Alienation Holden Caulfield, an interesting man, shows that many people show phoniness and how Holden despises them to a point where he alienates them. This book shows many themes, one of them being revolving around alienation and phoniness. J.D. Salinger’s masterpiece The Catcher in the Rye shows throughout the book that Holden alienates himself from other people because he fears the phoniness of adults. Stradlater, Holden’s roommate, shows phoniness by how he is a “secret slob” also how it annoys Holden to where he gets into a fight with Stradlater over his sloppiness with Jane, which leads Holden to alienating him.
He experiences humility. Donya does not love Svidrigailov, and he can no longer enjoy simple pleasures and looks forward to nothing. Svirigailov exemplifies the redemption and happiness that comes to Raskolnikov because the have two very different fates. Svidrigailov proves that the “extraordinary man” theory cannot produce anything worthwhile.
Jekyll continues to lead a double life. He basks in the facade of his gentle, kind personality and respectable reputation as Dr. Jekyll but is still entirely enthralled by the “callous, violent, vile life” of which is Mr. Hyde’s. He finds the more he entertains his evil side, the harder it is to differentiate between his two personalities. When all is done, and Henry Jekyll is no longer amused by Edward Hyde’s narcissism and egomaniacal antics, he attempts to eradicate himself from Mr. Hyde. With doing so, he finds that he cannot fully return to his previous state of purity.
Anse Bundren is an uneducated farmer whose selfish tendencies in his personality result in poor parenting and relations with others. Anse is extremely selfish as well as stubborn and throughout the book he butts heads with the other characters. For Anse his wife's death is just bad luck and he seems only to feel bad for himself, not for the loss of her. Even his intentions for her burial are laced with selfishness because he will acquire a new set of false teeth. Anse’s exaggerated traits of selfishness distance him from the other characters and others tend to dislike him because of his self-centered personality.
Landon shows disrespect towards his Principle through his body language and tone of voice, instead of sitting up politely, he slouches and talks back. Not only does Landon not care about authority he consistently rebels against societal norms such as: caring, having morals, having a sense of self and having a conscience. Landon displays these abnormalities by not standing up to his friends when they made fun of Jamie for talking to Landon, by not feeling nearly enough sympathy for the boy who got hurt even though it was Landon who pushed him. Landon displays a lack of morals by drinking and driving. One of the reasons to Landon’s misconduct is that he completely and utterly disrespects and loathes his Father figure.
He got angry and made us tie Wilfred up. He’s been’ […] the newly untied Wilfred was sniffing noisily in the background.” (Golding 176). Beating someone intentionally is seen as rude and ultimately non-spiritual. Even the teachers aren’t allowed to beat students no matter what the reason because it is abuse of power/authority. Therefore it is clear that abuse of power causes the destruction of spirituality.
In both of these texts the main characters (Montmorency and Dr Jekyll) have a secret hidden identity. Montmorency is a upper classed gentle man and his secret identity Scarper who he pretends to be Montmorency’s servant as for Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Dr Jekyll has to drink a potion to change to his secret identity of who he named Mr. Hyde, Dr Jekyll (who was a very wealthy man) said to his butler and all his other servants that Mr. Hyde was a very close friend of Dr Jekyll so Mr. Hyde could enter the house whenever he wanted, this was because in case he changed when he was in house without taking a potion and he would be unable to escape so that means that Dr Jekyll would be unable to escape if the police got involved that some stranger was in his house but it was really him in his secret identity but Dr Jekyll already had a secret door for Mr. Hyde(his secret identity) and himself to drink his potion and change to which ever character he would choose, the door was also for when he changed to Mr. Hyde so that Mr. Hyde could leave and enter that door to change because Dr Jekyll would never be caught dead leaving a door like that. There is a corridor when you enter the door that leads to Dr Jekyll’s house so Dr Jekyll could enter after drinking his potion; his servants always thought he went down there to experiment in his lab. The door was in a rundown street and it looked as if nobody
I found it some humor in Telemachus‘ saying, “sip your wine” to the old man (317). He did not refer to the wine as his father’s as he probably would have done if he had been talking to one of the suitors. To some extent, that specific choice of words gives away the fact that the old man really is Odysseus in disguise. Telemachus constantly seems to be underestimated by the suitors, which gives an acute advantage to him and to his
Mr. Birling is a microcosm of higher class business men in the period the play was set. He also portrays the naive attitudes of the elderly. From the start Mr. Birling is suggested as a bombastic and dogmatic character. His view about war- “Germans don’t want war. Nobody wants war” makes the audience doubt his judgement as they know there will be a war, showing irony.
“Ugh,” I am infuriated when he is intentionally ignorant. I approach the liar and inquire about the situation at hand and as always he denies everything. The back-stabber continuously speaks untruths with no regard to others feelings. Jealousy has driven this deceiver to the psychotic state. The devil invited his self into things that were not any of his concern.