The narrator attempts to reassure his audience he is of sound mind. For example, the narrator says “If still you think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body.” Another irony in the story is that the narrator refers to how he loves the old man and was never so kind to him as he was right before the murder. This is ironic because he loves the old man by the systematically plans to murder him. Poe uses imagery throughout the story by referencing the clock and time as a way to describe how slowly he moved. The narrator says “A watches minute hand moves more quickly than did mine”, the narrator sees himself as a clock, counting down the old man’s
Socrates spoke to the jurors that he had done nothing wrong and that he leaves his fate in the Athens god and in the people of the jury. At the end of the trial the juries had to take a vote without speaking to one another, Socrates lost in the vote 361-140. Socrates was condemned to death by willingly drinking a poison called hemlock. This book has very joyful parts. The most loved part and/or line in the book that I found was when Socrates stood in front of the jurors and said “I don’t know, men of Athens, how you were affected by my accusers.
In "The Approximate Size of My Favorite Sharif2 Tumor", (Sherman Alexie) tells how one man tries to use humor to deny the reality of his terminal cancer. He shows how humor can be taken too far. This story demonstrates how humor can destroy one part of your life as it helps you cope with another. Trying to look at it in different perceptive, jimmy has a terminal cancer and he dearly loves his wife watching the people you love go through stages of knowing you’re going to die is very depressing. what jimmy did was humor the people around him, seeing the his wife smile even though he was ill made him happy although Norma hated that he jokes a lot about his tumor.
Her ‘shaking hand’ and the fact that she stood there ‘watch[ing]’in horror as the glass turned into a ‘goblet, golden chalice’. On the other hand, the fact that she ‘calmed down’ and made her husband ‘sit’ to explain makes us see this distinctive and understanding character. Although she knows her husband’s life is going to end for this ‘wish’ that he had. ‘Look we all have wishes’ shows her understanding towards the situation even though at the end of the stanza she says ‘you’ll be able to give up smoking for good’ which shows that she’s aware of the difficult situation. Duffy particularly shows this distinctive personality by making fun of the situation throughout the poem; referring to gold in most of her sentences.
I believe the narrator has murdered the hitcher as a way to relieve his stress due to his hectic screaming lifestyle, compared to the hitcher who has a very dreamy, free and carefree life. All the hitcher carries round with his is a toothbrush; this shows how easy and carefree his life is. He possibly envied him for this and therefore felt more inclined to attack him as a result of his easy life compared to his own. In “Havisham” death is presented as not an occurrence but something that the narrator longs to be upon her fiancé who left her at the altar. Havisham is about a woman who was deeply in love with her to be husband but when he abandoned her at the altar, she never forgave him, and now she sits in her wedding dress holding a grudge against her fiancé for what he did, and how he stopped her life at that moment.
Conversely, in pain is found certain benefits or pleasure as Socrates calls it. A practical example is Socrates himself finding relief after he was removed from his bonds. Socrates offers the view that every philosopher needs to be excited about the prospect of death. After offering this opinion though Socrates is quick to point out that it is wrong for man to take his own life. To Socratres man did not own his life, rather, the gods did.
Lets go to the bar and get drunk off our faces” said Curly joyfully. “George you’ve done that right thing, if we didn’t shoot him he’d of ended up in jail, and you wouldn’t want that would ya?.” A silence loomed in the air after Curly had spoke. Curly then spoke again, but George wasn’t concentrating he was staring into the eyes of Lennie’s dead body. Questioning himself in his head. George then spoke.
The language of the poem being simple and natural. In ‘The Man He Killed’ there is a comparison between the foe and the narrator in which the narrator soon realises the similar qualities that the foe would have. In the beginning stanza, the reader comes across the words ‘had’ and ‘but’, this shows that if there was an alternative situation that could have occurred; the narrator would have shared a drink together with the man. This evidently suggests that he is starting to regret his actions. This establishing how similar both of them are.
In this movie there are a lot of quotes which I love, but when Augustus said with an unlit cigarette hanging from his lips, “It’s a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don’t give it the power to do its killing.” Augustus shows that when his health is surely not the best, he associates the unlit cigarette with taking control over his health, which often feels out of his control. This novel, one of the many things it taught me is that everyone dies. Well that is command sense, but never really thought about it because of the fear of dying. There is nothing we can do to stop the process of dying, or all the side-effects of dying. Cancer and depression are just side-effects of dying.
When that is finished he also decides to quit using magic by throwing all his books into the water and freed his elemental servant which had given him power of the elements. Another trait Prospero had was the calmness and empathy that is shown, even though Prospero looked stone faced and cold he was a empathetic being as that was the person on the inside. An example of this was when Prospero was angry and vengeful when he causes the storm when the king’s ship is near, Miranda pleads for mercy for the men’s lives and even though he is really angry with his vengefulness he still gracefully abides with Miranda’s wish and stops the storm. Miranda The character strengths that portray Miranda are nearly the opposite of her father’s characters traits, Miranda shows traits of compassion and she expresses her emotions out loud which Prospero does not. She hates watching people suffer for example when Porspero is controlling the storm Miranda pleads as she does not want the men on the boat to suffer as the ship begun wreck.