In this book, when the narrator recognizes how he has reached self-awareness, he is finally able to understand his own identity and the environment around him. The first type of awareness is when the narrator refuses to believe that white men are anything but superior human beings. He has not yet experienced their exploitations or their cruelty. He tends to worship and adore groups or individuals of high rankings. For example, in the battle royal, he did not care to think of how humiliating it was, and instead he thought of it as a title of honor to participate in such event.
He also did not think that he did anything wrong when he fired Eva Smith - he was just merely looking after his business interests and in his eyes was completely innocent. His reputation is very important to him and he wants to protect it. As the Inspector's investigations continue, his
Chaucer saw this in people and knew that a person couldn’t be classified as good or evil because we are a mixture of both. He presented this very strongly in the way that he presented his pilgrims. He showed, for many of the pilgrims, that they had good intentions, such as the Pardoner. At the same time, he wasn’t afraid to show their evil side. The Pardoner is a prime example of his presentation of humans because he showed that he had good intentions, to help people and to pardon their sins, but he also had his evil side, which was to tell people that they have sinned simply to earn himself a few extra coins.
He likes to believe he is right and enjoys the feeling of being superior in his theories and thoughts against those of other people. We see it a lot with his lies and deceits. He doesn’t ever give up on his lies even when people are skeptical because he wants to believe he is right and they are wrong. For example when he was at the Grangerfold household, he was almost caught forgetting his own name, but with his sharp wit he turns it around and asks for it to be spelled for him. He didn’t want to be noticed for lying and told he was wrong.
To Pizarro the glory that comes with being a ruler is all rubbish, it’s no honour of achievement of his; he no longer believes in it where as De Soto very much believes in it. He envies young Martin as well as De Soto this is because he reminds him to much of himself when he was younger, he was optimistic like Young Martin is now, this was when he had the enjoyment of serving his country and had no worries about death. This is shown on page 17 (Act 1 scene 5. ):- “You belong to hope. To faith.
We gain an understanding of his character as we read more about him, ‘he smiled happily’, and this is a childish description of such a ‘huge man’, we wouldn’t expect someone so ‘huge’ to act childish. Steinbeck presents Lennie’s character as a benevolent one, this seems to derive sympathy from the readers because it makes them feel apologetic towards him and appreciate him. Due to the foreshadowing events which were accentuated throughout the novella, it is clear that Lennie's dream can never be accomplished and we actually feel sympathy for him as he does not intend to hurt others, Steinbeck makes it apparent that Lennie is in the grip of a powerful ability (immense strength) that he has no control over, which leads to the death of many. (Notice how the death of the species he kills tend to get larger) and the readers can understand the deep innocence of this character as he did not mean to kill Curley's wife in section five. We know this because he began to 'cry with fright' and he knows that he has done ‘a bad-thing’ because he is aware that he has done a bad thing; this enlightens the readers that when Lennie senses danger, he feels threatened and becomes very dangerous.
Huck believed that since Tom was brought up well and was civilized, he was always right. Tom agreed to help free Jim, which Huck found very strange. The boys could have easily freed Jim, and Huck knew that, but Tom wanted to do it the way prison escapes happened in books. Tom forced Jim to do ridiculous and harmful things for no reason. He played games and did not even care that he was putting a man’s life and freedom on the line.
I think he is more complete because he stood for what he thought was right. He didn’t care if he broke the rules as long as he got some answers. He thought that what the firemen did was wrong and was willing to stop them. In the end I think he was happier than he was before. He survived and met other people like him who were willing to tell other people what they’ve read.
Douglas says that he had to be victorious, “because [Douglas’] aim had not been to injure [Covey], but prevent his injuring [him].” (Douglas, p.186) This brutal struggle, Douglass recalls, "rekindled in my breast the smouldering embers of liberty (. . .) and revived a sense of my own manhood" (p. 187). From this incident on, Douglas is hardly physically punished and every attempt of brutality is unsuccessful.
Candide concludes that Martin is right, that life is all about illusion and disaster. At the end of this story, Candide does develop and mature some intelligence. He does realize his capacity to think things out and not accept Pangloss' Optimism beliefs. He also does not become a total cynic as is presented in the character Martin. He no longer agrees the idea that all things that occur are for the best.