Theme Of Beauty By Mary Briony

Men do have different ways to respond to different situations than women, and it is

In the poem “It’s a Woman’s World,” Eavan Boland uses many poetic devices such as alliteration, simile, and enjambment in order to explain life from a woman’s point of view and how women have lived the same since the beginning of time.

Some may confine to societies expectations, rebel, or even enforce them; however, Alice Walker “dances” over the categories that society has believed she should be placed in to find something more meaningful and significant about herself. Alice Walker, known for her numerous awards and 1983 Pulitzer Prize winning work, The Color Purple, is an American novelist, poet, and activist. Her essay, Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self, is an autobiographical account of an incident that caused her to go blind in one eye when she was eight years old. Walker’s thoughts, feelings, and emotions, which were cultivated by the standards and pressures of society, are described in her story. While some may overlook its purpose, the metaphor of dance is significant because it represents her individual liberation of societal standards and categorization, which in turn influences readers to consider their oppressors and realize their self-worth.

McEwan effectively shows that “She would.simply wait on the bridge,calm and obstinate, until events, real events, not her own fantasies, rose to her challenge, and dispelled her insignificance.” (77) Though it is not possible to see the world in a subjective way through Briony’s contemplation, Briony as an author is confused between what is true and what is not.Through the juxtaposition of Briony’s false perceptions, McEwan is able to showcase the importance that perception has on the understanding of the truth.

We are introduced to Briony Tallis at the very start of the novel, when she is preparing for cousins from the North to arrive and her older brother Leon and his friend Paul Marshall’s return, so that she can perform her play ‘The Trials of Arabella’. From this we can note that Briony is an imaginative child but we also learn that she is attention

The poem “Mothers and Daughters” is written by Pat Mora. Pat Mora is a contemporary award winning writer, who writes for children, youngsters and adults. She was born in El Paso, TX in the year 1942. She attains a title of a Hispanic writer; however, the most of her poems are in English. In her literary work, one can observe the different aspects of the immigrants’ lives such as language issues, family relationships, immigrants’ experiences and cultural differences (1187).

Maya Angelou was born in St. Louis, Missouri, is a writer,and she is known for many auto-biographical novels and she also writes poetry and essays. She also loved to study music, dance,and drama. From 1963 to 1966 Angelou was involved in the black civil rights movement. Maya Angelou wrote this specific poem called; “Phenomenal Women”. Angelou has a very creative way of saying things throughout her poem. Angelou talks about a woman in the poem that talks about herself a lot she repeats the phrase“ I’m a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman that's me”( Angelou) therefore Angelou might be this person in her poem. Angelou is trying to show the reader that you need to have more confidence in your own person instead of worrying about others judgment.

Adversity can be seen in many different ways. Some people look at adversity as a learning experience, while others view adversity as a situation marked with misfortune. When a person is faced with adversity, rather than viewing it as something to hate, they should see it as a opportunity to grow. In the stories by Doris Lessing, W.D Wetherell and Alice Walker, they all show different types of challenges each character had to over come and their journey to do so. These stories all shared similar outcomes, they demonstrate how each character used an obstacle they were faced with, and turned it into a beneficial experience and how it shaped them into the person they are today.

Briony has a need for control and order, even as a young child. She uses writing as a way to create worlds in which she has the ability to manipulate her characters and their outcomes. Briony, the youngest of the tallis children with large age gaps between them, is often alone and isolated. This loneliness causes her to seek attention. Both her desire to be in charge and her need for attention are reflected in the play The Trials of Arabella. Not only has she written the play, but she plans on starring in it as well. Her obsession with order and control makes her commit a crime because she wants to have power over what is the truth. After witnessing the rape she approaches Lola who is confused about who the perpetrator is, but Briony takes control of the situation "if her poor cousin was not able to command the truth, then she would do it for her" (McEwan 158). She seeks atonement for her crime through a novel. Like her play, Briony attempts two roles. She is both the narrator and main character of her novel. Again she is able to direct the truth, yet at the same time she is unable to differentiate between truth and fiction.

The maturation and growth of each character is displayed with the imagery of each transition. Cecelia recognizes the shift in Briony’s expression of frustration with her, as she “smoothed the jagged triangle of paper and thought how her little sister was changing... addressing Briony’s problems

The girl’s inner characterization resembles a coming of age character. She develops because of the action and her traits as a child are presented in contrast with her traits as a teenager. This contrast is emphasized using the third-person narrator at the beginning of

Furthermore, McEwan uses symbols alongside, motifs such as the Trials of Arabella in order to explain Briony’s mindset as a child. This suggest and supports the idea that Briony being young is unable to fully grasp and understand her surroundings.

Briony thought that she done the right thing helping herself, her sister Cilia, and her cousin Lola. She believes that Robbie is a sex maniac and is attacking everyone in the household. Yet at the same time she may have had a little bit of feelings for him and did not like the idea of him giving her sister so much attention. Briony wants to make a difference, she wants to be God and make an outcome like how she has done so in her play, “Arabella”. Lola asked, “ I suppose that because you wrote the play, that you’ll want to be Arabella?”

To begin, the naïvety and distorted views of reality that Briony Tallis possess reveals her inability to understand the meaning of justice. Briony, who is only thirteen at the time, “views the adult world from a child’s perspective, seeing adult acts through the lense of melodrama” (“Atonement” 7). As result, in reading Robbie’s letter she immediately “[casts] herself as her sister’s protector” (McEwan 115), and thus imagines that Robbie is attacking Cecilia in the library. This can be seen in her perception that Cecilia’s forearm “was raised

The girl’s innocence derives from her young, naïve outlook on life. No matter how many times she is asked about her siblings, she responds, “We are seven.” This baffles the man because he cannot grasp the concept she is explaining; that regardless of their absence on earth, they are still a very large part of her everyday life. “‘My stockings there I often knit,/ My ‘kerchief there I hem;/ And there upon the ground I sit--/ I sit and sing to them/… I take my little porringer,/ And eat my supper there,’” she notes. Clearly, she stays very active with the two.