The Road Cormac McCarthy’s The Road gives his views and ideals about the world and what he feels about the weaknesses and struggles of human beings. McCarthy’s The Road talks about death as one of the major issues happening throughout the world. Women are seen as being weak and gutless and there is clearly a battle between the opposites of good vs. evil. The setting also shows McCarthy’s views on how the world could end up and how people can start turning on one another being so quick to give up. McCarthy’s language helps with giving a picture of all these views.
What he’s saying to Creon is he is depriving the dead of another soul by leaving Polynices’ body without burial. Creon has also contained Antigone in her stone tomb and left her there to die, therefore taking someone living and making her potentially wait for death. The Leader explains to Creon, “For mortal men/ there is no escape from the doom we must endure” (1457-1458). The Leader is saying that Creon needs to fight through the pain and suffering because he can’t change fate. How he lives on or dies now is up to the
Creon’s tragic flaw is that he is to prideful. Creon insists on killing Antigone because she disobeyed his decree. When Haimon questions his decision, Creon replies by saying,” I’ll have no dealing with law breakers” (792, 35-36). Creon is explaining to Haimon that he will not deal with any rule breakers and that Antigone will be put to die along with her traitor of a brother. Creon’s pride is what leads to the death of Haimon, his son, and the Queen, his wife.
Decapitation produces a physical token that serves as a clear reminder of a victory, essentially a trophy. Beowulf’s defeat of Grendel is thus somewhat incomplete since he does not behead the monster. Grendel’s mother takes revenge by killing Aeschere, the favored advisor of King Hrothgar, and leaving his head to be found outside of her lair: To all the Danes, the men of the Scyldings, many a thane It was a sore pain at heart to suffer, A grief to every earl, when on the seacliff They came upon the head of Aeschere. (1417-1421) The language of these lines uses repetition and multiple terms for sorrow to explain the effect of Aeschere’s severed head: ‘sore pain at heart,’ ‘suffer,’ and ‘grief’ reflect the lasting impact of the trophy display of the head. This seems an understandable reaction, but one must remember that the men are warriors and accustomed to battle and death.
The play Lysistrata shows the theme of anti-war through the precise work of symbolism, characters and word choice. Symbolism is shown very strongly throughout the whole poetic piece of Lysistrata. The main plot of the play is about the sex strike. The women withhold sex in order to get men to listen and to stop the war. This shows a primitive type of Women’s Rights; in such that they are speaking out, or in this case not having sex with their men, to get what they want.
Tiny droplets of blood splattered across the floor, the man’s eye looked as if it had been lacerated by a trained assailant. His face was mangled and after seeing what the lady had done, she screamed. An endless high tone screech which did nothing but contribute to the choir of wailing
To recreate an accurate setting for this period in history Del Torro presents Franco through the character of Captain Vidal, a vile and vicious man who as a viewer we are compelled to despise. Compliance is an aspect of Captain Vidal’s regime that demands attention from the opening of the film when a panning down of the camera to an empty chair introduces Ofelia’s mother Carmen, to Vidal’s control. Although this chair is the symbol of submission it simultaneously serves as a promise of safety for herself, her daughter and her unborn son. Carmen, adamant that for this promise to be fulfilled, demands Ofelia addresses Vidal as her father justifying the act through the dialogue “it’s only a word.” Carmen’s indoctrination of her daughter into accepting the limits of her position in Patriarchy represents how women are given the job of socializing women, their own daughters, into the mentality of compliance. The symbol of the chair is reintroduced with Carmen’s
In the end, Lennie’s actions, a form of physical harassment lead to his death. Lennie is a dangerous person who cannot be controlled. Steinbeck uses Lennie as an extreme example of physical harassment. Steinbeck allows the reader to compare and contrast the difference between Curley and his wife, using all three forms of harassment to Lennie who is mostly all physical. One example of Lennie’s physical harassment is at the beginning of the novel.
By taking on a psychoanalytic scope of her autobiography, a reader can explore the author’s past to delve deeper into the meaning of her harsh language and her opposing tone towards the world. To reinforce her strife she includes, “I have heard Indians joke about those who act as if they have no relatives.” (97) Feeling ostracized from both her European and Hopi relatives, she projects dissent against the assertion and claims that she has "no relatives.” (97) Additionally, she also emphasizes that they "threw [her] away." (97) Therefore, Rose also employs an idea of herself as inhuman; she mentions that her family “threw [her] away”, connoting that they simply disposed of her as worthless. Rose repeatedly states that her family ignored her and further intensifies her unpromising feelings of isolation from society as she reiterates, "When my family threw me away” (97) and includes, “every human on earth did likewise.” (97) If one were to observe Rose’s identity issues from a psychoanalytic perspective, considering that “as a child... [She] knew she didn’t belong among people” (97) and was “emotionally crippled” (97), her bitter tone stems from her empty stance in the world as a
Ralph was upset because the fire had gone out. “There was lashings of blood,” said Jack, laughing and shuddering, you should have seen it!”(69) This quote is an example of how the boys were violent throughout the book, and became progressively more deranged. The boys hunted and killed a pig, when Jack explained that the head of the beast was to be a gift to the beast. “Jack spoke loudly. This head is for the beast.