Hart, the protagonist or the first-person narrator, becomes confused about his relationship with his friend Mitsy as she is Japanese. Hart and his father, Michael, are affected by the constant barrage of hatred about the Japanese from the whites and the worsening war news. They see Mitsy and Sadako, her mother, as ‘...two lithe killers’, not being able to trust them. Hart grew uncomfortable
Although they were madly in love since childhood, Hatsue felt like she was doing something wrong and forced herself to end her relationship with Ishmael due to their racial differences. This triggered Ishmael, to also hate the Japanese like the rest of the Whites. The government order to take away the homes and belonging of the Japanese and imprison them due to the war demonstrates the strong resentment among the racial groups. Living in a place where the Japanese are frowned upon by the Whites, innocent Kabuo Miyamoto is accused of murdering fellow fisherman, Carl Heine, an example of the unfair, prejudiced, judgements portrayed in the story. After losing his land, Kabuo has lost all of his faith in the Whites and refuses to co-operate with the trial.
It is as much of an ignorant comment as an untrue one, which becomes increasingly evident as the film progresses. The Japanese Army targets the most vulnerable, a ship containing women and children. It is a cowardly attack yet it strikes loudly to the men back at home who belittled the Japanese’s ability to fight in the War. Conflict of any scale is usually caused by an individual’s blindness, lack of knowledge or lack of understanding towards a situation or individual. As evident in “Paradise roads”, such ignorance can have dramatic negative effects.
However, the fact that the adult society sees through his façade reinforces Holden's alienation from his society. In effect, Holden retaliates by rejecting adulthood and continues to criticize its flaws as he indulges in them. He passes judgment quickly on those that he feels are corrupt and calls them "phony." This only further worsens Holden's situation and even further detaches him from society and help. But how did such a vicious cycle of self-destruction start?
Brooks also presents her through Martyn’s perspective as evil and sub-humanly disgusted, the thought of her makes him feel physically ill, in order to show how much Martyn needs her to prove his assumptions wrong so that he can grow up and mature. In another way, Aunty Jean is important because Martyn projects the anger he feels towards his father and her, onto her persona. Every time he sees her he becomes angry or irritated so he assumes that she is also angry at him. Martyn feels that this justifies his hatred of Aunty Jean that in reality stems from his father: ‘Furious is the first word that comes to mind. Mad, ugly and furious.’ The adjective ‘furious’ describes how Martyn is both angry at Aunty Jean and scared of her and what she might do at the same time, the reader sees that he has absorbed his father’s fear that
But secretly inside he hated the environment in which he lived, he hated the imperialistic government in which resided in Burma, and he hated the residents of Burma. “…I thought the greatest joy in the world would be to drive a bayonet into a Buddhist priest’s guts.” (Page 310) He felt all of this hatred for the people around him, but yet he felt as if he had to go along with everything and everyone else just to live in harmony. As Orwell was summoned to the “tiny incident” as he called it, taking care of the elephant situation, he found that the residents of the village did not know exactly what was going on with the elephant until they found out that there could possibly be a shooting, or at least some excitement. For example, he asked some of the villagers if they had seen the elephant. Some said that the elephant went to the left and some said that the elephant went to the right and some did not even know about the elephant at all.
The protagonist, Winston Smith, is a lower-party member who has grown to resent the society he is living in and starts to lose his rationality and sanity due to the restrictions of society. "And in the general hardening of outlook that set in ... practices which had been long abandoned - imprisonment without trial, the use of war prisoners as slaves, public executions, torture to extract confessions, the use of hostages and the deportation of whole populations - not only became common again, but were tolerated and even defended by people who considered themselves enlightened and progressive. "(p.130) Winston clearly hated the Party and all he wants is liberty of his actions and ideas. He will fight his hardest to revolt and stop the Inner Party’s “dictatorship.” To keep all of this in order, and to avoid revolts, the Inner Party has to think of creative and smart ways to control the public. This is done by introducing orthodox methods in the minds of the Party members such as with childhood.
The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.” In other words, war brings people to a disgraceful point where they lose their values of life. The Japanese cultural beliefs contributed to many of the brutal killings that occurred in Nanking and other parts of Asia. Japan’s primitive rituals promoted dedication and honor through reinforcement (Chang 20). The Japanese Army had cultural beliefs that were instilled in them because of the consequences that were implied if disobeyed. These unethical and inhumane dispositions were all they knew and practiced.
This action leads to him being considered a tragic hero. Creon’s human flaw of arrogance causes him to ignore reasoning and advice and listen only to his own thoughts. He states, "My voice is the one voice giving orders in this city". He is afraid to go back on his word because it will hurt his pride and he is afraid that it will cause him to lose power with his subjects. This action causes him to lose everyone that he loves.
So he, too, must run away if he is to hold on to his sanity and have a life of his own.” (167). Grant is too intimidated by the white supremacy to help anyone, including himself. He tries to remove himself from those he loves by looking at them with contempt and arguing with himself, that since they are