The lonliness caused by the creature killing Victor’s family caused Victor to isolate himself from the rest of the world he became very depressed because he lost many members of his family. "William, Justine, and Henry-they all died by my hands"(137). The theme of loneliness is one of he most important themes in Frankenstein. While some choose to be alone and some do not, this factor is the only thing the three characters seem to have in common. Mary Shelly shows that society is judgmental based on looks and intelligence through the creature and through Walton and Dr. Frankenstein that having no one to share your ideas with can result sometimes in
His hopes of marriage and building a loving new home were crushed after Lydia’s tragic betrayal, when Romulus’s vulnerability to his inner demons was revealed. Raimond describes his father’s condition as “personal disintegration” by which Romulus’s moral world collapsed in the face of what he saw as an incomprehensible situation. He was simply unable to believe that Lydia could present such dishonesty. During his stay in hospital and throughout his continuing illness at Frogmore, the superstitions and hallucinations of evil spirits ruled his life for a time. This life-altering episode aggravated his mental disorder and left him, “unable to whistle or sing with his former innocence and delight in life”.
On Christmas the boss brought a gallon of whisky and told the ranchmen to drink. So the ranchmen also let Crooks come in just to pick a fight with him because he is a man of colour. This affects his loneliness because he can’t fight back with his crooked back. In conclusion, Crooks is lonely because he is a man of colour and back then racism was everywhere. In the Novel “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck, you will find that everyone has a bit of loneliness in them, even if it is a little.
Candy turning in his bed showed that he was devastated once he heard that shot. There wasn’t any conversation and everyone felt upset for Candy. c) Why is the dog so important to Candy? What do you think Candy’s dog represents? I think candy’s dog represents that he is his best friend and someone who he has had with him for a long time.
Schneider 1 Natalie K. Schneider Mrs. B English 1 H, P2 2013,1,22 Just another casualty Mercy killing is a very taboo, controversial subject. In the novel of mice and men by john Steinbeck George and Lennie are each other’s only family so they always travel together. George is a small but smart man where Lennie is a big stupid man. They both go to work at a new farm after an incident in their old town caused them to go find work in a new town. Lennie has always caused them trouble but this time it’s serious, he killed the bosses son, Curley’s, wife and Curly is out for blood.
Catherine would “forget” to feed him breakfast, and at dinner time he was to stand in the garage or the basement while the family ate. David began stealing food from kids at school just to survive. That didn’t last long, as the school started to catch on to the missing lunches, which led to phone calls from the principal home to Catherine. That led to less food at home for David, as well as many more beatings. David no longer existed in his family, and he was now referred to as “The Boy”.
Also losing his grandfather, he was raised by his grandmother, her love, transforming his personality. The difficulty of poverty forced Albert to work at age 8 and lose the opportunity to receive an education. His illiteracy became a large deficiency to him, ‘Could I have my meals in here… My reading is limited you see’. This deficiency formed a personality of determination in all things he did. Throughout the lonely moments working for
The Holocaust ruined numerous lives, including that of Evelyn Roman, who wrote “Aftermath”: a sorrowful poem that described her feelings about the concentration camps. Wiesel and Roman both share different and insightful outlooks about their experiences in the toughest part of their lives. They still remember a great deal of details “fifty years after the fact…” that they wish could vanish in an instant (1). Wiesel and Roman wondered every minute why they endured those experiences: no human deserves the horror they survived. Knowing that someone actually lived these stories made it almost unbearable to
Of Mice and Men was an awe inspiring book about a couple of men just trying to get by in the Great Depression. George and Lennie had known each other for a very long time and had grown to depend on each other. Throughout the book Lennie asked George to tell him about them, about they were going to get a place and live together; they never got to do that, as life would have, reality go in the way. The most controversial from this book was why George killed Lennie. It was the right thing to do for multiple reasons, the first being that Lennie was a danger to those around him as well as himself.
In ‘Of Mice and Men’, Lennie is the character we have the most pity for. Do you agree? The book ‘Of Mice and Men’ by John Steinbeck is a story of two men both of whom have lead very difficult lives. At first the reader is captured by the simple mindedness of Lennie Small, a character who is portrayed as a big, friendly giant, but later it becomes clear that it is others who are baring the consequences of his poor decisions and then the readers pity directed towards them. George has to put up with Lennie and then kill his best friend, Curley’s wife faces discrimination and even her kindness towards Lennie leads to her death.