The Beautiful and Damned

past(father), and her femininity. Lady Macbeth’s “Road to Madness” Throughout the beginning of the play, Lady Macbeth is as a loving wife who wants her husband to be a powerful king. Her role throughout the play in relation to other characters is the beautiful and flawless queen. However, she is afraid that Macbeth may not…

In Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible Miller depicts the lives of females in Puritan society through the characters Abigail Williams and Elizabeth Proctor. These women were displayed in different social statures under the strict christian rule in Puritan society. In Puritan society, religion dictates how women are treated. Females are considered less than a man. If a woman defies a man, she is whipped and if she does not obey puritan rules, she is shunned. Miller displays the message of women…

the moon who lingered behind thin scudding clouds. The customary contentment was long gone; there was no luminosity to offer, no milky light to lessen the discomfort. It seemed she and her sister, Lilly, were able to successfully escape from those damned werewolves. Thank goodness… Excruciating pain erupted through her broken body as though a fire spreading immensely fast. Who knew such agony could take place? And Lilitha moaned a cry as she altered her sight downwards. Blood was everywhere;…

curandera that has guided Antonio during her time living at his house. She instructs him in the ways of nature and what it means to simply grow up. Ultima stands as Antonio's guide and mentor. "I bless you in the name of all that is good and strong and beautiful, Antonio. Always have the strength to live. Love life, and if despair enters your heart, look for me in the evenings when the wind is gentle and the owls sing in the hills. I shall be with you-" By the end of this novel Antonio has grown…

After leaving the prison, Hester is the condemned forever damned by the puritan society, forced to wear an A at all times. Later, Nathaniel describes a particular rose on the bush, he says, “It may serve [the rose], let us hope, to symbolize some sweet moral blossom, that may be found along the track, or relieve…

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is still relevant to today’s teenagers as it focuses on Jay Gatsby’s aspirations of wealth, love and success. The story depicts a man who throws lavish parties in the hope to attract the affection of his one true love, Daisy Buchanan. This dramatic love story, told from the perspective of protagonist Nick Caraway, follows his journey of friendship with Gatsby. Published in 1925, the novel is a fictional twist on historical facts from the Jazz Age during…

individual thoughts. This is the world that Equality 7-2521 lives in and has to deal with every single day. After Equality presented his discovery, which was electricity, to the Home of the Scholars, he was immediately hated and he became one of the damned. He ran off into the Uncharted Forest, where no man had ever dared to set foot in, and discovered himself and his own reflection. Little did he know that Liberty 5-3000 had followed him into the forest and told him that she wanted to be with…

You were born into the most privileged of lives. A daughter of two wealthy Purebloods. You were their first child and, unless a boy came along, you would be their heir. It was your duty to be everything they needed from their child, to bring honor to your family name and to be the perfect Pureblood girl. That meant that you did as you were told without question, you never so much as looked at someone who was not Pure and you most certainly never let the outside world see a single flaw. At home…

Who is Lady Brett Ashley? The infamous “bitch-goddess” (Fulton) of many names often cast aside with misnomers of Circe, man eater, and nymphomaniac despised by men for her apparent promiscuity and destruction of the male ego in The Sun Also Rises. The appropriate interpretation of, quite possibly, the true code hero of the novel, the “alcoholic aristocrat” (Bloom 1) and simultaneous goddess Circe, who “turns men into swine” (148) is hindered most effectively by Jake Barnes’ narration. She is…

Blanche’s struggles cast her as a victim of a common societal problem, both during the 1940’s and modern day. Blanche, like many women, has been conditioned to feel a constant need to be like a butterfly--strong, beautiful and present in the light. When Blanche is unable to do so, she suffers greatly, a struggle exacerbated by her clear mental health challenges. Like Blanche, many women are pressured by internalized societal standards of women’s beauty to try to be…