As the husband tries to tell his ex wife how he still feels about her, he becomes frustrated because he is limited by his new, slower functioning, brain. As time passes the man becomes more birdlike. His thoughts change swiftly between his wife and her lovers to the toys in his cage and flying away. Although the husband realizes that he should have talked to his wife of his feelings, and worries of her cheating while he was human, he never fully gets over his jealous tendencies. As he first dies while spying on a new man he suspects his wife is cheating upon him with, he fails to learn his lesson and continues to be jealous of every new man he sees her with.
Observers in the town remark how the once-beautiful Delia has lost her shine because of her abusive husband. A practical joker, Sykes scares Delia fifteen years by using her fear of snakes. Delia has come to the conclusion that she does not need Sykes nor his abuse, particularly considering it is her wages that paid for their home. Sykes is a stereotypical abusive husband. He physically and mentally abuses Delia, takes her income while failing to make his own, and has an affair on the side.
How Jay Gatsby is Morally Ambiguous and its Significance In fictional literature, morally ambiguous characters cannot be characterized as purely good or purely evil. These complex characters play pivotal roles in many acclaimed novels, like the main character Jay Gatsby in F.S. Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. In this novel, the author portrays Gatsby as a morally ambiguous character whose pure desire for Daisy’s love may have progressively changed into immoral desires. Gatsby’s moral ambiguity helps express one of the novel’s critical themes: the corrupt American Dream of the 1920s, a false ideal that influenced people to futilely pursue dreams of wealth and status.
In Hidden in plain sight: The Scarlet Letter and American Legibility, Gilmore argues that the fates of characters in The Scarlet Letter follow directly from their decisions to keep or not to keep secrets. He cites Hester’s psychic liberation as a reward for her open admission and acceptance of her adulterous affair. In contrast, he notes that Dimmesdale is incapacitated by the guilt and self-loathing that follows from his reticence and secrecy. Gilmore surmises from these interpretations of the characters’ choices and consequences that Hawthorne disapproves of concealing one’s secrets. However, Gilmore fails to sufficiently analyze the motivations behind the secrets that these characters hold.
Anse is another great example of the death of the morals of society. He went through all the struggle to get his family and his dead wife to Jefferson while all along he had other intentions. He was ready to get rid of Addie because he found himself a “new Mrs. Bundren.” (90) One realizes that Anse is full of deceit and
After two years of captivity he had found a new purpose for his life, to take out revenge upon the man, who had deluded his only source of human affection in his life. The physician was a person of wealth and intellect, who had married a much younger and beautiful woman, to compensate for his deformed image, and to have a companion who could offer him warmth, which he could not attain from reading all the books ever written at the time. Losing this person completely destroyed his world, which lead him to exchange one purpose of his life with another. It is true, that he had neglected his wife during their time together. But I do believe that his years in captivity made him appreciate her more, he had realized her worth.
Although his actions are very insane, they can be seen as rational to reader considering hedonism. Devotion to pleasure, hedonism, makes Dorian be deceitful about his true self by deflecting the attention of the public from the mad man to the beautiful and intelligent gentlemen. Dorian is, young, sensitive, and emotional, meaning that he is susceptible to manipulation. Lord Henry takes advantage of that opportunity and gives Dorian the yellow book; this book opens up the world of hedonism and aestheticism which eventually turns his young life into an eternal oblivion of misery. Dorian develops a fear of aging so he tries to live his life as if it was his last day on earth.
Loss of freedom in Nineteen Eighty-Four The literary piece Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell is truly a complex and intricate story about the pursuit and deprivation of freedom. The novel is not a reflection of the author’s lifestyle, but of a potential society overcome with corruption. Orwell predicts that the futuristic society would spread hate and terror amongst its people and freedom would no longer be existent. He conveys these thoughts by revealing the implications of several strategic and efficiently crafted scenarios that leave the citizens of Oceania with no liberty of their own. Orwell warns the modern era of an impending government control that will suffocate society’s freedom through a defined class system, perpetual warfare and a society with suppressed thoughts and emotions.
“The Stigma and harm caused by denying committed lesbian and gay couples the choice to marry fuels a vicious cycle.” (U.S. Study) Herdt primarily wants to inform us that denying people something they want causes not only anger, sadness and or misery, but also changes the way people think about the world that we as Americans live in today. Often times when people are denied something they want the first reaction is anger. Anger and hate are what fuel destruction; however the supporters you think you have may turn against you at any given time as shown here. “Nothing so homophobic has ever been enacted into law into this nation’s history. (Virginia backlash) Virginia a seemingly supportive state of gays turns their back and instead out right insults them.
Lucky seems happy to be working for Dove as well as living with him and there seem to be a light ahead for him. Yet after a couple of deals gone wrong, and the breaking of a rule Dove had made, Lucky is shot in the head. Firstly I want to discuss if his lifestyle was chosen by himself or if it just was a path he was set upon. Lucky is only fifteen years old. He’s living at home in the beginning, but gets kicked out by his parents because of his drug addiction.