“Take Pity” gives the idea of male superiority. Give your own opinion.
Rosen
is an ex-coffee salesman and has a good deal of experience about
business. From his experience, he knows that Eva’s business would not
flourish there.
He advises Eva to take the money and her children and run away from there. However, Eva refuses to act upon his advice because she thinks that with the insurance money she can establish her business. She says that with the insurance money she will stock up and fix the store. She believes that she will be able to attract the customers by decorating the store. Therefore, she rejects this advice because of her optimistic approach.
Secondly, he advises to marry someone, but she again refuses. She believes that nobody will marry her because she is a widow with two daughters.
She believes that she cannot have happiness because all her life she has been suffering. Here she refuses because of her pessimistic point of view. We concluded that Rosen wanted to maintain the male superiority but Eva does not allow him to do so.
When we go through the play “The Bear", we find that it is a farce. A farce is full of many absurd situations which make the readers laugh. There are three main characters in the play and they all make us laugh with their absurd comments. There are also many absurd situations. When the play starts, we see that Luka is advising Popova to leave her mourning and go out to see her neighbours. However, his way of advising her is very absurd. He gives the examples of cats, midges, and spiders. We simply laugh at these examples. Popova looks at the photograph of her husband and calls him a ‘bad child’. The word ‘bad child' makes us laugh.
When Popova refuses to give Smirnov the money, he says, “I have not the pleasure of being either your husband or your finance, so please don’t make scenes.” These remarks are very funny and absurd and we laugh at them. When Popova accepts the challenge of duel from Smirnov, he says that he will bring her down like a chicken. The word ‘chicken’ is very funny.
We find the most comic and absurd situation in the play when Popova brings her husband’s revolvers and asks Smirnov to teach her how to fire. This is very absurd that she asks her enemy to teach her how to fire. It is also very absurd that Smirnov starts teaching her. What a funny and absurd situation it is! He not only teaches her how to fire, but he also tells her the prices of different revolvers. Another situation is very funny when Popova changes her mind repeatedly. At one time, she asks him to leave and at another asks him to stay.
From the above discussion, we can conclude that it is a farce and there are many comic and absurd elements in the play. The writer has created comedy through funny comments and absurd
situations
In his short story, Hawthorne uses symbols to represent the material versus the fantasy world. The use of imagination is rife in the story, especially with the thought of limitless possibilities science could attain. It has been said that Rappaccini's Daughter is actually a reference to the experiences of the author’s wife when she lived a sheltered childhood as a young girl.
But the
short story had a tragic ending compared to Hawthorne's real life. Many
of the symbols and symbolic allusions are found in the setting of the
story such as being set in Padua, with no specific time period.He advises Eva to take the money and her children and run away from there. However, Eva refuses to act upon his advice because she thinks that with the insurance money she can establish her business. She says that with the insurance money she will stock up and fix the store. She believes that she will be able to attract the customers by decorating the store. Therefore, she rejects this advice because of her optimistic approach.
Secondly, he advises to marry someone, but she again refuses. She believes that nobody will marry her because she is a widow with two daughters.
She believes that she cannot have happiness because all her life she has been suffering. Here she refuses because of her pessimistic point of view. We concluded that Rosen wanted to maintain the male superiority but Eva does not allow him to do so.
When we go through the play “The Bear", we find that it is a farce. A farce is full of many absurd situations which make the readers laugh. There are three main characters in the play and they all make us laugh with their absurd comments. There are also many absurd situations. When the play starts, we see that Luka is advising Popova to leave her mourning and go out to see her neighbours. However, his way of advising her is very absurd. He gives the examples of cats, midges, and spiders. We simply laugh at these examples. Popova looks at the photograph of her husband and calls him a ‘bad child’. The word ‘bad child' makes us laugh.
When Popova refuses to give Smirnov the money, he says, “I have not the pleasure of being either your husband or your finance, so please don’t make scenes.” These remarks are very funny and absurd and we laugh at them. When Popova accepts the challenge of duel from Smirnov, he says that he will bring her down like a chicken. The word ‘chicken’ is very funny.
We find the most comic and absurd situation in the play when Popova brings her husband’s revolvers and asks Smirnov to teach her how to fire. This is very absurd that she asks her enemy to teach her how to fire. It is also very absurd that Smirnov starts teaching her. What a funny and absurd situation it is! He not only teaches her how to fire, but he also tells her the prices of different revolvers. Another situation is very funny when Popova changes her mind repeatedly. At one time, she asks him to leave and at another asks him to stay.
From the above discussion, we can conclude that it is a farce and there are many comic and absurd elements in the play. The writer has created comedy through funny comments and absurd
situations
In his short story, Hawthorne uses symbols to represent the material versus the fantasy world. The use of imagination is rife in the story, especially with the thought of limitless possibilities science could attain. It has been said that Rappaccini's Daughter is actually a reference to the experiences of the author’s wife when she lived a sheltered childhood as a young girl.
Most of the scenes take place in a garden which the author dubbed as a place of adultery. Significantly, the garden itself is a contradiction being filled on one hand with lush and beautiful plants but also filled with poisonous flowers.
Rappaccini’s Daughter is, in fact, a heartbreaking story where none of the characters triumphs in the end. It is important to note another theme of the story which is betrayal that is seen in the characters
of Giovanni and Beatrice.
As they fall in love, Giovanni creates a plan to save her but Beatrice neglects to mention her poisonous body. Giovanni who was poisoned in the process took this as an act of betrayal. Many would describe the plot of Rappaccini's Daughter as radical but this is only a reflection of the author’s real disposition being a transcendalist.
The story highlights common predicaments men face when making life changing decisions. Giovanni was advised by an older men to stay away from Beatrice since she is a temptress another label degrading women by connoting their evilness. However, Lisabetta an older woman encourages Giovanni and even helps him enter the garden.
When she meets Giovanni and falls in love she discovers, she can never be with him. When he attempts to cure her with an antidote, she takes it knowing that the antidote will act like poison to her. She chooses to die because she can never be with the man she loves.
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