A Man For All Seasons : In All Quite on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, the question of who’s a hero and who isn’t is in World War I. Relationships between soldiers, officers, and the government led to the question being answered.A hero doesn’t expect to be rewarded for their efforts. Paul’s former teacher in high school filled his students minds’ with propaganda. Kantorek was a part told the boys lies of how war was. The boys got hooked onto this propaganda and registered for WWI.
Crooks) In a way, everyone needs someone to talk to, whether it is a friend, family member, or even a pet.Crooks does not have any of these sources. Crooks has never been treated well by any of his co-workers and this has affected him greatly. He has become bitter and has obtained a hatedrade toward everyone due to the way he is treated because of his race. In addition, Crooks also does not know how to relate to anymore because of how his loneliness has effected him. Crooks has been lonely for so long that he expects people not to talk to him.
We tried keeping the signal fire going but we couldn’t. And then you, playing at hunting…”(Golding 178). He is also probably mad because his tribe is all work and no play and he sees that it’s not fair that Jacks tribe is all play and no work. His emotion turns to anger for Jack because the main objective is to get rescued but Jack is too arrogant to want to work to make it happen. Anger is an important emotion because it leads to violence like in the death of Piggy, Simon, and the attempt to kill
Creon, the tragic hero, performs actions with a very clouded judgment. Haimon and Therieseis notice his foolishness early on and attempt to correct him but he refuses to admit his faults. Because Creon became king for his blood and not ability, he has no sense of how a king is suppose
Even though he has been selected as chief of the island, his voice was gradually becoming useless. The followers fancied an achiever like Jack, not just a speaker. Ralph's most important objective was to go gome, but the boys were too caught up killing pigs to realize that the fire had been left uncared for. Infuriated that the chances of being rescued vanished, the leader demands an explanation for the lack of responsibility. But at that instant, Ralph realizes his leadership lacks contron as he "...watched them envious and resentful" (Golding, 79).
Under dictatorship, many citizens feel incredible fear and deep unhappiness. Samneric from Lord of the Flies experienced both of these emotions when they were captured by Jack, and Ralph was unable to save them. Once captured, “Samneric lay looking up in quiet terror. Roger advanced upon them as one wielding a nameless authority”(p.182). Because of torture, which is common in dictatorship for
Another example is “Lennie twisted with embarrassment”. This shows that he is humiliated by Curley and just wants him to leave as he does not know what to say in reply to Curley and is rather like a hedgehog as he wants to curl up into ball. “Lennie was looking helplessly” shows his helplessness and inadequacy to sort out the problem as he needs to George to step in and help him. He cannot deal with the situation and is unable to get out of it without somebody else’s
Clark has no respect for his troops and this leads to resentment towards himself. Brown is angry towards Clark; Clark gave brown “silent insolence” because brown tore his uniform. “I’ll kill the bastard that’s what I’ll do. I’m just waiting until we get into a real scrap. I’ll plug him right between the shoulder blades.” Brown believes that Clark is being unreasonable and abusive towards his authority as brown tore his uniform while doing fatigues.
Xaymara Ruiz Morrell/Horan English II 20 May 2012 Creons unjust and unfair choices Due to the actions made by creon as a king,society viewed him as unfair and unjust,causing the town to fall apart in many ways.Creon rejected all advice. "Creon rejects the leaders suggestion.Naturally,for he knows the explanation.Its sedition, working through bribery". "For me ,a man who rules the entire state and does not take the best advice there is,but throgh fear keeps his mouth forever shut....".Creon was deaf to entreaties. "Creon wants the moral support of these men because he forsees disobedience to his edict". "So spit this girl out-she's yur enemy.Let her marry someone else in hades.Since i caught her clearly disobeying,the only culpit in the entire
Both were treated unfairly and weren’t liked by people. They both were used in some sort of experiment. Firstly, who ever you are and whatever you lack shouldn’t hold you back from having friends. Both Charlie Gordon and the monster had difficulties appealing to people and this was very disturbing to them. For example, the monster was hated by all and he knew that he could never have someone that looked normal because of the way he was.