Paul’s hatred for his middle class lifestyle is so strong, that he feels it is necessary to ‘artificially enhance’ his life by lying and stealing. Even though Cordelia street is a respectable neighbourhood, Paul views it as a poor and ugly area, because it lacks the extravagence that represents wealth and to him beauty. In Paul’s world, “the natural nearly always wears the guide of ugliness, that a certain element of artificiality seemed necessary in beauty.” (Paul’s Case, pg. 7). Paul despises his common life so much that he feels he must hid it from his peers through lies.
Jay Gatsby was a poor boy that turned into a very wealthy man, but did he live the American Dream? Money is actually the only thing that Gatsby had a lot of. Jay Gatsby tries to live the life of The American Dream, but fails in his battle. Gatsby certainly lacks many of the qualities and fails many of the tests normally linked with greatness, but he redeems this by his exalted conception of himself. Today society sets their goals by planning the future
Just as the novel mentions, “he spoke as if Daisy’s reaction was the only thing that mattered.” (Fitzgerald, 2001: 192) Gatsby is nimble and ambitious in making money, which shows the “sagacity” of modern people, but towards love he gives us the impression of “a naive young man.” The reader may wonder what makes Gatsby great? Gatsby is great because of his loyalty to love. He has the desire to repeat the past, and the desire for money. For Gatsby, Daisy is the soul of his dreams. He believes he can regain Daisy.
The devil invited his self into things that were not any of his concern. His insecurity causes him to lie so that others can feel as pitiful as he does. Luckily, the vindictive predator is unsuccessful with his efforts. The disgusting, disrespectful manipulator resorts to name calling. (I mean how petty and childish can you be?)
They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy.” Furthermore, Paul writes about the failures to practice their great privileges and shows the effect their hypocrisy had on the reputation of God among the Gentiles. In Romans 2:21-24 Paul writes “you, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?
His actions transform him from an arrogant, gambling fool to his act of heroism; trying to strangle Nurse Ratched. All of his actions, minor and major, lead to his self-destruction because his rebellious nature was
In the novel “The Great Gatsby”, we meet a wealthy mysterious man named Gatsby. Through the eyes of his friend, Nick Carraway, we witness how Gatsby struggles with these ideals for the woman he loves, which in the end fails to gain, because his high expectations
Capulet insults Juliet by calling her a “tallow-face!” and “disobedient wretch!” Name calling is a very childish thing to do and here we see Capulet just throwing a tantrum because he is not getting his way. This shows that Capulet is not used to Juliet or anyone disobeying him, he is used to being in the spotlight where people treat him as royalty. However as soon as someone does not do what he says he goes mad and you can see this because he starts cursing his only child and he doesn’t care about how she might feel. This is very immature because he just carries on shouting at her and doesn’t even stop to actually question her motives because all he wants is for Juliet to change her mind. He is also cruel in his choice of insults as he calls her a “green-sickness carrion!” and he is trying to tell her that she’s no different than a pile of skeletons if she doesn’t marry
Superciliousness Supercilious is defined as behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others. Tom Buchanan thinks he is superior throughout the course of The Great Gatsby, by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald. In this book the author uses Tom as a symbol of wealth, he has riches, power, and a high status. In the novel, Tom exhibits the effects of his supercilious manner through Daisy, Myrtle, and Gatsby. Through his negative actions Tom he affected all three.
However, Bob Ewell, an impudent, incautious, and prevaricator man, ends up ruining his innocuous children’s lives. Bob’s definition of justice has made a great impact on Maycomb and its mockingbirds because of his hatred toward society and Negreos. Wherever there is