Both of the stories have given us examples of symbols of motifs. In Annie Dillard’s short story “Living like Weasels”, we begin to see a weasels lifestyle, and what they do in their lives. The author gives us a description of wildlife for a weasel, and how she has seen one. “His face was fierce, small and pointed as a lizard…He had two black eyes I didn’t see, anymore then you see a window.”(Pg.1) What Dillard is trying to tell us is that the eyes gives us a predator look of the weasel, giving us readers a motif on singleness, visions and truth. Now how the eyes gives us a connection to “The Rocking-Horse Winner”, is how Paul’s close set eyes that seeks the truth into secrecy of his family.
Odin, Loki and Hoenir were traveling together and left Asgard without any food. After traveling far they realized they were hungry when they saw a herd of oxen. They decided to slaughter an oxen and eat it. After cooking the oxen and trying to eat it, the flesh was still raw, so they cooked it again but it was still raw. They heard a voice say “something in the tree is preventing the meat from cooking”, they looked up and saw the frost giant Thjazi in the form of an eagle.
“That is the secret of happiness and virtue-liking what you’ve got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny” (22). Just like the Director of Hatcheries says, happiness is liking what they do, and if they prefer it to all else they therefore won’t want anything unattainable, because they already have what they’ve been conditioned to want. Another way the World State ensures stability is throughout the promotion of promiscuous sex. “Every one belongs to every one else” (40).
Humans think too much about every decision they make, no matter if it’s big or small. Dillard’s experience with the weasel shows that it wasn’t thinking about anything, it was just staring at a creature that it probably never saw before and gave into curiosity. If humans made decisions like that everything would be rather different because we would just take the risk for something we’re determined to do. Likewise, Dillard states that it would be absolutely brilliant to think of a goal for yourself and don’t give up until it’s accomplished. We can see this when she says, “I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to ______ your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it _____ wherever it takes you.” Meaning that leaving mindlessly and by oneself’s necessities, just focusing on that,
Esch comments that Skeetah never named the puppy, so he tells her to give it a name. She chooses Nella. Manny says that they should kill the puppy now to save it from suffering. Skeetah grabs the puppy’s head and twists, swiftly breaking its neck the way his mother used to kill chickens. Afterward, Skeetah takes off his clothes and gets into the water of the Pit to wash the contamination off him.
I always have and I always will. As long as everyone lives a good, moral filled life and people learn to coexist with living with each other. “I wished to live without committing any fault at any time,” and in my opinion, everyone should live in that manner. Kayden: That makes perfect sense. Benjamin Franklin: As for a leader, I believe I have a few characteristics of a “leader” … I recently published my successful “Poor Richards Almanac”, which in my opinion tells what all moral beings should strive to do.
She is his falcon, his wild hawk that must not be fully fed. Shakespeare uses animal imagery to relate to the title of the play, The Taming of the Shrew, showing that all animals need to be tamed. The title chosen for the play itself is animal imagery as it relates a shrew to how a woman was seen in Elizabethan times. A shrew is a little mouse with a long nose and is extremely bad tempered. Like a shrew, Katherina is seen as small and insignificant because she is a woman.
It is evident she cares for her reputation as she constantly says things like “...There be no blush about my name.”(pg.20) and “... I will not have it said my name is soiled” (p.21). Having a good reputation is quintessential and majorly influences an individual’s belonging through The
Finally both stories illustrate just how different our gender-based worlds are. In a “man’s world” we always want power and to become superior to each other; in a “woman’s world” they always want serenity and peace with themselves be it through nature or some other
What’s up with that? It could be that, in this world, a girl like Clarisse just can’t exist. She’s incompatible with her surroundings, so she’s not allowed to live. We don’t know all the details of her demise, nor is the confusion reconciled by the end of the novel. But we can’t help but think of Clarisse when Granger discusses the thumbprint on his mind left by his