The Coward Oedipus Is “A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit”. This quote by Thomas Jefferson portrays Oedipus because throughout ‘Oedipus Rex’ he quarrels with everybody about he truth and becomes blind to it. By blinding himself Oedipus becomes a coward because he doesn’t want to face his crimes. It all started when Oedipus hears a dreadful prophecy that he will murder his father and sleep with his mother. He leaves Corinth and travels to Thebes, and on the way he unknowingly kills his father during a quarrel.
When Gillespie arrested Sam Wood Virgil also proved him innocent. Even though Gillespie didn’t like to be proven wrong by anyone and especially by a coloured person, he respected Virgil for his great detective work. At one point in the novel Gillespie and Tibbs shake hands and I think that was the high point of this noval. Virgil didn’t respect Gillespie that much in the beginning and most of the middle of this story but in the end Virgil respected Gillespie. I think it was good that Virgil did not respect Gillespie because Gillespie was using Virgil for his scapegoat.
In the novel, Montag made Mildred friends cry. After he made her friends cry from telling them the truth they all left hurt. However, in the movie John almost killed a man because he thought the man killed his son. John felt bad at the end, because he was not looking at his son’s killer. Even though, he didn’t kill the man, he still hurt him physically and emotionally.
In another case, Paul is seen trying to save the life of an enemy that he has stabbed, he fails but his efforts shouldn’t be forgotten. His friends refer to him as a hero, and he neglects this title and all the medals. Paul doesn’t like war and what it represents, to him, war is the real evil. The government forcing people into war, without giving them a choice is evil War can easily turn any person into a hero. Corporal Himmelstoss was an average polite postman before being drafted into World War I, not soon after he became a bully.
Readers then realize that Lennie doesn’t understand the difference between killing an animal and murdering a human, therefore putting other lives at risk. There was an instance where Crooks was in danger himself, the result of him taunting Lennie that George might never come back for Lennie. Readers can sense the danger that Crooks was facing when “Suddenly Lennie’s eyes centered and grew quiet, and mad. He stood up and walked dangerously towards Crooks. ‘Who hurt George?’ he demanded” (Steinbeck 73).
Atticus may be portrayed as good, but he has his doubtful moments. Then, there is Bob Ewell who is seen as a monster throughout the book through the reader’s eyes because of his violent ways. “Somehow, I could think of nothing but Mr. Bob Ewell saying he’d get Atticus if it took him the rest of his life” (Lee 262) This shows that Bob Ewell is violent in his ways and portrays the evilness of the themes when he tried to harm the Finch children when he had wanted to get back at Atticus. A man is lower than life when he tries to harm a child especially his own or those who had nothing to do with his
There was a scene in the movie where Val was beating up Rosie, and Parker came in and shot Val and saved Rosie's life despite the fact that he was putting himself in danger. Porter, being the tough he is, says, "I forgot my cigarettes," (Helgelund). The novel shows that Parker is a very insensitive man, but he does at some points care for other people in his
At this point the boys lost all their sense of humanity and start to openly express their savage instincts. Piggy's death shows an individual, Roger is capable of committing murder. Roger in the beginning of the book invisibly expresses his savage instincts by throwing rocks at a lillun Henry but "throwing to miss"(62). In this scene Roger is well aware and knows that killing is wrong, because he was taught that in his civilized setting. When no consequences was taken for Rogers action, he begins to express his invisible powers more visibly.
In addition to showing that there is no civilization, only evil is there now. All of the rage and disaster that the fire creates shows that as fire changes, fire brings out the evil in the boys and did not keep them civilized. As the fire is explained, causes changes in the boys from civilization to evil. The fire changes from hope and rescue, to safety from the “evil” things on the island, to rage and disaster that is caused by the fire. Civilization had went from all civilization to losing some civilization to there being no civilization at all left in the boys.
Ascher compares the chosen lifestyle of The Box Man, to the undesired for loneliness of the victims; although, one may be poor and alone it does not mean that one is unhappy. For example paragraph twelve explains the mayor has offered him help, but yet and still The Box Man pushes his offer away. In paragraph eighteen it describes how The Box Man actually enjoys his dark life. However it is portrayed as if life is a solo journey and more are miserable by going through life accompanied than being a box collector. Ascher brought up memories from her own past, The Box Car Childrean.