Sophocles’ stories are full of moral and life lessons through a tragic downfall. With clever choice of words, he uses his characters’ personalities and relationships to lay out his lessons and teachings. In one of Sophocles plays Antigone, he dramatizes the pragmatism of Creons’ ego as well as the passions of his unconsciously mind and the causes and effects of his egos’ quest for divine power. In Antigone, Creon obtains power after the death of his two nephews; however he becomes consumed by the notion of being king. He acknowledges his new status as he says “I have succeeded the full power of the throne” (1.1).
How one man learned how to be a great leader, by making mistakes and learning from the mistakes of the former king? Sir Gawain and the Green Knight were about honor, truth and respect, and what can happen when you abandon those things. The Canterbury Tales was a Great story about several people that went on a pilgrimage to basically find themselves, and each had a story to tell. We learned how to take each part of life and how to learn from the experiences of life, and how we look at each other. We learn that life has many different paths, and we each must learn how to deal with life and the horrors in your life.
Great rebirth is achieved by one understanding and growing after experiencing enormous suffering in the journey of life. For instance, historic leaders such as Buddha, Ghandi and Mohammad went through phases of suffering only to achieve a higher understanding of life. The main characters in the text The lost highway by David Adams, Rain When You Want Sunshine by Don Iannone, The bite of the Mango by Mariatu Kamara and Tormenting Love by Brenda Veli, illustrate the idea of growth through suffering. In the novel, The lost highway the main character Alex Chapman, suffers from his encounters with betrayal throughout his life, which in turn, leads Alex to dwell deep into hatred towards others. At a young age, Alex’s parents abandoned him and left him with his abusive uncle, which led Alex to isolate himself from the outside world, as he felt unwanted.
Ransom Sac Text Response Topic: “We’re children of nature, my lord. Of the earth, as well as of the gods.” How important to Priam are the ‘lessons’ of Somax. Ransom by author “David Malouf” is a novel based on events from Homer’s Iliad. It explores the turmoil of Achilles and Priam who both lose their closest people. It further looks how these seemingly different individuals share much common ground and how a simple man is able to teach much to a king.
Some of the most common themes in Joseph Kafka's literature deal with justice and punishment. "In the Penal Colony" is a narrative which takes a critical look at totalitarian punishment and its faults. As the title suggests, it is set in a penal colony, on a small island where discipline and punishment are all-important. The story is told from the perspective of an explorer who, much like the reader, is an outsider of the penal colony, Western educated and liberal. He has come to evaluate the effectiveness of this machine, a device of punishment, torture, and execution.
Compare and contrast the ways in which Pope and Nabokov create sympathy within the reader for the Baron in The Rape of the Lock and Humbert Humbert in Lolita The Collector and The Wasp Factory tell the story of repressed and socially marginalised people. Do Fowles or Banks in any way encourage our sympathy for
It greatly influences the story, what will happen in the story, and what theme the story will communicate. The extremely solid characterization of the two main characters, Doodle and his brother, leads to the finale, which communicates the theme. The clear mistakes made in the story, like the excessive and unsupervised rehabilitation of Doodle, that occur because of the characters characterization, really show the reader what the main characters did wrong, and shows that to the reader not to do it either. After all, as it is said in the story, “Pride is a seed that bears to seeds; life and
From the opening pages, McCarthy depicts the love and protection the father has for his son as they continue their impossible journey. McCarthy successfully depicts this relationship’s growth, while writing the same high standards for despair that he is most known for. Through the “dark and the cold of the night he’d reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him” (3). In just the first sentence, McCarthy manages to outline the entire story. In a world that God has abandoned, where the sun no longer shines through the ashes, the hope that the father and his son will survive ultimately gives the reader something to look forward to.
In Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, the theme of identity is present throughout the entire novel. It tells the story of Milkman Dead, a man on a journey to find his own identity. He begins as a greedy, self obsessed boy, and eventually becomes a man who understands himself and where he came from. At the very beginning of the novel, Milkman gets his own identity from vanity and a masculine sense of entitlement. However, on his journey, he experiences a process which allows him to leave behind his false ideas about himself and to adopt healthier attitudes regarding himself and the people around him.
The conch, Jack’s knife and Piggy’s glasses are such symbols representing Golding’s perception of the Second World War through metaphoric figures. Golding emphasizes through the symbols in this novel the clash of good and evil and his point of view that every person as part of the nature of being human has a bad side that thrives to take over that of the good. Symbolism in “Lord of the Flies” is better applied to reality through Golding’s use of characterization. On the island the conch represents the law and order of the British society the boy’s had come from. The conch is governing authority, keeping those desperate for power under law and giving one the opportunity to speak ones mind as only the person holding the conch is permitted to speak, “Let him have the conch!” shouts Piggy.