This causes Victor to go into an extreme depression and eventually causes him to also go after the monster with a vengeance, allowing him to cross paths with Walton. Victor’s selfishness does not cease despite his health degrading in the novel. Instead of turning around, and leaving the situation, Victor is determined to keep going. The reason Victor is the monster is because he has no respect for the monster as a sentient being and only seems to care about himself. He is the prime example of a character that is easy to sympathize with or feel sorry for; however, the monster deserves a lot more sympathy than Victor does.
Immediately as a reader we are thrown into the theme of uncertainty due to the ambigious title. The word ‘But’ for the start of a poems title gives the reader the idea of Thomas being halfway through a sentance, and therefore they feel as if they have missed something so they do not have a full understanding. The word ‘these’ tells the reader nothing about the poem because it doesn’t refer to anything in particular therefore giving the reader a sense of uncetainty as they had no idea of what they are about to be thrown into by reading this poem. The fact that Thomas has chosen to start the poem with the title is also a clever way of introducing the theme of uncertainty , because even though he is repeating the line, as a reader we still do not have an understanding of this poem. Thomas also uses a wide variety of imagery in order to inflict the theme of uncertainty upon the
I think that William’s Golding’s Lord of The Flies suggests that man are inherently evil such as Jack because of factors such as ignorance, but also there are people who are inherently good because of their natural love for people, and calm inner-beings, for example Simon. The ignorance in people is a great source of revealing one’s inherent evil because when someone shows ignorance, he is often associated with an evil characteristic. We see this firstly, during the event when the fire goes out and Ralph gets mad at Jack for letting the fire go out, which serves a purpose of a signal fire for ships passing by. At that time Jack is hunting and looking to spill some animal’s blood when he is supposed to be doing his assigned duty. As see on Page 82: “You didn’t ought to have let that fire out.
A Comparison – “Guilt” and “This Day in History” "To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have" (James Dickey). This quote is a perfect representation of the two poems that use guilt as their main theme, "Guilt" by Leona Gom and "This Day in History" by Bert Almon, due to its ability to explain the fact that we as humans constantly commit certain actions with a result of a different reaction then we usually expect. Although the two poems differ in their titles and the types of guilt they express, the two poems are similar in a way that they both explain the ways that we as individuals selfishly tend to view our needs, actions, and lives take more importance over those of others.
He thus feels compassion towards the creature up to a certain level. “his voice seemed suffocated, and my first impulse, which had suggested to me the duty of obeying the dying request of my friend in destroying his enemy, were now suspended by a mixture of curiosity and compassion” (p.218). Walton is able to give him a little bit of respect, knowing he has more inside than just a monstrous
This is demonstrated in the poem, “Red” by Hughes, where his perspective of Plath as a passionate but tortured individual contradicts the view of her gentle and happy persona. Hughes uses the colour red to symbolise Plath’s torment such as “poppies thin and wrinkle-free as the skin on blood” where Hughes connects Plath to poppies which have connotations of blood and death. The effect of this compounds the symbolism of the colour red, ultimately depicting Plath as a tortured soul. However, in contrast, Hughes reflects that at times Plath was untroubled by her psychological issues, such as when “kingfisher blue silks from San Francisco/ folded your pregnancy”. The poet’s use of the kingfisher uses the bird in flight as a symbol for the freedom which Plath occasionally experienced when separated from her obsession with her father.
Wallace sympathizes that if lobsters can’t control their pain, then humans are unnecessarily boiling and eating them, as a result, putting them through immense suffering that humans wouldn’t want to experience themselves. Wallace, however also compares them to frontal lobotomy patients. These patients experience physical pain but perceive it in a different way. They do not necessarily hate or like pain. They feel neutral about it.
Boo Radley shows goodness but at the same time his actions seem to be creepy. In my opinion I am sure that Boo Radley is the character that is most like the Mockingbird because he is a good person injured by the evil of mankind, Like it says in the book “it’s a sin to kill or hurt a Mockingbird, Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy, they sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a
It enraged me. It was their confidence, maybe--their blissful, swinish ignorance, their bumptious self satisfaction, and, worst of all, theirhope" We see that in this quote Grendel slowly starts to become annoyed with the humans. The reason Grendel thinks this way is because all he hears from them is the praise they talk about of Hrothgar and god. "I had become something, as if born again. I had hung between possibilities before, between the cold truths i knew and the heart-sucking conjuring tricks of the Shaper: now that was passed: I was Grendel, Ruiner of Meadhalls, Wrecker of Kings!"
However, the devilish creature is intelligent and has a sincere heart and an innocent mindset. Being that his overarching goal is to work his way calmly into society; the wretch is emotionally unstable when the shunning of anybody he came into contact with became an impossible avoidance. He is well aware of this discriminatory rejection as he states, “the unnatural hideousness of my person was the chief object of horror with those who had formerly beheld me” (Shelley 133). The mere power of the monster’s disfigurement takes its toll on the witnesses, granted that it is seemingly unattainable for them to look within this helpless creature. The blind De Lacey is proficient in distinguishing the sincerity in the monster’s voice when confronted by him.