Rosemary's Killing Rosemary

persuaded destruction included the feud between the two families, the nurse and her betrayal of

This scene starts off with Sam conversing with Dana and asks her to teach his younger siblings how to read and write. She then told Sam she needs to get permission from Rufus in order to be able to teach his siblings. Days passes and things were going pretty smooth until an event took place that changes the course of the plan. Rufus decides to sell Sam leaving his sister belligerent toward Dana and calls Dana a whore. She then starts approaching and Dana was now in deep fear of her since she was a field hand and had the strength to give Dana a good beating. Before Sally could lay a hand on Dana, Rufus interferes and orders Sally to continue working. Dana tries convincing Rufus that he was making a vast mistake and he was about to destroy all he had preserves, but Rufus replies by hitting Dana which forces her to stumble backward and fall to the ground. Dana felt betrayed and she walks back to the cookhouse with utter disbelief. When she arrives there, she warms some water and takes it to the attic and was about to attempt a dangerous action. “... washed my knife in anti-septic, and hooked the drawstring of my bag over my shoulder. And in the warm water I cut my wrists.” (239) Dana is not a type of girl that could be predicted easily and almost all her doings her random. She would conquer all barriers that gets in her way to stay

Dear parents, if you want to know what not to do in terms of parenting take notes from Rosemary and Rex Walls. In the memoir Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, both Rosemary and Rex Walls were terrible parents. They always put their own needs and wants over the needs of their own kids. Rosemary did many selfish acts like when she refused to get a job, she didn't give her children food, and wouldn’t sell her land or the diamond ring. Rosemary and Rex Walls are both terrible parents, but Rosemary was definitely the worst.

In the past, she would not imagine killing other people. She became a new person with a new name in order to kill the enemies, the men on the hills during the war. She first hesitated if she would be able to end the life of another human, but soon made the decision that the men on the hills, her targets were expendable. If she didn’t shoot them it was going to be her and the countless other innocent lives. “A weapon is a manifestation of a decision that has already been made”.

This sexually violent act is not at all about sex: it is explicitly an act of power and control, humiliating the nurse. As Oscar Wilde once said, “Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.” McMurphy was not motivated by lust. He avenges Billy, and his hands immediately aims for the nurse’s throat. She loses her voice and her literal grasp of power in the ward. Ripping her blouse is a psychologically calculated move. A primal yet powerful move, McMurphy emotionally defeats the nurse with her pressure point, so she resorts to performs lobotomy on McMurphy. Interestingly, it is pointed out near the beginning of the book that the lobotomy begins with removing the eye, which represents perception in the Bible. The nurse incapacitates McMurphy’s intellect: murder is the ultimate disempowerment for both the victim and the survivors. Both of their pride stem from their intellectual mastery, which translates into their power play, but pride itself is an emotional sin. From the start, this was a game Nurse Ratched could not

Traumatic news can lead to traumatic actions. In Roald Dahl’s ”Lamb to the Slaughter,” main character Mary Maloney is told very shocking new that causes her to overreact and kill her husband Patrick Maloney. Their blissful life turned upside down in a matter of five minutes. Mary was a great wife to Patrick. She loved him very much and is even carrying his child. Mary always catered to Patrick and was very loyal to him. Mary Maloney is a sympathetic character because she was very loving, compliant, and only lied to protect her baby.

Marian knows that Robert had shot a man, and yet is angry at the M.P. officer who stayed with Robert as a guard to make sure he did not escape. Marian does not quite understand this though as, “where should he escape to? Death? A few brief hours of sleep? The painless tranquillity of morphine? I tell you it nearly drove me mad” (Findley, 194). However, one would assume her position is justified because of where and who she is in time and in space. As a nurse, it is her job to look at patients as patients and to give them the best possible care. To her, Robert Ross was always a broken and disfigured man, and to deem a disabled man a murderer is absurd. Yet, the reader’s perception of Robert Ross is purposely ambiguous and absurd. Ross is both and neither a victim or oppressor.It is unclear if Robert himself should be seen as a traitor and murderer for killing his fellow soldiers, or just a burn victim, another innocent casualty of war. Similarly, the reader may also question Marian’s reliability and accuracy especially since a great amount of time has passed. However, since she was with Robert after possibly the most catastrophic moment of his life, and so she may be the only trustworthy source the reader and the archivist have in order to gain knowledge of Robert personally. Maurice Aymard in her journal describes the frustration of trying to piece together history from personal memories: “Never have memory’s tools been more powerful or more efficient, yet never has the relationship between history and memory seemed more uncertain. History has lost its monopoly over the production and conservation of memory; memory has developed independently” (Aymard, 7). Aymard explains that while the use of memory to uncover and produce

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,

Mrs. Maloney gets away with the murder in the end. This caused by a revolting ending in which he police detectives eat the leg of lamb that was used to kill Patrick. The writer creates an unbelievable ending by making the story, up to the murder, set in a very normal family house. It is not somewhere you would associate with a morbid killing. The writer builds up an impression that the marriage may not be as good as it could be, and both were under strain not to release the tension onto each other.

The conflict in “Lamb to the Slaughter” is, that Mary. Maloney, a devoted housewife, six months pregnant, kills her husband with a leg of lamb after he tells her that he is planning on leaving her. In the very beginning, the atmosphere is very calm. Mary Maloney is peacefully sewing in her living room waiting for her husband, a police officer, to come home from work. After his arrival, they silently sit in the living room drinking whisky. Mrs. Maloney watches her husband very carefully but after he swallows his whisky very quickly and gets another stronger drink, the reader notices that something is unusual. Before she wants to fix something for supper, her husband stops her and tells her, even though it isn’t exactly conveyed to the reader, that he

Theresa held her mother and watched her die while they were waiting for the ambulance. Rosemary went to high school and worked a part-time job in order to provide for the family. She had to become an adult overnight. “Theresa was not sympathetic, and the teenage rivalry between them escalated. Her grief metamorphosed into depression and desperation while Rosemary was trying to keep the family together and carry on” (McDougal, 1995, p. 21).

Tender is the Night shows how Rosemary intentionally loses her autonomy trying to win over Dick, under the societal standard that women are unintelligent and weak. While looking over war memorials at a battlefield, Rosemary begins to sob, with the narrator stating, “Like most women she liked to be told how she should feel, and she liked Dick's telling her which things were ludicrous and which things were sad” to demonstrate that she has chosen to give up her independent thinking over the chance to make a man, Dick, like her more. The text compares Rosemary to “most women” demonstrating that Rosemary has chosen to conform to this societal standard of wanting men to think for her, most likely because this societal standard is ingrained not only

This scene shows how Rosemary often denies to herself and others that Toby can do wrong. Although it is obvious that Tobias was the one who defaced school property because of multiple witnesses and the vice principal’s firmness on the subject, Rosemary refuses to believe it. Along with dismissing the truth, she also desperately defends Toby: “The point [the vice-principal] told her, was that I had violated school property and the law…’You’re mistaken,’ she told him.” (79). She continues to maintain that Toby is innocent and even goes as far as to threaten the principal so that they won’t punish Toby. The reason she acted this way was because of the guilt she has over Toby’s behavior. She blames herself and her bad parenting for the reason

Rochester's hatred of his wife manifests itself yet further when he covers her with a sheet in another of the story's symbolic deaths.

The fact that Norma in the end pushes the button and that it is Arthur that dies could be a metaphor. In the sense that people might not know each other as well as we think we do. Even in close relationships as marriage. Often we do not show our worst sides even to people we love.