Summary Of Beauty By Jane Martin

Beauty by Jane Martin
In Beauty by Jane Martian (pg. 1759), the central conflict between Bethany and Carla is that the other one wants something the other has. It is an internal conflict because each character is jealous of the other but does not necessarily have a problem with the other. Carla is beautiful and Bethany is studious and normal. Carla wishes she was smarter and could do better in school, and Bethany wishes that more boys would pay attention to her. The irnoy of this all is the fact that neither girl appreciates what she does have, and both wish to have what the other has. Carla has so many dates; she can’t even remember all the boys. “Uh-huh. Uh-huh. And you spoke to me?” (Martian 2) This shows us that she is clearly in love with no one, even though there are many who are in love with her. Each character has to decide what they should get if they could get whatever they want. Bethany wants to be like Carla, but Carla isn’t happy with her life, because she is surrounded by stupid guys whom only what one thing from her and can’t have conversations with her. Carla tells Bethany not to wish to be like
her, because she will regret it. The girls realize that they both have the one, the one and only thing everybody wants, which is different problems. In the end, both girls learn the lesson about jealousy. We all definitely have problems. We can admire others lives, but that doesn’t mean that person has the perfect life. The protagonist of this play is Carla; she is the one going about her every day life when Bethany enters. Bethany says she found a genie lamp. She already spent her first two wishes and now is on her third. Though, she isn’t sure about it. As she talks to Carla about being beautiful and how being like Carla was her one true wish. After Bethany made the wish, they found each other in the other person’s body. It wasn’t Carla’s decision, but Bethany made it for the both of them. After the decision and the wish was made, Carla and Bethany switch bodies and brains. This is the climax of the whole drama production. The women are now the other, while being stunned and happy at the same time, it was now time to live each other’s lives. The dramatic question, I believe, is “What would it be like if I was the other person?” Carla and Bethany are both unhappy with their lives right now. They want to experience the other person’s life; they want each other plusses and benefits. Though they don’t realize the blessings they have because they are only looking at the negatives.
The main theme of this play is discontentment. In this play by Jane Martin, the main characters describe their lives as undesirable and how the wish to change their current situation. Beauty is all about discontentment that people have regardless of what their lives are and what they have going for them. Both Carla and Bethany are jealous of each other, the central conflict, which stated above is that the other one wants something the other has. Which is an internal conflict because of the jealously they have, though they don’t necessarily have a problem with each other. This just intensifies the theme of discontentment. It is also what makes to use apparent the theme of discontentment both Carla and Bethany have in their lives. Carla and Bethany are the total opposite of one and another. Carla is beautiful but unsuccessful model with no brains and personality. On the other hand, Bethany is an accoutant with high income and success in writing short stories but she is not satisfied with her appearance. As stated before, both girls want what the other have: Carla wants to be smart and Bethany wants to be beautiful.
What also helps to convey this theme of discontentment is the protangist, without Carla we wouldn’t have a play, nor someone for Bethany to be jealous and envy of. Though to be clear, Bethany isn’t the only one jealous, Carla is too.
Besides these elements from the play, “the genie” is also used to convey the theme of discontentment and jealously. This is because “the genie” reveals Bethany’s desires to be beautiful and her discontent of her life. She sees beauty as a major importance of life. “Beauty is a real deal,” she states. She believes that it will bring her tons of good, more than what she already has. However, Carla is the one who knows the disadvanges and problems of being beautiful and tries to tell Bethany not to wish for it. But of course, she does and she finally gets what she wants. As in real life, we can learn from Bethany and Carla that jealousy can only bring us troubles. Also this story suggests that being discontent in our life can make us unhappy and that leads to being jealousy of others. Just be satisfied with ourselves, while looking at the good side of our life and what we have, or not we will face a similar situation, like Carla and Bethany.
