The narrator viewed the shrouded bodies in their solemn slumbers with the worms. The significance is he saw a vast number changed to an uneasy position in which they had originally been entombed. 7. The narrator’s mental state becomes unstrung and he falls in a prey to perpetual horror. His actions are rational, because he hesitated to ride, walk, or to participate in any exercise that would carry him home.
Of mice and men: Quotation Analysis Quotation: "That stink hangs around even after he's gone." he walked over with his heavy legged stride and looked down at the dog. "Got no teeth,"he said. "He's all stiff with rheumatism. He ain't no good to you Candy.
At the end, Dante comes to the final circle of hell to see Satan’s three heads perpetually chewing on Brutus, Cassius, and Judas, the three great traitors. The relevance of Dante’s Inferno to society can be seen in the first Canto. “Midway in our life’s journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood” (Alighieri, 194). This represents those who go astray in life, who have fallen into temptation, committed sin, and cannot seem to bring them self back to God. Dante describes the dark wood: “Its very memory gives a shape to fear” (Alighieri, 194).
‘I hope to heaven it isn’t Alcee Arobin’” (Chopin, 118). There is one other man in Edna’s life that deserves attention. He is the naked man at the seashore that Edna imagines while Adéle plays the music Edna calls “Solitude”. The narrator describes, “His attitude was one of hopeless resignation as he looked toward a distant bird winging its flight away from him” (Chopin, 44). Throughout the novel, the bird symbolizes the Victorian woman.
I was jabbering about it for days. You seem to be insinuating something in a vague way. Outside, the sun was as yellow and happy as a child’s crayon creation; inside, Hood’s soul was a black ruined landscape of misery and fear. He sat there all morning watching a swag-bellied sky refused to rain. The story underneath was brief, saying only that the fire department had ruled out arson.
It is also made clear to the reader why Grendel has no social life due to the fact that he simply wants nothing to do with those around him; however there is only one point of view throughout the poem which makes the reader wonder if there is more to Grendel than a beast. We know nothing of his background of why he acts the way he does, we have no clue as to how others have acted toward him in the past, and for how long these situations lasted. Grendel is just a misunderstood character. Throughout the poem there is valid reason as to why someone would be able to empathize toward Grendel. Turner 3 Works Cited Page Anderson, Sarah, Alan Sullivan, and Timothy Murphy.
"I killed a man it's not my fault he was sent by the Devil" A quote of a stuttering man that begins the new world full of excuses and mistakes. To be stamped a freak would an individual feel despair of hope? The Chrysalids, a novel by John Wyndham is a story of despair, despair where mistakes from the past is exerted into the future. Humans in the novel use alibis to excuse them from their offenses, and blame the ones that can not defend themselves. The characters all suffer due to the judgment and unacceptance that lead them to death or suicide in the future .
“…Did they really believe that this war would end wars…it all happened again, and again, and again,” this use of rhetorical question and repetition emphasises the anti-war sentiment that both Bogle and Dawe capture. Similarly in Homecoming, it is illustrated the dehumanisation of war. “…mortuary coolness…deep-freeze…sorrowful…frozen sunset…wintering tree…bitter…grief…”through an extended metaphor, it is suggested the implications on the society from the death of thousands of loved ones; the coldness is symbolising the death, grief and struggling of society and the individual. Dehumanising effects give poets their anti-war point of view the effectively portray the bonds between the society and the
Dimmesdale is on the scaffold giving a speech and then realizes that he can’t hold in his sin anymore. Guilt building up and Dimmesdale confessing kills him. The last chapter Dimmesdale is giving a speech and then starts saying that he is the father of Pearl and then he rips his shirt open to let everybody see what is on his chest. “‘Hester Prynne,’ cried he, with a piercing earnestness, ‘in the name of Him, so terrible and so merciful, who gives me grace, at this last moment, to do what—for my own heavy sin and miserable agony—I withheld myself from doing seven years ago, come hither now, and twine thy strength about me! Thy strength, Hester; but let it be guided by the will which God hath granted me!
• “Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.” (235) Reasoning: This quote that was stated at the end of the book shows the reader and myself that the world of savagery only leads to murder and sorrow. That in fact, humans are not naturally civil. They’re naturally evil and animalistic. And this quote alone could destroy Rousseau’s idea that humans are naturally