Character Summery on Roger Chillingworth from The Scarlet Letter Roger Chillingworth, a prominent character in The Scarlet Letter, is a man deficient in human warmth, as his name would suggest. Hunched, deformed shoulders mirror the man he really is, and his soul. From what the reader is told of his marital life with Hester, he was a demanding husband. Ignoring his wife for much of the time, Chillingworth expected her to show him her ardor and affection whenever he condescended to spend time with her. Hawthorn's decision to have Chillingworth assume the identity of a doctor, or “leach,” is fitting for his sly, cunning, and depraved demeanor.
Eventually, he regresses back to childhood and crawls to Stephen, asking him to “hold me” and to “call me by my name”. After this, Weir becomes dependant on alcohol, with clear symptoms of alcoholism; his shaking hands and the “inability to talk sensibly until the liquor had put some strength and reason inside him”. He is also a superstitious man, searching for constant reassurance from Stephen in the form of tarot card reading, finding hope and comfort from the outcomes. His lack of familiarity with women is one that reduces his masculinity, as it is expected of men to be confident and experienced with women by his age. When Stephen takes him to the prostitutes’ house, the old woman said that Weir started to cry, revealing his fear of intimacy with women, a trait unexpected of the typical
Jack, like Mabel, is at a dead end in his life. Lawrence again paints a dark picture with symbolic words; Jack has a cold and is tired while trudging through his day as a physician’s assistant to visit inarticulate men and women. Although depressed, Jack is more of a fighter against his darkness; he is stimulated be the coarseness of his patients. Then, he is dealt a blow that brings him to his dead end; his best friend, Mabel’s brother, will be leaving the village. He is pulled from his depression and his emotions are aroused when he sees Mabel tending her mother’s grave: “Now the life came back into him, he felt delivered from his own
This is apparently a problem to them, for the boy had no desires, given his incurable mental illness, “Mad-made objects…could be found in his abstract world.” The couple finally picked a basket with jellies for their son. This makes the reader deeply sympathise the boy’s plight, for a “young man” like him would usually have no interests in jellies which are a suitable present for children. It reflects what his sickness has reduced him to – a teen with intelligence of a child. The boy repeatedly contemplates suicide, and has had yet another failed attempt to do so, and the couple is unable to see him, for fear that “a visit might disturb him”. The couple is revealed to be at a rather old age, “At the time of his birth…now they were quite old.” Their son’s illness has put a huge financial burden on the little family – the father used to be a successful businessman, but is now “wholly dependent on his brother Isaac”.
He was known however to add twists to the endings of his short stories and poems to produce a chill of ironic horror in the reader, which is notable in "The Son's Veto" as Randolph rides atop his mother's hearse on the way to her final resting place as the route leads past a mourning yet snubbed and rejected--by Randolph, not by Sophy--Sam, the grocer. Having said this, it is possible to identify ridicule of class prejudice in the character and role of Sophy's son, Randolph. He is raised to be like the Vicar, his father, and, like him, to disdain Sophy's country upbringing and lower class ways and dialect. Though Sophy was tutored by the Vicar to have more sophisticated city-like ways, the country girl still lay at the heart of Sophy's dialectic speech and understanding about life, at the heart of her world view, if you will. When Sophy tells Randolph that she intends to accept Sam, the grocer, as her husband, Randolph flies into a fit of horrified emotion because Sam isn't a gentleman as society defines it, which was by wealth and family background and not by manners anto define it today.
He’s portrayed as a grasping businessman who looks down on his son for choosing to work as a low-paid university lecturer. Still, there are several moments when we feel sorry for the old man as we’re told that he opens the door for his son “shyly” and that he lowers his eyes with “modesty.” “It’s Harold, father,” the young man said. The door was opened. “Hullo, old chap. This is very nice of you, Harold,” said the old man shyly, stepping back from the door to let his son in, and lowering his pleased, blue eyes for a second’s modesty.
A poem which I have recently read is “Mid–term Break” by Seamus Heany. This poem told the story of someone’s death, which made the poem very sad to read. The poet showed the sadness using various techniques. The poem begins with the poet in the medical room of his boarding school, awaiting his neighbors to arrive to take him home. When he arrives home he sees his father is crying.There are also some friends and relatives in the house and he feels uncomfortable and a little embarrassed because grown men are shaking his hand.
* Tyler Durden has insomnia and even though he doesn’t have all these diseases and cancer, he feels lost inside and cries to people which make him feel better and he can actually sleep. * Then there is a problem, a girl shows up to the testicular cancer group. * Her name is Marla. * Our narrator can’t cry now because Marla is at every support group he is and he knows she is a tourist just like him. * He also can’t sleep anymore knowing she is at all of these support groups and imagines him telling her off.
Although it is entitled “Mid Term Break”, the poem is far from cheerful. The ideas of death, trauma, grief and despair are explored here. The tone of the poem is somber and solemn. The narrator may seem a little detached as well. He does not show any outward sign that he is grieving too much over the death of his brother, but traces of his sadness could be seen in the times when he recalls memories of his brother, “the baby cooed and rocked the pram” and “lay in the four foot box as in his cot”.
In this quote, Hamlet ponders whether he should live and suffer the hardships of his life or die in order to end suffering. In this quote, it can be inferred that Hamlet thinks that life is synonymous with suffering. The reader can tell that Hamlet is tired of his life and how everyone can keep living their merry lives without the king, his father. The reader can feel this by the negative words that Hamlet says; such as, “suffer,” “troubles,” “outrageous.” The reader can also get this feeling when reading the suffering he sees with life: “"whips and scorn of time, Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of disprized love…”(III, i, 70-74). Also here he is using words that are related negatively too, “whips,” and “scorn.” It seems like during this soliloquy Hamlet tends to lean more toward suicide.