The Coward Oedipus Is “A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit”. This quote by Thomas Jefferson portrays Oedipus because throughout ‘Oedipus Rex’ he quarrels with everybody about he truth and becomes blind to it. By blinding himself Oedipus becomes a coward because he doesn’t want to face his crimes. It all started when Oedipus hears a dreadful prophecy that he will murder his father and sleep with his mother. He leaves Corinth and travels to Thebes, and on the way he unknowingly kills his father during a quarrel.
In addition to the tale's theme of sanity and insanity, Poe acquaints the readers with two others:Guilt and Innocence, and Time being the narrator's true foe, not Death. The Tell-Tale Heart details the story of a seemingly mad individual who kills his friend for no apparent reason other than the fact that he could not deal with the old man's silvery eye. After murdering the old man, the narrator still hears his beating heart from underneath the floor where he buried him. Overcome with guilt, he finally ends up confessing his heinous crime to the police. At first glance, a reader can assume that Poe meant this tale to be a straightforward parable about self-betrayal by one's conscience and guilt.
It’s the kind of dream that wakes you try and stay awake after, because you know it’s waiting there for you behind your closed eyelids. (McNamee 11) This quote illustrates that Duncan is uncomfortable with what happened. The nightmares of the drowning girl keeps coming back to him because he did not save her. Just like Duncan, in The Penance, Octavia feels uncomfortable because of what he has done. He killed the three children’s cat because Octavia thought the cat was eating the chickens.
The Black Cat Essay The short story “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe, is a dark and deeply disturbing tale that is told to us by a narrator who displays clear psychopathic tendencies. We are introduced to a man who at first seems to have quite a normal life, however, after he turns to alcohol we start to see his hidden psychopathic traits. The definition of one becoming psychopathic is suffering from a mental disorder displaying behaviours such as having a complete disregard for the feelings and rights of others, a lack of guilt and impulsive and irresponsible actions. The narrator shows signs of all these traits throughout the story such as when he kills his wife, or cuts out the eye of his cat, and he displays no sign of conscience and a total lack of remorse. The narrator shows psychopathic behavior throughout the story through both his thoughts and actions.
It shows that both stories handle the subject of growing madness, however, in Poe’s story, the madness surrounds all characters, whereas in Gilman’s story the narrator is the one who is the victim of the madness. In addition, Poe’s story is utterly a fantastical story and does not improve the inner state of the characters as Gilman does, yet Gilman’s story includes the elements of realism and madness. Main Idea 1: In Poe’s story, the environment affects the sensibilities of the narrator and leads him to go mad. The mysterious appearance of the house and the darkness and gloom of autumn affect the narrator and make him uneasy about the house. -“During the whole of a dull, dark and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher’’ (Poe 88).
Both Grendel and Emily were lonely, Grendel was angry at the humans because of the way they were reacting towards him, he was jealous of their lifestyle, their parties and singing. Grendel had it in his mind that the reason he was created was to make people’s life miserable. In “A Rose for Emily” Faulkner portrayed Emily as an insane woman. In my opinion I think Emily decided to kill homer was because, homer was thinking about moving up north and leaving her just like Emily’s previous boyfriend she was afraid to be all alone and lonely again So she decided to buy “rat poison” and mixed it with a drink and gave it to homer. In “Grendel”, if the humans would have judged Grendel not just by his looks but by his character, the 12 year war between Grendel and the humans had a very slim if any chance to take place.
While the Poe stories are different in several ways, the similarities of the text are greater. Let’s begin with a similarity of murder, not only do they both commit[->0] [->1]murder[->2], but they also suffer endless turmoil and escape eternal punishment. Poe's characters in both The Tell-Tale Heart and The Cask of Amontillado consist of murder by
A key similarity in both “Once Were Warriors” and “In the rubbish tin” is the parent/child and alcohol abuse between various characters in the film (Once were Warriors) and the short story (In the Rubbish Tin). In “Once were Warriors” Jake savagely beats Beth with his fists to a pulp in front of their friends; to the extent of her having two black eyes and a swollen face. He has a habit of showing his love for her with his fists; as it is the only way he knows how to express his love. The family environment isn’t friendly or safe what so ever. Jake beats Beth because he knows he has the physical strength over her.
Paul Edgecombe and Brutus Howell (other prison guards) greatly dislike Percy Wetmore as he is arrogant and cocky and mistreats the prisoners. Percy calls the prison “a bucket of piss to drown rats in” and he believes he has authority over the other guards as his aunt is the governor’s wife and so looks down on everyone else. To ensure a quick death in the electric chair, a wet sponge is placed on the head to direct the electricity straight to the brain. During Eduard Delacroix’s execution Percy decides to purposely not wet the sponge causing Delacroix to endure a long, painful death. An aural technique used to create a strongly negative mood in the scene of Eduard Delacroix’s execution was sound and music.
He murdered his wife, who harbored the love for animals that he once possessed, after she intervened when he tried to murder their second black cat. The first black cat the narrator owned, Pluto, was loved by his owner until alcoholism and possibly rabies caused the narrator’s irritability and change in his once pleasant disposition. He buried his unnamed wife's body behind a brick wall in the cellar of their home. He secured the brick wall with mortar. However, after the police investigated the cellar and were on their way