The valley of ashes emulates this moral decay through the unpleasant events that take place there. Nick recognizes the fragile state of George Wilson after he uncovers the truth of Myrtle’s infidelity, “He had discovered that Myrtle had some sort of life apart from him in another world, and the shock had made him physically sick” (124). George is stricken with “shock” upon apprehending the grave news. Myrtle had taken advantage of her husband’s trusting disposition as she fluttered carelessly into “another world” of wealth and glamor. Morality aside, she “[walks] through her husband as if he were a ghost” (26), completely disregarding his emotions.
How does Barker present the effects of war in ‘Regeneration.’ Regeneration by Pat Barker is a novel about a mental hospital for soldiers psychologically injured on the front line. It is unlike other novels and plays such as journey’s End by R.C. Sherriff which tells the story of front-line battle. The ways in which the war has had an effect on the soldiers is explored in great detail by Barker, perhaps to show that the effect the war has had on the characters, somehow has become part of their personality. Another theme Barker looks at is ‘Silence,’ which could link to her grandfather who refused to talk to her about his experiences in the war.
Carver’s aggression grew wild in those years almost killing her when he hit her with a wine bottle across her head (King 2009).Carver’s alcoholism years only became worse after this incident with his wife. Upon writing “Cathedral” he exhibits himself in the narrator’s point of view which is never named in the story. “The husband” the narrator’s name in the story shows little emotion for his wife or for her blind friend that comes to visit the house. His isolation towards other is revealed by his tone of voice throughout the passage. His tone portrays the characters mood and personality when he speaks.
Likewise in source 2, Attlee emphasises how ‘people wanted a positive new policy’ implemented by the next government, ‘not an attempt to go back to the old’. This further demonstrates how the Conservatives did not fully understand what people wanted in Britain after the war. Source 2 also supports the statement by referring to the poor past record of the Conservatives, with regards to their domestic and foreign policy. In addition to Maudling’s explanation, Attlee explains how people ‘remembered Munich and they remembered pre-war unemployment’ and these events created a negative impression in people’s minds about the Conservative Party acting as a peacetime government. In source 3, Watkins develops this point further by commenting that ‘Britain would not survive the peace with the kind of government it has possessed before the war’.
In the excerpt from A Secret Sorrow, the main characters are Kai and Faye. Faye is recovering from psychological damage she was forced upon in a car crash. We learn from the biography of Karen van der Zee that Faye has received permanent internal injuries in result of the accident. These injuries cause her to be incapable of having children. When she works up the courage to tell her boyfriend, Kai, she is afraid that he will leave her because of this news.
Catherine, tries to get the two most important men in life, Edgar and Heathcliff, to become friends but when that does not work out, she locks herself in her room for two days. She develops psychological insanity. In Foster’s book, a disease “should have some strong symbolic or metaphorical possibilities” (Foster 217). Catherine, she has a nervous breakdown from her the time she starves herself to the time she dies. Psychological insanity also means “insane” hence insanity and Catherine does not eat and all she ever talks about is death.
As other novels dishonestly romanticize and glorify war, Heller does the opposite. A main theme Heller tries to convey throughout the novel is that the reality of war is absurd and corrupt, as well as the people involved in war. Although Yossarian is selfish and untrustworthy, Heller slowly shows the reader that these seemingly dislikable characteristics of Yossarian show a type of heroism. As Yossarian evolves, the reader comes to realize that Yossarian’s obsession with preserving his life doesn’t necessarily emphasize his selfishness, but rather the value he puts on life. Throughout most of the novel, the reader follows Yossarian’s quest to escape the war,
The death of his foster mother was very difficult for him to handle, and he enlisted himself in the army to get away from the abuse at his foster home. Soon after excelling in the army, Edgar Allan Poe went to live with his aunt Maria Clemm where he learned that his brother died of tuberculosis young. Being the third major death in his life, Poe went into a state of mourning over his brother, although he had barely known
It reveals that her son was killed at war and that she is unable to surpass through her grief. It shows that she is so overcome by her grief that she is unable to act normally in social situations and that everything she sees, she somehow links it back to her dead son. It is Coral’s delusion that has led her to be very perceptive. Her yearning in Act 1 scene 3 is almost palpable. She is about to break.
This calamitous incident occurs when he gets shot in the head and is killed while returning from using the latrine. Just moments before this tragedy occurs, Cross is daydreaming about his obsession, Martha, back in America and how he loves her and how she cannot relate with his feeling of affection. It is while his mind is wandering when Ted Lavender gets shot. Cross cannot help but feel responsible for Lavender’s death. Despite that deaths like this are commonly caused by freak incidents, he feels that if his attention had been focused on the war at the very moment Lavender died instead of the girl whose love he can never obtain, he could have prevented this loss of life.