1. Both of these quotes are desperate attempts to deny the truth, refusals to recognize the horrible reality of the depths of the boys' descent into savagery. In Chapter 10, when Piggy insists that Simon's death was an accident, he is ironically trying to comfort Ralph, who at that point is hit with full awareness of what is happening. When Ralph repeats the words in Chapter 12, he is trying to reason his own way out of his awareness that the boys really have crossed the line into a state of evil he had not known even existed - "he argued unconvincingly...(but) the final unreasoning knowledge came to him...the breaking of the conch and the deaths of Piggy and Simon lay over the island like a vapor...these painted savages would go further and further". Although in Chapter 12 Ralph is speaking specifically about the deaths of Piggy and Simon, in a larger sense he is addressing the whole phenomenon of the tribes total degeneration.
Why did I let Finny talk me into stupid things like this? Was he getting some kind of hold over me?” (17). Here Gene demonstrates a bad decision that he is about to make. Not only is he making a bad one but letting other boy’s taunts influence his decisions. What Gene does not know is that this bad choice is the start of many more to come.
The boys aren’t mature enough to realize that they are stuck on an island, nobody knows where they are, and they are probably going to die there. All the boys other than Ralph, Piggy, and Simon are completely oblivious to the fact that they need to be rescued, or they will die. All the others care about is having fun, hunting, and acting like a little tribe of savages. Hunting is what’s most important to most of the boys. If Jack and his hunters would have been taking care of all of their responsibilities instead of just hunting all day, if they would have just been watching the fire they could have gotten off the island before anybody could get hurt, before it was a game of life and death.
He loses himself in his emotions, but he struggles to control himself while “evolving the right way” (125) in order to survive. Gene feels guilty for losing himself, as a child would, when throwing a temper-tantrum. He does not mean to hurt people, especially the ones he cares for, he just does not know any better. Gene’s instincts kick in when he feels threatened, and he always regrets when they do. After Gene kicked Leper’s chair he says to Mrs. Lepellier, “I’m terribly-it was a mistake…he said something crazy.
3/12/12 Lord of the Flies Chapters 10, 11, 12 reviews 1. Ralph, Piggy, and Samneric deal with their consciences in their own different ways. Ralph is haunted by the fact that they killed Simon; he believes it was murder and is now having nightmares because of it. Piggy on the other hand is in denial about the incident, he calls the whole thing an accident since it was in self-defense from their fear. Samneric just claim to have left early before the incident.
He is blind because he thinks that he is making the right choice when in reality he is leading himself into chaos. Getting into the middle of the book, Macbeth admits that he is having strange self-delusions. This is most likely his guilty conscience but he is blind to this and ignores it. He explains to lady Macbeth that it is merely just his lack of experience when it comes to crime, “...My strange and self-abuse is the initiate fear that wants hard use. We are yet but young in deed.” (III iv 174-175).
I also think that the ghost of Caesar had a lot to do with it, too. I personally don’t think that he really saw a ghost, I think it was his guilty conscious reminding him of how bad he felt about killing Caesar, and he saw an apparition. His mind basically persuaded itself into
This caused her to try to pull away which made Lennie hold on tighter. That went back and forth until he ended up killing Curly’s wife. Lennie felt horrible for his actions. He didn’t know how to take responsibility so he did what George had told him to. Lennie ran to the woods and hid.
Initially he reacts to this by getting upset and crying “ Why do you got to get killed?” this highlights his lack of knowledge and understanding with the concept of death, the reader feels sympathy towards the sorry state he is. However, Lennie’s then begins to get frustrated and angry about it and hurls the puppy away; he worries that by what he had done George will not let him ‘Tend the rabbits.’ At this point the sympathy towards Lennie stop, as this part shows his aggressive and selfish side as he is worrying for himself. The situation soon becomes much more serious however, when Lennie goes on to accidently kill Curley’s wife by breaking her neck whilst stroking her hair. This time Lennie realizes more the serious implications of his actions and leaves the ranch to hide in the where he was first instructed by George. In opening and closing his novel in nature, Steinbeck is able to connect and compare the actions of his characters with the natural world.
Was there a good reason behind this no all Macduff had done was flee from Macbeths control who was not the righteous king anyhow. Macbeth also committed regicide by murdering King Duncan yet what had King Duncan done to deserve this. He had given Macbeth more land and another title and this is how Macbeth repays him. Sure many people committed sins against Macbeth but none were to the magnitude or as horrific as the ones he did. The sins that were committed against him were also mainly because of the sins he committed.