In the novel All Quiet on the Western Front the reader can infer that the narrator Paul Baumer as we know him in the novel is very different from Paul Baumer before he experienced war. He had plans to write a play and a love of literature that was lost after experiencing the horror of life in the trenches. It is shown in his apparent aestheticism, inability to fantasize beyond reality, and his lack of faith in the human race. The things Paul experienced truly changed his life. Throughout the novel Paul seems to leave his emotions behind in order to survive.
Authors use themes in their story to give their readers an important message about life. Authors develop themes differently by using literary elements and literary devices. Many stories have a similar themes just like the stories The Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas and Blessings by Mary Hall Surface. In the story The Count Of Monte Cristo the theme is even when times get rough, always have hope for the future. I picked this theme because in the beginning of the story Edmond Dates, a prisoner, is a sad lonely man that wants to die because he has no other prisoner to talk to and he has no hope for getting out of jail.
The result is a society where fanatical, destructive behavior, such as the firemen's book-burning, flourishes. People in Montag’s society have been conditioned to think the suggestion of reading is a laughable subject as expressed in the quote, “Do you ever read any of the books you burn?’ He laughed. ‘That's against the law!’ ‘Oh. Of course.’” (8). The people in Montag’s society are banned by their government to read anything that has any philosophies or intellectual thought.
Of Mice and Men By Jamie Clarke Chapter 7: Page 1 George stared down at the grave, it read , “here lies lennie a caring friend.” The guilt he felt was unbearable, it was like a huge boulder crushing down on him and he was doing his best to hold it up and stop it from crushing him. It was dark and the graveyard was dimly lit with only a few slow burning lanterns hung up around the graveyard. George would visit this place once every week because he just couldn’t stay away! Sometimes he would speak to lennie, he missed him so much but he knew he couldn’t change what had happened, He some how knew he had done the right thing but he also knew that Curly would be onto him soon.
In modern society the concept of guilt is commonly misinterpreted for fear. For example in today's society people of conscience may fear that a poor person might die on the streets. However fear is present but their is more guilt towards the homeless person. In Macbeth the same events happen, from Macbeth thinking Banquos ghost is just a fear of his, and it was made by the witches, he chooses to ignore it however Macbeth makes the crucial mistake of the misjudgement of fear and guilt. Macbeth seeing Banquos ghost is not his fear but his guilt over killing his best friend.
As well as the creature was abandoned by Victor himself at birth. Secondly, they both experience isolation. For example, Victor mentally disconnects himself from his loved ones and close friends when he devours himself in his scientific research of creating life and feels isolated when the creature kills those he loves. By the same token, the creature sees himself as an outcast from the people due to his grisly deformed physical appearance and afraid of anyone he sees. In short, this is the reason why the creature killed the people.
They do not ever want to show fear. Even after the war, the men still carry the grief of the war. Tim O’Brien carries the image of the young man that he killed, and it haunts him every day. Jimmy Cross tells Tim that he still has no forgiven himself about Ted Lavenders death. “At one point, I remember, we paused over a picture of Ted Lavender, and after a while Jimmy rubbed his eyes and said he’d never forgiven himself for Lavender’s death.
Night shows how difficult holding onto and using their religion to survive was. In the novel Night, by Elie Wiesel, people’s faith weakens by seeing the death of innocent lives, the harsh conditions of living, and the responses of persecution . Many people’s faith was weakened by witnessing the painful death of many innocent lives. When taken to a death camps many started questioning their faith. For example, Elie witnesses the hanging of a boy.
The author of Beowulf, who is unknown, makes the reader believe this by portraying each character in different ways. Throughout the story, Grendel is seen as a villain due to the various horrific things he does to the Danes and their land. Grendel is portrayed as a monster from the moment the poem starts when the author says, “A powerful monster, living down / In the darkness.” The first line of the poem shows Grendel as a monster living in the darkness, and in society it can often be seen that people or monsters, “living in darkness”, are bad or villainous. Later in the poem, when the author is explaining Grendel’s creation, the author explains, “He was spawned in that slime / Conceived by a pair of those monsters born / Of Cain, murderous creatures banished / By God”. This explains that from the minute Grendel was born, he was evil.
He scared everyone he came into contact with and was labeled as the "breathless horror"(56) which made it impossible for him to socialize with any humans.Unlike Victor who chose to be alone. Valerie, in the other novel was isolated by ones who at one point, did love her. The creature was abandoned from the start, he was rejected and hated from the moment he opened his eyes. Complete isolation for Valerie doesn't happen until much later in her story. The horrible image of the creature's outward appearance physically isolated him from society.