“I’m nearly dead of it,” (Tolkien 104) Bilbo said a little upset after Gandalf told The Great Eagle that they were starving. Victor suffered after the horrible murders and deaths of each and every one of his loved ones. This happened several times in the book so he was also miserable quite a bit. Another time was while he was on his journey to find the monster. He stated, “I have endured misery,” (Shelley 206) because he was travelling over dangerous grounds with little food.
Christopher Mcandless, although driven to find true isolation, came to the self-realization at the end of his journey that loneliness was not the true solution to his problems, but that true happiness comes from the love of others. Before he came to this realization, Christopher’s motivations for happiness and isolation derived from his disconnection to his family, his hatred for society and the structure that forms it, and finally Christopher’s desire for a natural life. Christopher’s disconnection to his family was one of his motivations to search for total isolation. Chris had next to no relationship with any of his family members besides his sister, which evidently was not enough to keep him from leaving. He had no similar interests with them and their lifestyle was one that he didn’t like or want to be a part of.
E.M Forester describes a flat character as “The really flat character can be expressed in one sentence…” Royal Tenenbaum’s in one sentence is “he is very deceitful.” He begins the story as being a flat character his entire life, but when forced onto the streets, his manipulative nature turns against him; creating the beginning of his transformation. He is shown as a man who has always put himself before all others, including his family. Royal seems unable to grasp the idea that his irresponsible and selfish lifestyle has driven a wedge between him and his family that cannot be undone by a simple apology. The main goal of Royal however, is not to make amends to his family, but to have a roof over his head. The story begins with Royal being kicked out of his hotel room and having nowhere else to go, hatches a plan to gain entry into his old apartment by saying he has cancer.
Derek Sullivan Looking for Someone to Listen In “Misery” the reader experiences a look into the emotional conflict envisioned by Anton Chekhov. The theme seems to be humans need to share their grief, even if it’s with an animal. Throughout the story the main character Iona, who lost his son to death a week prior, tries to talk to different people with no avail. It seems no matter how hard he tries they just ignore him or yell at him. “His misery is immense, beyond all bounds.
In the beginning he does reveal this secret to Jack, but keeps it hidden from his family and other characters. The fact that Algernon can nonchalantly reveal a secret to another liar shows the shallowness in Victorian relationships. Their bonds hold no loyalty to one another and so they constantly abuse it. Algernon lies and keeps using “Bunbury” as an excuse so that he may get out of having to see them because seeing them is a chore to him. Instead of appreciating his family members’ relationship and being intimate with them, he treats them like dirt.
He is not called by his name but by ‘thing’ which shows a loss of identiy and a lack of respect from the other house memebers. After mrs earnshaws death, Mr earnshaw took to Heathcliff strangely putting him far above both his children which caused Hindley a great deal of jealously and led him to persecute the fatherless child. During heathcilffs childhood, the only friend he had and loved was Cathy. Both enjoyed eachothers company and got along very well, however this soon changed as one night they wonder to thrushcross grange and cathy gets bitten by a dog and is foced to stay their for 5 weeks, by the time she returns her relationship with Heathcliff grows more complicated as she has infatuated with edgar, this angers him and Hindleys abusive behaviour leads him to run away from W’H. When Heathcliff returns he immediately sets about seeking revenge on all those who have wronged him.
His language is "gibberish" and his dark otherness provokes the labels "gipsy," "wicked boy," "villain," and "imp of Satan." This poor treatment is not much of an improvement on his "starving and houseless" childhood, and he quickly becomes a product of all of the abuse and neglect. Racially different, he can and will never be accepted by his adoptive family or the villagers of Gimmerton. That Heathcliff should be given the name of an Earnshaw son who died in childhood confirms the impression of his being a fairy changeling – an otherworldly being that takes the place of a human child. Plus, he is never given the last name Earnshaw.
Mrs. Earnshaw was ready to fling it out of doors, without having done anything to deserve rejection; Heathcliff is made to feel like an outsider after Mr. Earnshaw’s death and suffers cruel mistreatment by Hindley. In these formative years, he is deprived of love, sociability and education, according to Nelly, Hindley's treatment towards Heathcliff was "enough to make a fiend of a saint". He is separated from the family, reduced to the status of a servant, forced to do farm work. Personality that Heathcliff develops in his adult life has been formed in response to the deprivation of his childhood. He is quite vengeful in nature, and he is also stubborn and steadfast he does whatever he sets his mind to.
This echoes one of the themes of this novel—adolescent confusion on the way to the adult world and the pain of growing up. As what Holden did before, he alienated himself from the outside phony world so as to protect the inner fragile, confused self. He labelled people around him as phonies and morons but it never downed on him that he was also one of the phonies who would flatter someone on mouth but curse him in heart. He didn’t know what he wanted to get from the adult
Since his main source of love, which are his parents, have been tragically taken away from him, one of his main goals in Great Expectations is to find love. Love awaits him in the arms of Joe, his sister’s husband who he is very fond of when he was a child and has always been there consoling him after Mrs. Joe’s hard punishments. Joe brings to life a very strong love for him that starts to fade as Pip grows. Joe is the classic example of a person in the family, which keeps things under control with his strong affection and wellbeing. The most predominant love that we find for Pip is probably Joe’s who is currently present through out the first part of the novel, guiding him and showing him a true sense of identity and a different kind of ‘gentleman’, which he does not realize that exists.