Maestro Practise Essay By Cameron Anderson ‘Both Paul and Keller have few redeeming qualities.’ Peter Goldsworthy’s Maestro demonstrates the good and bad qualities of the many characters throughout the novel. The most notable characters are Paul and Keller. Although both Paul and Keller have little redeeming qualities, they both share similar qualities, which they have learnt from one another. Keller’s regret and guilt is one of the key traits displayed during the novel. His guilt over the death of his beloved wife and son during World War 2 is a crucial event in which shaped the present Keller.
In Victors case his consequences were that the monster made him suffer. Victor felt every emotion possible from anger to devastation. “ three years before I was engaged in the same manner, and had created a fiend whose unparalleled barbarity had desolated my hear, and filled it forever with the bitterest remorse.”(120) This is Victor thinking to him self about how much is life has changed and it doesn’t seem to be for the good. Victor says that his heart is filled with remorse for even making this creature in the first place. In the end Victor is left with nothing.
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
In the novel ‘Ransom’ written by David Malouf, it shows the strength, bravery and also the frailty of Priam on his journey to bring home his son Hectors body from his killer Achilles. As a reader we come to see the importance of relationships and how much they can impact vengeance and wrath. Achilles learns to deal and overcome loss and mortality. There is continually an underlying presence of war and masculinity and storytelling throughout Ransom. Achilles loss of his brother affects his sanity and enrages him to an inhumane vengeance on Hectors body.
The grenade went off and the man fell on his back, his sandals blown off and he was dead. O’Brien always wondered if he never killed the young man would he be died, was that young man a good guy, did he have a family, and was it the right thing to do by killing him? To me every war story comes out to be the same. Everyone dying, families sad, and the other country is celebrating their victory. In the story “Falling Angels” they fight for their lives, watch others die, and return home.
Night a modern day Book of Job In Night, the author Eli Wiesel shares his most personal memories of the Holocaust. Where he experienced directly and during which he lost all of his family and many friends. The occurrence of incomparable evil perpetrated by the Germans against the Jews ruined Eli’s hopefulness and his belief in the natural goodness of human beings. Although he could have held on to that view throughout the remainder of his life, Night ultimately shows how Wiesel was eventually able to restore hope and optimism and belief in others and to live with the enormous burden of pain that he carries. Many of the memoirs of the Holocaust such as have this same tone throughout them.
I think Henry VIII does deserve his image as ‘Horrible Henry’ as he did many bad things throughout his life. Examples of these are, for a first, an obvious one; he killed two of his wives, for very vague and simple reasons. One and main reason that Henry deserves to be remembered badly, is because he treated his wives unreasonably. Anne gave him a daughter (not a son which was what he wanted desperately, for an heir to take on the throne after Henry) and she apparently
Eric Bogle’s poem, The Green Fields of France, depicts the detrimental effects of war on individuals and the society. The use of hyperbole in, “The killing and dying was all done in vain…whole generation that were butchered and damned,” reflects how the society was ripped apart due to the death of loved ones, which lead to an unhealthy community. It further explains that families had to go through so much grief and anxiety for a war that did not achieve anything. Likewise, Bogle demonstrates the pointlessness of the war. “…Did they really believe that this war would end wars…it all happened again, and again, and again,” this use of rhetorical question and repetition emphasises the anti-war sentiment that both Bogle and Dawe capture.
Michael survived aside from missing fingers he was able to arrive home. "Michael Holtzapfel knew what he was doing. He killed himself for wanting to live" The Book Thief (503). On July 24th, 6:03 A.M. Michael commited suicide as he was to overwhelmed with guilt. His constant bleeding symbolized that the remorse of living in the cruel time period and the loss of his brother is causing a strain and slowly killing him.
“‘ See? See? That’s what you’ll get! I meant that!”’ (Golding, Lord 181) His words are not only harsh, but very bitter for such a close friend of Piggy’s, Ralph, to hear about the murder of his dear friend. When Roger says, “I meant that!”(Golding, Lord 181), he is conveying to Ralph a bit about what he thinks and his reasoning behind it.