The amount of gum that is stuck on the seats, handrails, and windows is getting out of hand. People are constantly stepping in or sitting on wads of bubblegum and ruining some of their expensive work and/or street clothes. Along with the dirt and garbage piling up, another big problem begins to grow: rats. The NYC subways are
The Madness that is Abigail Williams: Her Intentions in The Crucible “How hard it is when pretense falls! But it falls, it falls!” With these chilling and ominous words, Abigail’s twisted sense of revenge rings hollow in Arthur Miller’s terrifying play, The Crucible. A masterpiece of its time, The Crucible brings forth the true horrors man is capable of: deception and vengefulness. No character presents these values as well as Abigail, whose lust and heartbreak for John Proctor results in a homicidal goose chase. Because of her hate towards Proctor’s wife, Elizabeth, Abigail creates demented tales, directed at abolishing the “problem.” Though Abigail’s wild canards seem quite obtuse in civilization today, at the time her acts fell to justification.
He becomes one of the negative byproducts of the war because it causes him to become “insane” and inconsiderate towards the sentimental values associated with death. In conclusion, both these texts share the common idea that war has the potential to make a person’ death seem to be not too big a deal and erase all the sentimental, emotional and humane feelings affiliated with
Created for the festival of Dionysus in 431 BC, Medea is a controversial study of impassioned love turned into furious hatred. It examines the liability of various characters for the final tragedy of the play, whence Medea butchers her two innocent children. It also disregards the concept of ‘heroes’ common to dramas in Euripides time. The clash of two contrasting characters — one, a barbarian woman with extreme emotional reactions, and her husband, a vain man of civilisation who lacks empathy — allows Euripides to explore whether it is the heart or the head that drives humans to commit inhumane acts. Medea’s extreme emotional attachments can only be expressed through extreme measures.
However, whilst it can be argued that the narrator’s dislike for the “sloven season” is as a result of the affect it has on her mentally, it can also be interpreted to affect her heart, as it is in reference to her “lover” who is “unbalancing the air”. It is suggested that love makes the narrator feel uncomfortable due to her not having full control. The fear of a particular time of day/year is also shown in Hughes’ ‘Wind’ in which night is shown to evoke fear. The narrator describes the woods to be “crashing through the darkness”. The use of onomatopoeia creates shock and fear within the narrator due to the harsh effects the wind is having on the “woods”; this is also evident through the use of “booming”.
Lennie in his instinctive animalistic way burst out "I don't like the place, George. This ain't no good place, I wanna get outa here."(36). This foreshadows not only a possible conflict between the two characters Lennie and Curley but Lennie and Curley's wife. You can link this to the woman in Weed, Lennie grabs her red dress and she cries for help and gets away. This could show Curley's wife is in
“Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead, and to tend downward with great weight and pressure toward hell.” (Edwards 47). Jonathan Edwards uses violent, hellish, figurative language to show people what will happen if they are not reborn into the Puritan way. The way the author uses this scare tactic makes the reader feel uneasy
With affairs scattered throughout, Nick shirking any responsibility to “a girl back west” and the recklessness of “bad drivers”, it is a musing on the apparent disintegration of any moral fibre within society. With many American’s feeling alienated and apathy after the horror of WW1, Fitzgerald’s work certainly captures the reactive spirit of recklessness and frivolity as many felt that they “had been everywhere and done everything”. The lavish parties of Gatsby, which encapsulate so effectively the “caterwauling” and velocity of such fast living, suggest the seductive nature of money, but ultimately the “empty house” and the absence at the final funeral highlights the vacuous nature of such
When we are first introduced to Meryl, we are quickly shown that her mental health is somewhat unstable, then combined with the impact of bearing witness to a man being crushed by a train her thoughts are filled with morbid, artistic expressions of her own death. These animations are worked seamlessly in with live action shots and play out a range of scenarios that seem outrageous, but are commonly depicted on TV and in newspapers. Meryl suffers from bouts of paranoia, and seems to be almost paralysed with fear, and she blames this on the media “I don’t need your photos to remind me of all the bloody shit in the world. I know its awful. It scares me stupid” She yells at photojournalist Nick, who is also a victim of the media.
Death does Miraculous Things to Family Disgrace, dishonesty, nobility, and allegiance create chaos within oneself only to obliterate those around them. In the play Antigone, by Sophocles, Creon’s mentality creates chaos to those who are out of breath and those who can still laboriously gasp for air. He attempts to modify the way things are and done in order to feel superior and intellectual around others. He doesn’t want to bury Antigone’s brother Polynices, because Creon thinks that he doesn’t deserve to live and creates a feud with his son because of Antigone’s punishment, therefore causing tension with his wife Eurydice. Creon causes a chain of deaths with Antigone, Haemon and Eurydice with the decisions he makes towards Antigone.