Cain related back to hell and all that is evil, so immediately one may think that Grendel is this evil character due to his heritage. However, he is a misunderstood character who was not given the benefit of the doubt. In the eyes of man, Grendel is an evil monster banished from man’s society, who is now forced to live and see the world in a different perspective. Grendel attempted to fit into man’s world. Though, man’s world is a harsh and judgmental society.
She tells the misfit that he is a good man in an attempt to save her life as she believes that a “good” man wouldn’t kill her. The misfit describes how he was unfairly punished. There is a possibility that he was a good man before all of that happened and that the system of punishment ruined him and turned him into a murderer.
Analysis of “A Good Man is Hard to Find” By: Flannery O'Connor The Irony of a Couple of Decisions September 31, 2013 English II The Irony of a Couple of Decisions "A Good Man is Hard to Find", by Flannery O' Connor, is s short story about a retreat gone wrong. The attitude of this story is irony. The story is overflowing with bizarre but significant irony. This analysis will explain the clues provided by the author, which in the end climax to the following lesson: "A Good Man" is not shown good by obvious appearance, speech, beliefs, but by a life full of "good" actions. The story begins with the grandmother trying to persuade the family not to travel towards Florida but perhaps go to Tennessee instead.
The elusive maze of Flannery O’Connor In A Good Man is Hard To Find Flannery O’Connor expresses the many ideas and logic which touches many controversial issues through subtle meanings and symbols. Every word said, and action taken is a puzzle piece to the different meanings, theme, and motifs a reader is able to derive from her writing. Although the story begins with a different mood and setting, everything dramatically changes and what emerges is a mystery wrapped in a whole different perspective in the characters. The Misfit who’s later introduced in the story describes the grandmother as, “She would have been a good woman if there had been somebody to shoot her every minute of her life” (O’Connor 413). A good man may be hard to find, but a good woman is also hard to find.
The Misfit does a horrible thing to the whole family in the end which is such a surprise to a story that starts out pleasant. In this short story by O’Connor the literary elements used are theme, symbolism, and situational irony. To begin with, theme is a literary element in “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”. A theme that is expressed throughout the story is the definition of a “good man.” The grandmother in the story says it many times. It is first mentioned when the grandmother tells Sammy that he is a good man.
But have you ever thought of an evil doer to be just someone who messes with your thoughts and emotions? Most of us would answer no, but by reading the Scarlet Letter we see a truly evil man. His name is Chillingworth. He is an example of how one can be truly dastardly without physically harming somebody personally. From the beginning of the story we sense that Hawthorne emphasizes the deformed man in the crowd.
Kim Jensen Mark Brown English 1002 7 February 2012 Choosing Your Own Fate In Flannery O’Connor’s story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” the Misfit is portrayed as the one that is carrying out the fate that the family has decided for themselves. The Misfit says that “You can do one thing or you can do another, kill a man or take a tire off his car, because sooner or later you’re going to forget what it was you done and just be punished for it”(339). In a sence he is right. In this story the grandmother, Bailey, the children and the mother all have decide what type of lives they want to live. They all live with sins everyday between the lying and the disrespect that they have towards each other.
No pleasure but meanness.” He was an extremist—a black or white thinker. If he had believed that Jesus had raised the dead he would have been good only out of compunction and not from a sincere heart. At one point he had been a Christian but apparently lost his faith. However, he ended up fulfilling his father’s prophecy that he was not good like his siblings were but was instead predisposed to getting into trouble. Perhaps this is why he killed his father.
Good and evil has existed since man’s existence. Evil can be defined in many ways, that some may not even register their actions as wrong. When concerning with life and death, one person filled with evil can determine which way you will continue. Recognizing evil may lead to rediscovering of good within. In the story “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” O’Connor uses symbolism and religious context as a reflection of life and death and the struggle of good and evil.
He lusted for more knowledge and was only satisfied in finding a character in “history” that related to his own misfortunes. The creature feels a connection with the devil, which in many ways is a more human character than God. The devil, like humanity and the monster, is flawed and yet still a loving and understandable character. He was cast away