Meursault chooses not to have any faith in the world or God, leading to his devilries. He never shows any interest in anything that happens to him, but rather just lets things happen. His lack of religious belief shows in his lack of morals. As the chaplain talks to Meursault, he is shocked to hear, “ ‘Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?’ ‘Yes,’ I said”(117).
Very soon I will completely die and all that will be left is my empty body walking with you. It will be quieter than I am.” From the text it seems as if he doesn’t care for life and will do anything to survive. But has Ishmael changed since leaving the army, has he ever recovered. Has Ishmael become a normal person, someone that can fit into a functional society? From what has been told in the book Ishmael did not at first fit into society he was still dark and full of anger, ready to fight at a moments notice.
that this too too solid flesh would melt … all the uses of this world.” (I, ii, 129-135) Hamlet’s life no longer serves any value to him. He longs for death, wishing that he could end his own life without being doomed to an eternity in hell. This feeling lingers in his mind throughout most of the play, as in Hamlet’s fourth soliloquy it is believed he is debating killing himself as he ponders approaches that would not leave him at fault for his death; “Whether t’is nobler in the mind … and by opposing, end them?” (III, i, 57-60) Meanwhile, he also fears death as many of us today still do. Upon meeting his father’s apparition and learning of his unnatural murder, he is introduced to a new factor of death that was not considered before: purgatory. “Thou poor ghost.” (I, v, 97) Hamlet pities his father, as he was murdered and was not given the chance to pray.
“Jack ran until he couldn’t feel the pain of the war, couldn’t feel the eyes of his platoon behind him.” Here in this line shows that at this point he was not a hero. He is a person who was scared for his own life. “No one had ever survived the camps and he had no idea what he was up against but he was determined to get his men back even if that meant certain and instant death.” Here it shows that he had put away his personal gain and became a hero. Another quote “The difficulty in life is the choice” by George Moore. This quote relates to this story because Jack had to make a difficult choice, he could have saved himself and be known as a coward or wrest his life to save his men and be known as a hero.
"Where is he? He is hanging here on the gallows" It’s this horrendous moment in which his perceptions of his God change, someone whom was once grater than man kind and all things was now simply no better than man for if he were he wouldn’t be allowing these terrifyingly sad things to happen. Wisell unknowingly signifies the diminishing of his faith through pipel. Pipel’s painful and slow death is much the same as his perception of God in which die with him. After this Ellie doesn’t show any gratitude or respect to his god, this is clearly evident in Yom Kippur.
One of Huck Finn’s major lies, is the one that set the stage for this story of adventure. After living with Ms. Watson, he goes on and lives with his dad but does not like the way he is treated, so he decides to run away. He doesn’t want to be “sivilized” and he does not want to hit by his “Pap.”Huck creates a plan that will lead people to believe that he is dead so if he runs away no one would suspect that and won’t look for him and sure enough. According to everyone he had been killed either by Jim or by his dad.
In Macbeth’s as well as Shakespeare’s thinking, all people in this life are just bad, stupid actors- shouting and running about and generally making a lot of noise and fuss but not much sense, and then they die anyway and become completely meaningless. With another metaphor, he considers his life is not different from an idiot's tale which is full of bombast and melodrama, but without meaning. Shakespeare may be so depressed when he wrote these final lines that he considers life as walking shadow and not real enough. In my opinion, when writing these lines, Shakespeare want to send us a message that life is something that we have to take as it comes and it is unpredictable, when being brought to life we have to accept it and to necessarily beautify it. The naked truth is
The King tells Rosencrantz and Guildenstern that he is concerned about their friend’s (Hamlet) behavior and asks if they can do anything to help. After leaving the castle the two argue with fear of what this might mean for their life. Guildenstern ends the conversation/argument with: “The only beginning is birth and the only end is death- if you can’t count on that, what can you count on?” (Act 1, Stoppard) Their lives have been filled with uncertainty and dismay for a large part of it. They are roamers and truly have no set distention or goal for themselves and really only had each other. They are the
I’m going to lose everything. I feel bad, but I can’t do anything about it. In this situation Bryce not able find employment. He learned to temporarily accept and gracefully lump of not working. His idea of not working that neurosis is largely caused by the view that he took of unfortunate of not finding employment to support his family.
But when he went outside and saw all the things that were sick, poor and dying he was in shock. He had never seen anything like it before in his life. The Buddha may have felt a little sad that he did not know any of this and maybe a bit sorry for everything he saw. He could have also felt a little betrayed as his father had kept all of this away from him so that he knew nothing. However he may have also regretted his choice of leaving the palace in the first place, he had such a wonderful life but then he went outside and saw all the bad things in life.