Social class inequalities are one of the central themes revealed in both Oliver Twist and Slumdog Millionaire. Discrimination towards the lower classes was common in Victorian England, and is thus displayed constantly through Oliver Twist. The poor were seen as inferior to the upper classes, to be considered and treated as little more than the lowliest of animals. Poverty is described as ‘loathsome’ and ‘repulsive.’ The use of emotive language in quotes by Mr Bumble, with words such as ‘wickedness’ and ‘frightful’ tells the responder that to people of Bumble’s status, the poor were corrupt and to be distrusted. When Oliver is first taken to see a deceased woman of the underclass, her mourning family is described as being ‘so like the rats he had seen outside.’ Dickens’s use of this simile had a dehumanising effect, and shows that the upper classes believed the poor deserved good will as much as rodents did.
This lack of education could partly be an explanation for his selfishness, because he has never had the exposure to things other than what he knows in his own small world. When death rocks Anse’s small world he is unfazed and continues his selfish behavior, even going so far as to bury Addie in Jefferson simply for his own
I felt angry about how Kress' irresponsibilities that caused his pets died in a famine because owners have the duties to feed their pets well. Since the beginning of the story told me about Kress was such irrepressible of making his pets suffered from starving, I think he would feel no guilty when he stopped feeding his sandkings to entertain his guests as he showed off to them in the parties. I think Kress was admirable as a human because everyone should not strew up animals' living areas as forcing fish to live on the ground. In the story of "Sandkings", Kress refused to listen to the sandkings' seller - Wo's warning about letting sandkings had wars by their own conflicts, and he didn't treat his pets nice. With what he treated the sandkings, they started behaving displeasures by twisted his sculptures on the castles.
Oliver Twist is a young orphan who is starts off in Mrs Mann’s workhouse, the children are tortured by slow starvation and Oliver is drawn the short straw to ask for more. “please sir, I want some more.” In contrast to the starvation of the boys, Dickens maintains an obesity motif, with all the board members beings obviously well fed, symbolism shown through their size, they are appalled by the request, which highlights the social injustice within the workhouse. Mrs Mann physical abuses Oliver and does not entirely care for any of the boys in her care. Oliver is sent to work for Mrs Sowerberry, a mean judgmental women who manipulates her husband to abuse Oliver, And also Noah Claypole, verbally abuses, and torments Oliver about not having anything, when he is told to leave Oliver alone, he wonders why because everybody else has and nobody cares for him. Oliver meets Jack Dawkins when he escapes and is left on the streets of London, He is taken to Fagin, the receiver of the stolen goods.
B. Unloved- The changes he and his brother went through were so different that they don't feel like brothers anymore. He thinks that they can't be close because if he we're to get killed, it would seem like his brothers fault. C. Hate- The artist believes things can't be like the good days, they have to be full of hate and no love. There needs to be change and hate needs to be taken out of everyone’s lives but still nobody sees any changes. III.
George knows that the other men will probably be more cruel to Lennie, and George's quicker methods are the only alternative. 46. Slim was the only man on the ranch who understood Lennie and George's bond. The other men are too lonely and isolated to understand a such bond. They couldn't percieve why George would be sad after he told them he killed Lennie in self
First, spirituality destroyed due to corruption is mainly seen in Jacks actions. For one, he uses his power to beat a boy, which appears to be for no reason. “‘He’s going to beat Wilfred.’ […] ‘I don’t know. He didn’t say. He got angry and made us tie Wilfred up.
Willy’s reaction symbolizes his betrayal to his family, and his failure of the American dream. Willy never acknowledges his failures to others. Charley offers him a job, but he refuses because of personal pride. Accepting a job from Charley would establish personal failure. Even when asking for a raise, he lies to his boss and say’s his boys are doing well knowing they cannot provide for him.
Pip agrees to help Magwitch in his elope by bringing him food and a file from the forge. Stealing the file and the food produces agonies of guilt in Pip. Dickens describes this guilt by making the environment in which Pip has to run through dark, misty, shady and mysterious. In his words, “the mist was heavier yet when I got upon the marshes, so that instead of my running at everything, everything seemed to run at me. This was very disagreeable to a guilty mind”.
John Proctor is an immoral coward at the beginning of the play. He could be seen as a selfish or self-centered person. John only cares about his own reputation while he does not care about others’. As a married man, he is coward because he sleeping around on his wife. He is totally selfish because only him feel pleasure about having affair with Abigail.