Ramanjot Dhillon Mr. Desjardins ENG4U0-G February 12th, 2014 Deception and Truth Although humans look to love, being naive will only bring disappointment and grief. In the short story "Was it a Dream? ", Guy de Maupassant tries to implement the idea that nobody can be trusted. To begin with, the protagonist (who remains unnamed) is a man in the midst of grieving the loss of his partner. We are quickly acknowledged to the fact that the man is a very loving and caring person, and so was his wife.
When Romeo kills Tybalt right after marrying Juliet, it is clear that he is still extremely loyal to his friends and family, even though he knew that Tybalt was Juliet’s cousin. His revenge killing was one of loyalty to his friend. It is clear from the beginning that Han’s loyalties lay with his father, especially after going to prison for him. By the end of the film however, it is clear that Han’s loyalties in his family and his people were misplaced. Although sad at his father’s suicide, he feels no guilt about killing Kai.
Talzani has a firm belief that “some live, some die, that’s all” and appears to be relatively unaffected by the deaths he is responsible for. Joaquin, much like Talzani, seems to also be fairly candid about the deaths he was liable for, except when it comes to his granddaughter Elena. Mark on the other hand becomes so psychologically disturbed about his part in the death of his best friend and is so overcome with guilt that his legs fail to work. “There is no pattern to who lives or dies in war”. The author uses the character of Dr Talzani as a representation of someone who can be responsible for people’s deaths and remain unaffected by it.
However, after Frank’s death, the damage that occurred was just irreparable. “None of these precautions on behalf of Frank’s reputation was enough however to restore harmony in the Hayden family”. The damage was so bad, the Hayden family wouldn’t even talk to each other, “but neither my aunt nor my grandparents would speak to us. Even I understood the symbolism: Frank’s death was an unbridgeable gulf between us.” By the end of the Novel, even after the loyalty shown to Frank as a family member, Julian never forgave Wes, causing Wes and his family to eventually leave Montana and never speak of the incident that happened in ‘Montana’ in that horrible summer of ‘1948’ ‘Montana 1948’ shows in many ways just how important both family loyalty and Justice are to the characters in the book. Wes began off as
His dream is to live out of society, alone. Although the film shows he was compassionate towards those he met along his journey that helped him. For example, he talks to Jan about her family problems and gives Ron Franz a sense of family and belonging. He cares about them, even if there are things he doesn't like about people. This changes the viewers reaction to Chris as at the start, he is very arrogant to his family, but these things shows how he can be compassionate.
This proves that he’s selfless and a caring guy because he didn’t want to let Christian die thinking that Roxane doesn’t love him. Plus he didn’t want Roxane to love him because he wrote the poems. He didn’t want to steal Roxane away from Christian and Christian away from
Friar Lawrence was the cause of their deaths for his irresponsibility and lack of urgency to solve the conflict he started. Although Romeo and Juliet met with no involvement by the Friar, he was the one who encouraged their love and married them. “In one respect i’ll thy assistant be, / For this
Because fear and pain does not play a role on this utopian society, let alone death, the term “Release” was created to veil the true meaning of death. When Jonas found out the true meaning of Release through watching his father release a baby, he felt so angry and confused that his own father killed a baby with his own hands. However, the Giver calmed him and explained to him: “Listen to me, Jonas. They can’t help it. They know nothing….
By the end of this play, we see how Nora’s secret changes the relationship between the couple, as she violates the stereotypical role-play as a wife and mother in her era, which generates her inspirational growth. Nora, the main character, was first introduced as a very sheltered, immature, and optimistic woman. Helmer we see as proud of his male role in society and in the household, father-like towards his wife, and greatly cares for his appearance in others eyes. When speaking to each other, Helmer communicates to Nora as if she was his child instead of his wife. He does this by things such as calling her nicknames with negative characteristics, such as his little lark, spendthrift and featherhead.
In the novel the characters trust Nick and confide in him quite a bit. He thinks of himself as an open minded non-judgmental, non-partial person. I think that it is almost impossible to live your life and not judge others and also not be partial and judge different individuals with different standards. Nick wants the readers to believe that the way he was raised gives him the right to pass judgment on an immoral world. He says, that as a consequence of the way he was raised he is "inclined to reserve all judgments" about other people (page 5).