For example, if you look at serial killers and bullies, the reason why they are so angry towards society and innocent people is because that is probably how they were treated while they were growing up. The case is the same in Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, the theme isolation motivates destruction can be seen when Victor abandons his creature after creating it, when the creature is rejected by the De Lacey family, when William rejects the creature in the woods and
He discovers that both the dogs and men around him are cruel and violent. Curly, Buck’s female friend approaches a husky in a friendly way, but the husky attacks her and leaves her dead. Because
Shockingly we find that at just fourteen years old John is verbally and physically abusive to everyone in the house especially Jane. Up until this point it seems Jane has habitually taken this abuse from not only the Reed family but from the help as well them however now it seems as though Jane has reached her boiling point. After causing Jane to shed blood she strikes him and whatever she does seems to hurt him. At the end of the chapter she is shunned into a part of the house known as the red
A young girl is deceived by a wolf, leading to the death of the young girl and her grandmother. ‘The wicked wolf threw himself upon Little Red Riding Hood and ate her up’. The combination of storyline and the side-moral acts as a moralising force to emphasise the need for safety and trust for the responder.
They killed us with land mines and booby traps; they disappeared in the night, or into the tunnels, or into the elephant grass and bamboo” (199n21). At the time the Vietnam war seemed unforgiving and mysterious, in ways that it made most soldiers naturally evil who in which portrayed enormous grief upon the enemy. It was a time where in every soldier's head they carried a motto, “kill or be killed.” In the novel, In The Lake Of The Woods, small and simple footnotes are attached at the end of important chapters and they give the reader clues concerning the story or they expresses symbolic twists that make the novel somewhat unpredictable. The Footnote I have chosen runs on the back of chapter 20. The small passage explains related truth on the Vietnam War, symbolizes what John Wade, the protagonists, has witnessed, and finally how it portrays the rest of the novel.
By juxtaposing these two scenes Ivan Sen has shown why Lena would want to alienate herself from her family, the kitchen scene gives you an idea of this, an alcoholic mother who smokes heavily, mismatched furniture, dirty dishes, grubby paint and a generally dirty house alerts the audience to the fact that Lena’s family isn’t good and isn’t something that anyone would want. This concept is exaggerated even more when you see Lena’s bedroom which shows how different she truly is from her family. Lena’s bedroom contains things like posters of Ireland, a bible and
This idea that the innocent always suffer, is actually a false statement. In reality, those who suffer are actually the guilty. In the novel Of Mice and Men, the author, John Steinbeck, attempts to show this to the reader. Throughout this novel, there are multiple examples of characters who suffer including Curley, his wife, and Lennie; however, these three characters are all guilty and
To Kill a Mockingbird Essay “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view – until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” This quote was said by Atticus and clearly describes the situation of Boo Radley, Tom Robinson and Atticus Finch. Throughout the story, To Kill a Mockingbird, many events occur which all revolve around the same theme; you don’t know someone until you walk in his/her shoes. Boo Radley is rarely seen or heard of in the story, and because of this Maycomb folks make assumptions on what he truly is, an evil and vicious person. Miss Stephanie Crawford claims that Boo Radley isn’t a nice person, based on her “encounters” with him, and the rest of Maycomb County believes her rumours. The more the people spreads the rumours, the more Boo’s supposed personality builds up.
We Are All Outsiders Here Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they often fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they cannot communicate; they cannot communicate because they are separated.” The separation between one man and his fellow neighbor is large, it is found in the most common places; in art, movies, everyday life, literature, and history. In Harper Lee’s novel, , a mysterious and unlikely character, known as Arthur “Boo” Radley and Frederick Douglass, the author of an eye-opening narrative named “Learning to Read and Write”, both reveal a quality about human nature, when faced with obstacles such as encroachment and oppression. They overcome these acts of inequality by preserving themselves;
But when he creates the monster, he is uncaring and horrified at it, this contrasts to what the reader has see before this event, Frankenstein was a loving family man who had and gave deep respect. Mary Shelley uses pathetic fallacy for climatic event, an example of this is when Victor Frankenstein created the monster. "It was on the dreary night of November, that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. Because of this constant use of pathetic fallacy, the reader can see when things are about to go wrong, like when the de Lacey's rejected The monster or when Elizabeth got killed, these events occurred in winter and stormy conditions. Winter is a time of destruction and is also when the monster got created and most of Victor Frankenstein's family got killed.