Firstly, the speaker informs us that he is “going to kill something. Anything” this shows that they have a lot of pent up energy and cannot find a productive way to excel this energy which illuminates their frustrated attitude and slightly psychotic state of mind. Who or what they want to “kill” seems irrelevant, so long as the gesture is dramatic enough and gains the world's attention, because the speaker wishes not to be “ignored” any longer. The reader may feel intimidated towards the character but pity and sympathise with them at the same time because society is not giving them a chance. The fact that the speaker doesn’t want to be ignored shows that they clearly want empowerment but no one seems to even acknowledge him, this is also shown through the repetition of “I” which threads themes of childishness and immaturity, showing that the character yearns and craves attention, it is quite obvious that this person’s world revolves around them where they are too ignorant to see beyond this.
The fear in this case would mostly be ‘Superstitious’ fear. Another Language technique used throughout the book to create a sense of fear is rhetorical questions. An example of this is, ‘But it isn’t going to happen, is it?’ This forces the reader to be empathic by thinking in the characters position. Most readers would then be able to sense the characters anxiety or paranoia and experience that emotion. When doing this, it puts the reader in specific situations, so as to feel the fear through a character.
Again this presents the idea of being the unreliable narrator as he fails to perceive the sinister way of Heathcliff’s living. As an audience a feeling of mistrust and even dislike is built for Lockwood as he constantly misjudges events, which could even evoke frustration from the audience as his complete incompetence and lack of understanding immediately allows him to fall out of favour with Heathcliff, and furthermore presents his clumsy character. In addition to this, Lockwood also misreads Heathcliff is by being totally unaware of his body language: ‘my heart warmed..when I beheld his black eyes withdraw so suspiciously’ this quotations presents how Lockwood is completely oblivious to the recluse body language of Heathcliff, which strongly suggests he is uncomfortable in Lockwood’s presence. Furthermore, the fact that his ‘heart warmed’ when seeing Heathcliff react so strangely to
Hardy confronts organized religion because of the lack of compassion toward less remarkable people and places humanism as a more pure notion to live by. Hardy's negative treatment of religion in Tess of the D'Urbervilles stems from his belief that if a higher power exists, it corrupts mankind whereas humanism proves to be the perfect substitute. The injustice of giving an innocent, bastard child an improper burial and abolishing their only chance of salvation after earthly life is Hardy's main comment on how the depraved religious system in phase the second infects a man of repute, causing him to change his morals for the worse. The Vicar finds himself rejecting innocent Tess Durbeyfield's request of giving her child a proper, Christian burial, admitting "I would willingly do so... But I must not," (Hardy 97) indicating how a man of the God and the church was turning away from justice in order to assimilate into an elitist, apathetic society.
Gathering up the dead chickens, the farmer piles them to dispose of the bodies. She has to do this every day because many of the chickens’ bodies can’t handle the massive growth. ….. There is a real message in the film that animals should not be treated as machines or production units, but are, in the words of Joel Salatin, “critters”. They have wants and needs and thwarting those is not healthy for them or for us.
This not only shows his carelessness for money but that he means to act smug about it. His arrogance shows how money has deteriorated how he interacts in a social setting; he is unable to relate to others and resorts to sarcastic remarks. The inhumanity in his actions and how he expresses himself represents high society’s social superiority. Tom also portrays racist attitudes, adding to his list of inhumane attributes. Racist tendencies exude
Do you let fear control you? In Aung San Suu Kyi’s “Freedom From Fear”, she explains that it is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear is defined as being afraid or feeling anxious or apprehensive about an event. Fear stops many people from trying new things. It breaks and controls them in what they do and when they do it.
These individuals are uneasy and uncomfortable in the acting as if they belong in a world that they distain and one that looks down on and despises them for not belonging. “This is my letter to the world that never wrote to me” [poem 66] This quote is of individuals who as a result of them failing to conform to the social pressures of contemporary have gained the status of outsiders, not belonging to the greater populace and ignored by it. Dickinson also has conveyed the message of those individuals that are introverts or for other reasons that labels them as outsiders that are tortured and killed from the inside when they are force to belong that of which they so clearly have no part of. Dickinson conveys her message with dark, death focused imagery that reflects the attitude of society towards her, individuals like her and the harm of forceful belonging. This quote identifies that message of harmful force of belonging, that of which is out of place “The plenty hurt me ‘twas so new.
The Houyhnhnms and Yahoos, in turn, strip Gulliver of his empathy, and render him completely repulsed by the company of his fellow man. Swift uses his fantastic creations to torture Gulliver, by first showing the bestial and depraved state of human behavior (through the Yahoos), and then introducing him to creatures (the Houyhnhnms) that far exceed the human capacity for social and political contentment. The most upsetting thing for Gulliver is that the Houyhnhnms live in harmony, ostensibly, by employing reason, a characteristic which to man: some small pittance of reason had fallen, whereof we made no other use than by its assistance to aggravate our natural corruptions, and to acquire new ones which nature had not given us. (p. 318) That man cannot employ the same rational methods to govern himself, as the Houyhnhnms is evident throughout, and highlights what I think is part of Swift’s message: That humans possess an emotional component, that along with a capacity for reason, defines who we are. The first creatures that Gulliver comes in contact with on the island are the Yahoos, a creature that, although originally human has devolved into a repulsive and “odious” creature.
They just fear them. When someone has a fear to other people it makes them seem weak and unconfident. It is not the item they hate but the fear itself. Hate causes people to hold back on doing certain things because they have a fear of something. I personally have my own fears that I wish I could get over.