| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: PUCELLE.
Chang'd to a worser shape thou canst not be.
YORK.
O, Charles the Dauphin is a proper man;
No shape but his can please your dainty eye.
PUCELLE.
A plaguing mischief light on Charles and thee!
And may ye both be suddenly surprised
By bloody hands, in sleeping on your beds!
YORK.
Fell banning hag; enchantress, hold thy tongue!
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister: XIV: The Replacers
She had been strange, perceptibly strange, had Eliza La Heu; that was the
most which I could make out of it. I had angered her in some manner
wholly beyond my intention or understanding and not all at one fixed
point in our talk; her irritation had come out and gone in again in spots
all along the colloquy, and it had been a displeasure wholly apart from
that indignation which had flashed up in her over the negro question.
This, indeed, I understood well enough, and admired her for, and admired
still more her gallant control of it; as for the other, I gave it up.
A sense of guilt--a very slight one, to be sure--dispersed my
speculations when I was preparing for dinner, and Aunt Carola's
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft: the misery and oppression, peculiar to women, that arise out of
the partial laws and customs of society.
In the invention of the story, this view restrained my fancy;
and the history ought rather to be considered, as of woman, than
of an individual.
The sentiments I have embodied.
In many works of this species, the hero is allowed to be
mortal, and to become wise and virtuous as well as happy, by a
train of events and circumstances. The heroines, on the contrary,
are to be born immaculate, and to act like goddesses of wisdom,
just come forth highly finished Minervas from the head of Jove.
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