Life Versus Death

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This picture describes the play because in the play I believe that Tillie is the life and that she is the character on the right and Beatrice is the death so she is the one on the left and they struggle to come together and change things.

I think in this play death plays an important role. We think a lot about nanny and how old she is just wondering when the day is going to come that she dies. Beatrice is constantly putting her children down and trying to kill what they believe in and do anything to make them unhappy. Beatrice also in the end kills Peter the rabbit with chloroform which really shows us how cruel she can be. I think Tillie is the only one in the play who does not represent this because of her science project and her accomplishment of giving life to the marigolds.

Examples

1. Beatrice kills Peter knowing it will make her daughters very upset.
2. Tillie grows her marigolds even after being put down by just about everyone around her.