Secondly, understanding that Rainsford has recently just washed ashore onto his island, Zaroff knew Rainsford would “want clothes, food, rest” (9). If Zaroff cares about a stranger’s well-being, then there should be no doubt that he is a caring, civilized man. Even so, the General’s civility and politeness wears off when his intentions are revealed. He soon reveals his uncivilized, barbaric side once he reveals his prey of choice, humans, specifically, sailors that get stranded onto his island. Zaroff thinks nothing is wrong with being serious about hunting humans and does not consider it murder.
He says, that as a consequence of the way he was raised he is "inclined to reserve all judgments" about other people (page 5). His saying this makes it seem like we can trust him to give a fair unbiased account of the story that he is telling, but we later learn that he does not reserve all judgments. Nick further makes us feel that he is a non-partisan narrator by the way he tells of his past. We come to see that Nick is very partial in his way of telling the story. This is shown when he admits early in the story that he does not judge Gatsby because Gatsby had an "extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness".
This was not only an astounding view for Candide and Cacambo, but it made them wonder why this society was not being affected by any turmoil. As the two men were learning the ways of El Dorado, the king told them that leaving whenever you feel is okay but trying to make your way back up the stream back to El Dorado is a very difficult, let alone impossible process, (Candide 49). All this and much more were advised by the king to Candide and Cacambo. Although they didn’t think much of it, an interesting view point towards Candide and Cacambo’s motif is that they are immersed in salvation, and yet they still do not feel a sense of relief. Instead, Voltaire tries to create the embodiment of greed as Candide and Cacambo leave El Dorado with an abundant amount of sheep, lathered with “gifts of the richest native workmanship and fifty laden with gold and diamonds and other precious stones,” (Candide 50).
The Oxford Law Dictionary defines rescue as: An action to save people or property from danger. There is no general duty to rescue people from danger, though a master of ship is bound by statute to render assistance to people in danger at sea. Voluntary attempts to rescue people in danger are encouraged by the law. Someone injured in such a rescue attempt may recover damages from the person whose negligence created the danger. The rescuer is not regarded as having assumed the risk of being injured and the courts are reluctant to find that his injuries were due to contributory negligence .
Because the poem is in the form of a dramatic monologue, the reader only shares the conversation of the Duke. Through his speech the Duke wants to show certain aspects of his character, which he does. He wants his audience to know he is a man with status and to be regarded highly. We know this as he is proud of his ‘nine-hundred-years-old name’, and expected his late wife to have respected and rated this, although she did not. However, the effect of this speech leads the Duke into
Jason Price Mrs. Kissinger English – Period 1 17 Apr. 2012 From Hubris to Humility “Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, but eventually she’s going to come around and whack you. You’ve got to be prepared” (“Nature Quotes” 1). This quote by Geraldo Rivera, a lawyer and news reporter, states that nature itself gets revenge on those who don’t appreciate it just like the Ancient Mariner in the poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” In the poem, an Ancient Mariner mesmerizes a Wedding Guest and starts to tell a ghastly tale. It starts out with the mariners on a ship sailing south until an Albatross came along guiding them through the foggy weather in Antarctica and for no reason at all, the Ancient Mariner shot the Albatross, a bird of good omen, with his crossbow.
He also is loyal when he goes and rescues them from Circe. He could have not buried Elpinor and he did not have to rescue his crew from Circe. Another person that show loyalty is Penelope. She could have just picked one of the suitors but she believed Odysseus was alive and she was going to wait for him. The sad part about this is that Odysseus was not loyal to Penelope.
The protagonist, like The Ancient Mariner, is often someone who has committed a crime, experienced something out of the ordinary and a traveler. Samuel Taylor Coleridge belongs to an older generation of Romantic poets with his most famous work being “The Ancient Mariner”. The poem is about The Ancient Mariner who is at a wedding, where he stops one of the wedding guests. He insists on telling him his story and the wedding guest cannot but listen attentively. The Ancient Mariner then tells him about the ship, which was driven by a storm towards the South Pole.
Christof did not genuinely care for Truman nor wanted to protect him, as long as the show wasn’t affected in any dramatic way, however Christof only does this so that the ratings of the Truman show will not be affected and further more at the end of the film when Truman is trying to escape on a sailboat, Christof almost killed Truman, to keep is show going by preventing him from leaving. To the member of the public in Peter Weir’s film, it appears that Christof wants to protect Truman in all humanly ways possible that is emotionally and physically. An example of this is when Christof was supposedly trying to protect Truman’s emotions when Christof re-introduced Truman’s actor father, after Truman spotted him in the main part of Seahaven. The filming techniques in this particular scene was close up shots of Truman, his father and Christof controlling the scene with the piano playing joyfully and quietly over the dialogue of Truman and his father. The shot that shows Truman walking up to his father is a high angle shot following Truman until he hugs his father.
He needs this contract to keep his job but not “coming clean” is jeopardizing his sense of ethics. What should he do? An ethical dilemma is a situation where there is no right and wrong in relation to a decision and therefore a solution is not quickly achieved (Shaw, Barry, Sansbury, 2009). Ethical dilemma can also be defined by a sense of moral obligation. Kent’s situation does consist of several ethical dilemmas as his accomplishments since joining Dura- Stick have been mediocre at best and he fears that his time at Dura-Stick might be limited unless he starts closing big accounts such as the project proposed from Spray-On.