His children particularly Mayella, have been affected by this lack of empathy, and have developed it as well. After Bob had just saved Scout and Jem's lives, Atticus and Mr. Heck Tate were talking about Mr. Ewell. "He has guts enough to pester a poor coloured woman, he had guts enough to pester Judge Taylor when he thought the house was empty, so do you think he'd met your face in daylight?" (Page 269) - Mr. Heck Tate (on why Bob Ewell went after Scout and Jem). This quote shows how Bob Ewell has no empathy skills whatsoever.
The snowball missed and caused a ripple effect on all the people of Deptford. Similarly in the novel The Manticore, David Staunton who was the son of Percy Boy Staunton feels guilt for becoming the person least wanted to be like. In both the novels the characters feel immense guilt, try to ignore this feeling, and then realize that recognition and assessment of their actions is inevitable before inner peace can be obtained. In Fifth Business Dunstan Ramsay feels guilty because the snowball that was planned to strike him instead hit Mrs. Dempster. The snowball caused her to go into premature labour.
He lets the evil into his head and clouds his vision of others. He ends up living, but he isn’t happy nor is he nice towards others, especially his wife Faith. He thinks she is plotting against him and he ends up dying unhappy and almost alone. He viewed others differently and thought they were all involved with evil. So, as you can see, people were infected with evil, especially Brown himself.
Uncle Andy made Arnold feel abandoned and hurt when he stated “Not a tear in his eye”, this statement proves to show that his uncle did not care for him at the time and did not help comfort him. The community within this story also intertwines with this theme. It is shown when a member of the area, Sullivan, expresses his feeling through the following “He don’t give a hoot, is that how it goes?” Each word that comes from his mouth pierces Arnold’s heart and has him left in the dust. Finally the abandonment of his mother was what hurt him the most. People argue that the perspective that your family has on you, is what matters to a person the most.
Keller taught Paul 'life lessons', which was derived from his own life, plagued with suffering. Paul becomes fascinated with his past, and later discovers through Keller how hard a life he led after the death of his wife and child. Keller blamed himself for losing them, because like paul, he also had too much pride, and thought nothing would harm the family 'who played for hitler'. he was so hurt by his own arrogance that he wanted to kill himself. however, keller survives.
The deaths of his friends were a big blow to him considering all the moments they have spent together, especially Manny (Leary feels responsible for his death). His stubbornness of being “King of the Ice” were one of the reasons that led to Manny’s drinking habits (for example, trading Manny away to the Amerks) and eventual death. Manny died alone and was pretty unhappy and his wife Jane makes evidence of that by saying “when he wasn’t drinking there was a sadness in him I couldn’t touch.”(Leary p.221) Leary felt like his selfishness cost him his dear friend’s happiness and life. Clay’s death was another important piece of evidence regarding Leary’s transformation as experiencing loss finally let out Leary’s emotions, who seemed to be a guy who kept everything inside and felt nothing. The reader can feel that Leary had finally broken out of his crusty shell and let all his tears pour down for someone he had truly
I can personally understand what Conrad is going through because those are emotions I dealt with in my life with my father. One feels, angry, rejected and isolated from the family as a whole. (“Black sheep of the family”) This caused a great deal of resentment toward his mother Beth and in my case my dad. A sense of frustration toward your parent happens, which causes you to react emotionally in different manners, either by sadness, withdrawing, or defiant type behaviors acting out and going against what you know to
Victor could be looked at as the real monster in the novel because of his heartlessness. He spent two years creating this creature that he ends up not liking or loving. Even his devotion is deceiving because, he worked so hard on this creation; reading the novel one would think that he would take care of him like a son”….the beauty of the dream vanished and breathless horror and disgust filled my heat-Victor”( pg42Ch5). Is it possible to reject and call your own son, family or friend disgusting? That was the heatless & monstrous heart of Victor.
He is a paradox in that no matter how hard he tries to clear his name, he cannot bring himself to forgive himself of his sins. Before the start of the play, Proctor has had an affair with the antagonist of the play, Abigail Williams. We see his struggle to forgive himself for his sins and clear his conscience throughout until he eventually refuses to live a lie and sign a confession of witchery to save his life. Proctor purifies his soul by telling the truth and saving Salem from the witchcraft hysteria. Proctors relationship with his wife is often associated with the cold, or harsh weather.
David’s father became angry with his son because he did not admit to helping Sophie, a deviation, escape. Because of this David’s father decides to hit him. At the end of page 52 David lies in bed after his whipping, wishing he could have kept Sophie’s secret. “‘I couldn’t help it, Sophie,’ I sobbed, ‘I couldn’t help it,’” The implication that the author makes is that David’s beating is even worse since he was standing up for his friend. Child abuse still takes place today.