Running into headlights. Running into the silence of death.” The anaphora of ‘running’ highlights his emotional devastation which shows Tom's paranoia and frustration in the initial stages of the novel. As a result of the crisis, Tom responds adversely to a new start at Coghill. 3. The motif of darkness is frequently used to demonstrate a condition of misery and downhearted: “There aren’t words to say how black and empty pain felt.
Later on in the chapter pip is confronted by a convict who has escaped from prison.When the intimidating convict questioned Pip about his parents’ names, Pip tells him there names as they were written on the tombstone.‘Now lookee here!...Oh’ This indicates Pip’s fear of the convict.This brings about the theme of childhood in a way in which we see the Pips, little understanding of the danger he is in.This could also indicate how pip was just left alone on a graveyard without his sister knowing meaning he had snuck out showing children are not fully watched. Pip was so afraid that he did exactly as the prisoner had told him to instead of telling his sister Mrs Joe.This can lead on to Childhood as when things like this happen to some children they decide not to get their parent or guardian in this case to get involved.As they are afraid something could happen to
He never knew his father so he doesn’t have a good sense of his own identity, he makes poor decisions in raising his son’s by instilling a false sense of what it takes to be successful, and allows them to steal and cheat. Willy’s father left when he was a baby and he only has one memory of his dad, “All I remember is a man with a big beard, and I was in mamma’s lap, sitting around a fire, and some kind of high music” (Miller 1232). After his older brother Ben leaves shortly thereafter to search for their father, it is assumed that Willy doesn’t have a male figure in his life during his upbringing to teach him the things that a father would teach a son, such as morals, and a sense of values, possibly helping him form a sense of identity. Because of this Willy feels a tremendous sense of loss. Willy confesses his sense of loss over his father’s abandonment to Ben.
The rats crawling everywhere because the environment was not clean and unsanitary was frightening to see. Sassoon wanted to know what went through the soldiers mind before an attack occurred The hard rain hitting the floor at night and waking up to the sunlight to do everything all over again proved that they didn’t know when war was going to over. Sassoon asks the reader what they remember and it is clear that can recall everything because war can never be forgotten, the impact was just that strong. He asks if they ever thought about war occurring again. Those who have died, he asks them to look down and say they will never forget.
Meursault’s detached personality is first shown when he showed no emotion at his mother’s funeral and how he did not know his mother’s age: “I [Meursault] hadn’t wanted to see mother, hadn’t cried once and I’d left straight after the funeral without paying my respects at her grave.” (86). Meursault does not meet society’s expectation because he was different from the rest of society. He is expected to cry and show his respects but he does the exact opposite. A normal man would be devastated by the loss of his mother and suffer from sadness and despair; however, Meursault does not even care much about the date she passed away. “Mother died today or yesterday maybe, I don’t know.” (3) Another point is that shortly after the funeral, Meursault is reacquainted with a typist who used to work at the office with him.
Having never met his parents, the only interpretation of his father is from the shape of the letters on his tomb stone, sad really. ‘My first fancies regarding what they were like, were unreasonably derived from their tombstones’ this is pip talking as an older person, he is stating how foolish he was. The fact that pip sat that it ‘gave me an odd idea’ suggests to me that in the back of his mind he knew he wasn’t quite right, but I suppose that knowing his parents were dead from such a young age could have great impact on his personality and his morals. This is because he had no substantial mother father figure to teach him wrong from right. Paragraph two in chapter one starts explaining where
In my opinion, these lines reflect Macbeth’s hopelessness and indirectly reflect much thinking of Shakespeare. Macbeth speaks these lines after listening to his wife’s death. At this time, life to Macbeth is meaningless and the death is not very important and worthy being painful at all. When uttering this saying, Macbeth may think about his real life in which he made “a lot of noise”, he wrote a story, he fought many battles, he tried to become a king, he kept the throne; however, after death they all seem to become nothing. In Macbeth’s as well as Shakespeare’s thinking, all people in this life are just bad, stupid actors- shouting and running about and generally making a lot of noise and fuss but not much sense, and then they die anyway and become completely meaningless.
We find him in many contrasting situations where he is mystified between the two ideas that he has grown up with and ends up going off into a different direction to the one he was supposed to follow, and somehow he always ends up being alone. The novel starts out with a very moody atmosphere because Dickens brings our main character into a cemetery. Pip lost his parents at a very young age and is now alone. Through out the novel we find him in the same kind of atmosphere due to this strong affliction of loneliness caused by death or disapproval, which has been haunting him since his birth. Since his main source of love, which are his parents, have been tragically taken away from him, one of his main goals in Great Expectations is to find love.
An hourglass was frequently portrayed with the death’s head to serve as a reminder of how fleeting life was. Death was generally seen as something to fear because no one was able to change their fate as they were already destined by God. Puritans used graveyards to remind citizens of their imminent doom and encourage them to contemplate mortality. As a result, bleak symbols such as skulls, scythes, and picks were often used on gravestones. Eventually Puritanism lost most of its followers due to its brutality.
Giving up, Piggy tells Ralph, "they used to call me 'Piggy'"(Golding, 9). Instantly, without realization, Piggy is now stuck with a label causing him to lose his own identity. Throughout the novel his real name is never mentioned, so the readers never get to know his true identity. The next characters to lose their identity are a pair of twins, Sam and Eric. During the time stuck on the island, their names slowly fuse together to create one identity, Samneric.