Many poems lead us into someone’s life. Some poems are upbeat while others deal with much more serious matters. This is the case with the poem, “Richard Cory”, in which the character, Richard Cory, kills himself. “Richard Cory” written by Edwin Arlington Robinson, tells the story of a wealthy man named Richard Cory. His success seems to have brought nothing but good, he‘s incredibly rich, respected, and highly admired.
The repetition of “bad bad” emphasizes that he accepts and agree that he is truly a bad person. Similarly to the poem “Richard Corey”, he has been a spectacle/celebrity to his eagle eyes community/society. The writer sketches Richard Corey in as “whenever Richard Corey went down town, we people on the pavement looked at him” stanza 1, lines 1 &2.It is evident that they has no choice but to live up to the standard /perception society categorized them . Richard Corey strived to maintain his profile and reputation as being a wealthy, education and pleasant man. The writer depicts him as “clear favored and imperially slime and he was always quietly arranged” stanza 1, lines 3-4.
Juanita Umana English 1 – C 4/5 Tragic Character Journal 9 October 2012 Essential Question What is a tragic character, and is John Proctor one? Quote Bank: * “The man who on the one hand is not pre-eminent in virtue and justice, and yet on the other hand does not fall into misfortune through vice or depravity, but falls because of some mistake; one among the number of the highly renowned and prosperous”(Aristotle on Tragic Character 1202) * “Evoked in the common man when a character is ready to lay down his life-his sense of personal dignity… [the common man] is trying to gain his “rightful” place in society” (Arthur Miller Tragedy and the Common Man 1982) * “The common man knows fear best”(Arthur Miller Tragedy and the Common Man 1983) * “ Tragedy consist of the belief-optimistic, in the perfectibility of man” (Arthur Miller Tragedy and the Common Man 1984) * “God in Heaven, what is John Proctor, what is John Proctor?”(Miller 127) * “I think it is honest…I am no saint” (Miller 127) * “You have made your magic now…I do see some shred of goodness in John Proctor. Not enough to weave a banner with, but white enough to keep it from such dogs” (Miller 133). Response: A tragic character is almost always the protagonist of the story. This character has specific characteristics such as nobility or aristocracy, tragic flaws, some kind of reversal in fortune and the realization of the characters own flaws working against him.
Mr. Birling is a microcosm of higher class business men in the period the play was set. He also portrays the naive attitudes of the elderly. From the start Mr. Birling is suggested as a bombastic and dogmatic character. His view about war- “Germans don’t want war. Nobody wants war” makes the audience doubt his judgement as they know there will be a war, showing irony.
His sense of over-entitlement led him to be easily manipulated into killing his good friend and leader King Duncan. Duddy likely inherited his love of wealth from members of his family. He even shows movies he dislikes as a result of his desire for money, seen in the quote "Duddy didn't say a word all through the screening but afterwards he was sick to his stomach." (159) While his father does not place a large importance on wealth, his extremely wealthy uncle proves to have a lasting effect on his development as Duddy is instilled with a desire for wealth. Likewise, Macbeth is easily tempted into killing and manipulating many simply due to the desire for power and social praise.
Often their clients are too poor to pay legal fees, but Schlichtmann's firm eats the legal costs itself, hoping for a rich slice of an eventual settlement. Essentially, he's gambling with the firm's money every time he accepts a case. That's why he turns down the delegation of parents who tell about the deaths of their children: He doesn't see enough money in it to justify the risk. (The movie has a hard-boiled discussion of how much various victims are "worth." A white male professional struck down in his prime gives the biggest payoff; a dead child is worth the least of all.)
Even his father’s death has brought shame to Okonkwo. So he strives to be a successful and affluent man and through his hard work and determination he becomes one. Achebe’s diction in this quote allows the reader to realize the seriousness of Oknonkwo’s fear of failure. For example,” It was deeper and more intimate than the fear of evil.” This alone shows that his fear of failure is ultimately going to lead to his downfall because failure is what makes him this man who is afraid to show any feelings that will be seen as “agbala” which means womanly. This fear throughout the novel causes him to make rash and impetuous decisions in order to achieve a high stature in the tribe.
She suspects she should have married Edgar Adkins Teagarden because he was a wealthy gentleman, and therefore a “good man.” Supposedly people could be trusted in the past according to the grandmother and Red Sammy. Red Sammy states, “a good man is hard to find,” considering himself, known to be clumsy, to be one of a dying breed. Even the Misfit remembers things his father said and did as well as the unfairness of his punishment for crimes that he can’t remember committing. According to these characters, the present is filled with pain and unhappiness, and things were different long ago. In a way, this belief allows them to stop short of deeply exploring their own potential for greatness because they’ve allotted themselves that the world is not associated with it.
The Crucible Arthur Miller “Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable than a brick without a flaw.”(BrainyQuote; William J. H. Boetcker) Humans are bound to sin and make flaws all throughout their lives. The Crucible by Arthur Miller does an excellent job in exploiting this flaw. John Proctor shows us during the story that he’s an honest, proud and very strong man. This helps him find a way to cope with them may help you understand yourself more effectively.
Robinson uses connotation/denotation to emphasize how the town’s people fixated on Richard Cory’s wealthy appearance, rather than Richard Cory, the man. The town’s people put Richard Cory on a pedestal because of his high-class status making themselves lesser people than Richard. This barrier the town’s people created makes them unworthy of knowing more about Richard than his outward appearance. “We people on the pavement looked at him: / He was a gentleman from sole to crown” (Robinson 2-3). This excerpt is a connotation/denotation on the words “sole” and “crown.” The word “sole” denotatively stands for the sole of a shoe.