Running into headlights. Running into the silence of death.” The anaphora of ‘running’ highlights his emotional devastation which shows Tom's paranoia and frustration in the initial stages of the novel. As a result of the crisis, Tom responds adversely to a new start at Coghill. 3. The motif of darkness is frequently used to demonstrate a condition of misery and downhearted: “There aren’t words to say how black and empty pain felt.
Similarly to Tom Brennan, this leads him to face immense psychological barriers such as schizophrenia, fear and antisocialism, which accordingly breeds his hatred and hinders his transition to adapt to his new world. The high angle shot belittles him within his dark prison cell, and the panorama shot of the penitentiary evokes his immense suffering and the loss of his sense of identity. Additionally, the nondiegetic crescendo of adrenaline-inducing instrumentals creates a chaotic atmosphere which effectively exudes the inner agonies of a broken man who is left with nothing. In such ways, the initial stages of the film evince the protagonist’s unwillingness to accept his new world and conveys his refusal to seek companionship. Comparably to The story of Tom Brennan whereby the protagonist fails to adapt to his new paradigm due to immense social and emotional barriers, Norman Jewison’s biographical film The Hurricane demonstrates that coming in terms with inner fear and anxiety allows one to overcome the emotional barriers and enter into a new world that affords a greater self.
In fact, hell represent all the worst feelings and situations that exist: the chaos, the disorder, the fear, the disarray and the punishment. Actually, it means all what a damned have to endure for his punishment. Thus, when Guessous 2
Argument: The scene where Col. Bat Guano arrests Executive Officer Lionel Mandrake is used to dramatize the duality of “individual thought” versus “blindly following authority”, “government control” versus “individual action”. Kubrick uses Mandrake’s character to show the ineffectual actions of one man against the colossal organization of government as a whole. According to tradition, the mandrake root screams as it is pulled from the earth, causing death to anyone who heard it. Kubrick directed Mandrake’s character to be a desperate individual trying to be heard and, if believed, could save lives, and if ignored, would lead to world annihilation.
As this chapter goes on, Gatsby realizes that he and Daisy will never be together. Gatsby tried to give Daisy everything he thought she wanted in when reality, it was what he wanted. This song shows how Gatsby tired but ended up ruining his life instead. Chapter 8- "Heartless"- Kanye West. As the story begins to end, Daisy gives up all hope and thoughts of Gatsby, She puts him aside forever.
Montag is an humble character that has to deal with people with suicidal problems, and self-righteous people preventing others from receiving the knowledge from books. The dynamic character is stuck in a life that was chosen by ignorance, and is determined to find a new life through books. In addition, the phoenix that appears often in the novel signifies that Montag's life is finally purified and reborn by the very fire he has been spewing for years. During the course of the plot, Montag evolves from an apathetic, conformist fireman, the very essence of socially acceptable stagnancy, to a new man filled with strong ideals and beliefs. He has a new purpose in life, to preserve books and the knowledge they contain.
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.
In the Sassoon’s poem “Aftermath,” he explains war as something that can never be forgotten. The distasteful thought haunts everyone to the point where war completely takes over the human mind. He documented the war environment as something that was unbearable to live at. Waking up next to a fellow member and seeing their body decay was worrisome. The rats crawling everywhere because the environment was not clean and unsanitary was frightening to see.
Throughout his adventures, Beowulf is fighting against evil, whether it is Grendel, Grendel’s Mother, or the dragon. Beowulf’s, journey to save a kingdom is threatened by evil. In the epic poem, there are many symbols of goodness. The epic hero, Beowulf is the essential source of goodness. Beowulf’s goodness is described in his battle against evil, symbolized by Grendel, one of the monsters defeated by him.
The power of fate is difficult to understand, it is a man’s struggle against the will of nature and amongst other forces. Thomas Hardy’s novel Tess of d’Urbervilles is considered a fatalist. Fatalism is a view of life which insists that all action everywhere is controlled by nature of things or by a power superior to things. Fate is something that is beyond human control, the power or agency supposed to determine the outcome of events before they occur; destiny as said in the dictionary. Due to Tomas Hardy’s fatalistic outlook of life, Hardy presents the character of Tess as having a variety of forces working against her efforts to control her destiny.