Although he did kill a few people in the story, he never really wanted to. When he defeated Bonzo and Stilson, he did it so that he would not just win that fight, he’d win all of the fights that they would ever have. He never meant to kill anyone. When he found out that he killed all the buggers he started crying. The IF lied to him and told him that it was just a game when it was not.
Odysseus was the first one to realize that if they had killed the Cyclops they would be trapped in the cave forever. “If we kill him now, we may be trapped inside this cave forever.” (Homer 7) Odysseus knows that actions always have positives and negatives, so he thought of the harm that would create if he killed the Cyclops so he waited. As Odysseus’s intelligence grows his knowledge of speech grows too. When the Cyclops, Polyphemus, asks Odysseus his name, he replied in a very sneaky, intelligent way. “Nobody, that is the name my father gave me: Nobody.” (Homer 8) Odysseus was able to
Wart is a very good person, but his actions always seem to go overlooked by everyone. One prime example of this is when Kay brought the griffin head and Wart brought Wat as a reward for saving the trapped prisoners. Wat was a mad man but Wart believed that Merlyn could have cured him. Wart obviously has the right intentions and put the well being of others his top priority. When the boys come back home, everyone seems disgusted to see Wat back but everyone seems proud of Kay especially Sir Ector.
When Victor's creation was made he says, "'When I looked around I saw and heard of none like me. Was I, the, a monster, a blot upon the earth from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?'" (105). It would not have taken much to help his creation but since he was afraid of causing problems he ended up causing a bigger
The creation of the monster, and the subsequent disasters that take place, all stem from Victors lack of sensibility. Blinded by his personal quest to create unnatural life, he does not consider that anything negative could arise from his experiments. After experiencing these negative effects he states: “Great God! If for one instant I had thought what might be the hellish intention of my fiendish adversary, I would rather have banished myself forever from my native country and wandered a friendless outcast over the earth than have consented to this miserable marriage” (Shelley 174). Victor feels that if he would have thought about the consequences of his creation, he would have not participated in the creation of the creature.
He believes that Herakles is nothing to boast about and that the idea of him coming back from Hades is impossible because he is worthless. “Is this why you think he should escape death? A man who got a name for courage, though he was nothing-he fought animals! No good for anything else.” (Herakles, 26). With that said, Lykos orders for Amphityron, Megara and Herakles’ children to be burned alive by a fire.
He risks the lives of all the men on the ship that rescues him. When the sailors say they want to return because of the danger Victor states, “ye need not have come thus far, and dragged your captain to the shame of a defeat, merely to prove yourselves cowards.”(160) Victor's obsession is so bad that he risks harm to his own life as well. He says, “How I have lived I hardly know: many times have I stretched my failing limbs upon the sandy plain, and prayed for death. But revenge kept me alive; I dared not die, and leave my adversary in
When it was revealed that Oedipus himself murdered Laius, he chose to be banished from Thebes. It sounded definitely the best exit because he wanted his punishment to be more symbolic than justice like. Despite all this, Oedipus didn’t want to commit suicide because it would not do the citizens of Thebes any good, to be people belonging to a kingdom where two kings dye, one past another. Even though it seems that Oedipus has not been a particularly good monarch, in fact his only major accomplishment seems to be killing the Sphinx all those years ago; having a king put to death could have serious repercussions on the rest of the kingdom. By highlighting Oedipus’ punishment one could see that the play contains some gray area.
What mortal can, against your will, drive off your flocks or try with treachery or force to kill you?’ Polyphemus, from the cave, replied: “ ‘My friends, no force can damage me; No-one, No-one is using treachery’ ” (182). By telling Polyphemus that his name was No-one, Odysseus planned that when he attacked the monster nobody would believe that anyone did it because Polyphemus would just say that No-one did it. However, no matter how sly Odysseus is, his biggest flaw, arrogance, gets hold of him and ruins his chances of getting home for a long time: “These were their words. But my firm heart was not convinced. Again my anger had to taunt: ‘Cyclops, if any mortal man should ask about the shameful blinding of your eye, then tell him that the man who gouged you was Odysseus, ravager of cities: one who lives in
Socrates was eventually convicted by the jury and soon sentenced to death. His execution was continuously delayed by because of religious festivals which prevented all executions and wars at the time. Socrates was innocent and ultimately had perpetrated not only capital offense, but the Athenians in charge simply did not understand nor did they try understand his teachings, therefore did not like Socrates. Socrates was given the option to have the Athenians kill him or to die by suicide by ingesting poison, which is ultimately the choice he made. However before his death, Socrates continued his trek on philosophy and thinking and tried to save himself through his own works and philosophical justifications.