Innocence is the primary theme of the novel; that is, the destructive nature of it. In Pyle, innocence breeds a destructive idealism that culminates in his murder as an indirect result. Fowler and Pyle are juxtaposed as unlikely friends in the novel, serving to contrast innocence with disenchantment. When Fowler first meets Pyle he involuntarily likes him. He is quiet (unlike most of the Americans that Fowler comes into contact with), thoughtful, and naive.
The first conversation they have is packed with free indirect discourse, but only Selden’s, as he watches Lily and comments on her in his head. Throughout the book, it seems, he prides himself on being just outside the spotlight, always on the side-lines. Lily expresses that she wants “a friend who won't be afraid to say disagreeable [things] when I need them”, and he is definitely that friend, but is that what she really needs? What Miss Bart, never going anywhere but down, needs is a friend (expressly a male friend) who does and helps her to do. His inactiveness is best expressed in one of his most memorable lines to Lily: “The only way I can help you is by loving you.” It’s a great line, and Selden is very pretty in speech, but it is also a great untruth, and one that shows how unhelpful he is in Lily’s life.
In the novel the characters trust Nick and confide in him quite a bit. He thinks of himself as an open minded non-judgmental, non-partial person. I think that it is almost impossible to live your life and not judge others and also not be partial and judge different individuals with different standards. Nick wants the readers to believe that the way he was raised gives him the right to pass judgment on an immoral world. He says, that as a consequence of the way he was raised he is "inclined to reserve all judgments" about other people (page 5).
Elizabeth is one character that has very few thoughts on money and social positions, and because of this is able to rely her own judgements on characteristics and personalities. Elizabeth’s misconceptions of characters are clearly shown with Darcy and Wickham. At the beginning of the novel she is anything but fond of Darcy and believes that Wickham is a good man. She then goes to state… “There certainly was some great mismanagement I the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.” It this Elizabeth is stating that Wickham is basically evil and that Darcy is not.
Amongst them is Albert Aboul who thought that Robespierre’s actions were necessary for the benefit of France. This could be because he admired his determination to change his country. If seen from that point of view, Robespierre did have a heroic nature. He supported freedom and total equality and he disliked war and violence. For instance, he opposed war against Austria on December 1791.
229) I believe this quote reveals the moral because as he reads this book he find out Crusoe is all alone and isolated and even though Charlie doesn’t realize it yet he himself is isolated and lonely as well. Next the writer demonstrates the lesson by including the character’s dialogue. While Charlie is reading his progress reports with Miss Kinnian he says, “All my frends are smart people but there good.” (Pg. 229) I feel this quote expresses the theme because Charlie doesn’t realize how his friends actually treat him. He thinks they’re all nice to him, but instead they just laugh at him and make fun of him which signalizes that he’s lonely.
Reasonable Eccentric Behavior of Dorian Gray . In the book, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Dorian Gray is a handsome and proper man, but on the inside he is full of madness, guilt and misery. Initially he’s a melodramatic and petulant young man , but after realizing his true morals –his life skews toward the futile side. Instead of fixing his life, he lives for the pursuit of pleasure which makes him indifferent. Although his actions are very insane, they can be seen as rational to reader considering hedonism.
In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter, the character of Roger Chillingworth was transformed from a well educated scholar into a fallen, unrighteous man. Roger Chillingworth was once kind, then becomes the symbol of vengeance, and finally becomes the personification of vengeance to the extent of losing his humanity. Roger Chillingworth (Prynne), a “kind, but never warm hearted man,” was not always a vengeful and diabolical creature, but once he lusted after the idea of love and kindness. During “The Interview” with Hester, he admits his fault of trying for love: “It was my folly! I have said it.
Why Smoking Marijuana Is Good For You If you walked into a room and asked all the people who have ever smoked cannabis sativa, more commonly known as marijuana, to raise their hands, there would be few if any hands raised. Obviously no one would want to admit to criminal activity in front of bosses, law enforcement, family, teachers or friends. So why is it that smoking pot is so taboo in our society? Marijuana is one of the safest medicinal substances on the planet and is supported by many celebrity role models. To quote Johnny Depp, “I’m not a big pothead or anything like that… but weed is much, much less dangerous than alcohol.” The most common myth is that marijuana leads to harder drugs, which is not true and has been proven by the National Institute of Health.
Brave New World Personal Analysis Near the end of my book I found this quote that made me think a different way of the whole book and life in general. The quote is: ‘But I like the inconveniences.’ ‘We don’t,’ said the Controller. ‘We prefer to do things comfortably.’ ‘But I don’t want comfort, I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom ,I want goodness. I want sin’ ‘In fact’ said Mustapha Mond, ‘You’re claiming the right to be unhappy.’ ‘All right then,’ said the savage defiantly, ‘I’m claiming the right to be unhappy’ (240). John or also known as The Savage really like how all the factors of positives and negatives in life which life is worth living for.