The lawyer’s problem stems from the fact that he doesn’t know how to deal with and eventually get rid of Bartleby. The issue is not ignorance but confrontation between the lawyer and Bartleby. Delano on the other hand, succumbed to his well-natured obliviousness and overlooks clues of a mutiny right under his nose. However, because of his social conditioning leading him to believe that these events could not possibly occur, even though they crossed his mind, he nearly leads himself and his entire crew to their demise. Captain Delano can be shortly described as “a person of a singularly undistrustful good nature” (2695).
The other men would not allow him to use his feet due to Crooks’ back but thought it perfectly fine to be fighting him. When Crooks comes into the novel he is described as a “lean negro head, lined with pain,” this is important because it’s the introduction of the many pains which Crooks has. Crooks is both in emotional and physical pain. The emotional pain which Crooks carries with him is due to his loneliness; his isolation from man is causing him to go mad, “guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody”. In isolation from the other men Crooks begins to doubt what he sees.
The mad man killed the old man and then cut him up and put him under the floorboards of the house. In 'The Tell Tale Heart' the main character remains nameless, genderless, and ageless, he thinks that he has done the right thing by killing the old man and that he got rid of the 'evil eye'. The main character is very confident about what he has done and think that he had a very good reason for killing the old man which was, he didn't like the way his eyes looked and because he thought that the one eye was evil. We can see evidence of that in lines 10 - 14 where he says: 'I think it was his eye! Yes, it was this!
Lennie’s stupidity allows him to believe that someone hurt George even though Crooks is just assuming 72. Loneliness- Crooks is alone in the world, cannot attend activities that other people enjoy 72. Loneliness- reading books is sign of solitude 74. Foreshadowing- Crooks foreshadows that many people do not get the dream that they
Atmosphere and tension are created by using short, sharp sentences such as “I heard many things in hell.”. His motivation was neither passion nor desire for money, but rather a fear of the man’s ”pale blue eye”. Again, he insists that he is not crazy due to his cool and measured actions, though criminal, are not those of a madman. Every night, he went to the old man’s apartment and secretly observed the man sleeping, here he creates tension by the language he uses, he explains how slow he is going, how cautious and how “the minute hand on a clock moved faster than his own”, this is emphasised by the quote “And then when my head was well in the room I undid the lantern cautiously – oh, so cautiously – cautiously (for the hinges creaked)” an obvious over exaggeration, but he uses the likeness of a clock hand to show the intensity and precision of his actions. In the morning, he would behave as if everything were normal.
Crooks is a man, supposedly young but disabled, that likes books and keeps his small room neat, but has been so beaten down by loneliness and prejudicial treatment of that he is now suspicious of any kindness he receives. Racial discrimination is part of the microcosm Steinbeck describes in his story. It reaches its height in the novel when Curley's wife puts Crooks "in his place" by telling him that a word from her will have him lynched. Interestingly, only Lennie, the child-like character, does not see the color of Crooks' skin. Crooks isn’t ashamed about his inheritance but has pride and tells Lennie he doesn’t descend from slaves but from landowners.
–nervous—very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?) telling you exactly what he wants you to get out of this double telling story by implying that he is still nervous about something, but he is not crazy, despite committing murder for no apparent reason other than the fact that he didn’t like the old man’s “vulture eye.” Poe tells a story that on the surface appears to be more plain and visible than what it really is. Some people try to go a little deeper, deciphering what the narrator is trying to tell the audience and
The narrator attempts to reassure his audience he is of sound mind. For example, the narrator says “If still you think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body.” Another irony in the story is that the narrator refers to how he loves the old man and was never so kind to him as he was right before the murder. This is ironic because he loves the old man by the systematically plans to murder him. Poe uses imagery throughout the story by referencing the clock and time as a way to describe how slowly he moved. The narrator says “A watches minute hand moves more quickly than did mine”, the narrator sees himself as a clock, counting down the old man’s
A quote by Emerson that states this perfectly is, “Man’s failure to see light is caused by standing in his own shadow.” Emerson believed that a man should not be what he is not. "There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide." What he meant was if a man is envious of other people, he will ignore all merits of himself and if a man imitates other people, he will lose his identity - like suicide. Emerson believed that you should be all that you are and nothing else. Imitation was the lowest thing you could do and doing so is committing suicide.
Hamlet kills Polonius behind the tapestry because he suspects that it might be Claudius, but when he unveils the body and discovers that it is Polonius, he shows no sign of guilt at all. He acts like he is “convinced that he is the complete master of an obviously unhealthy situation” (Prosser Pg. 125). A person who wants nothing more but justice for the death of a loved one would feel bad for killing an innocent person during the process, but that is not the case with Hamlet. He shows no sign of guilt or remorse towards the death of Polonius, because he is clearly past the point of justice and is seeking revenge.