The world of Hamlet becomes a death ridden tragedy because no one lived for themselves, each character had an agenda a singular focus, that narrowed their view and opened them to an untimely death. Because the death of King Hamlet consumed everyone so thoroughly they did not bother to draw on other experiences in their life as they made decisions, instead acting rashly and the chaos of motives and actions can only rightly end in death. And though for the most part, the people of Winesburg
It chores me. I know what happens and so do you. It's the machinations that wheel us there that aggravate, perplex, interest, and astound me." (243) As narrator, Death employs the technique of foreshadowing throughout the novel to reveal, among other things, the fates, survival, or death. Just prior to this passage, Death describes how Rudy Steiner dies at the end of the book.
“[…] Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true wise friend called Piggy” (182). This quote shows that Ralph has realized that he will never be the dame since he lost his innocence and learned that evil is in all human beings. In Golding’s Lord of the Flies a group of boys gets crashed onto an island and struggles to survive. Ralph is entitled leader, but the Jack disagrees and decides to run his own group. The boys start to fight and have mini war.
Roger tortured them until they finally gave in. Jack also punished Wilfred, one of his hunters, without any reason. This shows that Jack is leading a fascism type of leadership. As the savages hunt Ralph, they set the whole island on fire in order to trap him. They have obviously lost all sense of reason and are only intent on doing one thing, to kill Ralph.
This quote shows that the school boys are actually forgetting who they really are and worshiping the devil by sacrificing a pig. With this in mind Roger kills Piggy by pushing down a rock with, "delirious abandonment," (Golding, 180). After his death no one in Jack’s tribe had any remorse for Piggy nor Ralph, showing that they are willing to kill and enjoy it. Golding’s message by this, shows that when in total abandonment of Government and society, humans are willing to kill anything. In brief, the novel, Lord Of The Flies by William Golding, shows that without adults on the island, the boys became vicious, disorderly, and evil.
Simon is never able to teach the boys that there is no beast. Simon did not kill to survive, rather he died to become the representation of the complete loss of innocence on the island. Simon is a Christ-like figure in that he depicts the goodness that is within mankind and truly becomes this through his death. Through his death, however, he shows how evil is powerful and it can run deep in the human soul as it did in the boys who had killed him. Simon is the sacrifice of the boys' insanity and
In Frankenstein, allusion to the ancient poem, ‘Rime of Ancient Mariners’, is phrased by both Walton and Victor- ‘I shall kill no albatross’, ’with this deadly weight around my neck’. ‘Rime of Ancient Mariners’ is a didactic poem that tells the deaths of all of Mariner’s sailors after the unintentional killing of an albatross by the Mariner. Albatross symbolises the divine quality of nature and shows that Walton is thoroughly aware of the unrelenting outcome from destroying the nature. Ironically, Walton closely resembles the Mariner, whose persistence to continue his voyage threatens his ship and alienates himself from his crew. Unlike to Walton, Victor views his guilt of breaking that fundamental bond as ‘deadly weight around his neck’ which strongly eloquent to the part of the poem where the Mariner is forced to carry dead albatross around his neck due to his guilt.
After Odysseus leads the defeating blow to the Trojans he proclaims his superiority over the gods. His tells them he single handedly defeated the Trojans and did not need the gods help. This angered the gods and when Odysseus and his men leave to return home they are caught in a storm. “The storm was a result of the statement Odysseus made to the gods” (Robert Halmi, Francis Coppula, Fred Fuchs, and Nicholas Meyer). Odysseus’s pride had taken over his logic and led him to say things he will regret.
Frankenstein Sean Saenz Period 1 5/21/11 ''Ignorance is bliss, and knowledge is pain.'' This statement’s truth is argued in Frankenstein. Victor decides to bring a creature to life and that is something that god is supposedly only to be able to do. Victor soon realizes what he has done is a horrible mistake. He must then deal with the consequences unable to tell anyone what has happened and who really killed his friends and family.
Once the monster knows that Victor will not make his a friend, the creation says, "'from that moment [he] declared everlasting war against the species, and more than all, against [Frankenstein] who had formed [him] and sent [him] forth to this insupportable misery'" (121). Victor could have saved his loved ones but his fear caused the death of others. The Creation reaches a point where he has had enough of Victor and says, "'You can blast my other passions, but revenge remains -- revenge, henceforth dearer than light of food! I may die, but first you, my tyrant and tormentor, shall curse the sun that gazes on your misery'" (153). The Monster had done nothing to deserve what Victor has put him through, so the fact that the Creation turns on Victor was perfectly normal.