- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
In this passage, the narrator reflects on Emily’s unflagging obedience, even in doing things that she hated. Seemingly for the first time, she compares Emily to her other children at the same age and realizes that Emily’s obedience may have caused her hidden harm. The narrator then locates the cause of this obedience within herself, assuming that something about her own behavior made Emily feel that she could not disobey. The connection between mother and daughter expands the theme of toxic obedience from the narrator outward to Emily, setting up the contrast that occurs later with Emily’s embrace of self-expression…