From the earliest stages of the novel Frankenstein, I was pressed with one question – “Who is the real monster, Victor Frankenstein, or his horribly mutated creation?” Victor Frankenstein was driven by most selfish ambitions. He discovered the secrets of life and kept them all to himself, an act of greed. And upon finding these secrets, through a hermit lifestyle of isolation and the pursuit of knowledge, he creates what is only to be known as the monster. The monster is a hideous yet intelligent and caring creature whom self-taught himself the language around him, only in order to interact socially with people and to seek approval from his creator. Only after being treated so poorly and outcast by every human he comes in contact with is Frankenstein’s monster driven to rage and vengeance.
He walks her to the school play, and protects her from Bob Ewell when he tries to kill them. (pg ) Also another change is when Jem tells Dill that he shouldn’t touch “Boo’s” house because if “Boo”, where to kill him there would be no one to keep and eye on scout. Another coming of age moment for Scout was when she walked out on a fight . “I drew a bead on him, and remembered what Atticus had said, then dropped my fist , and walked away. (pg ) There is another example that shows Scout’s coming of age moments ,and it is when she starts to think differently about other people and not so much about her self.
Also, Smith is presented as a child, he is referred to as a “dwarfish boy-man, with small booted feel” he has the “aura of an exiled animal, a creature walking wounded.” This provokes sympathy from the reader and horror that this is happening even though he murdered the Clutter family in the brutal way he did it makes the reader question whether he really deserves this. The reporter asks “How’d you like it?” to the hangman, this is very horrific as for the reader it seems as if the answer isn’t already obvious and makes you think what kind of a cold blooded question is that, but the hangman’s reply is even more horrific “it wasn’t as bad as i thought it would be.” Capote uses one of the main devices of New Journalism here being; getting inside the head of a character, asking the hangman how he felt. Another feature of New Journalism is conversational speech evident in the dialogue, “Hell no. Against the rules. Here comes Smith.” By recording this dialogue, Capote is not only involving the
As Huck escapes he leaves behind clues to mislead his father and community, “I took the axe and smashed in the door. I beat it and hacked it considerable a-doing it. I fetched the pig in, and took him back nearly to the table and hacked into his throat with the axe, and laid him down on the ground to bleed...” (33). Huck deceives his entire community, but he does it with good intention in order to escape from his harmful father. The willingness of Huck to conform to violence highlights how badly he wants to escape his community and live freely.
In chapter one, Jack hesitates to stab and kill a piglet because he has never killed anything, and the barbaric act of cutting into a living creature was too overwhelming. Not only does Jack see this as a personal weakness, but he also is embarrassed by his hesitation and says “I was choosing a place.” His explanation that he was looking for a place to stab the piglet was false and everyone knew it was the unbearable blood stopping Jack from killing the creature; however, he vows that next time the pig won't get away. This vow opens the door to the savagery that will overtake him and many of the boys who want to satisfy their primal impulses. Clearly Jack does not start off as a monster, and he still remains in touch with civilization. Although, as the novel continues, Jack's trajectory gradually moves away from the formal, civilized way of life and steadily toward murder and brutality.
Yes, it came to Al’s realization that he was losing his touch as a comic writer, but he would never fully admit it to himself. Instead of throwing in the towel, AL resorted to stealing the scripts from a deceased young comic named Davey Farber, whom was killed in World War 2. Al’s actions put his and Sammy’s job in jeopardy, even when Sammy was unaware of what he did. Al kept those scripts locked away in a desk drawer and his girlfriend, Connie, would repeatedly ask him why he had kept them. His response was for “a little sentimentality, and for old time’s sake.” His words are deceiving being that he really keeps them for inspiration, and possibly a back-up plan when he can be comical no more.
He wanted revenge because he knows Doodle will never be able to do anything a normal person can like run, swim, or climb. James Hurst says in the book “It was bad enough having an invalid brother, but having one who possibly was not all there was unbearable, so I began to make plans to kill him by smothering him with a pillow” (Hurst 385). Doodles brother was embarrassed by Doodle the whole book that he would try and hurt him. In the book doodle said “To discourage his coming with me, I’d run with him across the ends of the ends of the cotton rows and careen him around the corners on two wheels” (Hurst 386). In my life revenge can be bitter sweet in different situations.
Hamlet increasingly gets angrier and angrier with himself as he keeps talking, and his anger turns to Claudius. Hamlet is now angry and self-loathing. He calls himself a “scullion” which means the lowest of the servants. He tells his brain to start working and gets an idea: to watch Claudius’ reaction to the modified version of The Mousetrap to confirm or deny his guilt about the King’s murder, which is the fourth part of Hamlet’s soliloquy. In the soliloquy, Hamlet is at first upset with himself about finding ways to avoid avenging his Father’s murder, like his spirit in ghost form told him to.
By the end of the story, the Misfit ends up killing the whole family. Even though the Misfit kills this family, he is not fully responsible for his actions. The Misfit kills because he has had a terrible childhood, he is mentally unstable, and he simply likes what he does. The Misfit is a killer, but may not be responsible for all of his actions because of his awful childhood. While he was a child his own father did not think he was normal, "My daddy said I was a different breed of dog from my brothers and sisters" (O'Connor).
While the groom is looking for the creature, he gets to Elizabeth, the bride, leaving her “lifeless and inanimate”. When looking upon the crime scene, Victor sees the murderer: “A grin was on the face of the monster; he seemed to jeer, as with his fiendish finder he pointed to the corpse of my wife” (Shelley 174). This evil act is directly caused by the creator’s rash decision to destroy the female and ruin his monster’s life once again. Many people agree that it is “Victor’s inability to see the monster’s own value and not his concern for the world that leads him to leave his “Adam” without a mate. This, of course, drives the monster to kill again” (Lunsford 175).