But, when his dad came home and was under the influence of the alcohol, he could abuse him, his mom, brother or sister. Suppose if Russell’s mom, would want to stop his dad from doing so, his dad would became more violent than ever. The result was pretty obvious, his brother and sister pulled back from his dad, making his family distant from each other. Only Russell has the thought of taking care of his father and unites each of the family members. By the time Russell grew up, he started to find out about alcoholism.
Losing the life of a loved one at such a young age can effect the way a child develops and acts. Bradly Udall, the author of the short story, "The Wig", shows this by taking a young boy and putting him in this situation. The father of the child is an important figure because he narrates the story giving details of the strange behavior committed by the son. The short story, "The Wig", portrays the son of a father who is acting strange due to the fact that he has lost his mother, his father is grieving, and because he is only eight years of age. The loss of the boy's mother takes a toll on him and the way he acts.
He grew up in a household where his father was a drunk and rarely home, and his mother had passed away. He never had anyone who cared for him. He did not have a role model present in his life. Huck started caring for Widow Douglas and Miss Watson, who quickly changed Huck’s way of life and made him believe that slavery was acceptable and that anyone helping a slave would go straight to Hell. They believed he needed to grow up and become an adult.
Shelley portrays the desire of knowledge as lust which, if left unhindered, can drive a man to peril. Although Frankenstein's initial intentions were to exceed the boundaries of science the over ambitious nature led him to be 'hidden in darkness' and 'locked up from nature' leading the monster to Frankenstein's peril. A feature of the gothic genre is Victor's psychotic nature which emphasizes the dark side of the human psyche in emotional and physical form. Some critics such as Rebecca Wallis have argued that the 'dark Sid elf the human psyche' can be found within victor's sexuality. The point in the novel which this critic focuses on is the moment before intercourse between Victor and Elizabeth when Victor states ' this night is dreadful, very dreadful'.
In the movie Antwone Fisher, it is learned that Antwone was abandoned by his teenage mother, at the time, and that his father died before he was born. Because of this, he was left at the hands of a foster home with no one he can truly call his mother or father. With no real mother or father figure to care for and educate him, as any child deserves to be treated, all that was on his mind was the mistreatment him and his brothers received. Antwone’s lack of education and role models in his life led to him not being able to express his feelings and emotions comfortably with others which in turn resulted in many complications in his life. Without anyone to talk to while growing up, Antwone found it very difficult to express his inner thoughts which often led to violence.
Does the narrator's constant insisting that he is not mad, paired up with the maniacal obsession of wanting to kill an old man because of his evil-looking eye lead the reader to believe that he is indeed insane? Possibly so. According to a literary critic named Hollie Pritchard, it is not the idea but the form of his madness that is of importance to the story (Pritchard 144). It is easy for a reader to place sole importance on story's element of insanity as a character motivator in "The Tell-Tale Heart". In addition to the tale's theme of sanity and insanity, Poe acquaints the readers with two others:Guilt and Innocence, and Time being the narrator's true foe, not Death.
My older brother is progressively becoming more of a violent and angry person; he was exposed to the domestic abuse of my mother but only until age 2 when I was born (when my mom finally ended the relationship). My younger brothers were not exposed to violence, but their father was never involved and he has never actually met my youngest brother (as he walked out on my mom when she was pregnant). Both my younger brothers seem to struggle with school. The older of the two seems to have a hard time controlling his emotions (specifically anger) yet the youngest seems to do fine with his emotions. I want to know why the absence of a father can be so impactful, what is it that they really have to offer a child during development that a mother cant or doesn’t usually provide?
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.
Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me.” (Page 20, line 18). This supports the idea about him being mad and therefore an unreliable narrator - we don’t know whether the story is true or not. Edgar Allan Poe has chosen this retrospective point of view, because he wants the reader to experience the working of the human mind - the working of a madman. This wouldn’t be possible if the story was told in present tense.
Name-Arpan Naithani Roll No- 21111744 Satan as the Hero in Paradise Lost Paradise Lost (1667) is an epic poem written by John Milton to ‘justify the ways of God to men’. The poem is written in blank verse narrating the story of the creation of man, the rebellion of Satan and the Fall of man. One of the most fiercely contested debates has been the question of who is the hero in Paradise Lost. This assignment intends to study the reasons for the candidature of Satan for the position of the epic hero, and to evaluate the suitability of the same. Milton writes Paradise Lost as an epic poem and true to it nature, begins with an invocation to the Muse, Urania, in lines 6 to 26 (Paradise Lost, Book I).