Dramatic Irony Dramatic Irony contains an element of contrast, typically refers to a situation in a play wherein a character whose knowledge is limited says, does, or encounters something that has a greater signifcance than he or she knows. Though, we know what it is because as the specators we are granted superior knowledge into play. So our knowledge surpasses that of the characters. This giving the characters words and actions a different meaning for us, the audience and/or reader, than they have for the play’s charcters. Besides Oedipus vowing to punish himself, even though he doesn’t realize it at the time. We also see his acts are tragic mistakes. This is long before he recognizes his own errors though. Another example of dramatic irony in Oedipus the King is the audience understood that when Oedipus called the prophet blind, he was actually unaware that he is the one who is blind. To show dramatic irony in another play, I’m going to look at Antigone.
Dramatic irony is used when the sentry comes to tell Creon that the body of Polyneices has been given a light burial. Creon has ordered that the guards watch the body so that no one would be able to bury the body. However, as we read we know that Antigone has planned to giver her brother’s body a burial based on the conversation that she has with her sister Ismene at the beginning of the play. When the sentry reports the burial, the audience knows that Antigone is responsible for the burial, but Creon doesn’t know who has buried the body. He assumes that the sentries are behind the burial and he threatens them with punishment if they do not find out who is responsible because the audience is knowledgeable aobut something that the charcaters are not, this is an example of drmatic
irony.
Emilia’s Speech
Before Emilia’s speech there is a song about a woman who excuses her awful lover bceause she loves hims so much. The woman in the speech doesn’t blame him at all but when she calls him a cheating jerk, he declares that the more women he gets with, the more likely she is to seek out other men. Desdemona sadly cries “these men! these men!” (Act IV, Scene 3, Line 60). Desdemona and Emilia then converse about whether women are ever as awful to their men as men are to their women. Emilia is certain this is the case, especially when it comes to cheating. Desdemona asks whether Emilia would she ever cheat on Iago. Since Emilia is much older and cynical than Desdemona, she tells her that plenty of women cheat. Emilia also says you could justify cheating in lots of different ways. Desdemona declares she couldn’t imagine ever doing such a thing, wich leads finally leads us into Emilia’s speech and rant.
Emilia says that since men change their women sportingly, woman should have the same option. She progresses on to say that some men deserve to be cheated on; it is the husband’s fault, not the wife’s, if a woman has an affair. After all, she’d only be following the lead of her faithless husband. Desdemona bids Emilia farewell after listening to her sad speech from a sad woman whose husband obviously hates her and is now vindictively sleeping with other woman. Desdeomna hopes she can use others’ bad behavior as a guide of what not to do, instead of an excuse to behave badly.
“Awake! What, ho, Brabantio! Thieves! Thieves! Thieves! Look to your house, your daughter and your bags! Thieves! Thieves!” (Act 1, Scene 1, Line 7). How is this Shakespeare showing the troubles of woman? This is because Brabantio’s unmarried daughter, Desdemona is basically considered her father’s property. Since she’s married Othello without her father’s permission, Iago suggests that Othello has stolen her from Brabantio. This coming from another woman, if my father would have considered me as property and not as a human being, I wouldn’t have been happy about it. This is why I classify it as a plight of womenhood.
I would consider that Shakespeare is supporting feminism and is a feminist. Through Emilia’s speech, you can see Shakespeare saying that women should have equal rights, when a man cheats on her, she should be able to do the same back at him. It isn’t her fault, but instead it is the man’s fault. Also, when we look at the other example of woman troubles that Shakespeare wrote about in Othello. I see him saying that woman should have the possibility to marry the person she wants and not be bossed around by her father.
