Paul despises his common life so much that he feels he must hid it from his peers through lies. He tells them false information of his ‘upper class’ life, such as announcing his travels to far off places, to make them believe he is above the average middle class person. Every lie Paul tells, the further away he gets from realizing and appreciating the good that is already present in his life (such as family) and from
5). A power struggle ensued and anarchy reigned. The ISI, with the backing of the U.S. created the Taliban, a fundamentalist Islamic group that was promoted to help stabilize Afghanistan and its borders. By 2001, they would turn on both the ISI and United States (Roskin & Berry, 2010, p. 227). Another figure, Osama bin Laden also began his rise to power.
Toby is confronted with a series of ‘tyrant’ men who use unrelenting violence and blatant manipulation in order to control their wives and children. Whilst demonstrating some degree of unease about these men’s actions and their ‘occasional brutality’ towards his mother, Toby’s vulnerability in this crucial developmental stage in his life, forces him to consider this to be the definition of a man. Considering and applying this dominant definition of masculinity proves to be an error of judgement made by Toby. At some stage Roy is what Toby thinks ‘a man should be’ and is the instigator of his feelings that he needs a weapon ‘for the way it completes him’. Roy, like Dwight, influences Toby’s relationship with his mother and forces Toby to withhold the truth from her.
Mr Birling is shown to be an arrogant and confident character. With his first line in the extract given he shows a very careless and selfish attitude with the statement 'I discharged her'. Birling gives a cold attitude towards Eva Smith's life and shows that he doesn't care for her, giving himself a more noticeable selfish attitude. Birling decides to not use her name and constantly regards her as 'girl' and the fact he has to think about her time at his business shows that she wasn't important enough to him, and shows that he thinks workers and people below him don't deserve to be called by their names. Birling tries to intimidate Inspector Goole by boasting about his status and the type of people he knows, for example when Birling mentions the engagement between Sheila and Gerald Croft - a name made famous by 'Croft's limited', Birling brings this up to intimate the Inspector as Birling expects his status to buy him away from trouble and put him above the law.
Alan’s opening thoughts on his job affect his approach to the performance reviews dramatically. His outlook on the entire situation is very negative and he feels uncomfortable performing these interviews. Even though Alan O’Connor tries to be honest with his employees on what they need to improve, he feels that the employees resent his effort in trying to help them. When in reality, the way Alan goes about communicating the employee’s necessary improvements is why Alan is receiving this impression from his employees. Alan O’Connor’s view on his job fosters a negative work environment because his outlook on his own job is negative itself.
Holden explores the concept of relationships through the similar attitudes displayed towards popular society and his repulsion of their values. Holden is seen throughout the novel to have difficulty accepting people due to their pretentious nature and expresses this through the constant use of the word “phony.” “…very phony, Ivy League voices, one of those very tried, snobby voices” this quote by Holden displays his criticism of middle to upper class America. Holden’s relationship with his own parents is one that he deems
Essay body paragraph Through Sophy’s relationship with Sam and Randolph the reader experiences Sophy’s pain and her freedom. Randolph is the one of the main causes of pain as he “would not [let Sophy] wed Samuel Hobson without his consent”. This is ironic because the child is telling the adult what to do when it should really be the other way around. Randolph is only forbidding Sophy because he thinks “it will degrade [him] in the eyes of all the gentlemen of England” if Sophy was to marry Sam. This is because Sam is in a lower class than Randolph, this will give Randolph a lower reputation than what he wants, this highlights that his concept of a gentleman is only based on class and wealth and not being considerate of others.
We also see a cowardice trait in Amir when he is confronted by Asif. When Asif questioned Amir to have an Hazara as a friend he maliciously and selfishly thought to himself “ But he’s not my friend! I almost blurted out. He’s my servant!” This shows the sense of superiority and ego Amir holds to Hassan and shows the conflict of the social classes again and how Amir struggles to display his relationship with Hassan in
Additionally, ’’ gender roles are powerful and are particularly evident when men attempt to step outside them society and friends often punish them.’’ (Chapter 2) because ‘’a men incorporate masculine stereotypes and norms into their self-concepts and attempt to live up to these standards’’(p.30) When men in color are discriminated and fell rejected they often try to live up some stereotypes created by the society. Kilmartin concludes saying that ‘’all men are aggressive uncaring, disrespectful, etc., is a gross inaccuracy. When differences exist, even when they are small they give us clues to the strengths and weakness of each gender role and the characteristic struggles of men and women.’’ (p. 42) Many young males fear that enjoying feminine activity would make ‘’sissy.’’ (Chapter 2), in order to persuade others their toughness, young male get into gangs, they uses gun and drugs therefore they end up in
He is an impatient man, a sort of working class hero who cannot stand hypocrisy and pretence, especially in the influential people in the town's community. He recognises the bad motives of many of those who are involved in the witchcraft allegations. He has had an affair with the young servant girl in his household, Abigail Williams. Tragic heroes usually have a single weakness that destroys their otherwise strong characters. Proctor's weakness is lust.