He actually risked his life and tried to triple his IQ, by going through a surgery. He was also cheated and was not told that there wasn’t enough research in that area. The saddest and worst effect was that he will always remember being a brilliant genius but he will never get the chance to be on again. That is just a little bit compared to the other sad things he went through, but that is why I am against him having the
The McGill’s goal for doing this was to collect one thousand souls. The reasons for the one thousand souls were so that he could win his life back like the fortune cookie said. The McGill is an evil villain but like any other villain there is a reason for all of there anger. In the McGill’s case he is a monster and he is a jerk to everyone so he is very angry person. He takes his anger out on other people but by the end of this book he will learn to be good.
Alyssa Tippens 21 September 2011 Whedon 5 Whedon-Final Written Exam “If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life” (p.2). Within the novel The Great Gatsby by F, Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby is, if anything, a very misunderstood man. Like every person that has ever lived, he is by no means perfect. He pushes through life in an attempt to live out his dreams and create a life different from the one he was born into. Gatsby becomes corrupted as a result of his surroundings and participates in evil things.
Even in this way, this was the most substantial change because it caused Gilgamesh to change not only his rule over Uruk, but wanted to do more for it. His distain and anger for the gods subsided. Although Gilgamesh lost his only true friend. This once troubled two thirds God king, found wisdom and became a hero. Although he was never able to truly become immortal or young.
He looked like any other Roman. Altair had pictured a demon as being a monster with horns and a tail, but he soon realized that their trickery was far greater than he expected. The demon chuckled, "Well, it seems as though i am well known, even in the Holy Lands. Tell me, Altair, why is Riad so important that you would go so far out of your way to find him?" "I don't see how that is any business of yours, demon."
Before hearing the witch’s prophecy, he was a virtuous and ethical person, but after hearing that he is destined for kingship, he goes on a murderous rampage to gain political power, completely disregarding his previous decency. This is similar to how Oedipus was originally a just ruler, until he hears that he is the reason for the plague upon Thebes, which he is unable to believe because he is blinded by pride and arrogance similar to how Macbeth is blinded by the quest for supremacy. At this point in the play, blood, as well as Macbeth, has made the complete transformation from symbolizing virtue, courage, and integrity, and instead represents guilt, murder, and
He was a thief, slander and he would abuse the gods by “putting then in jeopardy, and he was able to save then because he was very cunning” (Willis 195). When they look at Loki, they could not tell if he was a god or a giant. At one point, he was the friend of Thor and Odin and at the same time he would give birth to the monster that could killed them. The one thing about him he was a creator of figure and he gave birth to the World Serpent and Hel the ruler of the dead. (Willis 195) In North America the tricksters were also as cunning, they were able to steal the fire, able to outwit the monsters and play tricks on others.
In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the main character initially demonstrates qualities of being a tragic hero, but by conclusion of the play his deceitfulness and his overwhelming gullibility lead him to be portrayed as a criminal. Macbeth has serious issues with power, greed, and even his own self- esteem and self- conscious. He knows when he kills Duncan and Banquo that it is the wrong thing to do but he still does it anyways. He also becomes obsessed with idea of power and becomes more power hungry as each day passes. He has become an unstoppable killing machine who believes he is invincible once the three witches reveal their prophecies and their apparitions to Macbeth.
The death of Algernon took a huge toll on Charlie’s understanding of what could and might happen to him. When he realizes that the surgical procedure is flawed, he throws himself into his own personal research to discover the flaw due to two reasons. First, his intelligence has gotten to its peak, making him much smarter than Dr. Strauss and Dr. Nemur; he understands their own research to a greater depth than they understand themselves. The doctors feel Charlie has overworked himself immensely with the research, yet he cannot wait for them to figure out what will happen to him. “I know I should rest, but I’m driven on by something inside that won’t let me stop.
Victor’s plans for his creation were more than great, but once he had actually created the Monster, all of his past feelings turned into disgust and horror. Frankenstein finds himself "…capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter" (Shelley 51) and attempts to put himself on the same level as God by giving life back to the dead. Although Victor thought otherwise, the creature that he thought would bring him fame and do good for society became a murdering monster. "…I thought that if I could bestow animation upon lifeless matter, I might in process of time (although I now found it impossible) renew life where death had apparently devoted the body to corruption." (53)