He is a rational and logical man. These aspects of his character bleed through when he has a verbal and public argument with Oedipus. Oedipus blames him for attempting to usurp his thrown as King of Thebes. To this Creon only replies, "A man of sense was never yet a traitor, I have no taste for that, nor could I force Myself to aid another's treachery." This response shows the integrity of Creon’s character and only proves that he wouldn’t dare conspire against Oedipus.
11. How does the final paragraph of the essay contribute to Swift’s rhetorical purpose? * The final paragraph serves Swift’s rhetorical purpose in two ways. It concludes with an ironic flourish, as if to excuse him of the selfish motives the reader might suspect. And it effects an appeal, if an ironic one indeed, to the reader’s wariness.
He is determined to do his duty, and continues to so until the end of the play. Banishment is a catalyst that allowed the audience to see Kent’s good characteristics. After being sent away by King Lear, Kent has no obligation to protect his King, and yet he is resolute when he says, “My master calls; I must not say no” (5.3.388). In staying by his King and
When he is trying to understand something spiritual, he is bombarded by technology and advertisements until he cannot think straight. Montag tries to will himself to understand, yelling “‘Shut up, shut up, shut up!’...Consider the lilies of the field.” Ultimately he cannot understand or remember that passage in the bible until later in the book. After separating himself from society, immersing himself in water and emerging with a deeper understanding of his world, he sees his city fall. In an instant, all technology, buildings, government and structures set in place collapse and he has the clearest moment of clarity in the book, when while “gasping and crying” he says “I remember, I remember...What is it? Yes.
“The gulling of Malvolio is a joke that goes too far”. To what extent does Shakespeare blur the boundaries of comedy in his depiction of the gulling of Malvolio? The boundaries of comedy can sometimes be blurred as they range between light and dark comedy. Dark comedy is often used to dismember the potential discomfort an audience may feel should heavy moral subjects arise in pieces of art such as psychological impairment in Twelfth Night. Malvolio is used in Twelfth Night to personify the notion of Lent and order in the text and is the butt of the comedy in the sub-plot.
Searching for something that seems to be the “truth” can cause blindness on what is the “real” truth. Javert couldn’t see what was real and because of that, he killed himself at the end of the movie. He talked about breaking rules and how he believed Jean should have be arrested, or killed for that matter. He soon realized that he, himself, has broken a rule. He could not see that Jean has changed.
Her resulting powerlessness pushes her over the edge of insanity: “But what is one to do?” (Gilman 598) Along with characterization, vivid imagery is another essential feature of an enjoyable story. In “Sonny’s
After killing Beatty, Montag thought “Beatty wanted to die. He had just stood there, joking, needling…” (Bradbury 122). Fed up with trying to suppress his knowledge all the time, Beatty pushed Montag to the point of killing. The reason behind Beatty pushing Montag to kill was, Beatty was tired of trying to be a normal person. Unlike Beatty, Mildred is what she appears to be.
Okonkwo's one and only weakness was his fear of becoming a failure like his father. This fear drove Okonkwo to embrace the values of manliness and fueled his desire to be strong; which then drove him to rashness and in the end contributed to his death. Accepting the ways of manhood isn’t a sign of weaknesses, the problem is how narrowly he defines it. Okonkwo was part of a patriarchal society and the male gender was already established with great authority. For Okonkwo, however, any kind of softness and tenderness was a sign of weakness.
[dare to know] "Have courage to use your own understanding!" --that is the motto of enlightenment. Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a proportion of men, long after nature has released them from alien guidance (natura-liter maiorennes), nonetheless gladly remain in lifelong immaturity, and why it is so easy for others to establish themselves as their guardians. It is so easy to be immature. If I have a book to serve as my understanding, a pastor to serve as my conscience, a physician to determine my diet for me, and so on, I need not exert myself at all.