My senses of sarcasm and wit are definitely nowhere near as insane as those of John Bender, but they are two characteristics that I definitely believe I have in common with him to some extent. Another thing that really attracts me to the character of John Bender is his hidden sense of vulnerability. In the film, it is learned that a lot of his attitude and anger stems from his unstable home life that includes an abusive father. He may pose an attitude toward Principal Vernon, but when it is just the two of them in the scene where Vernon personally threatens him, Bender has a look of slight defeat on his face, and seems almost hurt by the personal attack. I like that he isn’t afraid to show this defenselessness, even if he is alone in a closet.
It establishes comedy very early with some of the lower class people before the anticipated play of La Clorise. Another place that it establishes comedy with a low class character is in Ragueneau. But the majority of the comedy comes from the high class main character Cyrano. Throughout the story people are making wise cracks about his nose, but no one is able to defend themselves and back up what they say. Because people are making fun of his nose he is able to provide witty humor that makes the book become a comedy.
He goes on to talk about how much she hates her for being a faker and plans on saying, “…Marla, you big fake, you get out” (Palahniuk 24). This shows the irony that he wants her to leave for being a faker although he is just as much at fault. This can be related to men being angry that women were coming in and competing for jobs even though it was a completely reasonable thing to
To do this he is hypercritical and judgemental of almost all people and things: “Ernie’s a big fat colored guy that plays the piano. He's a terrific snob and he won't hardly even talk to you unless you’re a big shot or a celebrity or something, but he can really play the piano. He's so good, he's almost corny, in fact. I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it. I certainly like to hear him play, but sometimes you feel like turning the goddam piano over.
In this quote, Stilson shows anger toward Ender who deliberately creates a situation to hurt Ender. He calls him names and thinks Ender was powerful because of the monitor which is now taken off. The other time Ender’s excellence is disliked by others is when he is tortured by Bernard and his gang. At the launch, when Ender’s excellence is appreciated by colonel Graff, it brings a life of torture for Ender by Bernard and his gang. “Kicking his bed every time they went in, jostling him with his meal tray.
From beginning to end of the story, Holden straightforwardly demonstrates his disgust for the phoniness in society. A prime example of this is when Holden expresses how he feels towards a group of pretentious guys-or in his eyes, phonies- who enjoy plays; He shares, “I could see them all sitting around in some bar, with their goddam checkered vest, criticizing shows and books and women in those tired, snobby voices” (128). Furthermore, these are the types of people that Holden despises for being phony; in this case he is referring to people who solely do things to make them look good. With this example in mind, Holden’s abhorrence for phoniness allows his value for honest people to be unveiled. In The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger portrays Holden Caulfield as a teenager with a cynical attitude towards life; however, beyond his cynicism and hypocrisy, he holds an exceptional value system.
How does Williams explore the theme desire in the play. Williams explores the theme of desire in many ways throughout the play, most notably by showing Stanley’s desire to be in control at all times. At the beginning of scene one Stanley throws a meat package up to Stella who protests mildly but manages to catch the package, this symbolises the sexual dominance that Stanley has over Stella, the sexual innuendo is noted by their neighbours who witness this and laugh. Stanley’s desire for power is also seen in Scene three when the radio is used to symbolise the power struggle between Blanche and Stanley. Blanche angers Stanley not only by turning on the radio but also by chatting flirtatiously to Mitch who is there to play poker, the fact that his friends also request to keep the radio on infuriates Stanley all the more as he feels that Blanche is undermining him in front of his friends, he storms over to turn the radio off staring angrily at an unflinching Blanche, Stanley is drunk which further fuels his emotions and Blanche is well aware that her behaviour is causing conflict, Blanche later turns the radio back on and Stanley rages, throwing the radio out of the window in a final show of power which ends in him being violent to Stella.
George reveals to Slim that Lennie is dumb and does not know what he is doing 100% of the time. He told Slim ‘He seen this girl in a red dress and the dumb bastard that he is. He just wants to touch everything he likes, so he reaches out to touch this red dress and the girl starts screaming. That gets Lennie all mixed up so he holds on and doesn’t let go because that’s the only thing he can think of doing.’ He opens up to slim rather than the other men because he trusts Slim and is a respectful and kind man. 2.
It is then that it becomes noticeable that the blind man makes the woman happier than her own husband does. Later on in the story, the blind man tells a joke and the woman laughs. Her husband notices this action. Observing of the actions a woman and how she acts in the presence of other men, and actually noticing the difference is something that jealous men do. The husband is obviously not happy that the blind man makes his wife laugh more than he does while he is not even able to do so himself.
In this conclusion, Williams gathers all of the characters together in a strong male female divide, with the men playing poker and the women attending to Blanche’s final preparations. By using descriptive, story-like stage directions, Williams is able to create not just a, effective final scene, but a play that entices the reader much more. If the stage directions had been simply ‘Stanley removes the paper lantern and gives it to Blanche” rather than “He crosses to dressing table and seizes the paper lantern, tearing it off the light bulb, and extends it towards her. She cries out as if the lantern was herself.” then we as readers would not be as drawn to the play as we are. In this quote from the scene, Blanche is being almost evicted from the house.