“You told me to George,” he said miserably.’ This extract suggests that Lennie would have slid down the wall and started crying which shows his sadness and suffering because of his enormous strength and his panicking. When he kills Curley’s wife, it is caused by his obsession to stroke soft things and also because of his strength. Curley’s wife is partly to blame as she leads Lennie on: “Here feel right here.
O’Brien and Thomas both depict situations where the concept of death is always lurking just around the corner. The realization of one’s mortality is often enough to shift one’s perception away from fantasy to cold, hard reality. O’Brien illustrates this point well as Lieutenant Cross’s obsession with a fading memory leads to a man’s death: “He felt shame. He hated himself. He had loved Martha more than his men and as a consequence Lavender was now dead.” (O’Brien, 1990, p.20) Consequently he is forced to revaluate his motives and strive to move
When people are distressed, they often notice minute details subconsciously, and this reinforces how much sorrow Heaney is experiencing. The use of rhyming couplets in the last two lines emphasizes the bitterness and anguish that Heaney experiences, especially in the last line - “A four foot box, a foot for every year”. It is said with detached coldness, almost like the view of a spectator to the incident. This comes as a surprise to the reader, as the mood in the previous stanza is seemingly reflective, which leads suddenly to the climax, leaving an aftertaste of Heaney’s indirect bitterness in the reader’s mind. It is also the first time the reader finds out that Heaney’s brother who died is only four years old.
Wiesel wrote about how horrible it seemed to lose one’s innocence. He did not realize that he had lost some of his own as well. Like Wiesel, many other victims still feel troubled by the painful memories that follow them. Roman, one of the countless victims of the Nazis, wrote a short yet perceptive poem about her lingering reflections; the powerful calamities caught the reader by surprise. Through Wiesel and Roman’s stories about their loss of innocence and haunting memories, we learned that the cruel and obscene methods used by the Nazis and SS Officers caused the vicious afterthoughts of those who survived the horrifying experiences that no human should endure.
Unless you have experienced it yourself you cannot understand it. Updike and his poetry, and Rhys with her short story they describe death and impermanence in their own ways. When Rhys describes life after death in I Used to Live Here Once and Updike describes not everything is permanent like in Dog’s Death by John Updike I see that both are talking about forms of death. While they both talk about it, one tells what it would be like after you die and the other describes the pain, and sadness leading to it. Through out the short story and poem I realized that the authors used tone, and symbolism in their literary work as described in our textbooks.
This simile is an important contrast of the information people were fed at the time of soldiers being strong and proud. Owen strips away the image of a glorified war to reveal the bitter and cruel nature of the war. The bitter imagery “Coughing like hags” and “but limped on” also develops the idea of these young man seeming old. Owen takes pity on these tired and weary soldiers as he describes them in the most unglamorous, inglorious manner. The statement “all went lame, all blind’, while being somewhat hyperbolic suggests that the soldiers had lost all previous objectives of war along with the line “cursed through sludge”.
The shock of the experience was so intense that it set his previous deep devotion and absolution faith of the religious teachings he followed into conflict. The constant repetition of never throughout the passage further emphasizes the great meaning this event has. He describes being “deprived” and “condemned” to a “silence” he will never forget. This choice in diction presents the immense hopelessness that was felt and shows the extent to which the depression of spirit was brought from viewing such an unsettling image before him. The saddening imagery of the terrible feelings which arouse from being in a concentration camp reinforces the
He, in fact, faced a constant inward struggle with his immense guilt of having sinned with Hester. Hawthorne uses Dimmesdale to represent the conflict love versus hate in that Dimmesdale does both. He has a great deal of love for Hester and Pearl, and even the people he preaches to. However, due to his overactive conscience and his desperate struggle for salvation in the afterlife "above all things else, he loathed his miserable self," for committing what the Puritan community believed to be a terrible sin (Hawthorne 141). Throughout the novel, Dimmesdale self- inflicts suffering in the form of extreme fasting and whipping on his shoulders and back.
Loneliness, like many other misleading emotions can lead to insanity. The soldiers in The Wars are given time to think, to regret, to feel guilty and ultimately succumbed to the emotions of anguish. Timothy Findley demonstrates that the loneliness of war has the potential to result in depression and eventual insanity. Through careful analysis of Timothy Findley’s The Wars, it will become evident that depression, loneliness and insanity are not just emotions felt on the front line, but also at home. By the thorough
For what reason? Hale: I put the noose around Rebecca Nurse and John Proctor. It was I! I am the reason to your misery and loneliness. It is disappointing that it is not only you, but also all those who have hearts like doves, have suffered due to my weaknesses.