The distinction between flaws and perfection in literature is at constant debate regarding which is more memorable; flawed characters or moral lessons? Flawed characters often more interesting than perfect characters as readers and audiences can relate more to them as the imperfections of the characters often mirror their own, or those of someone they know. Characters can be unlikeable and still be interesting, and it is their flaws, which often are born out of some defect, that make them interesting. The main flawed character in Chaucer’s Wife of Bath is that of the wife herself, Alisoun, whilst in her tale the Knight is the flawed character; both have moral lessons that can be taken from their actions. Meanwhile in Webster’s The White Devil, there are plenty of flawed characters, as is often a typical convention of a revenge tragedy.
Lockhart wrote both We Were Liars and Genuine Fraud so many would think they would be really similar but that couldn’t be further from the truth. Both stories are vastly different in many ways although they might have a few small similarities here and there. One reason the stories are different are the protagonists. The main character in Genuine Fraud is Jule West Williams. Jule was a poor orphan from early on in her life.
It is usually the author who evokes characters, so it is pointed out that Joe is creating his own story and its truths. Joe is an unreliable, as we sometimes question whether he is going insane rather than it just being Jed, for example when he keeps seeing things in the library. Clarissa asks him “which way this fixation runs” which forces us as readers to revaluate Joe’s reliability as a narrator. Jean Logan is part of the subplot that reflects the main plot. Like Joe, she is in a stressful situation that causes her to doubt the loyalty of her husband, like Joe does with Clarissa.
He is not able to enjoy the finer things which he so desires and feels he deserves. Since his salary is meager he finds that by assisting the farmers and teaching singing lessons he can obtain food and lodging from the parents of the children he teaches. Ichabod believes that since he is a schoolmaster, and they are regarded as being a bit superior in certain areas, that this gives him some standing among the women in the neighborhood. However, he has very little to offer a wife. In truth, his education is inadequate, he has little drive, and he lives off of others.
Force of Evil It seems difficult enough for Joe Morse to defend a client whom is a powerful gangster but it’s even more surprising when the lawyer joins hands and becomes partners with him. When a lawyer who is familiar with law crosses that ethical line with his gangster client, Ben Tucker then trouble is ahead. The two got a scheme to shut down all the illegal banks in the city, and buy up the ones they want. Joe has an older brother, Leo, a man with heart trouble; Knowing that Leo, an essentially honest man in a dishonest business, will resist joining the syndicate, Joe goes to visit his brother but Leo denounces the proposed alliance with Tucker, then excoriates his brother's lack of principles and reminds him of the sacrifices that he has made to put him through law school. The trouble is, Leo is happy with his small, if not quite ethical, business.
The main family in the story (the Logans) live on a farm and grow some of their own food but they still don’t have enough money and aren’t allowed to shop at white owners shop. The themes of the story are integrity, passive resistance, bravery, civil disobedience, internal belief system and leadership. I think it’s a good idea that the same person is telling the story because you can see how a young child reacts to being discriminated against, but the disadvantage is that you can’t hear the other side of the story. When the author describes something, she creates a vivid picture in your head for example, ‘Spring. It seeped unseen into the waiting red earth in early March, softening the hard ground for the coming
This theme of isolation was reinforced for me after reading key scenes and moments of the catcher in the rye which had the reoccurring theme of Holden not having the ability to let go of negative relationships, every chance Holden gets he thinks of these relationships because of his fixation on the past. “I’ve got Jane on the brain again” this quote was said by the protagonist Holden Caulfield when thinking about Jane, a girl in which he has fancied and cared for since he has met her. This can be compared to The Great Gatsby’s protagonist Jay Gatsby. Gatsby has the same problem as the catcher in the rye’s protagonist Holden, which is a fixation on the past. In the Gatsby the theme of alienation and isolation was reinforced in the climax of the novel when Gatsby passes an inability to leave behind a fragile relationship which he once had with the character Daisy.
All of my books are basically romances; they’re stories about reconnecting with community”(Williams). The disorders in life that The Narrator and Dr. Jekyll experience on the edge of being inhuman, “My Characters are not people. They are machines that do a job. They are machines designed to destroy themselves” (Williams). Through the minds of Palahniuk and Stevenson a common ground is reached in the two books Fight Club and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; both the narrator and Dr. Jekyll create their own misfortune in trying to fix the problems of the world, or better yet what they perceive the problems to be.
These people were supposed to pay taxes in wartime; however, because they were not used to paying taxes, this rule was rarely enforced. This estate added to the strain on the economy, and yet the people of this class lived luxuriously enough that they did not care. They, too, saw no problem in the Estates-General or in social structure. Again, the members of this estate saw only
Identity Crisis Within society, people often have a hard time determining their identity, whether it is because they are ashamed of who they are or just flat out scared to commit to a single identity. In the film Gran Torino written by, directed by, and starring Clint Eastwood, Tao, Walt Kowalski’s Hmong neighbor, is caught in an abysmal situation. After failing to steal Walt Kowalski’s 1972 Gran Torino, Tao wants to terminate all communication with gang life. Having to decide between joining his cousins Hmong gang or going his own way is probably the hardest decision Tao has had to make in his life up to this point. The other route is getting taken under Walt Kowalski’s wing, an old, stubborn widower, by gaining his respect after two weeks of working for his forgiveness.