Everyone on the island was turning into complete savages, other then him. He knew he had to keep civilized; he had to know his boundaries. In chapter nine, in Lord of the Flies the character of Simon was brutally murdered by all boys in a dancing riot, but piggy (157). He knew it was wrong, he knew what was going on, while all the other boys were taken away in the moment, that they did not even notice that they where killing one of there own dear friends. He had the knowledge, the brains, to know not to be involved in that heart twisting murder.
Cask of Amontillado After reading the story, “Cask of Amontillado”, it is clear to say Montresor pulled off the perfect crime. Every factor ranging from a motive to the actually body was left undetectable, his plan was virtually flawless. The simple, “when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge”, was the only personal spark Montresor needed to carry out is thoughtful plan. The motive was unnoticeable by others, and the strategic manner in which he drew Fortunato away from any possible witnesses was cunning and manipulative. Montresor threw a party just for this murderous act and built a wall in the crypt to cover a body which will never be found.
This story of Plautus being cured by Asclepius and his daughter must have meant something to the audiences otherwise they wouldn’t have gone to see it. Even though this play is fictional, Greeks believed it was none fiction and so were led to believe that the God Asclepius actually cured people. It’s useful for a historian to know this kind of play was being performed at the same time that Hippocrates was teaching about more scientific methods of medicine and how they cancelled each other out.Hippocrates’ theory of the four humours influenced the way Greek
This speech is different from the others in that he uses very vivid and disturbing images when he is trying to convince the governor to surrender his city. Although this speech does use Henry’s same rhetoric he isn’t leading anyone in a sense. He actually says that if the city doesn’t surrender he will lose control of his army and they will go off and do whatever they want. Henry says, “ your infants spitted upon pikes”(38) which draws a not so pleasant image. It almost leads us to question Henry’s morals if he is willing to kill infants.
Had he been caught in Mary's bedroom he knew he would've been fired and perhaps arrested. On page 85 then author says “He wanted to move from the bed, but was afraid he would stumble over something and Mrs. Dalton would hear him, would know that someone besides Mary was in the room.” Bigger was so afraid of being caught in Mary’s room that he wouldn’t even move. Bigger, a Black man, being caught in a young White woman’s bedroom would have caused more commotion than he had bargained for. On page 87 the author says “He had killed a white woman” Not only had Bigger killed someone but he had killed a white person. Society already doesn’t favor Black men so the fact that he had taken the life of a white woman put even more fear into him than any other murder he could have committed.
to 1650 A.D. Columbus did not find the Americas. Therefore, he should not have been given credit for finding the Americas when he did not even have the knowledge to know he was really in Americas, not Asia. Giving the credit to Columbus is quite frankly unfair to Native Americans and should be a rather disappointment to the United States human society. It has been said that Columbus “proved the world is round.” Educated peoples in Europe already knew the world was a sphere about more than 1,500 years before Columbus was born. He thought he could reach Asia by sailing west from Europe, taking approximately 12,000 miles.
Everyone must learn to control this pride, and if they cannot, learn to accept the consequences. The ability to maintain pride without being arrogant puts some individuals above the masses. Throughout his epic poem, The Odyssey, Homer's use of plot events and conflict emphasizes that while a small amount of pride is helps one to succeed, excess pride leads to arrogance, destroying even the best people. Throughout the plot of Homer's epic, several men make challenges to Odysseus due to their excessive pride and arrogance, pushing them towards their demise. Each of these men makes an ill-advised challenge to Odysseus because of their arrogance and comes out physically or emotionally damaged.
He found a few people who were still loyal to him but majority of the suitors were very arrogant. After all of this, he finally revealed himself as Odysseus and kills them all. This is defiantly an example of Odysseus’s intelligence being a good thing because these men took advantage of his house and wife. They were disrespectful and eating up all the food from his house. The fact Odysseus first disguised himself as a beggar so he can see who was loyal to him and who wasn’t was really clever, because this gave him an idea of who to kill and who not to
Here we find that not all our heroes will do something heroic. Ender and Odysseus both had to kill and injure people to win or get past obstacles that come in their life. Ender fought all his games and won. He proved them wrong by winning the battle against the buggers, he’s now in control. Odysseus no longer will be chased or wanted.
Instead of just shooting Fortunato or something equally quick, Montresor instead handcuffed him to the catacomb wall, and buried him brick by brick (Poe 416 – 417). By cruelly drawing out his punishment, it is clear that Montresor thought out his actions, and wanted Fortunato to feel as much pain as possible. While Chillingworth dies very soon after the subject of his hatred is gone, Montresor lives on long after, as if the thought of his completed revenge sustains. Instead telling the story as it happens, Montresor is telling it from the future, “half a century later” (Poe 417). By telling the story with the same passion fifty years later,