Cara Kildall Period 5 10/17/08 LOTF Final Dictatorship is a slightly barbaric form of government that mistreats its citizens, and is ineffective. People’s mental welfare is in danger, because of the stress and trepidation of trying to live through another day. Also, they live in apprehension of being hurt or, in the case of Lord of the Flies, going crazy. Lawlessness is unhealthy for children and adults, and so a solid government is essential for happiness. Under dictatorship, many citizens feel incredible fear and deep unhappiness.
First, Frankenstein is set in a male-dominated society, where the influence of women in the family is not present very often. The dream that Victor has before the monster is created, gives the reader an idea behind Victor’s motives. When he visions Elizabeth as his dead mother lying there, it represents the weakness of compassion in women. After he has this dream, he wants create a being that could act as his child and love him like one. So Victor does just that, but after it awakes, he is filled with disgust and hates his creation because in his eyes it is ugly.
Experiences such as the loss of close relationships, the horrors of bloodshed and death and the changes in men for the worst can make any once normal man insane, just has it made Robert Ross insane. Throughout the novel we follow Robert Ross as he not only loses those he loves, but also with time, his own very mind. In the novel, The Wars, Robert Ross holds his relationship with his family dearly, but things quickly change for the worse as the war in the battlefront transitions into the war with himself. During the beginning of the novel Robert Ross lives a content and tolerable life with his beloved sister Rowena, his stern Mother Mrs. Ross, his lenient Father Mr. Ross and his brother. Roberts’s relationship with Rowena is one that he holds dearly.
However she is also fragile and feels the oppression of life. Septimus is a veteran of World War 1. He is married but after his return from war he has deeply changed. A friend of him died and all the horrors he experienced provoked a deep depression. He is now patient of doctor Bradshaw, who does not understand his problem, considers him mentally disturbed and decides to send him to an asylum.
He treated his own children in a confining and abusive manner, too. This childhood psychological trauma influenced the development of Perry’s character – if injustice was done to someone, he would help. Perry’s childhood ran its course, after the death of his mother, he got into a catholic orphanage, where the nuns would beat him with a flashlight and harass him mentally for wetting his bed. The loss of close people, the absence of safety and protection caused instability in him. His tough journey continued: he was sent to an army orphanage, where it was not any better, because one of the caretakers tried to drown him.
The house's state of disrepair is a symbol for the moral, physical, and mental state of Roderick and his sister. Illness is obvious in the two, and the house, which used to be a grand estate, has sunk along with the death of the last two Ushers. So, it is a complete "fall" of the house and the family whose name the house carries. The Narrator arrives at the House of Usher in order to visit a friend. While the relationship between him and Roderick is never fully explained, the reader does learn that they were boyhood friends.
The thought of people having so much cruelty inside of them to treat this poor man with so much hatred and deceit, sickens me. However, the uncertainty of not knowing if our society would do the same this very day frightens me even more. When it comes to family, John Merrick did not have much. When John lays down, for the last time in his hospital bed, he peacefully passes away. He is welcomed into the glory of beautiful Heaven by his mother.
His wife finds help at an unorthadox speech therapist named Lionel Logue. Lionel uses many unexpected techniques and George gains a very close relationship with Lionel and they soon become friends. George opens up to Lionel and tells him about his very sad childhood. He tells him about how he was bullied by his father, brother David and also the nanny because of his stutter. His father put a lot of preasure on George and wanted him to be afraid of him as he was a afraid of his father.
Wilfred Owen had a good education as well, but (unlike Rupert Brooke) he went to war, and saw what it was it was really like, the bad conditions, the lack of food and meaningless deaths, Wilfred Owen realised that the war was cold and cruel, not like people imagined it. This poem is very negative, and quite sad, unlike ' The Soldier' it expresses the tormented thoughts and recollections of a teenage soldier in the 1st World War, who has lost his limbs in battle and is now confined, utterly helpless, to a wheelchair. I think Wilfred wanted people to realise that the war was not as glorious and victorious as people thought, there were so many men whose lives were thrown away even if they did physically survive it.. Unfortunately Wilfred Owen died on the 4th of November 1918, before the end of the war. To conclude, these two poems are different in many ways (attitude, mood, tone, ect..) One was to encourage the people to fight for their country and go to war, one was to make people see that the war destroyed many men's lives, it had no mercy.
Alienation is so destructive in society, that it forces and individual to an unthinkable escape. The story “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” by J.D. Salinger explores this idea fully. Seymour Glass, a young World War II veteran, has just been released from the military hospital, and is having difficulty adjusting to normalcy in society. Seymour is in a loveless marriage to his wife Muriel.