He is also a hypocritical narrator, he continuously mentions how he hates movies yet he often watches them or talks of ones he has seen. 'I hate the movies like poison, but I get a bang imitating them.' Due to this ever evident hypocrisy and contrast the reader quickly learns that Holden is very disillusioned.
The protagonist, Winston Smith, is a lower-party member who has grown to resent the society he is living in and starts to lose his rationality and sanity due to the restrictions of society. "And in the general hardening of outlook that set in ... practices which had been long abandoned - imprisonment without trial, the use of war prisoners as slaves, public executions, torture to extract confessions, the use of hostages and the deportation of whole populations - not only became common again, but were tolerated and even defended by people who considered themselves enlightened and progressive. "(p.130) Winston clearly hated the Party and all he wants is liberty of his actions and ideas. He will fight his hardest to revolt and stop the Inner Party’s “dictatorship.” To keep all of this in order, and to avoid revolts, the Inner Party has to think of creative and smart ways to control the public. This is done by introducing orthodox methods in the minds of the Party members such as with childhood.
Gaius’ Provincial policy * Gaius was not interested in governors, and generally distrusted them. * Many client kings created: Cilicia, Cappadocea and Commagene * Gaius caused great troubles with the Jews in the Roman provinces, for he was anti-semitic * Gaius came down heavily on Jews after tensions between Jews and Greeks, demands a huge statue of him be erected in the Temple of Jerusalem. * Contrary to Jewish central belief of one God. * High taxes to pay for extravagances. Sales tax up to 1%.
We couldn’t keep a fire like that going, not if we tried.”(William Golding p.52) And since he doesn’t have a good relationship with others, they are always mean to him. However Jack commented back “ A fat lot, you tried.. You just sat.” Clearly just cause of his weight , everyone doesn’t want to have any relationship with him. Hence, even though Simon gets bullied, his relationship with others it better then Piggy’s, cause the boys just consider him, as a fat, lazy potty mouth just there. Nevertheless, Piggy and Simon are nothing alike in appearance. Piggy is obviously chubby, fat, wears glasses.
Even more than that, had glass rods inserted up their urethras and smashed with hammers showed that he didn’t have any remorse for hurting and killing these young boys it actually turned him on. As with other serial and mass murderers, (The Houston Horrors, 1973). Corll’s background was chaotic this emerged from him getting older, in an article he mother stated, “He began hanged, and he became quick to get angry and seemed ultra sensitive to things, particularly his age: He loathed the idea of getting old. He also started to drink, and in conversations with his mother, Mary West (their names were different because she had been married a number of times), he seemed very depressed, on the verge of suicide.”(Bardsley, 2013) There were interviews conducted after the news of the mass murder came out they had nothing but nice thing to say about him. An old girlfriend stated, “Dean was one of the kindest men I ever knew.
He was very brutal: "Would to god my rage, my fury would drive me now / to hack your flesh away and eat you raw"(22.408-409). He was the mightiest of the Greeks and he had such a great deal of confidence in him that he decided to act on his own when his slave princess was taken away. Because of his self confidence; he failed to act like a common man. Achilles’ refusal to eat with other warriors suggests that he put his ego before everyone else. He fits the description of Aristotle's quote “the man who is incapable of working in common”.
He was abused by his parents, brutally beaten by the socs and he was small and vulnerable, he had it so rough he was considering suicide. “I can’t take much more. I’ll kill myself or something.” Johnny was sick of all of the fights and arguments between the greasers and socs, he didn't have an easy life and just wanted to get away from it all. Johnny was described as "a little dark puppy that has been kicked too many times and is lost in a crowd of strangers” by Pony-boy but later on in the story he was called a hero and really he was. even though he had terrible role models he still tried to stand up and be a good person.
The author’s blunt descriptive approach of the mischief in his past makes it even more difficult to have affection for the boy. Toby is described and made out to be a typical no good teenager who around his mother, is a nice behaved boy, however when with friends or by himself alone Toby gets up to no good. “We drifted in and out of stores, palming anything”. This quote shows how much Toby didn’t care, how cold hearted and ignorant he was as a boy. Not only this but Toby’s obsession for firearms and shooting made him out to be an empty hearted person, resulting in even less affection for the boy.
Rich stayed rich and didn't benefit poor at all. This causes the downfall because the wealth was not evenly distributed and also due to them not advancing technology, too much of Rome's resources were being used and wasted on useless desires. “Christianity, in the words of Friedrich Nietzsche, “was the vampire of the imperium Romanum—in a night shattered the stupendous achievements of the Romans(Santosuosso 98). Christianity is believed to be one of the biggest factors in Rome's fall. As the religion grew to their army, soldiers began to become more peaceful.
His father abused him violently when he was a child. As a young boy, he was timid and quiet while his father was loud, volatile and domineering. The difference of their personalities led to the detached relationship, also his father viewing him as incapable and repulsive. That’s again, the possible reason Gregor turns into a disgusting bug. Kafka was reflecting the way his father, and in turn himself, viewed him.