There is the theme of violence and brutality running throughout the novel Lord of the Flies. It appears very early in the novel in a form of a game when Ralph “machined-gunned Piggy”, and lasts until the very end when Jack and his tribe are trying to kill Ralph. So through Golding’s use of language I am going to analyze the scene which I think is the most frightening moment of violence and brutality in the novel - Simon’s death. Golding uses imagery to present the boys’ violent and brutal act in killing Simon. “At once the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock.
In all four of John Foulcher’s poems, a common theme of cruelty and brutality exists. He reinforces the theme by utilizing a number of techniques throughout. In Martin and the Hand Grenade, man’s destructive power is highlighted. In both A Crow that came for the Chickens and For the Fire, the cruelty of nature is implied. This is also evident in Harry Wood, in which we see the theme of death and survival.
Geraldine Brooks explores how ignorance, superstition and hysteria can be as fatal as any plague within her novel ‘Year of Wonders’. During the trying year of the plague superstition, ignorance, and hysteria took over the village, causing people to make irrational accusations, decisions and behave immorally, turning against each other. Brooks explores how the plague acts as a catalyst effecting each of the villagers differently on a physical and emotional level. The plague is defined as a large amount of insects or animals infesting a place causing damage, within the novel we see the villagers become these animals. Fear and anguish brought out some of the worst qualities in the villagers causing them to turn against one another creating anger, conflict and damage unto one another.
By reading both Grendel and Beowulf you are able to perceive how Beowulf and the humans see Grendel against how Grendel sees himself. In Beowulf, Grendel was a bloodthirsty force of destruction, and a ruthless beast. Constantly attracting Hrothgars mead hall and killing innocent for fun, Grendel's attack is described as "Suddenly then/ the God-cursed brute was creating havoc:/ greedy and grim, he grabbed thirty men/ from their resting places and rushed to his lair,/ flushed up and inflamed from the raid,/ blundering back with the butchered corpses" (Beowulf 120-125). Until Beowulf is called into take the place of the hero and put things back in order. Due to the fact that Beowulf is telling the story, were only able to see what he and the other humans see about Grendel and thus can only find a way to relate to those characters and only know what they and the author tell us.
Relentlessly the tanks and soldiers mowed down the US army troops and left them, screaming on the sandy ground. The hot dog Stand! which had lines as big as the empire state building was robbes of its food and money. The rain tipper in : the once fierce men were now crying. U.S army men were slaughtered and there faces were left pale.
Nevertheless the animals themselves are never described as evil nor is there any implication of evil animals in the poem. The animals do hold specific meaning though not malevolent like the above quoted critic believes. Medieval people loved stories of animals that assumed human qualities; for example Chantlicleer, the rooster in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Many animals were thought to have qualities of human emotions, spirituality and even intelligent qualities; the three hunted animals in Sir Gawain included. To begin, "Certain facts about the animals which formed the quarry of the medieval huntsman...and certain popular beliefs about their habits and temper" (Savage 32) will allow the reader to draw parallels between the hunt, happening outside the castle; and the "hunt" happening inside the castle between Gawain and the Lady of the house.
• People think Australia is bogan, (mullets, board shorts, bbqs, thongs, bleached hair, surfing, • We have different sports, mateship, food, arts, S- surprising your audience, 'shock them' eg. Australia has the most BORING culture in the world, Australians are the silliest people I've met. (make a statement that's shocking, controversial) T- telling a story A- ask a question eg. Who thinks that Australia is a land of just kangaroos, koalas and meat pies. Who's been
Owen's use of diction and figurative language emphasizes his point, showing that war is horrid and devastating. The use of very graphic imagery also adds to his argument. Through the intense content of the poem "Dulce Et Decorum Est," Wilfred Owen shows the reader the horrors of war. Owen compared the soldiers to animals in order to bring out their suffering. "Knock-kneed" is a condition that makes knees hit together when walking.
Sassoon’s poetry described the horrors of the war and how disgusting it is. Two poems which show the perspective of war is: Firstly, Counter-Attack, which describes how war is like; and secondly, died of wounds, which show the condition of war. The poems relate to the feeling and emotion war creates. Also it shows how horrible war is. The techniques that Sassoon has used in the poems are: imagery, simile, metaphor and onomatopoeia.
What is poetry? One could argue that poetry can serve any number of purposes to a reader including a release of emotions, an exercise of the imagination, or pure and simple entertainment. But one of the most important functions of poetry, at least as viewed by many poets themselves, is that of a lesson on the natural world, life, or human nature, with the poet himself behaving as a teacher or prophet. Many of Robert Frost’s poems focus on the idea of man learning from nature through observations and experiences. His poem, “Mending Wall,” is an excellent example of such a poem.