Jet Hizon 12 AP Literature 7 Mrs. Glazer 14 October 2013 Hatred Hatred is an intense dislike or extreme aversion or hostility (Dictionary.com). The monster was driven to despise all of humankind because of the way he was treated from the moment he was given life. The love and affection he was craving for from humans was never given to him and instead he was abhorred by his reflection. Mary Shelley portrays that hatred consumes the monster turning him into the fiend because of the way the humans brutalize him. From the moment the monster was given life, He was welcomed by his creator, Doctor Frankenstein, ran away, his heart filled with “horror and disgust” (Shelley 35) by the
Even though the book can be a bit dry, his travels through Hell can be quite entertaining and creative. Through the circles of Hell, Dante recognizes people he knows and learns of what happens to sinners after they die. Overall, Dante’s main goal is to reach the gates of Heaven and be reunited with his beloved Beatrice. The book begins with the main character Dante being lost in “the dark woods.” Dante is met by the ghost Virgil and travels through the gates of Hell in order to reach Heaven. However, the book Inferno only focuses on his travels through the circles of Hell.
Mockingbirds are innocent in the sense that they do nothing wrong, but yet they are destroyed by vicious gossip and painful actions. Tom Robinson was seen as guilty and destroyed by false accusations, leading him to an early death. Boo Radley is seen as a fearful, dreadful person through town gossip and put through years of torment from Maycomb citizens. In the end, Boo finds the courage to leave his house to save Jem, only making rumours start again. Tom and Boo are both social outcasts, yet live in completely separate worlds.
A History of Persecution For millennium humans have been afraid of the unknown and what they do not understand. This fear has led to violence and the perpetration of unspeakable actions in the name of eradicating that fear. During the 1940’s and 50’s the United States was suffering under the fear of communist sabotage and were turning to McCarthyism to root out the traitors. Playwright Arthur Miller saw the unfairness and mad persecutions that were sweeping the nation and satired it all in his play The Crucible which is a retelling of the Salem Witch Trials that took place in Massachusetts in 1692. Miller used the play to represent injustices that were going on at the time such as accusations that had no substantial evidence, an unfair assumption that the accused was guilty until proven innocent, and the tendency of Senator McCarthy to retaliate against any criticism against him an accusation of being a communist sympathizer.
“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
o All the things Beowulf does in his life o The pyre that is built for him o Hrothgar’s speech Symbols Grendel-Symbolizes anger, loneliness, and evil, Grendel gets mad because he can’t be a part of the banquet. He has human emotions. Grendel’s Mother- Symbolizes revenge, she wants to avenge her son’s death Dragon-Symbolizes selfishness, materialism, greed, and pride, the dragon get mad and starts burning stuff because a slave took a small goblet to earn his freedom, he thinks that one goblet is worth more than human
Tom shows when he cheat the devil by saying he is a church goer. “ He prayed loudly strenuously, as if Heaven were taken by force of lungs” (Irving 237). Tom betrays the devil and gets himself killed by doing this in a deceiving manner. Tom makes poor choices that gets himself hurt “...the couple's miserly habits in which they “' conspired to cheat each other” (“overview”). Tom was not a good husband or a good cheater.
By personifying the sobs as “strangled”, the author is describing the magnitude of the sobs and screams. Humbaba was screaming as loud as he could, and pleading for his life. But the pity we feel doesn’t last long because Ekidu tells Gilgamesh Humbaba is deceiving him, and he has to die. Also the Cyclops from The Odyssey is depicted with certain human aspects to him. “When all these chores were done, he poked the fire” (195).
This caused the monster to feel hatred: “if I cannot inspire love I will cause fear, and chiefly towards you my archenemy, because my creator, do I swear inextinguishable hatred.” There is a use of contrast in this quote: love vs. fear, bringing out the message that the monster has experienced discrimination and all the love in him was taken away, and to be replaced by hatred. This again is because of the creator’s lack of ability; he
Sin had taken over, and there was no sense of structure for the people. “They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy.” (Romans 1:29-31) God is angered by the people who know Him, and are supposed to be his children and are still living as the people who do not know Him, and are accepting of these behaviors. The problem with the culture during this time, is that they were living as if there were no God, and they had removed him from their lives.