Unlike most people in her society, she is not a racist, and she solves her problems by fighting. This is not very common behaviour for a young girl in her time period. Harry is much more out of the ordinary than Scout. He is famous in his world for modern day UK in the hidden Wizarding World. Defeating an evil wizard and stopping his tyranny and killing spree.
JK Rowling writes an adventurous book of a young boy, Harry Potter beginning with Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Harry Potter is born into a magical world but raised by ordinary people. Harry potter is not a typical hero. Harry becomes a legend at barely one year old when his parents die and he wards off a spell by Voldemort, the most dominant dark wizard starting Harry’s first journey. At the age of 11 he discovers he is a wizard after ten years of cruelty with his aunt and uncle Dursley.
“As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without villains”- Ralph Waldo Emerson. Every epic poem needs to have both a hero and a villain. Without villains, heroes could not exist. In the epic poem Beowulf, the hero must go against the most villainous creature terrorizing Herot Hall: Grendel. Grendel is a murderous creature who has been killing off the Danes for 12 years without any mercy.
Morgause gave birth to her sons and that is pretty much the only way she has a partial right to the title of a mother, because in any other form she is definitely not a mother. Morgause shows to be a woman full of vanity and is very conceited. This would be an example of her narcissism: “It was not that Morgause courted invisibility-indeed, she would have detested it, because she was beautiful” (White 218). Just by saying she “detested” being invisible “because she was beautiful” shows just how full of herself she is. The way she treats her children is un-motherly and selfish, for example when “she had not noticed that her children’s clothes were ruined: had not even scolded them about that” (White 263).
Later on we see the horrendous outcome of her struggles. Glinda, the beautiful, ditzy dumb blonde, popular, and ambitious girl, who manages to ignore the most important things occurring around her to maintain her perfect life. It’s not till the end that she truly began to show some wisdom. These unlikely friends and college roommates, who struggle with opposing personalities and point of view, enmity over the same love, to the corrupt government of the wizard, and ultimately, Elphaba’s fall from kindness. Another strong theme is the conflict between good and evil.
The books ‘Anne of Green Gables’ written by LM Montgomery and ‘Lullabies for Little Criminals’ written by Heather O’Neill are similar and different in many ways. These two well written novels are very similar, two main similarities are both Baby and Anne were never loved properly, and both Baby and Anne’s mothers died. Yet both novels are very different from each other, two main differences are Baby is loved in the foster home she lives in and was better off in it, yet Anne was neglected in her many foster homes, and both Baby and Anne are very smart individuals but Baby gets put into a practical learning class while Anne wins a scholarship. One of the major similarities in these novels are that Baby and Anne were never loved properly. For
He closed many of Capone’s breweries and speakeasies, and slowly brought his empire down. Convicted of Income Tax Evasion The federal government finally managed to arrest him by prosecuting him for income tax evasion in 1931. He was tried, found guilty, and sentenced the next year to 11 years in the federal penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia. But he was still able to oversee his criminal empire from his cell. In 1934, he was transferred to the new federal prison at Alcatraz Island, built to hold the country's worst criminals, in San Francisco Bay.
King Creon states that “a sharp tempered woman, or for that matter a man, is easier to deal with than the clever type who hold her tongue.” Medea is, in fact, clever enough to hold her tongue and stay quiet. She says, “those who live quietly, as I do, get a bad reputation.” Medea shows her intelligence repeatedly, first in her negotiations with Aegeus. Her cleverness is shown most prominently, though, as she is consistently subtle to the public about her despair and her hatred of Corinth and society. If she spoke out, she could be punished or called a criminal, but instead she is just socially ostracized and must be allowed to continue her daily life. Because of her intellect, Medea is seen a threat to society.
A popular example would be the treatment of women in The Big Bang Theory. For a good majority of the show’s first few seasons, there is only one main female character, Penny. She’s presented as the stereotypical beautiful girl who is coveted by the males of the show; however, she also seems to lack equal intelligence and is often made fun of by the show itself over her inability to understand most topics being discussed. She’s basically an example of a pretty girl who’s all looks and no brain without any talents to make it through life, and is extremely objectified because of this. On the contrast, other women on the show such as Amy seem to have an extraordinary amount of intelligence, yet lack the pretty looks to go along with it.
In the Epic Beowulf, Beowulf is portrayed as good because he is trying to save the town from Grendel’s destruction and terror. Grendel comes to Mead hall and eats the soldiers of the town. He comes to the town when they are most valuable, pasted out drunk. Unaware of what is around them, they crash in the hall. Grendel terrorizes the town so much that they have to shut down Mead Hall for fifty years.