Roberts’s relationship with Rowena is one that he holds dearly. Robert acts as her guardian and sees her as the one pure thing in his life while the rest of his family sees her as an imperfection. With the loss of Rowena’s life, Robert blames himself and becomes saddened with disbelief and sorrow. Along with the death of his sister, comes his mother’s urges to kill the last remaining memory of Rowena, her rabbits. After Rowena’s rabbits are killed by a hired hand and Robert is left beaten up, his mother makes an
The greatest act of failed responsibility in the novel, Curley’s neglect towards his wife, was a continuing plot line through the book. It finally comes to an end when the lonely woman is accidentally killed when she comes to Lennie looking for companionship. To emphasize Curley’s irresponsibility, he immediately decides to lead a manhunt for Lennie before knowing all the facts about his wife’s murder. Lennie was completely at fault for the murder, though; as another example of irresponsibility in the book, he chose to run away instead of staying with Curley’s wife’s body to claim responsibility for what he had done. Not every character in the novel is irresponsible however, as show by both Slim and George.
The town blamed this behavior on her father, "We remembered all the young men her father had driven away" (p. 93). She has already missed out on so much of life by the time her father dies, she feels the desire to become a mother and a wife. At the age of thirty Emily's this drive overpowers her “hereditary obligation to the town” (p.
Hamlet’s grief over his father sudden death is intensified by his mother’s hasty marriage to his uncle whom he considers inferior and venomous naturally. He denounces her disloyalty in the words, “frailty thy name is woman”, and juxtaposes Claudius’ inferiority to his father’s greatness in the image of “Hyperion to a satyr”. Furthermore his allusion to Niobe and the contrast between her mother’s “galled eyes” and her “dexterity to incestuous sheets”, serve only to accentuate his
Perhaps, because she saved one life, the rest would have to fall. Her actions led to terrible suffering for Creon and his family; almost like a curse. Haemon, her fiancé, was so in love with her that he actually fought with his father, the King, for her rights. When he could not do anything about Antigone being buried alive, he stabbed himself out of grief for his love with Antigone and anger towards his father. Because of the son’s death, Creon’s wife, too, killed herself out of grief.
For Antigone and Creon these consequences were very extreme. Antigone in reality killed her sister and fiancé by deciding to berry her dead brother, even though everyone around her begged her not to. By choosing to berry her brother she forced her uncle to not only kill her but everyone around her who she loved. She became so lonely when she was forced into captivity that she killed herself. All this because of one decision she made to berry her brother caused her life to fall apart and everyone she loved to disappear.
He almost immediately begins planning his course of action towards revenge. Hamlet’s disgust toward his mother is only heightened with this news of murder, “O most pernicious woman! / O villain, villain, smiling damned villain!” (Iv.105-106). Old Hamlet’s ghost has warned Hamlet not to punish Gertrude with hell, but he does not seem to care. Hamlet has now taken this personal with his own desires for revenge, as well as his obligation to his deceased father.
Anse is another great example of the death of the morals of society. He went through all the struggle to get his family and his dead wife to Jefferson while all along he had other intentions. He was ready to get rid of Addie because he found himself a “new Mrs. Bundren.” (90) One realizes that Anse is full of deceit and
Bundy’s first girlfriend and true love broke up with him because she didn’t think that his live was going anywhere and he became very depressed. Bundy accepted this expectation of himself which led him to stop going to classes, drop out, and begin a horrific murder spree to help gain back his confidence. This criminological theory also says that when social bonds or relationships start going down the drain then violent behavior or deviance can begin to take place. As mentioned earlier, Bundy had a very interesting family situation that contributed to his behaviors. He was told that his grandparents were his parents and that his actual mother was his sister.
In Hamlet's first soliloquy, he wishes that his "too too sullied flesh would melt! "(1.2.129), and that "the Everlasting had not fixed his canon ‘gainst self-slaughter" (1.2.131-132). Hamlet is distressed over his father's demise and mother's marriage, and is expecting the most exceedingly bad out of everybody. He announces "railty, thy name is woman," summing up his mother's