He can report,/ As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt/ The newest state.” (1.2.1-3), to which blood indicates the open wounds Macbeth had caused to him. Shakespeare’s use of blood in this scene represents the loyalty and honor as Macbeth killed Macdonwald in defense of the king. After the battle, Macbeth was rewarded with a new title as the Thane of Cawdor yet he was not completely satisfied as he became greedy. Shakespeare also uses bloody images to foreshadow future events associated with Macbeth’s power. Aside from symbolizing blood as honor, he uses it to demonstrate the character of Macbeth and his drastic personality change as the play progresses.
Hunting gives Jack an adrenaline rush which he very much enjoys. He talks about the experience of killing a pig during one of their assemblies: “‘There was lashing of blood,” said Jack, laughing and shuddering”(69). Jack starts enjoying these violent acts of killing and falls deeper into savagery. He takes his group down this dark and violent path even further. Robert and Roger talk about Jack going to beat up one of their tribe members, “‘He got angry and made us tie Wilfred up.’”(159).
Owen's use of diction and figurative language emphasizes his point, showing that war is horrid and devastating. The use of very graphic imagery also adds to his argument. Through the intense content of the poem "Dulce Et Decorum Est," Wilfred Owen shows the reader the horrors of war. Owen compared the soldiers to animals in order to bring out their suffering. "Knock-kneed" is a condition that makes knees hit together when walking.
He emplys the use of imagery in the quote “Drooping tongues from jaws that slob their relish, Baring teeth that leer like skulls' tongues wicked?” (Lines 3, 4). Within those lines, Owen dehumanises the soldiers by personifying them as animalistic with the repulsive imagery used to shock the audience and refute the idea that war is grand. Similarly Owen also depicts this notion in Dulce Et Decorum Est in which the exhaustion of soldiers on the front and their movement between battlefields and trenches is conveyed. In this poem Owen displays to the audience that war is glorified and in doing so challenges this perception through the use of irony in the title “Dulce Et Decorum Est” which reads ‘it’s sweet and honourable’. Owen rejects this misrepresentation of war and confronts the audience through descriptive visual imagery in the line “at every jolt, the blood came gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs”(Line 22), emphasising the gruesome details of his real experiences drawing an insight into the treacherous warfare that society for many years have thought of as noble.
II. Beowulf fights Grendel. Beowulf shows goodness and bravery volunteering to stand up to the Grendel that has been eating the people of Herot. "I have heard moreover that the monster scorns in his reckless way to use weapons; therefore, to heighten Hygelac's fame and gladden his heart, I hereby renounce sword and the shelter of the broad shield, the heavy war-board: hand-to-hand is how it will be, a life-and-death fight with the fiend." (433-440) It shows that Beowulf is fair because he fights Grendel with out any weapons.
Montresor tells the reader how he is to execute his plan. As expected Montresor does carry out his plan, and is executed perfectly. Montresor accomplishes his revenge on Fortunato because of this he is vindictive, grim, and gasconade. Montersor is the type of man that you might call vengeful. “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge “(1).
He explained that the need to survive grew stronger, more motivating, and in turn, making him more ruthless with the thought that, he must kill others before they kill him, played over and over in his mind. He states, “I had learned to survive and take care of myself… I liked being alone, since it made surviving easier.” (Beah p. 153). Beah’s rationale bears a striking resemblance to what Robbins explains as a common misunderstanding about hunger and the factors that motivate survival. Furthermore, Robbins explains that famine and overpopulation are not the most common reasons for hunger, but due to a fear of death and the illusion of starvation created by deceitful individualistic ideologies of survival that are connected to basic human instincts; forcing people to view their neighbor as a threat to their personal survival (Robbins p.
Also in the text, Captain Ebenezer Falcon says that “the mind is made for murder,” which foreshadows, while showing more Buddhist traces, that man is subconsciously bad natured. Johnson implements the idea of dualism throughout the text. Dualism denotes a state of two parts. On page 98, dualism is bluntly noted as being the “bloody structure of the mind.” This line ties man, blood, the mind, and murder all together. Man’s desire’s of the mind encourages competition among humans, and ultimately; murder (the hunt for blood).
Through the impact of war turns soldiers into animals this leads to the soldiers dehumanising one another. It brings out the darker side of humanity and shows what we are capable of doing just to survive. Back before and during the war both sides would use Propaganda to fuel rage into their soldier’s heads convincing them that their enemy were evil and should be killed with as much terror and pain they could inflict. This would lead to torturing prisoners for information and even revenge. Even though we see glimpses of empathy and humanity the reader is still engaged in how war changes, dehumanising and desensitizing the soldiers.
Later on towards the end marks the downfall of society and intellect when they get shattered by Jack and his minions. Jacks knife is also a symbol. His knife symbolizes murder and evil. Having the knife made him feel like he needed to use it and he sought to complete its purpose by killing an animal for food. When he did kill a pig, he was filled immense pleasure and he grew in love with the feeling of killing.