Antigone is telling Creon that rather than listen to his man made laws that she would rather follow the higher authority of the God’s. This strong willed nature is what ends up leading to Antigone being sentenced to death. When Antigone chooses to hang herself rather than allow Creon to kill her, she further demonstrates her strong willed nature. Antigone’s unnecessary death clearly shows that she is a tragic character. Creon’s tragic flaw is that he is to prideful.
Here he says that weather you kill people or take tire of car you will be punished anyway and when you will be punished you will forgot what you did and will be punished for no reason. Secondly, Misfit was forced to kill the family because they recognized him and he was scared that if he leaves them they will call cops. He didn’t wanted to the killings , but circumstances made him do the killings. He wanted to help them because they had an accident
When Curley's wife screamed, he didn't know how to make her stop except to do what he did, but he did not intend to kill her. Curley, of course, is also looking for a way to achieve revenge for Lennie's crushing his hand so he will definitely try to kill Lennie in the most cruel way possible. He says he will "gut shoot" him. George must save his friend by a mercy killing.
Professor Merchant Essay 4 Rough Draft October 21, 2012 Let Me Choose No human being wants to be in pain; but, what if the only way to stay alive was to live with pain. What is worse, dyeing purposely to end the pain or to live through the pain as long as possible to extend life? Dudley Randall shows that life is worth living no matter what. The speaker in “To the Mercy killers” begs for his or her life by changeling the mercy killers that want to end the speaker’s pain. Dudley Randall’s poem, ‘To the Mercy Killers,” argues for saving life paradoxically by pointing out all the reason to take it.
Like George, Candy only wanted his dog dead to prevent it from enduring the suffering that they both face from oppressors. “You seen what they did to my dog tonight? They says he wasn’t no good to himself nor nobody else. What they can me here I wisht somebody shoot me. But they won’t do nothing like that.
If my deep pray’rs cannot appease thee, but thou wilt be avenged on my misdeeds, yet execute thy wrath in me alone. O, spare my guiltless wife and my poor children! Keeper, I prithee sit by me awhile. My soul is heavy, and I fain would sleep.” So the murderers arrive and one becomes remorseful and wants to spare Clarence life just as Richard said but the first murderer does his duties that Richard assign. Giving Richard exactly what he wants the open path to the seat of
I should be damned for persuading men to lie. And Goody Nurse, ohh bless such a good soul. I could not bear to see such a pure person be hanged. I pleaded to Hathorne that if this Rebecca Nurse is tainted, then nothing’s left to stop the whole green world from burning. But he had been deceived by such act.
This relates to doctors who demand a defined and specific diagnosis required for euthanasia. Lennie’s mental disorder is his fatal flaw. He is not a patient with terminal cancer, he is a patient with a deadly contagion with one confirmed death; Curley’s Wife. George is quarantining this disease when he kills George, protecting society and any future victims of Lennie’s innocent wrath. This form of euthanasia is not only an act of mercy towards Lennie, but towards any other potential victims.
Making a final decision on ending a person’s life to keep them from suffering can be hard to imagine doing. Watching someone suffer so much hurt my heart. Some people would say ending a human life by means of mercy-killing is murder in the technical
Let the world know what type of Zaroff is or was for that matter. Zaroff was a psycho beast who needed to die ,but not like the way he did. He should been given a chance to change. Rainsford should have offered to help Zaroff become a better person. Instead, Rainsford chose to handicap himself instead of better himself.