After that they continued to show bravery by establishing the White Rose. This was a secret rebellion organization used to announce the evils of Hitler’s plans to all of Europe. Hans and Sophie regularly volunteered to take the printed leaflets and carefully distribute them in mailboxes, trains, and local classrooms. Lastly, Hans and Sophie Scholl were arrested and sentenced to death for their protests but even then they showed courage. On February 18, 1943 they were spotted handing outs leaflets and taken in for interrogation.
Chief Bromden’s perceives the Combine as an all-powerful, spying and secretive commune that watches and controls everything around the ward and identifies the Big Nurse as the head of the Combine. “She’ll go on winning, just like the combine, because she has all the power of the Combine behind her”. Bromden observes the Combine as a machine that seeks to harshly repair the mentally damaged, inoculating fear into the patients and eliminating any form of anti-establishment. This relates to the “Red Scare” during the 1950’s and the ‘domino theory’ put into America’s idea of communism. It was feared that communism would grow so large and overpowering that if anyone were to challenge the system, they would be punished, which is displayed in “One flew over the Cuckoo’s nest” by McMurphy’s demise.
Another example of betrayal in the movie Mean Girls would be when Cady gets all of Regina’s good friends to turn against her. Another good example would be when Janis Ian gets mad at Cady because Cady starts to get sucked into the popularity, this also shows betrayal. These all are examples of betrayal that portray the theme “you have to be careful who you trust”. In the play Julius Caesar the character Cassius is plotting against the main character Julius Caesar. Caesar thinks Cassius is a good man and that he will not cause any trouble.
Dr. Louise Slater Introduction to College English October 14th, 2009 Human Emotions “We Have to Sit Opposite” by Ethel Wilson is a story in which it explores aggression and our ability to handle it. How much can someone take before they lose it and react in an unlikely manner? Mrs. Montrose and Mrs. Forrester can both attest that the more aggressive we become, the more careless we are with our actions. This can be seen in the story when Mrs. Montrose and Mrs. Forrester engage in a “battle” with a German family, resulting in a loss for the ladies. Mrs. Montrose and Mrs. Forrester pride themselves on being ladies.
They reiterated evidence from the first trial, including eyewitness accounts placing Ms. Knox and Mr. Sollecito at the scene. During closing arguments, Ms. Knox was portrayed by prosecutors as an "enchanting witch" and “she-devil” while defense lawyers painted her as a hapless young American woman abroad and a bright-eyed ingénue. Mr. Sollecito's lawyer said Ms. Knox was more like the cartoon character Jessica Rabbit — a man-eater in appearance but actually a loving woman. “It’s a case of ‘I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way,’ ” the lawyer said, quoting a line from the 1988 film “Who Framed Roger Rabbit.” The appeals court jury of eight Italians, which included two judges, delivered its verdict after more than eleven hours of deliberations. Ms. Knox and her supporters in the courthouse let out whoops of joy and relief as the verdict was read, prompting court officials to shout for silence.
This is confirmed when, in the end, a woman draws a marked slip of paper from the ancient ballot box and is quickly stoned to death by everyone in town, even her own children. The woman is Tessie Hutchinson, an obnoxious, selfish mother and housewife. Through her use of dialogue and descriptive adjectives, Jackson utilizes Tessie to display the lower gender role of women in earlier America and to serve as the largest source of rebellion in the story’s village. Shirley Jackson, born December 14, 1919, was an American author hailing from San Francisco, California. Growing up, she’d always wanted to become a writer and displayed this through many journals and examples of poetry.
This in our eyes is a morbid and gruesome way to be brought down, and the thought that it was almost voluntary and the whole town participates women, men, and children is more then most can stomach. In our minds he who is with out sin shall cast the first stone. Jackson was making a point to Americans through The Lottery that societies are not all as innocent as they believe themselves to be, thus no stone should ever be cast. She illuminated this point through the townspeople's belief that there is no inherent evil in the annual stoning of an innocent victim, because they themselves are without sin. The reader is, nevertheless, incensed by such an act.
This is shown most strongly when people form school start making racial and discriminative comments towards the Finch family. When Atticus hears of this he tells Scout to “keep those fists down” and “try fighting with your head for a change”. And so even when a student from her school shouts out “Scout’s a cow-ard” when she walks away from her first fight she thinks back “Atticus so rarely asked Jem and me to do something for him, I could take being called a coward for him”. Scout plays a very important role in the story line of To Kill a Mockingbird with her curiosity, courage and intelligence. She also in some ways symoblises a mockingbird, through her
1. "I have hated the words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right." (528) After encountering Max being forced on the way to a concentration camp, Liesel becomes hopeless of the written word, seeing Hitler's words as the source of her suffering. Ilsa Hermann gives her a blank book and encourages her to write hoping she will. While then, Liesel writes the story of her life, containing both tragedy and beauty, at a fevered pace.
she demonstrates the absurdity of the men of the industrial era’s repeatedly and calls attention to the erroneous and backwards thinking of the times through comedic satire. A powerful example of such satire from Howe's speech is in her introduction. she sarcastically proclaims “woman suffrage is the reform against nature” and continues to point out the ladies present in the crowd and their physical, mental and “general debility”. she sarcastically demonstrates the “debilities” of women to a point which they couldn’t possibly mark a ballot or drop it in a box and continues to lay on the sarcasm as the possibility of a woman completing such a simple and menial task is impossible because “all nature is against it. the laws of man cry out against it.