In asking Victor to create a life partner, the monster dreams of finally finding someone to belong, granting him purpose in life. When his last hope of happiness and companionship is destroyed by Victor, who again betrays the monster, are crushes his feelings of undeniable acceptance. The monster reasons, “here was none among the myriads of men that existed who would pity or assist me; and should I feel kindness towards my enemies? No: from that moment I declared everlasting war against the species, and, more than all, against him who had formed me and sent me forth to this insupportable misery” (Shelly 117). The monster’s estrangement is replaced with his utter rage and vengeance towards his creator who brought him life, yet tantalized him with the values of a society which rejects
The protagonist, Winston Smith, is a lower-party member who has grown to resent the society he is living in and starts to lose his rationality and sanity due to the restrictions of society. "And in the general hardening of outlook that set in ... practices which had been long abandoned - imprisonment without trial, the use of war prisoners as slaves, public executions, torture to extract confessions, the use of hostages and the deportation of whole populations - not only became common again, but were tolerated and even defended by people who considered themselves enlightened and progressive. "(p.130) Winston clearly hated the Party and all he wants is liberty of his actions and ideas. He will fight his hardest to revolt and stop the Inner Party’s “dictatorship.” To keep all of this in order, and to avoid revolts, the Inner Party has to think of creative and smart ways to control the public. This is done by introducing orthodox methods in the minds of the Party members such as with childhood.
For instance, he tricks the daughter of an old man with “cold and remorseless purpose” into his psychological experiment which “wasted, absorbed, and perhaps annihilated her soul”. What is more, after he returns from his journey, he becomes self-conceited, ignorant and looks down on all the townspeople, who had been his friends and came to welcome him. Ethan Brand’s heart, as a result of his unholy undertaking, has “withered, contracted, hardened and perished”. He cares only about the knowledge he seeks. He values intellect over compassion and cuts himself off from others.
Due to General Zaroff’s savage doings for satisfaction, he seems to have lost his humanity and de-valued human life far more than the Villagers and their customs did. Both characters in these two short stories felt that what they were doing was the right thing. In “The Lottery,” they mention “that over in the north village they're talking of giving up the lottery.”(Jackson, paragraph 32). Old Man Warner calls the north village a “pack of fools” stating that, that is not the way to go. He believes they must carry on this tradition and he never has come to realized how awful it is.
This action leads to him being considered a tragic hero. Creon’s human flaw of arrogance causes him to ignore reasoning and advice and listen only to his own thoughts. He states, "My voice is the one voice giving orders in this city". He is afraid to go back on his word because it will hurt his pride and he is afraid that it will cause him to lose power with his subjects. This action causes him to lose everyone that he loves.
Why is the system described as a Monster? The Monster controls the economy. It has no mercy and no feelings. If the Monster has to destroy the land, or even someone’s house for profits, it will. It is described as the Monster because it can not be controlled.
The difference between McCandless and Supertramp are displayed through this flaw. McCandless’ alter ego believes in freedom by breaking away from his entire life, which results not only in his death, but also through hurting the people to whom he was connected. These people include his parents, his sister Carine, Franz, and all the other random relationships he formed throughout his tramping journey. The viewer travels with McCandless, quickly becoming aware of his selfishness through his actions. Selfishness is childish.
On one hand, if we forego the idea of society as a whole and focus simply on the idea of helping ourselves, like the banks in The Grapes of Wrath, we will result in the destruction of the lower and middle classes, ultimately leading to depression, followed by revolution. This was proven through the fall of the communist Soviet Union, when the people eventually became tired of living in poverty and demanded change. Their failure to provide a reason for people to push themselves to excel was ultimately their demise. On the other hand, if we are to constantly help the needy and forget about the responsibilities that we have to ourselves, we not only hurt ourselves by always giving away the things that we have worked for but we also endanger the needy. If they are constantly provided for, how are the less fortunate going to learn to provide for themselves and why would they be motivated to do
Scott Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby, shows the difference between social classes through the use of geography. Full of hopelessness and dull lives, the valley of ashes defines the wasteland that they live in and the way their lives have become a waste of time in the end, since they will never achieve anything because of the corruption of money. Unfashionable and vulgar, the West Egg represents the way of life for new money. They overdo the attempt to imitate others and cause people to know they fake their lives. In contrast to the West Egg, the people who live in the East Egg have high social class, good taste in everything, but have many flaws.
Or rather, stay, that I may trample you to dust! And, oh! That I could, with the extinction of your miserable existence, restore those victims whom you have so diabolically murdered!” (M. Shelly, Frankenstein, Chapter 10) Frankenstein’s reasons for creating the monster was that he was so utterly obsessed with life itself he wanted to create a being that would never die out of his mother’s memory so no one else felt his pain, So mainly the reasons for him rejecting the monster is because it was nothing he expected and especially creating it out of his mother’s memory he felt the need to reject