Sebastian and Antonio don’t take kindly to the orders of an inferior. Sebastian barks back, “A pos o’ your throat, you brawling, blasphemous,/ incharitable dog!” (1.1.40-41). Antonio shouts, “Hang, cur! hang, you whoreson, insolent noisemaker!/ we are less afraid to be drowned than/ thou art.” (1.1.43-45). Shakespeare does well in characterizing Sebastian and Antonio as not only traitorous younger brothers, but now as prideful, arrogant, and condescending.
Since the reader knows Lennie likes to pet soft things, but he has a record of killing them when he does, it is obvious her death is imminent. The use of dogs as symbols is regular in the book. In the first place, Lennie’s puppy is one of the several symbols that represent the
He is described as ‘uncoordinated and clumsy’ and he was often teased and beaten because of this. The author describes him of having a look of ‘a cowering dog’ and I think this is a very good description of his character - he is always being beaten down by other people. He has ‘a stack of wild red hair’ and pale watery blue eyes. Overall, he is not very dashing at first sight, especially as in the previous paragraph, the author has just described how his father is completely the opposite - handsome and charming (when he needed to be). When Meshak (Mish) appears later in the book, he seems little changed; ‘a child in a man’s body’.
By describing the depressing life of Jurgis, the protagonist of this novel, and his family, Sinclair reveals the ugly side of capitalism. According to Darwin's theory, "survival of the fittest" is the principle of animal evolution. In The Jungle, these working-class people associate with animals for they endlessly compete and fight for living. Their living and working conditions, in the readers' eyes, are considered awful; they work slavishly like animals, yet are even unable to achieve what they dream of. Living appears to be a luxury for these poor workers; their American dream is deformed.
They kept close to Napoleon. It was noticed that they wagged their tails to him in the same way as the other dogs had been used to do to Mr. Jones. "(page 68 ). The use of the dogs begins the evil use of force, which helps Napoleon maintain power.
In addition to this, the teachers were very cold hearted and were 'taught' to punish their students for little things that were exgaurated, but the leader of the teachers; Mr Brockelhurst is a heartless and hypocritical man who is described as a 'stony stranger' wearing a 'carved mask'. The fact that he is compared to a pillar shows us that he is a very big man tat is tough to break and how powerful he actually is. The mask creates imagery of something being hidden but also scary which would scare little children just like Jane. His eyes 'twinkled' when he was with Jane which shows that he felt pleasure having patriarchy over Jane and used religon of beating bad out of the children as an excuse against her. The reasons for Mr Brocklehurst being like this was that he held the views of a capitalist.
They have strong censorious moral beliefs, making drinking and general foolery ill-mannered. Malvolio’s anomalous character is portrayed through his use of language towards Sir Toby Belch and Sir Andrew Aguecheek’s drunken states, his criticism towards Feste and … Malvolio’s puritanical character means he is against drunkenness. Therefore, when Sir Toby Belch and Sir Andrew Aguecheek are being disruptive in their intoxicated state, Malvolio tells them that they ‘gabble like tinkers’. A ‘tinker’ is an itinerant who makes a living mending pans and other utensils. Anyone given this name were of low social status and had to do long laborious hours of manual labour to earn a living.
In a practical sense it maybe possible to change the way we look and act to belong to a group; but as demonstrated in the film Edward Scissor hand, our characteristics can both enrich and limit our ability to belong. The film follows the protagonsit Edward, whose unique characteristic of having scissors for hands, both enriches and limits his ability to find belonging. As a consequence of having scissors for hands, Edward finds that his ability to belong is limited as others see him as a destructive outcast, illustrated when the antagonist Jim harasses him,“You can't touch anything without destroying it! Who the hell do you think you are hanging around here, huh? Get the hell outta here!
In this scene, Roderigo is obviously the follower, the weaker character, he tries to please Iago by making racist stabs at Othello (“What a full fortune does the Thick-lips owe if he can carry’t thus”) relating Othello to “thick lips”, which could be a possible insult towards coloured people in those days. Iago is obviously bitter because of the promotion ordeal and the audience are now awear that he is seeking revenge. In this scene, Iago is in control, he appears to be the higher, more powerful man. He is confident in his ideas and determined to get what he wants. He confides in Rogerigo with his plan from the start so we are already able to create this true image of Iago.
An Obsession With Perfection The journey that Okonkwo takes in the novel goes from hero to villain. This downward journey is caused by many factors. The character Okonkwo in Chinua Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart is obsessed with proving his masculinity, often by beating his wives and son. Okonkwo’s flaws lead to misery for himself, when he is unable to realize not every action must be a vigorous one. His family suffers when he takes his anger out on them for the simplest things just to prove he is a man.