Tom Walker’s Greed and the Consequences By Talana brown The short story “The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irvington is a story that symbolizes the devastation effects of greed and the consequences of it. This story not only symbolizes greed but it also symbolizes evil, selfishness, religion and hypocrisy. In this story, the main character “Tom Walker” is a miser who worships money more than he does his miserly wife. A miser is a person who is reluctant to spend money, sometimes to the point of forgoing even basic comforts. Tom Walker was a greedy and selfish man who lived an immoral life of greed.
2010 HSC Question Analyse how the central values portrayed in King Richard III are creatively reshaped in Looking for Richard The work of Pacino is able to creatively place Shakespeare’s core ideals of humanist philosophy and the corrupting influence of power within a modern context, to reveal the perennial nature of the playwright’s central values. Shakespeare’s King Richard III (1592) identifies hereditary power as a potent force when the natural order is usurped. Al Pacino’s Looking for Richard (1996) sees power within a democratic time and thus presents it as privilege, not a God-given gift, yet the two maintain a similar view of the dangers of authority without balance. Shakespeare’s time demanded a negative portrayal of Richard’s humanist ideals, where blame is placed upon the King’s lack of Christianity for his abhorrent acts. Pacino, however, contends with a time where it is increasingly becoming the norm, but still contends with a society that can be considered moral devoid in some manners, and thus the importance of spirituality and thought is evident in both.
Imagery is used to show Plath as an aggressive person, such as through the line “smash it into kindling”. The emotive line “The bloody end of the skein” creates the sense of abandonment and eternal suffering that by no means that one could be aware of. It suggests that Plath’s mind, the labyrinth, was something that Hughes struggled to understand, and propose that her psyche was beyond his control. He also utilises speech in The Minotaur, creating a sense of truth in Hughes’ part. While he is not seen as a saint within the poem (he remarks in a sarcastic matter to Plath in the poem), he positions the reader to empathise with him, painting the image that he is the placid one in the relationship, and the one who encourages her to embark on her creative pursuits “Get that shoulder under your stanzas/ And we’ll be away.”.
This event proves that Dunstan is the type of a person who would rather follow his own mind and heart then go along with the mob mentality. Ramsay sees Mrs. Dempster as his accidental creation, and he must “hate her or love her” (pg 167). This sense of possession shows up when Mrs. Dempster becomes his charge, and he pays for her care and visits her on a weekly basis. At this point Dunstan thinks of her as a part of himself: “a part of my own soul that was condemned to live in hell” (pg 176). He blames himself for having broken her spirits and is assured that he is the cause of her “saintful” suffering.
Unfulfilled catharsis Andrew Hood’s ‘Pardon Our Monsters’ Northrop Frye’s theory of archetypes stipulates that satire is a genre of story where community does not finally change, where the audience does not realise the absurdity of what is taking place until the end and where the only way for the main character to survive is to live with his eyes grand open and his mouth carefully shut. ‘Pardon Our Monsters’, by Andrew Hood, is an adequate illustration of this genre because it responds to Northrop Frye’s requirements for a satire throughout a main character who experiments an act of catharsis, as Aristotle defined it for tragedy: an act of ‘purification’ , that remains unachieved, which creates a growing tension during the story without letting it burst, as expected, at the end. The narrator of the story is a first person main character narrator, Ken, who describes the terror that the three Miner brothers impose in their small town in Ontario. His terrible descriptions of the brothers, such as ‘incorrigible hoods’ (p.72), emphasise the unconsciousness of his community toward the viciousness of the brothers. The speaker also narrates the violence surrounding the Miners’ actions with detailed aggressiveness even if he is not present to see it which is his way of expelling the frustration he has towards the brothers.
Paul’s hatred for his middle class lifestyle is so strong, that he feels it is necessary to ‘artificially enhance’ his life by lying and stealing. Even though Cordelia street is a respectable neighbourhood, Paul views it as a poor and ugly area, because it lacks the extravagence that represents wealth and to him beauty. In Paul’s world, “the natural nearly always wears the guide of ugliness, that a certain element of artificiality seemed necessary in beauty.” (Paul’s Case, pg. 7). Paul despises his common life so much that he feels he must hid it from his peers through lies.
The Devil which is a parallel to money is a motif so people such that in Tom's position, will borrow money from him. The Devil has essentially converted Tom into his spawn, as he is doing the same thing the Devil once did to him. The greed and money ultimately resulted in his death, and Tom's userer subjects led the end of their lives because of the debt they had to pay. The subjects indulged in the thought of free money, easily accessible money, ruining their lives, which is what the 'Devil' quiescently did to Tom Walker. This quote portrays the greed contained in people, "He was on the point of foreclosing a mortgage, by which he would complete the ruin of an unlucky land-speculator for whom he had professed the greatest friendship."
Victor represents society intent on pushing the boundaries and themonster represents the product of this curiosity; of technology gone wrong;technology without ethics. “Accursed creator! Why do you form a monster so hideousthat even you turn away from me in disgust?” The monsters constant rhetoricquestioning addresses these ethics and illuminates the monster as a symbol of innocence in the face of corruption. Victor’s relationships also allow insight into themoral dilemma of creation. Victor’s positive family relationship is juxtaposed againsthis spite for the monster, a somewhat child of his.
A. “A Modest Proposal” In “A Modest Proposal,” the author Jonathan Swift uses a somewhat sarcastic and bitter tone. His bitterness is shown because he degrades the female race by calling them beggars, and being promiscuous with having multiple children barking at their heels, helplessly. Swift includes that the infants born by these mothers will be of no beneficial use in his town because they will grow up to be thieves, leave their dear native country, or sell themselves to the “Barbadoes.” The authors sarcasm is shown when he talks about how he will take in the whole number of infants at a certain age. Swift says that seeing the infants in the arms or on the backs of the mother and father is such a grievance or distress for the state.
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury uses freedom to show that it can affect emotion. The society as a whole is a distopia. Guy Montag, one of the main characters, figures out that corruption in the world and makes the right choice to avoid misfortune. Mildred, Guy Montag’s wife, is the complete opposite of Montag. She seems to have the worst misfortune and a horrible emotionless life.