“WHAT DOES A GOOD MAN EVEN MEAN?” In “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, the grandmother uses the word “good” in all directions. She first utilizes it to Red Sammy, the man who runs The Tower, after he madly complains about how untrusting people are. He asks her why he let two strangers charge their gasoline and didn’t pay for it. She says to him “Because you’re a good man” (186). In this case, her definition of “good” seems to include unawareness and bad judgement, none of which are “good”.
As he speaks to Frank about his compulsive eating and lack of any health issues causing it, he says that what bothers him most is not being fat, but lying about why he is so heavy, and hiding his eating from all his loved ones and acquaintances. Even his wife believes he has gland problems. This reveals that Tub is not as emotionally strong as he pretends to be, and both the judgments of others and the lies he perpetuates to try to prevent those judgments take a toll on his self-esteem and conscience. Tub isn't as tough as he wishes he was. Later, when Frank confesses his scandalous relationship with his kid's underaged babysitter, Tub is shocked, but tries hard to understand Frank's affair.
As these show, Odysseus lacks of many heroic attributes even after his burdensome journey. However, it is an inevitable fact that he does become wiser with a knowledge and experience. For instance, Odysseus, who is still the most powerful man in Ithaca, disguises himself as a beggar, the most debased position in the social hierarch, and receives manifold humiliating affronts. This example portrays how Odysseus has become extremely modest and thoughtful juxtaposed with him proudly yelling out his name to Polyphemus. However, even after the slaughter of the suitors, Odysseus might have caused another conflicts if Athene, the god of the war who loves Odysseus the most, didn't stop it.
Question 1 Gretel and her friends used to treat Bruno with insolence and disrespect. They would exclude him from what they were doing and teased him about how he looked. He describes Gretel and her friends as if they are “monsters”, this makes the reader feel sympathetic for Bruno. The way they spoke to Bruno suggests to readers that he is six, when he is actually nine. The writer indicates that they put down him because he is short.
2. Each charter within Peter, Hovstad, Aslaksen and Billing undermines Dr. Stockman’s message to the people by persuading the townspeople. As Dr. Stockman degrades the major and his followers, Aslaken tries to hush him. Alasken’s motive is based on moderation and he gives a lecture based on it. Hovstad and Billing are the supporters of the ‘People Messenger’ and Dr. Stockman’s misinterpretation.Billing announces that the Dr. is drunk and is outraged that he didn’t receive a raisein his salary.
This arrogance that he constantly flaunts leads to him being cruel at the beginning of the epic. Gilgamesh was described as, “two-thirds of him divine, one-third human... Gilgamesh does not allow the son to go with his father; day and night he oppresses the weak... Gilgamesh does not let the young woman go to her mother, the girl to the warrior, the bride to the young groom.” Gilgamesh is a man with no equals, which makes him feel as if he is superior. Even though Gilgamesh starts out as a cruel, supreme ruler he develops into a very kindhearted man. He is extremely supportive of Enkidu and encourages him in any way that he can. When they are fighting Humbaba, Gilgamesh says, “you will surpass all of them... a friend who knows battle understands fighting... stand, friend, we will go up together.” Gilgamesh also shows that he does have a sensitive side when Enkidu dies.
Although his actions are very insane, they can be seen as rational to reader considering hedonism. Devotion to pleasure, hedonism, makes Dorian be deceitful about his true self by deflecting the attention of the public from the mad man to the beautiful and intelligent gentlemen. Dorian is, young, sensitive, and emotional, meaning that he is susceptible to manipulation. Lord Henry takes advantage of that opportunity and gives Dorian the yellow book; this book opens up the world of hedonism and aestheticism which eventually turns his young life into an eternal oblivion of misery. Dorian develops a fear of aging so he tries to live his life as if it was his last day on earth.
In Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, the pride of Torvald blinded Torvald, and gave him a sense of manhood and superiority over Nora throughout the play until his pride was put to the test, and in doing so, revealed a weak and desperate man. Throughout most of the play, the pride of Torvald gave him a sense of superiority over Nora by the way he spoke to her in a superior way. Torvald made it seem as if she was a child. For example, He called Nora by pet names, “My little skylark” (1040), “My little Squirrel” (1040), and “My little song-bird” (1056). In each name, Torvald used the word “little”, as if to belittle Nora emotionally and intellectually to show his power and superiority over her as if she was his child instead of his wife.
Evil Nature of Human Beings In the Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, the boys experiment with the evil nature of human beings and end up losing their humanity and sense of civilization. Each of them develops it differently, some grow stronger and realize their wrongs, and others let the evil over take them and transform themselves into beasts. Jack becomes very jealous of Ralph and his power; he wants to take it from him. Jack then creates his own tribe of boys and turns them all against Ralph, meanwhile craving the hunt for food and is power hungry. Ralph represents the goodness left on the island, while Jacks worst got the best of him.
Portia has to deal with prejudice against her gender, the Prince of Morocco has to cope with prejudice against his race but the character that is most discriminated against is Shylock. He is hated for being a Jew and a money-lender, but Shakespeare has not made Shylock a character easy to sympathize with. He appears to be mean and cruel and it seems as though he loves his money above all else. However during the play there are moments when Shakespeare gives Shylock speeches which show his humaneness and compassion. In these moments, although at the time it was written there was little tolerance of Jews, during these moments the modern day audience would certainly feel sorry for him.