Incest in Kings Row :: essays research papers

Shady characters permeate this film, but they feces be easily forgotten under the thick melodrama that sweeps you into the storyline. Perhaps the intimately disturbing character to me was Dr. editorial. I mean, really, who is this guy? From the beginning I could regain a kind of strange dynamic between broad-leaved bottletree and her father. after she and Parris swim together as children, she says that if her father finds out shes been swimming with Parris, he would "take a switch" to her. At first I notion maybe he was strict about her coming straight house from school or something, but as soon as I heard about the mother staying in the home all of the time, it became more(prenominal) clear. Cassies mother was not insane or ill but a victim of a possessive man. By confining his wife and missy to the home, he isolated himself, making himself unknown to anyone else in the town. As in every small town people talked in Kings Row, and Dr. Tower avoided a lot of this gos sip by not allowing anyone into or out of his home. even at Cassies birthday party, the guests were all outside, and when Parris enters the house to thank Dr. Tower, he is quick shooed away to go home. Did anyone else think of Forrest Gump here? I had to think of Forrest and jenny ass as children and how much their interactions were like that of Cassie and Parris. Both little girls had darkling and deep secrets they were victims of incest. Cassie is pulled out of school and is not allowed to leave the house. She is timid, skiddish, and cannot manner Parris in the eye when he visits their home. Dr. Tower would like us to remember that she has gone insane, as he claims his wife was, and even Parris buys this. I most wanted to scream when Parris says, "He mustve known about us," commenting on Dr. Tower murdering his daughter and commiting suicide in order to prevent Parris from living a life with a psychotic wife. Yes, Dr. Tower did know about Parris and Cassie. He knew t hey had a sexual relationship, and that is why he killed Cassie. Perhaps the biggest clue was when Cassie comes screaming to Parris in the middle of the night for help and then refuses his pass to walk her home. She probably knew that if Parris came home with her, her father, knowing about their relationship, would kill him as well.