What do you think is the importance of Inspector Goole and how does Priestley present him? (30 marks) In the play ‘An Inspector Calls” Priestley uses dramatic irony to display his political views, regarding socialism versus capitalism, through the character of Inspector Goole. The play was set in 1912, but was published and first performed in 1945. This time gap in Edwardian England saw an abundance of memorable historical events e.g. World War 1, World War 2 and the sinking of the Titanic, so the significance of the early setting gives the audience the ‘upper hand’ over the characters.
Economic difficulties are once more displayed when Sally is forced to sell her fur coat in order to pay for her abortion. This yearning of monetary stability contributed to the increase in support for the Nazi Party. To the economically depressed, Hitler promised to punish Jewish financers who were seen to be exploiting German citizens and profiting during the financial crisis of the early 1930s. Cabaret comments on the growth of Anti-Semitism in Germany at the time. This change on the political stage is represented by the victimisation of Natalia and her family when her dog is slaughtered and ‘Juden” is painted on her doorstep by a group f young boys.
Sierra Branch Mrs. P. Durán Eiker English II, Pre-AP, Period 1/B 29 April 2015 John Knowles depicts a loss of innocence in, A Separate Peace, through symbol, metaphor, and irony. The realization of the hostile world diminishes the adolescence of the boys at Devon. The understanding of the brutal world implicates the necessity of a personal war with adulthood and the loss of innocence. The realities of life permeate and destroy the world of the boys’ youth, which comes with the understanding that a friend might act with malice toward another. The destruction of the youth of the boys at Devon corrupts innocence they have within themselves.
Similarly, Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones follows Matilda, a young girl caught in the midst of a horrific civil war. Both coming of age novels are deep-rooted in the psychological and moral development of its main, youthful characters. It can be said that in both novels the authors show the reader how war normalizes violence, as both novels include graphic violent scenes. In Mister Pip, the red skin leaders kill the village animals and burn their possessions as an act of punishment. The villagers just accepted it, acknowledging that there was little they could do in retaliations.
is related to The Odyssey from the heroes’ encounters with blind prophets, but also differentiate the two epics by the heroes’ rapport with their wives. During the heroes’ adventures, they both meet a blind prophet who foretells their near future. In the eerie Underworld, Tiresias the ancient blind prophet informed Odysseus that he will endure a harsh journey home as the lone survivor of his crew. However, Odysseus will also arrive home only to find his estate contaminated by suitors, whom he must retaliate against for their crimes. In a similar manner, Everett encounters a blind hobo on a manual railroad car.
The novel The Road by Cormac McCarthy features many examples of symbolism in order to enhance the reader’s understanding of the grim reality within the text: a nameless father and son struggling to survive in a world defaced by an overwhelming catastrophe. The symbols that McCarthy utilises are of natural phenomena that once existed in harmony but now battle for dominance, such as darkness and water representing the opposing ideas of destruction and survival respectively, and fire and ashes representing disparate concepts of hope and death. In contrast to these earthly things, the road that they walk upon, one of the last existing human constructions, features as a symbol of their journey of necessity to survive every passing day. The road that the central characters traverse throughout McCarthy’s text is a motif that represents their journey through the wasteland they once called home. Their destination is the coastline, which is a few months’ walk away; their belief is that it will be their deliverance, as everything depended on reaching the coast.
The novel implicitly associates this realization of the necessity of a personal war with adulthood and the loss of childhood innocence. For most of Gene’s classmates, World War II provides the catalyst for this loss, and each reacts to it in his own way—Brinker by nurturing a stance of boldness, for example, and Leper by descending into madness. Gene himself, though, states that he fought his own war while at Devon and killed his enemy there. The obvious implication is that Finny, as the embodiment of a spirit greater than Gene’s own, was his enemy, casting an unwavering shadow over Gene’s life. One might alternatively interpret Gene’s statement to mean that this enemy was himself, his own resentful, envious nature, which he “killed” either by knocking Finny from the tree or by obtaining forgiveness from Finny for doing so.
Emotions and adversity is firstly linked to belonging and the hardships associated with it from the beginning of the chapter. Raimond creates this sense of hardship to show the difficulties of life and how it is bestowed upon an individual. This idea illustrates how a persona will be in a situation whether they like it or not. Adversity is mainly introduced in the first sentence where Romulus stands “with a pitchfork held tightly in both hands, knowing that he would probably kill his uncle.” The sentence exemplifies the hard decisions Romulus belongs to and foreshadows what his life will entail; a life of hardships and adversity. This is again relevant in the chapter with the description to find work is affiliated with his hardships.
His father’s turbulent life-style causes significant stress for Sarty, and, in the end, he makes the painful decision to give his father up and run away. The author seems to have written this story to show that poverty is the driving force behind much violent criminal behavior, effectively display that children are, by nature, compassionate, sympathetic, and loyal individuals, and suggest that sacrificing family ties is sometimes necessary to accomplish a greater good for society. Faulkner’s antisocial characterization of Abner Snopes effectively depicts how lower class life often leads to resentment and destructive behavior. When the family arrives at their new home, Abner remarks to his wife “I reckon I’ll have a word with the man that aims to begin tomorrow owning me body and soul for the next eight months” (506). Abner is full of bitterness and jealousy.
Section 1 To understand what led to Hamlets rejection of Ophelia ,it is necessary to analyse the psychological impact on Hamlet state of mind after the death of his father and his mother’s hasty marriage to his uncle. In the first soliloquy he reveals his true feelings regarding his mother’s relationship with his uncle. Hamlets perception of the world has changed and sees the world as “weary, stale, flat and unprofitable.” He compares his life to an “unweeded garden” full of things “rank and gross in nature.” Here he is implying that his life is corrupted and polluted by his mother’s incestuous marriage to his uncle. He feels that this marriage is disgusting revolting and morally wrong. Hamlet longs for death and even considers “self-slaughter.” However he is aware that to commit self-slaughter is a grave sin in the eyes of the “Everlasting.” He describes himself to being “solid” or “sullied” which implies that he himself feels tainted, dirty and polluted due to his mother’s disloyalty.