Tom Stappard's Arcadia

The main characters, Day and June have no reason to cross paths, until the day June's brother, Metias, is killed. Day becomes the most suspected killer. While Day is trying to make sure his family survives, June wants to kill whoever ended her brother,Metias's, death. As the story unravels its dizzying twist and turns, the two realize the reason they came together in the first place.

| Tom wants his old life back prior to the accident and he sees the accident as the end of his life as he knew it. He loses his sense of identity and sense of family in particular.Feels guilty and ashamed about the irrevocable consequences his brother’s irresponsibility had for other people and their familiesRetreats into a depressed state which feels empty and black.

The main character, Charlie must navigate through it even while feeling motionless and scared. He tells his story to the reader from his perspective. The reader sees life from exactly the way he sees the events and understands those events through a teenage boy’s eyes. The crisis is introduced when the town outcast Jasper Jones asked Charlie, a bookish young nobody of a boy for help. The reader sees Charlie’s internal conflicts of wanting to go with Jasper, feeling terrified, excited yet so wanting to be accepted by him Charlie does in fact sneak out in the middle of the night with his new friend. Jasper takes Charlie to the scene of the crime where Jasper’s girlfriend is hanging from a tree. The manner that Silvey describes Charlie’s reaction to the hanged girls is true to human nature, “I’m screaming, but they are muffled screams. I can’t breathe in. I feel like I’m underwater. Deaf and drowning.” This description foreshadows the solution to hide the body and Jasper and Charlie throw Laura Wishart into the lake. Unknown to either is Laura Wishart’s sister, Eliza. She witnessed the suicide of her sister and wrote the word “sorry” on the stump of the tree before she leaves. Charlie and Jasper find this word, assume that the killer wrote it there, and immediately jump to the

He objects to this suggestion as he keeps persisting to his sister for her to allow him to go with her. Her sister is still defensive, rigid and seems like she is not feeling the plea her brother was making as she indirect objects his plea by citing a reason that she has a small place in back in Berkeley. It is one room with just a hot plate. Also, the fact that “… Glen had parked his stuffs in the station”, was another of the reasons his sister was giving in order to convince him to stay with their aunt. This did not sound as a good idea for Vuthy, to him; there was no reason that substantiated his staying around with their aunt. He saw all attempts as avenues of leaving him lonely again, which on realizing this, he fought as much as he could in order to avoid this.

The affair between Charlotte and Rodney was a dull one until they began killing each other. Within the play 7 Stories by Morris Panych, the character Charlotte outlines in a particularly insightful monologue how the energy of her affair with Rodney had deteriorated to a state where the couple got so tired of one another, they began to hate each other. Thus, to rid themselves of the uniformity of their days, they began to play at murdering one another. This may seem to be a strange practice, but in fact the role playing that these two do infuses the relationship with new energy – by this escape from reality, the couple found a way to enjoy being together again. Characters trying to escape reality is something that is seen multiple times in

Imagine a man held against his will. Ethan Frome thinks of himself as a “prisoner” (Wharton 74). He is detained from a life he has always imagined because of the accident with Mattie Silver. “The inexorable facts closed in on him like a prison-warder handcuffing a convict” (Wharton 74). Ethan Frome has realized he has to face the consequences of being infatuated with Mattie Silver forever. He becomes entwined with two “sickly “controlling women, a “warped right side” and life full of regrets. Edith Wharton shows Ethan “checking each step like the jerk of a chain” (Wharton 1). Every step Ethan takes into getting into the right path, trouble gets in his way. Starkfield being “being in an exhausted receiver” (Wharton 13) makes him feels he will be stuck in the darkness for eternity. For

Ethan, the main character, continuously fails to express himself, no matter how strongly he desires to. “He took a wild step forward and then stopped.” (88) In the scene Ethan arguing to keep the hired girl his wife and him have, but fails to show any emotion. This causes the situation to turn against him, due to his failure to show how he feels. “When the door of her room had closed on her he remembered that he had not even touched her hand.” (72) In this scene Ethan tries to connect to the hired girl, Mattie Silver, who he is secretly in love with. Ethan spends the entire night with her, and yet

Starting with the “Grand Rounds” scene, the play begins to really reflect on the doctor-patient relationship. Although we see up to this point, the powerful connection that is forming between Susie and Dr. Bearing, there seems to be no warmth or human emotion in her relationships with Dr. Kelekian and Jason. This scene is especially important because it shows us how impersonal Dr. Bearing feels the teaching hospital and its doctors are towards her. We start to see Vivian lose herself because she finally realizes that as a teacher, she behaves and treats her students the same way that the doctors behave and treat her. This lack of interaction becomes a prevalent theme throughout the play, and we see Dr. Bearing start to transform while gaining a fresh but different perspective, not only in her profession but also in life.

