But in all reality it is Gene who resents Finny and his resentment increases when Finny does not attain a reciprocal envy. When Gene's acts resentment drives him to enacts malicious thoughts and behaviors, he suddenly realizes that his real enemy lies not with Finny, but within himself, Finny's lack of comprehension with reality destroys him, and war is an internal conflict that beings spend their lives fighting against(This view is also shared by Bryant Hallman). Gene is very intelligent who ultimately adores and is jealous of Finny. He increasingly loses character and thinks to disperse it with his friend. Gene copes with his jealousy by convincing himself that he and Finny were "even after all, even in enmity.
Also Carl is weak and he is like caged like the Osprey, he doesn’t like showing his fleshy bulges because he is scared that people would tease him and Carl is scared to stand up for himself. Carl also listens to anyone
They simply have the ability to work in community without selfish ambitions with no shame or hinderance. Twain is opening a new idea of how humans show shame and cruelty which is why they are the lowest tier of animal. “Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity- these are strictly confined to man: he invented them. (Twain 182)” The higher animal have no shame man covers himself because in his mind it is indecent exposure. Man is just an animal that is self-conscious.
He does have the good sense to clean his axe and boots, but he leaves the door open as a sign that he isn’t thinking clearly. The mistake catches up to him as lizaveta enters the room. Also we find that his illness is more psychological than physical. It is just the way his reaction to the murder is. He struggles with humiliation.
Later, he describes himself as "Deformed, unfinished, sent before his time into this breathing world, scarce half made up." The deformity, which has been shown to have been exaggerated or even deliberately faked in portraits of Richard III, is given as the source of his evil ways. He says that as he "cannot prove a lover" he is "determined to be a villain." While everybody makes fun of Richard, and thinks that he is not able to achieve anything, he shows everyone that even though he is handicapped, he can achieve the highest power, to be King. Richard overcompensates his inferiority.
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.
The dragon in his monologue referred to the knight being ‘ostentatiously beardless’ unlike other dragon slayers whom by myths are known to be Vikings with abundance of facial hair. The lack of facial hair on the knight reflects the knight’s youth. From the deliberate commas in the line ‘Why, I said to myself, should my conqueror’ followed by a line cut, indicates that the dragon was admittedly raged by the fact that his conqueror was a young punk underserving of the slaying of it. The line cut adds a sense of suspension, whether the dragon was going to speak well about its conqueror or otherwise. Following which, the dragon described the lady as ‘unattractive’ and ‘inedible’.
Page 107) Gregor basically is beginning self-alienation, he believes he is something hideous physically but mentally still holds onto his human conformist mindset. But as Walter.H.Stokel wrote that Marx said “ self-alienation implies the individuals estrangement from humanity” This means that he finds work so unbearable that it serves no
The humans believe the Na’vi are “savages” because they “don’t want [medicine, human education, English, roads]. No, they like mud.” The humans believe that because the Na’vi do not have all the technology and money then they must be inferior to them. However Cameron depicts the Na’vi as more intelligent in their understanding and ‘happier’ than the humans because of their lack of materialistic objects. In the world today, people are being judged on their appearances constantly no matter what
After receiving this information, the reader is dazzled, how could he love these people who called him a “nutwagon”? Mr. Smith was underappreciated and treated poorly, but the most heart wrecking part of it, was that through the whole “abuse[ment]” he still