a part of his family because she has helped so much. I believe she is a mother figure to Scout and Jem because she takes very good care of them. When Atticus says that he won’t fire Calpurnia, he should tell his sister not to discriminate a person

William Shakespeare developed Lady Capulet with a specific purpose, and this purpose may have been to convey the message that “Once pride gets the better of you, you don’t care about what others say or feel.” As described above, Lady Capulet is a character who gets bossed around and doesn’t even get to be a good mother because of class and gender roles. As a wife, she needs to respect and follow any wishes or demands of her husband, Lord Capulet. One example of how Lady Capulet directly contributes to this larger theme is when she gets angry at Juliet by not wanting to marry Paris. “Talk not to me, for I'll not speak a word: Do as thou wilt, for I have done with thee” (3.5.203).

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” -Walter Winchell

In Matthee’s novel, Fiela’s Child, the main character, Lukas/Benjamin, battles back and forth with his identity, however the author is able to establish the idea that one’s personal identity can be established through the environment that one grows up with rather than what skin color one has, and because of Matthee’s use of personification, symbols, and imagery, she is able to set forth this idea in the near end of the novel.

In addition, a robot is heartless and Adri displays a high degree of coldness by volunteering Cinder to risk her life in finding a cure for the plague in compensation for her stepsister’s death (66).  Evidently, Adri holds a barbaric mentality in seeking revenge, if her biological daughter dies then it must be caused by the cyberonic beggar in her home so, Cinder must die too.  Moreover, this is a selfish act because Adri receives compensation for Cinder’s forced voluntary exposure to death. Cinder realizes the profit of this punishment, “ You don’t care about Peony, you don’t care about me, you just want the stupid payout!”(67). Adri is an uncaring mother who seeks profit even in her daughters, orphan or not. Peony is merely a dowry and Cinder

In order to cope with the fact that her children rejected complete maternal dominance, Adora resorted to child abuse, a timeless issue that corrupts developing minds. When Adora’s

Women in the story like Calpurnia and Miss Maudie help teach Scout lessons like optimism and kindness. In the small town of Maycomb there is a very poor farming family, the Cunninghams. Scout does not understand the complexities of their situation. While Scout is being quite rude to the Cunningham’s, judging and mocking them when they came for dinner Calpurnia teaches her something very important. Calpurnia tells Scout that they are company, they are people and you must be kind to them.

Hughes uses Luella's characteristics to enrich his theme. Luella portrays a caring, humble, and trusting figure towards Roger. Her caring trait can be seen in the story when she says," you ought to be my son. I would teach you right from wrong." Furthermore, This depicts Luella's mothering nature towards roger, changing his outlook towards life. Luella's humbleness also contributed to the theme. When Luella says," Least I can do right now is to wash your face. Are you hungry?" Furthermore, this quote displays Luella's humbleness because even if Roger tried to steal from her, she still offered her hospitality towards him. Luella's trusting personality plays a role in enhancing the theme as well. When Hughes says," The woman did not watch the

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Soon afterwards he describes her as she “sat down by my side” demonstrating Porphyria’s dominance over the narrator making him feel that he has no control. This is also illustrated when “She put her arm around her waist?” which he views as her taking the lead sexually. Her lover then describes her appearance as “all her yellow hair displaced”. This indicates the speaker’s lack of control over Porphyria and that there is an idea of disorder as during the time period women had to look neat and proper. The narrator has further emphasised his concern when he uses the word “stooping” implying that Porphyria has a higher status than her lover. Her actions when she “made my cheek lie there” is also another indication that he is concerned that she holds power over his own actions when he is a male who is supposed to be superior than females who are seen as inferior in society. The narrator feels emasculated as he has lost his sense of manpower as she is taking the lead in this situation, he feels compelled that to regain