The author’s diction shows the tones of negligence and physical vituperation because he wants to show the son being beaten. Roethke’s father’s abuse of “whiskey” leads to his own “romping” with his “battered” hands. Alcohol plays a large factor into Roethke’s unnecessary beating, also the father has rough hands leading to the connotation of abuse because of the rough tone of battered hands, which very accurately sums up his personality as a person. Roethke also talks about the roughhousing done, which he thinks is playful with his father is actually very spiteful towards himself. Roethke says he and his father were, “waltzing” and that every step his father missed, because of his father’s alcohol problem he “scraped” his ear on his father’s belt, but this so called dance Roethke speaks of is a metaphor, for his father is really beating him with fists “caked” with sediment.
Similarly, Sarty’s whole family lives under a blanket of fear and anxiety due to his father’s insecurities, and resentment for people who belittle him. Sarty’s older brother is easily impressed, and follows their father’s manipulative ways of dysfunction: the brother
His father’s turbulent life-style causes significant stress for Sarty, and, in the end, he makes the painful decision to give his father up and run away. The author seems to have written this story to show that poverty is the driving force behind much violent criminal behavior, effectively display that children are, by nature, compassionate, sympathetic, and loyal individuals, and suggest that sacrificing family ties is sometimes necessary to accomplish a greater good for society. Faulkner’s antisocial characterization of Abner Snopes effectively depicts how lower class life often leads to resentment and destructive behavior. When the family arrives at their new home, Abner remarks to his wife “I reckon I’ll have a word with the man that aims to begin tomorrow owning me body and soul for the next eight months” (506). Abner is full of bitterness and jealousy.
These impressions quickly placed stereotypes among them; Andy being the jock, Claire the popular princess, Bender the thief, Alison the psychopath, and the “Brian” being the genius. After spending the day with all these different personalities, Andy reminisces a time he beat up another guy to make himself feel bigger and tougher amongst his friends. He soon realized what a mistake it had been, understanding how difficult it would be for him to go home and face his father. Andy has been through the torment of never being good enough in his father’s eyes and he
Bigger argues and resents his family because he realizes that there situation is bad and he cant help them,” As he ate he felt that they were thinking of the job he was to get that evening and it made him angry; he felt that they had tricked him into cheap surrender.”(Pg.12 Native Son), This is bigger feeling trapped and sorry for himself, because he knows that his family in dependent on him getting this job. Instead of facing this truth Bigger expresses anger and rage toward his family in order to suppress his real feelings this is the “Mask that grins” that Dunbar was referring to. Bigger also lies to his family when his mom asks him what time he got home, this was Bigger trying to cover for the fact he just murdered someone. This shows the part of Bigger’s mask that lies and deceives people. “ The mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our
Huck is stolen away from his civilized home for the sake of money, and taken to live in a dreary shack with his abusive father. Pap is a dreadful man who is always treating Huck horribly and is constantly berating him. Pap was a wicked parent, an alcoholic, and his drunkenness regularly threatened Huck’s health. He was more concerned about money and alcohol than he was about Huck and was unquestionably a negative influence through the moral values that he taught Huck. “He said he'd cowhide me till I was black and blue if I didn't raise
However, one of the first instances you can sense his true anger and emotion is when he refutes the clergymen’s statement that the demonstrations were unwise and untimely. He powerfully responds, “But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim; when you have seen hate filled policemen curse, kick and even kill your black brothers and sisters… when you have to concoct an answer for a five year old son who is asking: "Daddy, why do white people treat colored people so mean? ";… when you are humiliated day in and day out by nagging signs reading "white" and "colored"; when your first name becomes "nigger," your middle name becomes "boy"… then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait” (Page 3). By making his audience feel exactly how all black people felt during this time, it forced them to put themselves into King’s shoes, and make people understand why nobody could just sit around and watch these horrible events occur. His oral quality truly causes one to stop and reflect on what King is preaching, and has them reevaluate their ethics.
Repulsion and desire theme is portrayed by the way Eddie repeats his father’s sins in juggling relations with Countess and May; same way the Old Man abandoned both May’s and Eddie mother by leaving them tortured and distraught by their obsessive love for him. May has feelings that same pain and anguish may rule her entire life because she is unable to totally live without Eddie, and this saddens the pair, leaving them to face their doubtful future being apart. As the play indicates however, the incest pair’s future promises additional emotional reunions as well as necessary, but painful moments of abandonment as evidenced where May hate Eddie after leaving her and equally loves him back after returning. In stage performance, lighting and sound are employed to convey distraught feelings, and violent emotions experienced by May and Eddie. As the play commences lights fade to shades of darkness, and the ‘Wake Up’ song by Merle Haggard is heard with its sound increasing gradually as lights rises; to convey the growing range between Eddie and May.
Snopes the father is raging inside. The reason for his rage is the system that keeps failing him. Starting with taking his blood away from home and enslaving it as if they were not human and without any rights, to freeing them from slavery but not making it possible from them to be equal. Even to this day this is an issue in the Unites States and may people are still racist after so many years. The father’s way of fighting the system is mindless destruction, causing damage without any sense.
1.2.184-185. Hamlet is extremely displeased as he must now call his uncle, stepfather/King due to their ill conceived union...’you have deeply offended your father’ [she means Claudius] 3.4.9. Hamlet felt anger and resentment towards his mother who has not only betrayed him but also his father's memory in marrying a man inferior to his father. A man who he believed could not walk near his father’s footsteps ‘...To give the world a model man. This was your husband....what follows.