Death of a Salesman’s Symbolism
Symbols are objects, characters, figures, or colors used to represent abstract ideas or concepts. There are quite a few symbols in Death of a Salesman, but to start off I see seeds as a symbol. The seeds represent Willy’s opportunity to prove his labor’s worth, both as a salesman and a father. Willy’s attempt to grow vegetables in his own garden indicates his own shame about barely being able to put food on the table and having nothing to leave his children when he passes. Willy feels that he has worked hard but he hears that he won’t be able to help his offspring any more than his own abandoning father helped him. Willy’s sense of failure with Biff is what the seed represents. Despite the American Dream’s formula for success, Biff wasn’t changed by Willy’s efforts to encourage and support him. Realizing that his all-American football star has turned into a lazy bum, Willy takes Biff’s failure and lack of ambition as a reflection on his father capabilities.
Linda and The Woman’s stockings show us Willy’s strange obsession with the condition of Linda’s stockings, which finally foreshadows his later flashback to Biff’s discovery of him and The Woman in their Boston hotel room. The teenage Biff accuses Willy of giving away Linda’s stocking to The Woman. It has been said that stockings hold a metaphorical assumption of betrayal and sexual infidelity. New stockings fulfill Willy’s pride in being able to financially support his family and his financial success. It also eases Willy’s guilt about his betrayal to Linda and Biff, while also suppressing the memory of it.
I don’t see Biff’s sneakers and the flute music holding any kind of symbolism, but the diamonds shown in Death of a Salesman hold some significance. To Willy, this diamonds represent touchable weath, that validaties someone’s labor and their ability to pass material goods on to one’s offspring. These are two things that Willy desperately craves. The discovery of the diamonds made Ben a fortune, symbolize in this play Willy’s failure as a salesman. At the end of this play, Ben encourages Willy to go get his elusive diamond in the “jungle.” The meaning of this is Ben is telling Willy to go kill himself for insurance money in order to make his life actually meaningful.
Another symbol found in Death of a Salesman is the rubber hose. The rubber hose is a stage prop that reminds us, as the audience, of Willy’s desperate attempts at suicide. Apparently, he tried to kill himself by inhaling gas, ironically though, is the very substance that keeps his family’s health and comfort, because of how they heat their house. Death by inhaling the gas parallels the symbolical death Willy feels as he struggles to afford the basic necessity of heat.
All About Introduction to Literature
My favorite genre we studied was fiction. The reasoning behind this is that I grasp it easier than poetry and drama. It had a simpler word base, with only one meaning. Whereas, both poetry and drama could havemany meanings, it all just depends on your own interperation of the piece of work.
I have learned multiple things I didn’t know before, such as different literature words and menaings, along with parts of literature works that I didn’t know about. The first thing I learned was about characters. Stock, round, dynamic, flat, static characters these where all terms I didn’t know before this class. But now I know if someone says a character is dynamic, they are saying that the character is changing, the characters learn and grow within the story. Something I also learned was how to identify irony. Before hand, I knew what irony was, which humor based on opposites, but I couldn’t identify it within a story. Now I can, due to doing quite a few times in this course.
I did enjoy most of the readings this course required. There were a few diffcult pieces that were hard to get through and for me, boring to no end. Though, I battled through and sometimes they became a top reading that week. I typically didn’t read many more pieces of work than what was assigned or used for an assignment. With having three-campus classes, two online, and driving two hrs every day, it was hard to find time to read the other stories. I hope that one day, I will get to read some just for fun.
Something that surprised me about literature, while I was reading and studing it, was that there can be so many meanings. I knew that people have different interpretations to pieces of works, may it art, drama, songs, what ever it may, people have different opinions on the subject. But for poetry, where one man wrote words meaning something, maybe about love. Can now meaning war, for another person. It was interesting to see this while I was studing these works of literature this semester.
The best thing about this course is getting to look at some classics and getting to interpert them and see what everyone else thinks about them. I really enjoyed reading others comments on the plays, poems, and stories we read. The worst thing is debating. I’m not someone who likes to pressure people into my ideas, so it is hard for me to discuss and put on my ideas onto someone. So this part of the class was hard for me. My only suggest is to be a bit clearer. While I was complete some earlier work, such as some of the other essay exams, it was hard for me to understand what you exactly wanted.