Oedipus was also physically blind. His physical blindness played into the role of the Greek tragedy. The blindness completed the tragedy for Oedipus. For Oedipus, this tragedy was discovering the truth and becoming blind. He had the never ending blackness and the physical pain he had caused on himself as reminder and as punishment.
After that Lennie is killed, shattering all hopes and dreams George had, as well as ending a long term relationship. ‘why’n’t you shoot him, Candy?’, during the 1930’s America was going through ‘The Great Depression’ everything that people lived on were hopes and dreams because people had nothing else to keep them going but the determination to fulfill the American dream ; power, fame and fortune. The murder of the one dog created a domino effect which shattered dreams, took away lives and ended relationships. The death of the puppy could foreshadow the ending of Curley’s wife, ‘a little dead puppy that lay in front of him’, the puppy was small helpless and delicate as was she. Both could not manage the power of Lennie and both ended up on the hay dead and alone ‘Curley’s wife lay with a half covering of yellow hay.
The Gaitas each faced their own fears of unable to belong, but none so as much as Christina who dies to the loneliness of been unable to fit in. “He found her just staring into the fire” describes Raymond, illustrating how desperate his mother had been. As a result she is characterized as ‘appearing to be cheerful and vivacious’ but in truth ‘deeply depressed.’ Christina is an allusion of the displaced socialite hungry for a sense of fulfillment and security, in a place where she cannot get the acceptance she seeks; she wants to ‘fall asleep and die”. She feels geographically and culturally displaced, as a result she never settles into Frogmore. Raymond uses a series of fragmented repetitions to convey the alienation felt by Christina.
This leads him into a terrific trip of guilt the likes of which few have ever experienced. Brick feels he let Skipper down by not accepting his sexuality and blames himself for Skipper’s Porter 2 death, although
Through Nick’s eyes, Gatsby was shown to be vulnerable throughout the whole chapter, which contrasts how he depicted at the beginning of the book. Fitzgerald used words to powerfully express the real Gatsby. A phrase such as 'he added hollowly,’ highlights how Gatsby soul was not with his body, but with Daisy. His soul is in his pictured future where he had and Daisy are together, and that was the only thing he cared about. He has also lost his senses on how he should act cool in order to give Daisy the fake impression he has been building up in the past five years.
Many turned into desperation, while having no choice but to eat their own horses, cats, and dogs. The worst part was the eating of rats, poisonous snakes, and dead bodies. Their water crisis only made it worse. Salt water disease resulted in their organs being drained leaving their brains out of place and in paranoia. A slow painful death occurred there.
He describes his life as being worthless and takes every opportunity to express how little he cares. In reply to Miss Manette asking him if a better life would be more ideal, he replies, “I shall never be better than I am. I shall sink lower, and be worse.” (Dickens 144). Mr. Darcy and Mr. Carton’s acquaintances both make these judgments of them based off their attire, rumors, and what they say. However, we later find in both novels that these characterizations are not entirely true.
But he is blind and doesn’t see the world. His “empty eyes” are figuratively looking away from the racism that controls everything occurring at the college. The narrator also experiences many different instances of peoples’ blindness. For example, the Brotherhood is blind to individuality. This is represented by Brother Jack’s glass eye.
The tragic ballad of hamlet is possibly the saddest, most messed up story I have ever encountered in my life thus far. Hamlets life is completely flipped upside down suddenly when his father is murdered, then turned inside out when the killer turned out to be his own uncle, and his mother is marrying him. Leaving Hamlet in a state of insanity to say the least. His insanity begins when he encounters the ghost of his father in act one tells him that he was murdered by Claudius and to, “Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.” (Act 1, scene 5, line 25). At this point in the story Hamlets mind set has switched from being down and depressed about the death of his father to complete rage and motivation to fulfill his father’s request to avenge
Wilder tries to show the audience of 1938 that one doesn’t even have time to look at another person: life is too short. The quote: “No…I should have listened to you. That’s all human beings are! Just blind people” (Wilder 109) seems to show that Wilder openly tells people in 1938 that they are blind and ignorant, that they do not appreciate life for what it is, rather they appreciate life for what it should