Emotional Acceptance In 'Something Wicked This Way Comes'

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Does emotional acceptance benefit a person as a whole in their life? In the novel Something Wicked This Way Comes(Wicked) by Ray Bradbury, Charles Halloway the father of Will Halloway drives away the evils that chase his life by accepting his emotions. The poem If by Rudyard Kipling discusses the topic of emotional turmoil and the struggle of accepting your problems. The article The Art Of Resilience expresses how to cope with stress and how stress affects your life after you have accepted it. The novel Wicked has a theme that is tied to the theme of If and The Art Of Resilience. These themes can be expressed through characterization, conflict, and plot/rising action.Throughout all three texts characters are having to deal with emotional acceptance and how the actions caused by these emotions affect their real world actions.
The novel Wicked and the poem If both have a theme that can be shown through characterization. Both texts have a similar theme with the acceptance of
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This is shown through characters fighting themselves or others in a positive and negative manner. In the novel Wicked Charles Halloway is fighting himself in the fact that he does not accept himself as a person. “I’ll go there, thought Charles Halloway, I won’t go there”(Bradbury 55). Although, Charles Halloway is not fighting anyone besides himself the fact that he cannot make a decision shows that he is having emotional turmoil. The poem If expresses the theme through a similar act of character. “If you meet you meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two the same”(Rudyard 11/12). Similar to Wicked, If describes the theme through the emotional turmoil of a character. In fact, both texts expresses the theme of emotional acceptance through the conflict of characters. Wicked’s theme is connected to the text The Art Of Resilience through emotional

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