Gwendolyn and Cecily were not common women for their time. The play is portrayed in the late 1880’s, making quotes to the Victorian Period. On that period women used to be elegant fashion and sophisticated. They were worried about silly and trivial things (as we could notice on the play). Women also were under the husband’s power and always obeyed their husbands.

That is the reason for Gwendolyn and Cecily do not belong to the period. They were women who broke gender rules because they “manipulated” Jack and Algernon. These men did whatever the girls wanted and the girls just wanted to be married. Despite of this, Gwendolyn and Cecily were very decided and determinate. Gwendolyn did not allow her mother to arrange her marriage. She herself was the one who chose her husband and she went on her decision. Cecily was very similar to Gwendolyn and, I think, even worse than the first girl. She created a story to herself with on her diary that she was married to a man (Jack’s younger brother) named Earnest.

Despite all the exaggeration on the play the girls break rules because women were not allowed to do what they did during the period of the play. Many stereotypes are broken in the figure of Gwendolyn and Cecily. Since that period women (until nowadays) were (and some are) raised to obey men (father, brother, husband…) but these two characters did not do what was supposed to be done. That is the reason of being women that break gender rules.

Nowadays roses are a representation of love, specially the red ones. Fortunately I’m going to write about a blue rose, a special one.

Blue roses are not natural in nature, they do not exist in nature. All of them are produced artificially and that’s why they are so special. In some cultures it is believed that this kind of flower grant the owner youth and all the wishes. Also, the blue rose can be considered symbol of mysterious things. Blue roses are representational. They are presented in films such as “Beauty and the Beast” where the beast give Belle a blue rose exactly when he changes to human form, whence it is so representational. Other film that is found the blue rose is “The thief of Bagdad” where the blue rose is the symbol of forgetfulness.

So, as it is possible to be noticed the blue roses have a huge symbolism through many stories and histories. In the play “The glass menagerie” by Tennessee Williams there is the Blue Rose which is the nickname given by Jim to Laura. This nickname can be the characterization of Laura’s unusualness behaviour. Besides, she lives in a historical period of crash, in the 30’s. As it was said, the blue rose is something different as Laura is in the play. Despite of her timid way of behave she is full of great wish of help her brother and even her mother. She deals not so well with her physical problem. Laura is like the collection of fragile glasses. The blue roses are exactly the representation of Laura: special, different, kind, loveable and joyful.

Furthermore, Laura is a recalling of Rose, Tennessee William’s sister, on whom the character of Laura is based. So, the author possibly wanted to base this character on his sister and made the blue roses a symbol for Laura (Rose): people who are really fragile but special and different.

Lady Macbeth is as guilty as Macbeth in the murder of the king because she was the one who thought about the murder and gave Macbeth courage to make the deed and Macbeth was the one who really did.

In a certain moment Macbeth loses his courage to kill the King Duncan but after while Lady Macbeth gives him courage and even provokes him by asking about him manhood.

Lady Macbeth also thinks that Macbeth is too kind to commit the murder. In turn, she is also ambitious, frightening and even stronger than Macbeth (in a very first moment of the play). We could say that she is naive and does not worry about future punishments because she really thinks that her husband’s wish is to become king. To Lady Macbeth “the end justifies the ways” to become king. She does not think about the consequences and ask for Macbeth also do it: not think about the consequences and not stop to remorse.

Despite of Macbeth has practiced the murder his wife was all the time giving him courage but, on the other hand, later on, their consciousness pops up and Lady Macbeth becomes crazy.

She is as guilty as Macbeth because both made the murder, each one in their ways.

At the beginning Lady Macbeth finds strength to provokes Macbeth to murder Duncan and to go on on their plans. As time advances he false strength reduces as she fights against the torments of her conscience. It is so a big torment that she can not support Macbeth against Malcom and her attempts to suppress her conscience fail. In the end she chooses death because she can not deal with the guilt and ‘ghosts’ in her mind.