Laura Niemi Dr. Tait ENG 450 21 October, 2012 Othello The analysis of this play doesn’t begin with Othello, but it does start with the fact that Iago is the evil person portrayed here. He plays on Othello’s thoughts and emotions which makes Othello absolutely insane. He uses the passion that Roderigo has for Desdemona as a dagger to play on his unending nerves. He also uses Cassio’s character of love as well as drink against the lieutenant, along with Desdemona’s chastity against her. His plan of action was almost complete if he was able to murder Cassio.
This was because of the guilt of murdering the man and the fear of being caught. As a result, he confesses the crime he committed. The heart of the old man is said to excite him to uncontrollable terror before he killed the old man. This made him kill the old man. This contributes in proving the insanity of the narrator.
His job is to lead the convicted men to their doom and makes sure everything goes routinely and swift. While the servant from “A Tell-Tale Heart” is a psychopathic man who lets his obsession over his boss’s glass eye lead him to plot and carry out his death. Throughout both stories, the protagonists reach a moment when they need to take part in the organized killings though, their different views on life and responses to the deaths set them apart. As a result, even though the prison guard and the servant both played key roles in the executions of the victims, they both have different outlooks and reactions towards their deeds. When it comes to the obstacle that the prison guard and the servant face, they are both in the position of ending the lives of their victims on pre-determined dates.
At the climax of the story, Montresor chains a drunken Fortunato to a wall and seals him in a catacomb. From outside of the newly made crypt “...came forth in return only the jingling of the bells. My heart grew sick...” (pg. 822) After his plan goes through without a hitch and he has gotten his vengeance, Montressor feels great remorse and guilt for the horrible act he has just committed. The story of Montresor’s quest for revenge shows that revenge, even if justified, can leave one with eternal
The last and most obvious is Mrs. Summers being sacrificed by being stoned to death. The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe is another grotesque story. The first paragraph talks about Montressor’s anger and how he wants get revenge against Fortunato. Montressor lies to the intoxicated Fortunato to trick him to come down to his fault to get some Amontillado. The vault is dark and cold which gives the reader a grotesque feeling about the whole situation.
The unveiling of Laius's murderer is Oedipus's first step toward the revelation of his past, and ruin. It is with the foreknowledge of Oedipus's guilt in the murder that the audience witnesses this vow for his own demise, “Now my curse on the murderer. Whoever he is,/ a lone man unknown in his crime... let that man drag out his life in agony”(Sophocles 280-284) With this oath Oedipus has just foresaw his own future. In unknowing irony, he convicts himself and sets his fate in motion from the start. The question
Erik Johnson “Strong response essay for The Destructors” Jessamyn West once said, “A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.” Irony is used wonderfully in the short story, The Destructors, to show that there’s more behind the protagonist and gang leader, Trevor, than meets the eye. The short story, The Destructors, by Graham Greene is about a group of teenagers who destroy a house from the inside out. In the beginning we are introduced to the Wormsley Common Gang and their leader Trevor or “T.” Trevor devises a plan to destroy a two-hundred year old house owned by a man named Mr. Thomas, whom the boys refer to as “Old Misery.” The gang agrees to help Trevor execute his plan while Mr. Thomas is gone for the weekend. When the gang is in the middle of destroying the house Mr. Thomas returns home early unexpectedly. The gang wants to leave before they are finished with the job, but Trevor refuses to leave.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, written by Ken Kesey in 1962, is a book about a lively con man that turns a mental institution upside down with his rambunctious antics and sporadic bouts with the head nurse. Throughout the book, this man shows the others in the institution how to stand up for themselves, to challenge conformity to society and to be who they want to be. It is basically a book of good versus evil, the good being the con man R.P. McMurphy, and the bad being the head nurse, Nurse Ratched. McMurphy revitalizes the hope of the patients, fights Nurse Ratched's stranglehold on the ward, and, in a way, represents the feelings of the author on society at the time.
These two different stories show two different ways that imagination and bullying interact. The human imagination Is a very powerful thing. In “ The Fall of a city”, Teddy uses his imagination to create a make-believe world so that he can get happiness and respect from. “This time, they conquered Theodoresburg and massacred the populace before being routed by King Theodore. On the day of victory, the Duke of Anders was brought to Theodoresburg in chains and hanged in the city square.”(page 42) He is a lonely boy in real life.
Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold: and so by degrees – very gradually – I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever.” The Narrator again proves his madness through his apparent lack of solid intent coupled with his explanation of the rage within him. He proves his malice and forethought into the manner and admits it was a murder of the first degree to stop his chills brought upon by an old man’s diseased eye. Through his madness, the Narrator seals his doom by being tempted into taking the life of an old man. After the deed is done and the Narrator had chosen to commit a