Victor had no reason to put his creation though such pain he just did it through pure selfishness. Victor is the real monster because he has no respect for his creation, abandoned him, and causes him to turn on his creator. The lack of respect towards the Monster is so horrendous that Victor's creation has every reason to be furious. The disrespect starts right when the monster was created, "[a] flash of
The total destruction of the power of independent thinking comes from the ideology of fire leaving the quality of life at an all time low in the world. Fire does not only destroy books, but also any possible future improved upon by past knowledge or the possibilities developed through the
However, as the book continues we see the stones become a thing of evil as Roger loses his grip on civilisation. The stones come to represent the loss of restriction normally imposed by civilisation. In chapter 11 Roger rolls a huge boulder off the cliff at Castle Rock and onto Piggy, killing him outright. From this we know that Roger has truly lost his grasp on civilisation and has turned from a civilised boy into a savage who is willing to commit murder. “Roger with a sense of delirious abandonment leaned on the lever.” “Delirious” can only refer to his lack of propriety which leads to the death of another human.
They lack morals and are filled with emptiness that resulted from the constant money chase throughout their lives. The new rich are also represented through the ashes. They shower themselves in selfish pleasures and have no care for others in life. These ashes also represent the poor who additionally lack morals as they live in silent agony. Not only do the ashes have a symbolic meaning in the book but also embody the hollowness of people in the world today.
Animal Farm proved the quote because, in order to reach their dreams and paradise, the animals had to encounter death and major destruction around them. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is an exciting novel about a futuristic American city where the people who live there seem to live almost backwards. The protagonist Guy Montag is a fireman who burns books, in Montag’s world, firemen start fires rather than putting them out. The people in this society do not read books, enjoy nature, spend time by themselves, think independently, or have meaningful conversations. Instead, they
Therefore, Golding explores the fragility of order in a society under stress. He also expresses this through constantly referring to the conch as fragile such as in the line ‘the fragile white conch’, emphasizing that civility can be lost any moment. This is also shown when the conch smashes to pieces, now representing broken civility and chaos. At this point, Piggy also dies. ‘Piggy was dead and the conch smashed to powder’ enforces that Piggy represented the need for science and intellectual endeavour in society so the break of both of these symbols at the same time shows a sudden corruption of civilisation.
A close, critical analysis of a section of their chosen text of about 3 pages. Cormac McCarthy tells the tale of a father and a son in an aftermath apocalyptic event. Their surroundings are dangerous and hazards to their lifestyle as the remaining people of the old world have turned to cannibalism and the world is barren of all vegetation, in order to satisfy their desperate needs. McCarthy creates the worst possible world using specific techniques. The main theme, in the first 3 pages of the novel is the father and son relationship in a world which does not seem fit for a man and his son.
Misery to Bitterness The Creature’s last address reveals his bitterness towards the people who shunned him, and that bitterness resulted in the wretched deeds to make his creator miserable that make him full of regret and self-loathing. The Creature was brought into a world in which no one was sympathetic to him, which brought him to abhor the human race. After he was created and abandoned by Frankenstein, the Creature was left completely alone, without a single companion and facing the rejection of the humans who instantly judged him as a monster. His loneliness and utter desertion made him so that he “could not sum up the hours and months of misery which [he] endured” (189). The loneliness he felt despite his desire for “love and fellowship” (189) with people that the “hours and months of
This devastating moment is when Pi was forced into the world alone, left to fend for himself. The shipwreck (catalyst) and the loss of his family are two factors which began Pi’s process of discovering the animalistic side of himself. While these factors may be unique to Pi, they started his process of discovery, and will ultimately affect the outcome of said discovery. The factors that shape the process of discovery will also affect the obstacles individuals face during the process. For Pi, the threat of starvation became evident when his food and fresh water supplies were destroyed by a
I had to leave that all behind to serve the earth.” (Ponyo, Fujimoto). Fujimoto hates and loathes humans and the human world because to him humans only pollute things and destroy what they love. Humans do not step back and examine their lives: Still we live meanly, like ants. (Thoreau, Walden). He wants to bring back the age of the sea and rid the earth of humans.