When he was only a boy, he was arrogant, proud, impatient, and full of spite, but still boasted greatly about his amazing magical talents. When Ged first gained these bad personality traits, the action began. It continued when Ogion tried to correct him and Ged pushed him away. When he encounters the shadow at the end of the novel, he realizes that it was his bad qualities; fused together to make a hateful creature meant to haunt him, and to teach him to correct his faults. In doing so, he lost some time from his youth due to spending numerous years chasing and hiding from the shadow.
In my opinion, dramatic irony was added because Creon is slightly arrogant character. I predicted that he would be disappointed in him and that he will get what he deserves for being so evil to the people of his country. Another example is when Creon finds out that Antigone disobeyed his law. King Creon got so angry when the Choragus said, “I have been wondering, King: can it be that the gods have done this” (1077). The Choragus provides
This confusion has to do with the battle between Satan and God and how he deceived people while on earth. Satan’s sole purpose in life was to deceive everyone and have them come over to his side of evil. Satan wanted men to think that he was the victim from the beginning and that God was the evil one to him and to us all. He further wanted us to think that God was the one who was trying to deceive us from the beginning. However, on the day of the great controversy all was revealed that Satan was the true deceiver and God was indeed to be worshipped.
They are either feeling guilty because of their subconscious or they are being punished by a being of “higher” power. Gary found out that there are consequences for not obeying “Gods Law”, the same goes for Adam and Eve. So overall the moral of the story: if you don’t obey, you will pay. Gary knew what he had done was wrong, he says “I knew sin was what you took and didn’t give back”, and he was
Ralph, unlike Simon, has not figured out that he is fighting not only Jack, but the evil inside all mankind. Simon had figured that out when he had his "conversation" with the pig's head. The head told Simon "I'm part of you." Since Simon's conversation was part of an epileptic hallucination, the realization that the evil is inside of man must have come from Simon himself. Unfortunately Ralph, has been so focused on trying to lead the boys, thinking they would follow him simply because he was chief.
Odysseus was the first one to realize that if they had killed the Cyclops they would be trapped in the cave forever. “If we kill him now, we may be trapped inside this cave forever.” (Homer 7) Odysseus knows that actions always have positives and negatives, so he thought of the harm that would create if he killed the Cyclops so he waited. As Odysseus’s intelligence grows his knowledge of speech grows too. When the Cyclops, Polyphemus, asks Odysseus his name, he replied in a very sneaky, intelligent way. “Nobody, that is the name my father gave me: Nobody.” (Homer 8) Odysseus was able to
Zeus commanded that Prometheus reveal the name of the mother, but Prometheus wasn’t a snitch and instead chose to suffer the punishment. To punish mankind, Zeus demanded that the other gods make Pandora as a poisoned gift for man. Pandora was given several traits from the different gods: Hephaestus molded her out of clay; Athena clothed her; Aphrodite gave her beauty; Apollo gave her musical talent and a gift for healing; Poseidon gave her a pearl necklace and the ability to never drown and Zeus being the most canning of all made her idle, mischievous and foolish. Thus the name Pandora meaning (“all gifts”) The most significant of these gifts, however, was a pithas or storage jar given to Pandora by Zeus. Before Prometheus had been chained to the rock he had warned Epimetheus not to take any gifts from the gods.
In conclusion, the world is surrounded by evil and sin. Sin has been around since the creation era in mankind’s history and can be accounted by through the writings in Genesis 3-11. Sin is acting out the temptations that are bestowed upon you through Satan. So, how can an individual avoid sin and evil? One must resist temptation and follow these guidelines, “(1) pray for strength to resist, (2) run, sometimes literally, and (3) say no when confronted with what we know is wrong” (Gen 3:1-6).
The first of these is to consider the baby to be like Frankenstein's monster - a blank canvas whose mistreatment turns him to violence: 'I am malicious because I am miserable. Am I not shunned and hated by all mankind?' The unnamed monster's violent deeds are a result of his mistreatment by Frankenstein and Ben could be considered in the same way even if the initial rejection does happen in the womb. The other interpretation is to consider whether good and evil traits are not as simple as that - it seems like a depressing alternative to believe that someone can be naturally evil, but it does hold with it the notion of natural goodness also. The boys in Lord of the Flies demonstrate this natural goodness and evilness for when they are free from society, their arguably natural goodness (seen in Ralph, Simon and Piggy) is revealed, but also the natural evil (seen in Jack, Roger and most of the boys) is also revealed.
The opening scenes of Bertolt Bracht’s The Good Woman of Setzuan use irony as a principle comic technique. Irony is the use of words that expresses something opposite from the literal meaning. In dramatic irony, characters do not know about the situations in the play, but the audience does. In The Good Woman of Setzuan, the first irony that appears is that there are three gods that comes to earth to scrutinize the good in human beings. After searching in Setzuan, they become awfully disappointed because the wickedness of human behaviors greatly disgusted them.