Take one look at another murderous fiend, Hitler. If one of Hitler’s generals had stepped up and followed his morals over his obligations and murdered the homicidal maniac, millions of Jews would have been saved. It only would have taken one man following his personal morals and slaying the ultimate perpetrator to rescue many, many others. Secondly, Torres was an assassin who took the lives of innocent civilians in likeness with the barber – rebels. The barber could have swept away that manslayer with the tilt of a blade and saved the lives of many like him.
Romm concluded that even though Agrippina may have been manipulative and ambitious she was still able to achieve what women of the era could not. The write Cat Pierro’s argues that Agrippina the Younger’s life is one that is full of mistakes, the largest of which was giving birth Nero. Pierro interpretation of Agrippina is that she was an Austere , arrogant woman that would use her sexuality to gain power. She was jealous of any woman that tried to become close to her husband and then her son, even going as so far to order the execution of a women that her husband Claudius complimented. Eventually she vilified herself enough to turn herself not only to turn her son against her but most of the court as well.
Just yesterday, he had done another act which is hideous of mankind, taking revenge on Atticus Finch’s children, Jeremy Finch and Jean Louise Finch. Do we really need to sacrifice so much for this step? Tom Robinson who was charged guilty as recently been shot in his attempt to escape from prison and Jeremy Finch was injured with a broken arm as a result of Bob Ewell’s surprise attack. What is comforting might be the news of Bob Ewell’s death as he was pronounced dead by Mr Heck Tate, believed to have fallen on to his knife. However, this just adds on to the death toll brought along by the series of
The Rug-maker of Mazar-e-Sharif gives a clear example of this as it shows and explains how from one side of the earth in Afghanistan then the horrible journey by boat to Australia to find refuge and safety from poverty, sickness but most of all, war. War leaves destruction wherever it leaves. The breaking and tearing of families, friendships, relationships and the pure life scars that are cut into the childhood of little kids who haven’t experienced the world, let alone experience the world as a safe human being. Najaf experiences a lot of terror with his fear deprived family and their rug making store that is under great threat by hostile Taliban and inhabitants of their town. Families are full of love and hope but to annihilate that all is a complete act of putrid evil and hate.
They killed us with land mines and booby traps; they disappeared in the night, or into the tunnels, or into the elephant grass and bamboo” (199n21). At the time the Vietnam war seemed unforgiving and mysterious, in ways that it made most soldiers naturally evil who in which portrayed enormous grief upon the enemy. It was a time where in every soldier's head they carried a motto, “kill or be killed.” In the novel, In The Lake Of The Woods, small and simple footnotes are attached at the end of important chapters and they give the reader clues concerning the story or they expresses symbolic twists that make the novel somewhat unpredictable. The Footnote I have chosen runs on the back of chapter 20. The small passage explains related truth on the Vietnam War, symbolizes what John Wade, the protagonists, has witnessed, and finally how it portrays the rest of the novel.
Through Wiesel and Roman’s stories about their loss of innocence and haunting memories, we learned that the cruel and obscene methods used by the Nazis and SS Officers caused the vicious afterthoughts of those who survived the horrifying experiences that no human should endure. When Wiesel and his family
She is effected so much that she is driven to her own suicide. Although intentions were different, the willingness to strive for this attainment of power was one of the same. The ambitions of both Lady Macbeth and Victor Frankenstein had the power to take over their mental state and force them both into an unstable condition. This ambition that was directed towards taking advantage of others for their own personal gain is contemptuous. Both had a guilt ridden concious that led them on a path to their own
ANDREI CHIKATILO Many people feel as though a person has to be completely out of their minds to take life from another human being and even crazier to have found joy in doing so. Society labels these type of people as psychopaths or sociopaths. What comes to mind when you think of the term ‘serial killer”, a person who has murdered numerous people? Normally we think of someone with some sort of mental disability, someone who has been a targeted victim of hate crimes, or sexual or physically abused as a child or as an adult. Wikipedia defines serial killers as traditionally being defined as a person who has murdered three or more people over a period of more than a month, with down time (a cooling off period) between the murders.
Trying to become a king in general can be extremely difficult, and it can be even more challenging to gain the respect of your people if it was your brother that you received the crown from. The fear of seeming like a weak and passive king to the people made Creon make many wrong decisions that eventually cost Antigone and his family their lives. The first mistake that Creon made was making such a bold promise to kill whoever buried the body of Antigone’s brother. He made this promise in order to try and instill fear into his people and in turn insure their respect. After finding out who it was that laid the body to rest, he had no choice but to fulfill his promise of killing them to show his people that his first official act as king was a non-compromising one.
After all, ambition brings about the success and downfall of Macbeth; Lady Macbeth’s ambition got Macbeth started on success, then his on ambition led him the rest of the way to his eventual downfall. Lady Macbeth’s ambition unquestionably helped convince Macbeth to do the things he did. She had so much ambition she wished she were someone else so she didn’t need her husband to do things for her, “Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here… that