Peter was on the verge of insanity, realizing what he was doing, and what had become of him. Alarmed that the recent event had taken a toll on Peter's mind, DaFheg locked himself in the Dungeon, ready to go through with a ritual that would transport him to another world, a place that was supposedly his "true home." Peter, now aware that DaFheg had him murdering innocents all along, the 'banishing ritual' was a lie, and being abandoned to the approaching Shadow, flew into a
Dimmesdale is on the scaffold giving a speech and then realizes that he can’t hold in his sin anymore. Guilt building up and Dimmesdale confessing kills him. The last chapter Dimmesdale is giving a speech and then starts saying that he is the father of Pearl and then he rips his shirt open to let everybody see what is on his chest. “‘Hester Prynne,’ cried he, with a piercing earnestness, ‘in the name of Him, so terrible and so merciful, who gives me grace, at this last moment, to do what—for my own heavy sin and miserable agony—I withheld myself from doing seven years ago, come hither now, and twine thy strength about me! Thy strength, Hester; but let it be guided by the will which God hath granted me!
Eventually Proctor is also thrown in jail and in due time is convinced to confess to witchcraft, they have him sign a written confession that will justify all of the other higher stature hangings, Proctor realizes this after he has already signed, “( his breast heaving, is eyes staring, Proctor tears the paper and crumples it, and he is weeping in fury, but erect. )”(Miller 4. 739-40) yet again he acts on the spot with no warning or sign what so ever, he tears the confession so they cannot use his name to hang all the other accused, he is then lead away at dawn with no legal confession to hang at the gallows ending the play an a very dark
It shows that he is willing to go through lots of stuggle in order to achieve his goal. Once he found out the bad news of Rosa’s untimely death “he had a vision of anger spreading through him like a malignant tumor, sullying the best hours of his life” (Allende pg 36). Trueba decided to leave to the countryside after Rosa’s death. Heading south indicates that Trueba is “digging deep into his own subconscious,” (Foster pg 170) trying to escape the city and all the bad memories he has there. “Literary geography is typically about humans inhabiting spaces, and at the same time the spaces that inhabit humans” (Foster pg 166).
He seems to be lost within the joy of killing when he says “Another baby next. O one-two-three the murderer inside me rose up hard.” Which Hitler himself became enthralled with soon losing sight of his reasons behind the “exterminations.” It is the last sentence in the last stanza that connects all of the dots. “If only they’d all consented to die unseen gassed underground the quiet Nazi way.” This quote is included to help show the much deeper more literal meaning of this poem. It also adds to the view that the farmer has gone from trying to save his farm from pests to trying to almost wipe the entire species of woodchucks from the earth. It also seems to show that he blames the woodchucks for not going down easily adding to the reader’s view of him becoming completely
"Why, it is a lie" Proctor will have felt a lot of pressure on his shoulders in the short amount of time he had to decide his own fate as he had two different sides chirping in his ear. In the end, Proctor decides to keep to his own laws and morals and tears up the paper in which stated that he had done work with the devil. And so Proctor was hanged with his dignity
Her death prompted him to get serious about the things that were wrong with his world, for him to go ahead and steal books from the fires, and read them openly. He went as far as to get into contact an old professor, and learn from him what actions he should take to stop all of this madness. Montag eventually loses it, and reads aloud to Mildred’s friends in an attempt to make them realize their unhappiness, and try to have an impact on them like Clarisse had on him. In the end, an alarm is called on Montag’s house to burn the books he stole. “Well,” said Beatty, “now you did it.
Another way Odysseus shows his Arete is when he returns home. Any other man would of stormed in mad as anything and tried to take all the suitors which would of lead to his death. Odysseus takes another route. He pretends to be an old beggar, “Soon after, Odysseus came in looking like an old, broken-down beggar, leaning on a staff and dressed in miserable rags.”(379) As he pretends to be this beggar, he comes up with a way for him, his son and the swineherd to defeat the suitors. It says this in the book, “So Odysseus was left alone in the hall, planning death for the suitors with Athena's aid.”
He counted on George for everything, including when to protect himself. Lennie shows that he is practically incapable of thinking for himself. George has to find them work, food, housing, and has to bail Lennie out of trouble. In the end, George realized that he cannot take care of Lennie forever. George knew he had to kill Lennie himself because if he did not, Lennie would be locked up, or more likely, Curley would have killed him.
Francis LaFlesche recalls the punishment he and a friend received for running away from school: 65 66 67 68 69 It was thought best to punish us; so Warren was taken to the top of the house and locked up in the attic, where he was to reflect upon the wrong he had committed in running away. But I am quite sure he thought more about the devils and the ghosts in that horrid place than of anything else. As for me, I was marched to the dining-room, placed with my back to one of the posts, and my arms brought around it and tied; then I was left alone in this uncomfortable position, to repent. 70 T he idea of corporal punishment, so foreign to traditional Indian cultures, b ecame a way of life for those students returning from their educational experience. Yet you find by the 30s and 40s in most Native communities, where large numbers of young people had, in the previous years, attended boarding schools, an increasing number of parents who utilized corporal punishment in the raising of their children, so that although