Although Frome can be held responsible for his moral inactivity, he can be considered a morally inadequate man in his present state. His inadequacy, however, was not a constant in life or a sudden occurrence-- it snowballed from his youth and finally solidified through the ‘smash-up’. His earlier experiences in a university and the joy it brought him was quickly interrupted after a year by his sickly parents. The unfortunate circumstance forces Ethan Frome to move back to the depressing Starkfield he had just escaped. His parents’ illnesses bring along Zenobia, who would be another future, unseen oppression along with Starkfield. For years, Ethan lives in depressing conditions that decline as time goes on. The chance to finally leave them behind, however, comes in Mattie, Zenobia’s cousin and maid. Ethan’s inability to act on this chance of escape finally seals his fate when Mattie is paralyzed and he is critically injured. Although jinxed with unfortunate circumstances, Ethan Frome’s life could have been bettered if one small step or action was taken by him for himself with the intention to create personal joy or pleasure.

William Faulkner’s novel, The Sound and the Fury, exemplifies the very meaning of an internal conflict between order and chaos through the forlorn and tragic character, Quentin Compson. Although Quentin is displayed with an outward appearance that can be described as orderly, it is apparent through his chaotic thoughts that he is overwhelmed by his ardent views on the Compson family’s honor, which was destroyed when Caddy lost her virginity.

But the fluidity of interior life turns poisonous precisely because it is suppressed. All of it comes back to the double-edged sword of patriarchy and capitalist industrial farming, embodied by Larry. Ginny and Rose are "trying to figure out how to understand him better. I [that is, Ginny] feel like there's treacherous undercurrents all the time. I think I'm standing on solid ground, but then I discover that there's something moving underneath it, shifting from place to place. There's always some mystery. He doesn't say what he means."(104). From Larry, it spreads to all the other characters, like Ginny and Ty: "We had spent our life together practicing courtesy, putting the best face on things, harboring secrets."(260) In the end, nobody can be trusted, the poison influences everbody.

Several themes were explored during this section of the text. They include trust, appearance, isolation, persistence, abduction and survival. The idea of trust was highlighted through the main characters and the events that occurred. This quality was emphasized when Gemma lost belief in Ty after he kidnapped her. She was constantly tormented and reminded that he will hurt her and possibly to the extent of killing her. At the start, Gemma gave Ty her trust too quickly so when he lost it, she found it difficult to give him another chance. She was always suspicious of his actions and expected the worst from him. This was evident when Ty said that he won’t kill her and she didn’t believe him. Another example of this is when she said, “I didn’t know what you did in there for so long every day. For all I knew, you were keeping other kidnapped girls inside. Or something worse.” (pg.46)

Is the year 1957 in the Industrial city of Pittsburg. Troy Maxon is fifty-three years old. He has been married to Rose for 18 years, this devotion to him has led her to ignore the more difficult aspects of his character. Furthermore, one of the literary elements used to spotlight this issue is on its plot and dialogues between its characters. The plot explores the roots of Troy Maxon, whose past emerge during the curse of the play, and shows a fourteen-year-old boy, who grew up motherless and under the care of a brutal and abusive father. For this reason, he decided to run away from his home and set out on his own in the north of Pittsburg. s with no job a

Clarissa is trying to arrange a party to celebrate the fact that Richard has won a literary award, but is getting little help from Richard's ex-lover, Louis. As she labors to help Richard through another day, he wonders if his life is worth the unending struggle. In the end, it is the individual who must determine their own destiny.

Douglas is crushed by John’s news, and he deals with the loss of his friend by getting angry with John. Afterwards, Colonel Freeleigh dies, and Douglas feels a great loss. He comes to realize that the colonel’s legacy has died with him. As August starts, Douglas begins to lose his enthusiasm in summer. However, his grandfather is able to raise his spirits with dandelion wine. The dandelion wine that he makes with his brother Tom and his grandfather represents the spirit of summer that Douglas loves so much. Eventually the thought of death begins to haunt Douglas. He witnesses the brief relationship between Bill Forrester and ninety-five-year-old Helen Loomis. Although their ages are far apart, they talk together every day for weeks, as if seems that their minds are perfect for each other, although it ends when Miss Loomis dies. In the end, Douglas comes to terms with death and that summer is coming to an end although he reflects on what he’s observed throughout the summer and looks on never forgetting the magic of life that summer brings through the power of dandelion wine.