Tom Buchanan And Myrtle's Relationship

he texts also show that the characters feel the need to discipline their lover when they display behaviors they do not approve of. When someone has discipline over another, it gives them the upper hand of power. Tom Buchanan, Abigail Williams, and Stanley Kowalski feel the need to take the behavior of their partners into their own hands. Tom and Myrtle do not keep their affair confidential to the public, the only people they keep the affair a secret from are their spouses. Throughout their affair, there was also some physical abuse, “Daisy! Daisy! Daisy!’ shouted Mrs. Wilson. ‘I’ll say it whenever I want to! Daisy! Dai——‘ Making a short deft movement Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand” (Fitzgerald 41). Myrtle keeps repeating Daisy’s
John wants to tell the court what he knows in order to defend Elizabeth, but he worries as to how he would be able to prove that what Abigail said was false because they are alone when the conversation happens. Also, he is aware of the power she gains over the people in the court and in the village. By the end of the trails, Abigail does not get what she wants and Proctor is hanged for not falsely confessing to witchcraft. In A Streetcar Named Desire, When Stanley enters the apartment, he sees Blanche dressed in an old, faded gown and a rhinestone tiara on her head; she was talking to herself when Stanley had entered. He became curious of Blanche’s outfit while she tells him how she has just received an invitation for a cruise in the Caribbean with a Mr. Shep Huntleigh. She is drinking heavily during the conversation, and Stanley has a few drinks himself. Blanche tells Stanley how Mitch came to her, imploring her forgiveness, but she sent him away because "deliberate cruelty is not forgivable" (Williams 157). Then Stanley attacks her, accusing her of lying about the