Max's story aims to encourage Liesel to be brave and willing to counter words of hatred with words of love; these final lines suggest that others would be willing to follow her if she took such a stand. 10. "I am haunted by humans." (550) The Book Thief is framed by Death's and death's inability to reconcile the remarkable cruelty and the remarkable compassion of which human beings are simultaneously capable. Liesel's life story contains elements of both, and by the end of the novel, Death appears to be no more capable of judging humanity than at the novel's outset.
Also, the effectiveness of the first person narrative is that it establishes the narrator’s channel of emotions due to the betrayal of her lover. In addition, this brutality caused upon the lady would enable the Victorian society to witness the label of a ‘Fallen women’ truly had on a lady, destroying her life. Overall, Rossetti successfully uses a first person narrative, signifying to the readers the stress she now faces in daily for not being ‘Pure.’
'Curley's wife is a very complex character because she is presented in different personalities at different chapters and in this chapter we see that she desires freedom and fame. Steinbeck presents her in such way that or opinion of her changes through out the novel, first we see her as a flirt then we see her presented in a horrible racist personality and now Steinbeck presents her as Innocent. Steinbeck did this because at this chapter where she dies it's like he wants us to feel sympathy for her because not that she is dead her problems are gone and there is not need for attentions because now she looks relaxed laying down on the hay. The language used in this chapter is very descriptive especially the part when Curley's wife dies, this might be because at the time
Is Abigail Williams a Victim or Villain? We have been studying the text The Crucible by Author Miller and I am going to study in detail weather Abigail Williams is a victim, or truly the villain. Abby is the villain and some may put it down to some of the "reddish work" she has seen but is it? In Act One Abigail is willing to lie to everyone to save her own, Abby is certain "[they] danced" and nothing else, even though we know that is not all they did. Abby threatens the girls, forcing them to tell the story according to the way which incriminates her the least.
Medea Discussion Question #2 I actually think that Medea is the victim compared to Jason being the villain, although not entirely. I think this evidenced during a conversation between the nurse and the tutor, “Nurse: Oh, what an enemy Jason’s proved to those he should have loved! Tutor: What human being is not?” (Lines 15-16). They are both shown to have had their feelings of love with near absolute abhor. I think Medea deserves pity in certain situations, such as in the beginning and the events leading up to the murders, when she is shown crying out in the beginning of the play, “The pain of misery!
Theres Rose Mary, thats for remembering. Please remember, love.” (Act lV, Scene V). Ophelia says. She is trying to show Laertes speaking up for herself in a way how crazy she has gotten from her fathers death, that even if she's crazy she will still speak up and show why she is mad. Then Laertes says, in “Sadness and torment, suffering, hell itself—she makes them almost pretty.” (Act lV, Scene V).
Why does Ophelia go mad? Does Hamlet have any responsibility for this madness and her death? The following passages from William Shakespeare's Hamlet, explain why Ophelia has gone mad. According to Laertes, "There's nothing more than matter," therefore he believes that even though his sister was mad, she was saying more than just blurting out random thoughts. Intermingled within her thoughts that seem to mean nothing, she expresses her grief as well as dropping subtle hints that Hamlet is the reason why she has gone insane.
Everywhere her hand is seen, destruction swiftly follows. Whether the love be romantic, paternal, or maternal, it always leads to “death” or despair. In Aphrodite’s position of being a God, she has the insight of future prospects, despite that, she played a part that deems it to be savage and immoral by allowing the dreaded fate to happen especially to Medea (who present a rather cynical view of the tenderest of emotions), implying the injustice of the Gods. Quite often the characters even go so far as to beg the goddess to spare them the pains that love can bring. ‘Jason was my whole life, he knows that well’ Medea is significantly impacted through Jason’s ruthless actions and what’s worse is that she is
As shown by Lloyd Jones and William Shakespeare in their respective novels, too much ambition for power and not being able follow one’s conscience leads to immoral acts that result in nothing but regret and guilt. Although the characters in both works have a sense of righteousness, they are unable to follow their conscience, which result in immoral acts. Dolores demonstrates this quality when she decides, against her righteous conscience, that she cannot take responsibility for the poor condition the village is in, but she could let the whole village suffer and let Mr. Watts take the blame for something she did. Although she “[lays] awake thinking –knowing what the right thing to do was” (Lloyd 112), she continues to let this valuable secret that could save her village, weigh on her conscience. Similarly, Matilda also makes the same mistake as her mother by keeping her mom’s secret from the village.
So we see our main character and we feel her pain, we know she is suffering because she can feel within herself that something is not right. She makes countless attempts to tell her husband this, and he continuously shrugs her away, constantly reassuring her that it is a “temporary nervous depression- a slightly hysterical tendency”(Gilman 987).The use of the word hysterical here is literally referring to her disorder, but figuratively he is essentially saying that she is hysterical regardless of ill health or otherwise; simply because she is a