Literary Appreciation Essay
GEAS2103 Literary Appreciation: Term Essay Outline
CUI KE JUN, April (13635670)
Essay topic:
Compare and contrast the conflicts faced by the protagonists in the two texts. Discuss how they are forced to submit to their parents.
In literature, the conflict moves the story forward. When the story is to end the protagonist’s favor, the conflict occurs. It is what the major character must face with and hopefully defeat. What behind conflict is want. The author always creates situations where the characters crave something. Laura in The Glass Menagerie is the tragic heroine and so does the woman called Emily in the story of A Rose For Emily. Both of them have external conflicts with their parents, in other words, they are forced to submit to their parents. The difference here is that the conflict between Laura and her mother Amanda is that Amanda wants her to get married as soon as possible so that they can get a stable life while Emily’s father doesn’t want her to be married because he demands Emily’s full attention as his companion. These conflicts advance the development of the plot and help us know about the relations between characters.
There are external conflicts between the daughters and their parents. That means a character struggle against another character in a text. Laura and Emily are both forced to do something that they don’t like according to their parent’s desires. In the story of The Glass Menagerie, after realizing that Laura was impossible to go back to school, Amanda started to find some youth callers for her daughter and wanted Laura to be married with a man to get the burden off family. However, Laura doesn’t like that. She has been uncomfortable for her sickness all the time and she thinks that other persons will notice it. When they were having an argument for Laura’s quitting, Amanda asked that why would she go out for walking even after she’d starred catching that cold, Laura replied, “it was the lesser of two evils, Mother”(Williams,
CUI KE JUN, April (13635670)
Essay topic:
Compare and contrast the conflicts faced by the protagonists in the two texts. Discuss how they are forced to submit to their parents.
In literature, the conflict moves the story forward. When the story is to end the protagonist’s favor, the conflict occurs. It is what the major character must face with and hopefully defeat. What behind conflict is want. The author always creates situations where the characters crave something. Laura in The Glass Menagerie is the tragic heroine and so does the woman called Emily in the story of A Rose For Emily. Both of them have external conflicts with their parents, in other words, they are forced to submit to their parents. The difference here is that the conflict between Laura and her mother Amanda is that Amanda wants her to get married as soon as possible so that they can get a stable life while Emily’s father doesn’t want her to be married because he demands Emily’s full attention as his companion. These conflicts advance the development of the plot and help us know about the relations between characters.
There are external conflicts between the daughters and their parents. That means a character struggle against another character in a text. Laura and Emily are both forced to do something that they don’t like according to their parent’s desires. In the story of The Glass Menagerie, after realizing that Laura was impossible to go back to school, Amanda started to find some youth callers for her daughter and wanted Laura to be married with a man to get the burden off family. However, Laura doesn’t like that. She has been uncomfortable for her sickness all the time and she thinks that other persons will notice it. When they were having an argument for Laura’s quitting, Amanda asked that why would she go out for walking even after she’d starred catching that cold, Laura replied, “it was the lesser of two evils, Mother”(Williams,
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