1. Painting Overview - American Gothic
I will use the Cycle of Human Experience to dissect Sylvia's coming of age story, by documenting her experiences as they relate to the points in the cycle. ... She becomes aware of him when she hears his whistle, which symbolizes the taking away of innocence. ... In this work the male stranger, "the enemy" intimidates Sylvia with his age, demands and his shotgun, which is the recurring phallic symbol in this story. ... She also wanted to portray that it didn't matter the age of the woman because they were all ill-treated the same by men from children to adults. Even though she u...
For Example, in I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced, Nujood Ali a 10 year old Yemen girl that is forced by her father to marry a man, who is three times her age. ... Nujood did not have a clear understand of marriage due to her young age. ... This highlights the innocence and her unwariness of the situation forced upon her. ... Nujood at even such a young age did not understand how her father would get rid of her. ... As seen in I am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced, Nujood encounters the negative differences in gender in her culture. ...
" (V.ii.292) We must also remember that upon discovering Desdemona's innocence, he kills himself, bringing the same justice upon himself that he had bestowed on Desdemona. ... Emilia puts her loyalty to her mistress and knowledge of her innocence before her duty to her husband. ...
As in other works of this genre (for example, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth), Daisy Miller focuses on the behavior of its characters in social situations. ... They have no interest in a new, young attitude that will alter age-old customs. ...
Using a physically shocking metaphor the poet has created the image of a cruel, callous hand violating the innocence of a girl. ... We know she is young by the phrase "full new breast" this enhances the horrifying image innocence being violated. ...
Person sees this as favorite subject of Hawthorne's as he recalls "Dimmesdale's temptation to blight a young girl's innocence with a single word" (123) and compares it to Hawthorne considering "The Scarlet Letter "a triumphant success" because it had such an effect on [his wife] Sophia that it broke her heart and sent her to bed with a grevious headache" (122). ...