“The world resists me and I resist the world.” (pg. 28). This shows that Grendel was judged by his facial appearance and the way he spoke. Man never gave him a chance to fit into society so he was banished and forced to live a life of loneliness. When Grendel first encountered man he was stuck in a tree and already faced a bull with no assistance or rescue.
But secretly inside he hated the environment in which he lived, he hated the imperialistic government in which resided in Burma, and he hated the residents of Burma. “…I thought the greatest joy in the world would be to drive a bayonet into a Buddhist priest’s guts.” (Page 310) He felt all of this hatred for the people around him, but yet he felt as if he had to go along with everything and everyone else just to live in harmony. As Orwell was summoned to the “tiny incident” as he called it, taking care of the elephant situation, he found that the residents of the village did not know exactly what was going on with the elephant until they found out that there could possibly be a shooting, or at least some excitement. For example, he asked some of the villagers if they had seen the elephant. Some said that the elephant went to the left and some said that the elephant went to the right and some did not even know about the elephant at all.
He then becomes afraid of the monster and treats him as an outcast like the rest of community does. Victor tries to run away and forget about the monster, but that is a nearly impossible task as well. Throughout the novel, Victor will never try to care for his creation or love him. Victor's unsurpassed disgust and embarrassment will keep him from taking responsibility towards what I can
Grendel is still thought as being non human, but rather than being monstrous like in Beowulf, he is expressed as being a confused creature. This confused creature strays all over the forest. One day he comes across a doe who is startled by him and scatters away. This upsets Grendel and he says, “Blind Prejudice” (Grendel 7) Ah, the unfairness of everything, I say and shake my head. It is a matter of fact that I have never killed a deer in all my life, and never will.” (Grendel 8) Grendel longs to communicate with someone and be compatible with others.
The novel Lord of the Flies portrays an imbalance of power between characters, like Jack, Ralph, and Piggy. Throughout the novel, Jack and Ralph are constantly against Piggy because they believe they have a greater sense of authority. Piggy genuinely tries to help and give ideas but is always shut down because of the great imbalance of power between the boys. Jack additionally has no regard for Piggy's entitlement to speak and his tribe feels that anything Piggy says is humorous; they ponder "what amusing thing he may need to say.” Bullies most often tend to pick on the weaker children with poor self esteem or no way of defending themselves, thereby giving themselves more
The image that people portray him as causes just the sight of him to be frightening. People want to kill him because they see him as a dangerous threat and every time a person runs into him in the forest/swamp where he lives, they run in fear because he has an ego of being a dangerous, scary ogre that could easily hurt someone. He goes along with how people treat him, but when a little donkey comes along, instead of simply killing or getting rid of him, he puts up with him. Shrek is an individual and has no purpose in life other than just living day to day by himself in his swamp. He has no purpose because he does not want a purpose.
He wanted to be welcomed back and treated like a hero (even though he was not particularly helpful to the cause). However, the other people of the town were also to blame for the way Krebs acted because the story states that “People seemed to think it was rather ridiculous for Krebs to be getting back so late, years after the war was over.” Krebs could have just chosen to ignore them and just display his pride for serving his country (even though he did not really serve very well). Because he was not received as a hero, he seemed to try to resort to other tactics to get people to feel bad for him or to pay him some attention. Lies became a major part of Krebs life after his return home. Even though lying about his service during the war made
This negativity is expressed in everything he does. For instance when Meursault is convicted he doesn't try to defend himself. He doesn't believe in living and doesn't want to fight for his life. He clearly doesn't care and would rather be taken away from society to alienate himself once again. Meursault and Holden aren't the greatest with other people.
In the creatures situation he has no real family, he feels lost and lonely and only seeking human compassion. The problem is that people are too quick to judge the creature. Whenever he tried to make friends it never ended well and people only look at him as a monster. In chapter 16 the creature asks Victor to make him a mate. The creature was very lonely and wanted compassion.
Lennie is mentally weak, George can’t reach his dream, and Curley resents being a smallish man and has napoleon complex. Weakness is simply a reality for everyone who lives on the ranch. On a ranch full of strong men, weakness is not really accepted, and people get criticized because of it. Because characters often know their weaknesses, they’re quick to try to cover for them, which spell confrontation. It’s a like bullying, characters weaknesses makes them feel insecure about themselves, so they fight and judge others to avoid having their flaws seen by