In his poem, The Tyger, Blake poses the question of who created the fearsome beast. The implication is that, any Deity capable of creating the precious lamb should be questioned about his or her motivation for building a killer. Perhaps Blake was trying to shed some light on what he considered to be the evil nature of man. However, by using two diametrically opposed images (The Lamb and the Tygre), I think Blake misses a better opportunity. Yes, the Tiger is a natural predator with vicious killing instincts… It will also care for its young as any mother might and protect the pride from outside threat.
William Blake’s “The Tyger” in plain English Tiger! Tiger! Your evil shines so bright In the forest at night! What powerful being Could have created such a monster? Where did the burning in your eyes come from?
19) Why do atheists not bother Pi? Who do agnostics bother him? (If you do not know what an agnostic is you need to look it up in a dictionary) Life of Pi Study Guide Name__________________________________________Period_____Date________ Chapters 8 - 20 1) What is the most dangerous animal in the zoo? 2) Who are the worst troublemakers at the zoo? 3) How does Mr. Patel teach Pi and Ravi about the dangerous nature of the animals at the zoo?
After recounting his original story with the animals and the carnivorous island, the Japanese investigators are immediately skeptical and tell Pi right away, “Mr. Patel, we don’t believe your story” (Life of Pi, 99). The investigators cannot be blamed, for Pi tells them a story with a talking tiger and a flesh eating island of algae in the middle of the ocean. Speaking of the island, they tell Pi, “Your island is botanically impossible” (99). After every account, the investigators refute it as unbelievable.
It seems as though humans have imposed conscience and morality on animals which normally do not exist in the animal world. These personificated notions in several tales and poems have reflected stereotypes on actual animals and lead humans to believe that these animals are “evil” creatures. In the short poems “The Tyger” by William Blake and “Snake” by D.H. Lawrence, it’s noted that these creatures, the tiger and the snake, are being looked upon as vicious and untrustworthy. The writers of these poems go deep in their description of the nature of these two animals and indirectly pointed out the stereotype each creature holds. Animals, whether they have the concept or not, are being confined to the stereotypes humans hold against them based on their nature and face unfair treatment.
The mood of the piece is set when Orwell renders the setting as a “cloudy, stuffy morning at the beginnings of the rains.” His tone of speech in turn is thought to be weak and discomforting. He established the fact that his character is weak when the Burma people are introduced and how they laugh and mock him, the British officer. The tension of discovering the elephant is a metaphor itself showing the destructive power of imperialism: the elephant’s rampaging spree of destruction and even killing a man whom Orwell described to have been in pain. Finally finding the elephant, Orwell states “I knew with perfect certainty that I ought not to shoot him.” Laying eyes upon the followers shadowing him, he changes his stance to “…but I did not want to shoot the elephant.” This is when Orwell begins to state how immoral and wrong it was to shoot the elephant. Despite many reasons to not shoot the elephant, such as how it’s more valuable alive rather than dead, or his state of being a “poor shot,” he end up falling into the expectations of the Burma people.
His shadowy, black eyes, gleaming towards the setting sun. The tiger, with its sleek yet strong body, slid towards me, leaving the boat slightly precarious. Unsurprisingly, my heart was pulverizing like the speed of a predator catching its vulnerable prey. I wondered when it was going to attack and consume me; however after a few minutes it just continued to gaze at me and seemed pretty harmless, therefore it seemed that the tiger was a truly majestic creature. This also gave me the impression that the
Essay topics- The Jungle Book Choose two 1 Why do the wolves turn against Mowgli? Why do the villagers? 2What is Kipling trying to say about heredity versus environment in his stories about Mowgli? Which is more important, how you were born, or how you were raised? 3 In what ways is the jungle society depicted in Kipling's stories superior to the contemporary society of man?
In "A Tiger-Fighter Is Hard to Find," a television crew's inept attempt to film a fight scene with a live Siberian tiger lands their lead actor in a mental hospital, convinced that he is the mythical tiger-fighter Wu Song. Reversals, transformations, and surprises abound in these assured stories, as Ha Jin seizes on the possibility that things might not be as they seem. Parables for our times--with a hint of the reckless and the absurd that we have come to expect from Ha Jin--The
He describes them as “two aerial tigers, stripped in ebony and gold” (lines 1-2). This metaphor makes the wasps a part of an animal hierarchy by stating how they are tigers, which by a double meaning, are both ferocious and deadly predators, and yet often associated with royalty and nobility. This opening line creates a base for the whole poem for which an animal’s actual attributes are changed or passed over to another one, to rid of the distinctions between them and focus on the idea of animal or creature alone and in itself. The author wants the reader to see the wasps as if they weren’t just tiny, flying pests, and sets them above all the previous assumptions the reader might have had about