When Abigail was talking to Proctor she says “She is telling lies to about me! She is a cold sniveling woman, and you bend to her!”(Page 15, act one) she is basically showing her jealousy towards his wife. This stirred up the witch trials because Abigail wanted to be with Proctor and she would do just about anything. The fact that John proctor realizes all of his flaws and confesses to all of his sins is another reason why he can be considered a tragic hero. When Proctor had to go to the court to get his wife out of being accused of upholding witchcraft he eventually confess to his sins he committed.
[David] flinched back and he [Carl] grabbed the back of [David’s] neck with fingers like a vise. ‘You’re nothing but a lazy brat. I’m going to beat some industry into you if I have to kill you to do it.”’ (Gould, 3) David’s earlier years have been hard, resulting him being unpopular, and being unsatisfied. David begins to feel sick and tired of the abuse from his father and decides to run away from home. David starts to develop hatred towards his father, wanting to hurt and give him the pain he has felt over the years.
He attempts to have revenge on Dimmesdale for his affair with Hester. Sin is one of the most important things that happens in the story. In fact, the entire plot is based around the sin of Hester. However, in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Roger Chillingworth commits the greatest sin of the characters. Chillingworth performs a sin by marrying Hester when he is not able to fully commit to her.
The Lottery vs. The Most Dangerous Game Brandy N. Frazier ENGL 102-B01 Professor Yaw Liberty University APA Outline I. The Most Dangerous Game, by Richard Connell and The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson share a common theme which is showing the darker side of humans, that humans possess evil tendencies and that the morals of people can be corrupted. Connell and Jackson show us that injustice and cruelty in society can be accepted as a normal behavior. II.
“...I’d borrow two or three dollars off the judge for him, to keep from getting a cowhiding” (pg.27) In Paps case, two of the flaws lie directly within him. Greed and alcoholism. His flaws are the cause of why Huck doesn't care if he dies or not. He was not a proper father to Huck. What kind of father beats his children for a couple of dollars?
She is clearly the Villain of the play because she manipulated her friends and lied to the whole town. Elizabeth
The mother became an alcoholic; an abusive alcoholic. First, she would just send the boys to look for items that the family didn’t even have, and punish them when they said they couldn’t find it. Then she singled David out, saying he was the “bad boy” and told the other boys that she was glad they weren’t like him. After awhile, she made up ridiculous chores for David to do before
Abigail and the girls pretend Mary is bewitching them again which make Mary breakdown and accuse john of being a witch. After being tried as a witch and told he was going to get hanged he has a chance to confess and live but he chooses to die and keep his name. As a result of the lies and the affair between john and Abigail there were a lot of innocent people killed and hurt even those who they claimed they loved. Abigail and Elizabeth are two very different characters but have some similarities. Both Abigail and Elizabeth show determination in order to get what they want, and they are both strong
Yes later he started to calm down, but he was still angry because someone told him his son was stealing stuff, it’s a first reaction a parent will feel if someone told them something like that. Some literacy devices used in this poem are simile, imagery and conflict. They used a simile because they used the words “like and as “In the poem. Imagery because there are things in the poem that made me picture the poem in my head and conflict because this poem had conflict in it. Discipline: If your child lies to you of course you have to discipline them, like grounding them but hitting is not acceptable.
Helmer believes that “an atmosphere of lies infects and poisons the whole life of a home”. Nora’s subterfuge of forging a signature to borrow money for Helmer’s wellbeing went against his principle of reputation’s importance and was the trigger of Helmer’s spastic outburst near the end of the play.Character conflict is depicted much more explicitly in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf”.Many of the games that Martha and George play with the guests are based upon a power struggle for the satisfaction of insulting and enraging the spouse. The more subtle conflict in “A Doll’s House” is thus contrasting with the more obvious clashes in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf”.