This extract from ‘The Crucible’ is from act four and features a tense conversation between Hathorne, Danforth and Parris. Parris has just admitted to the two judges that Abigail has gone vanished. This is a shock to the audience but due to dramatic irony -the fact that we know that Abigail has had an affair with Proctor- the characters are probably more shocked. Throughout this whole extract, there are many revelations of the characters. Just before this extract is a scene in the Salem jail in which the themes of hypocrisy play a big part.
He sat in jail with Hester and made her promise to keep their marriage a secret. There was nothing he wanted more than to see this man dead. “In a word, old Roger Chillingworth was a striking evidence of man’s faculty of transforming himself into a devil.” Dimmesdale, a man looked at with much respect by the townspeople, asserts his evil in many forms. He watches the woman he loves and his daughter live in shame and does nothing to help, which shows “the portion of him which the devil claimed, and through which he sought to win the rest.” Dimmesdale was the town minister who was supposed to represent the good things God gives us. But, he was said to be a servant of the “Black Man.” He watched Hester stand on the scaffold holding their child, with a scarlet letter embroidered on her clothing for all to see, alone.
Marco made these claims because he was so furious at Eddie’s betrayal and hence wanted to make Eddie seem as a villainous character. This betrayal also strongly impacted his small family, which consists of Beatrice and Catherine. Both of them felt it was pretty unreasonable for Eddie to beforehand allow them to stay at his house, but now turn against them and caused them to be caught by the country’s Immigration officers which he notified them. As much as Beatrice opposes to it, she loves Eddie so much that she follows whatever Eddie’s decision is. However, on the other hand, Catherine has an extremely negative reaction.
Lies in Heart of Darkness After declaring his passionate hate of lying it is odd to see the complete reversal of character in Marlow by the end of the book. Then perhaps it is not a change but merely an unexpected extension of his character that gives a different dimension to his personality. His statement "You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie...it appalls me. It makes me miserable and sick, like biting something rotten would do" (Longman 2210) gives what one may rightly consider a very straightforward clean cut description of the man's moral view and character traits. Yet by the end of the book one may feel he has not only betrayed their trust but himself and all the values he seemed to embody during the course of the story.
This kinship has continued to be close for many reasons such as marriage and they practice generalized reciprocity. “Generalized reciprocity is a form of exchange in which there is no expectation for the immediate return of an item in exchange for something else; in the long run, things are expected to even out.” (Nowak & Laird, 2010). One of the most amazing things about the Btsisi is the relationship between a man and a woman. They consider their spouse to be their best friends. They do not mind sharing their everyday tasks such as the woman helping their husband or the men helping their wives weave mats.
And now he'd gone too far, so we decided to hang him.” The entire short story is filled with ironies such as this. Colby had gone to far, so his friends decided to hang him, in their opinions, this is a reasonable punishment. Not only do they intend to hang him, they would like his input on certain specifics of the hanging. The friends make the hanging appear to be some sort of show, a seemingly red carpet event, with music and invitations. A second example of irony is “Hank, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke up and said he wondered if it wouldn't be better if we used wire instead of rope — more efficient and in the end kinder to Colby, he suggested.
I figured something unpleasant would happen to T.J., because throughout the story, he has been evil, such as when he used the cheat notes for the test, so eventually something horrible will strike back at him, in this case it would be him going into jail. 2) When Cassie mourns for T.J. , I feel most sorry for T.J., because of the terrible things that happened to him such as him being beaten by R.W. and Melvin. I also feel most sorry for T.J., because you would wonder how his family would feel about him going into jail, watching him being beaten, and hear that he robbed the mercantile. I think the Avery family would be disappointed and sad for T.J.. 3) Cassie changed by the events of the night of the fire, because she started out by thinking that black people need to stand out to the white people without causing problems, but in the end she realizes that papa started to stop the men from hanging T.J. without papa using his gun, so she understood that if he used his gun he would probably the one who will be hung.
“I am in blood / Stepp’d in so far, that, should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o’er.” (3.4.136-138) In this quote, Macbeth is telling himself that because he has stepped into evil so deeply, it will be hard to go back to morallity because he will never be able to rid of this guilt brought onto him. He begins to feel so remorseful, that he starts hallucinating and realizing that he has done such treacherous deeds. Even though he can still see how his actions are terrible, as the play develops, he begins to inch deeper and deeper into his own destruction of innocence. Macbeth had always felt threatened by Macduff because Macduff knew what a traitor he really was. Therefore, he had wanted to plot to end Macduff’s life as to not pose a threat on his reign any longer.
He states, “For whom I should be hanged.” This shows that e is unhappy of the truth and how sick it makes him feel. It tells the audience that he doesn’t have much to live for anymore and that he just wants to be gone where his voice can’t be heard. He also states, “My load is mine, don’t fear; no man could bear so much.” In other words, the immediate reaction he gives is that no one can go through the pain and suffering that he had to deal with and how much it can degrade yourself. Oedipus strongest use of rhetoric is symbolism that is to have significant meaning. He states.
In truth, the atmosphere of fear and pressure overwhelmed him. His inner struggle over the guilt of being involved in the subjugation of a people added to this strain, and he made a decision he would later regret enough to write this story. Early on in his essay, Orwell describes how the abuses and treatment he witnessed oppressed him '… with an intolerable sense of guilt,'; (Orwell,277). This is not some minor pang, or nagging worry. The shame pressed down on his shoulders with an unbearable weight.