Since there is no mention of key factors to point at Sir Lanka, readers are to take the novel as a commentary about several places that experienced post-colonial trauma. Western readers who never experienced trauma on the level of Sir Lanka – readers will see that trauma is as definable as the disappearances of people during civil wars. Ondaatjee uses his novel to send a message: trauma is incapable of being accurately described and people can only attempt to understand trauma. Yet, readers will never quite understand the mental strain on a person unless the person has dealt with something traumatic themselves. Ondaatjee uses Anil to start off the narration of Anil's Ghost, using her as the equivalency to a Western reader.
‘Life would be relieved of all that was unbearable; the unjust might go his way, delivered from the aspirations and remorse of his more upright twin.’ This is where he is basically saying he want the good and bad to be separate and not to bug each other, so that his good, upright part of himself can walk with its head held high. Mr Jekyll has clearly got a highly tuned
Man is not born good or evil. Good and evil is different for each person. It’s all dependant of race, place of residence, ethnicity, and age plus many other factors. It’s a never ending cycle, so therefore man can be neither good nor evil. Hsun Tzu pushed the fact that man must be taught to be good, I agree with this idea because everyone makes mistakes which we normally learn from.
In Dan Brown’s novel, Inferno, the main character, Robert Langdon, learns how you shouldn’t believe everything that people tell you and that many people have more than one reason for doing something. Throughout the novel, Professor Langdon has to use his university-level symbology and art knowledge to try and decrypt Dante’s Inferno into a map to stop global bioterrorism. In the novel, the world meets the diabolical plans of a single biochemist to stop overpopulation. “The doors were never sealed, Brüder realised to his horror. Containment has failed.” This shows that the World Health Organization (WHO) knows that the biochemist, Dr Bertrand Zobrist, leader of the Transhumanist movement and ancient art enthusiast obsessed with Dante, had released some kind of virus to infect humanity.
Introduction: If Guy de Maupassant’s story, “The diary of a Madman” teaches one thing is that we never can truly know or understand people around us. We can’t for the simple reasons that first, everyone has its darkest secrets and secondly, because there is no way for a human being to share every single one of its thoughts. Body: “Everybody has its darkest secrets” actually means that you cannot expect to understand someone without knowing this person at its worst. At one point, the judge in this story was really at its worst, constantly asking himself questions, to the point that he went against the basic rules of human civility and ended up murdering to satisfy its curiosity. The world view him as a “high-court judge, an honest and incorruptible magistrate, whose impeccable life was held up as an example in every court in France”.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll’s lawyer Mr. Utterson finds out that Dr. Jekyll is leaving his entire property to a mysterious person named Mr. Hyde. In the time that Mr. Utterson has known Dr. Jekyll, he has never heard of a Mr. Hyde. This prompts Mr. Utterson to be on the defense and become super suspicious and begin snooping around, but he was unable to find anything. Of course Dr. Jekyll is not giving him any warm leads which is concerning him even more. I’d also like to mention that slew of events began taking place in the village that had ties to Mr. Hyde so that made Mr. Utterson want to find this Mr. Hyde person even more.
In Albert Camus’ The Stranger, Meursault constantly shows his existential principles, such as his indifference toward anything and his belief that there is no afterlife. Camus informs the reader very little of Meursault’s character in The Stranger. The first person narration allows Meursault to tell the story through his own perspective, and he does not divulge much of his background or childhood. The most striking aspect of his personality is his apathetic attitude towards everything, introduced in the first paragraph of the novel: “Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don’t know” (Camus 1).
Even the one who actually performs the Release does not know the real truth: “One for here, one for Elsewhere,” Lily chanted. “Do you actually take it Elsewhere, Father?” Jonas asked. “No, I just have to make the selection… Then I perform a small Ceremony of Release.” “And somebody else comes to get him? Somebody from Elsewhere?” “That’s right, Jonas-bonus.” (p136-137) In this way, everyone in the Community is shielded away from the real truth. Because fear and pain does not play a role on this utopian society, let alone death, the term “Release” was created to veil the true meaning of death.
Clearly, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is an examination of the duality of human nature, as most clearly expressed in the revelation that Mr. Hyde is in fact Dr. Jekyll, only transformed into a personification of Jekyll's evil characteristics. Utterson's discovery of Jekyll's astounding work occurs in the final chapter of the novel, after Stevenson has laid the groundwork of evidence for the extreme duality inherent in human nature. We have already witnessed Hyde's powerfully vicious violence and have seen the contrasting kind, gentle, and honorable Dr. Jekyll. In approaching the novel's mystery, Utterson never imagines that Hyde and Jekyll are the same man, as he finds it impossible to reconcile their strikingly different behavior. In pursuing his scientific experiments and validating his work, Jekyll claims, "man is not truly one, but truly two."
Sometimes Jekyll sees nature as simply that, natural, but at other times he sees it as evil. This is a kind of universal feeling, for what we call our natural instincts are in fact natural to a high degree, but on the other, they are so powerful that they threaten to override our concern for others, and in so doing are easily experienced as evil. Jekyll believes that he can separate the “good” and “evil” elements of the human into two separate beings. During his experiments, Jekyll feels he drew steadily nearer to that truth", "learned to recognise", and "began to perceive