Mother Courage and Her Children

“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.” Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, also known as Suu Kyi, is a political leader who changed the face of the Burmese government. When Suu Kyi returned to her home country to take care of her critically ill mother in 1988, she experienced great denial of human and civil rights and witnessed violent suppression of protesters, who also suffered lengthy imprisonment and torture. Suu Kyi took a stand in history by defying the…

with her courage and martial art skills. Women in the modern world should be taught some sort of martial art for self protection. She was accompanied by an American Pilot Steve Trevor who protected and promised her to be with throughout their end goal. Best on the evidence is when Steve sacrifices his own life to protect Diana and her dream that was to be fulfilled.The movie is about Princess Diana played by Gal Gadot who lived in the Amazons where women only existed. She grew up seeing her…

She is in love with her brother, Geb, and Thoth, and she makes love to them. Ra gets very mad and upset and curses her from having children for any month of any year. This is hard for her and brings her sadness because she wants to be a mother, she asks Thoth “Is there anything you can do to help me? Surely, one of the children within me is yours!(Rosenberg 163)”. He tells her that he would find a way to help her through her struggle and that she will be called “The Mother of Gods”. Thoth makes…

Walker introduces her readers to a community of women, specifically protagonist, Celie and her sister Nettie, who suffer in the hands of men. The women are dehumanized by the misogynistic men in their lives, but eventually, they rise above the challenges the men throw at them and find themselves to be stronger and more beautiful than they ever were before. When the reader first meets Celie, they have come to discover that she has been raped by the man who she believes is her father. Jessica…

Rhea in Greek mythology was the mother of all the gods. She was also a titan. Rhea was the daughter of Uranus, Gaea, Heaven, and Earth. She is the sister and wife of the Titan Cronus. At one point of time Rhea and Cronus ruled the universe. They had 6 children together. Their names were Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus. Cronus was afraid that one of his children would out rule him one day, so for that reason he swallowed all of his children except for Zeus. He would have…

characters actions. For example, Renevskaya’s behaviour throughout the play is completely irrational. We are presented with the tragic element of the loss of her childhood home, yet her absurd actions are emphasised as she continues to lavishly spend money even though she is broke. She gives money to Pishchik, a gold coin to a beggar and spends her limited funds frivolously on an orchestra. According to Remaley ‘Chekhov develops a comic incongruity between the serious situation and the trivial…

not use textbook methods to teach his children lessons. Rather he goes outside the box, differing from many Maycomb parents. This again emphasizes how Atticus likes to go off the beaten path. Indirectly, Atticus was also making an effort to tell Jem that although he may not participate in tackle football, hunting, or other daring activities, it does not mean that he is not brave. As they were talking to Miss Maudie one day, Scout and Jem were confiding in her their depressions about Atticus not…

from a mothers’ perspective of the worst day of her life. The book is based on a true story. The setting is April 20, 1999 at Columbine High School. There are not really any characters in the book because it is based on true story. So the only character is Cassie Bernall. The book is about a girl who lived a normal Christian life she went to church, participated in school, and was very outgoing. The morning of the massacre Cassie and her family got up got ready for school and work. Her mother…

Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs is her own autobiography, as Mrs. Jacobs recalls her life events as brave unbreakable woman in slavery in early 1800’s. She will pour her life into many words. How the love of a mother almost crippled her inside and out. And her forever courage led her to be a “free woman”. I will briefly relate her biography the writing skills and the effect the book had on myself as a reader. “I was born a slave” (Jacobs, p.11) Soon after her mother passed away at the age of six,…

good with children, she has followers, and she sacrifices herself for other people. In A Thousand Splendid Suns Mariam is good with children. Though she has no children of her own, she bonds with Aziza, which makes her feel like a mother. For instance, “When Aziza first spotted Mariam in the morning, her eyes always sprang open, and she began mewling and squirming in her mother’s grip” (252). This behavior portrays the unconditional love Aziza has for Mariam. Aziza also looked up to her as a…