After reading Beowulf, it was very obvious that Grendel is an evil character and has nothing but bad in him. Throughout Beowulf Grendel is not accepted in society and not wanted on any terms, and this upsets him. Grendel is very different than those around him which make things in life difficult. He isn’t accepted because in the peoples eyes Grendel is a killer and kills out of anger and what he holds inside. An example of Grendel killing the innocent people around him is, when Beowulf’s warriors are sleeping Grendel sneaks into the room, attacks the men and tares them to pieces.
In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the main character initially demonstrates qualities of being a tragic hero, but by conclusion of the play his deceitfulness and his overwhelming gullibility lead him to be portrayed as a criminal. Macbeth has serious issues with power, greed, and even his own self- esteem and self- conscious. He knows when he kills Duncan and Banquo that it is the wrong thing to do but he still does it anyways. He also becomes obsessed with idea of power and becomes more power hungry as each day passes. He has become an unstoppable killing machine who believes he is invincible once the three witches reveal their prophecies and their apparitions to Macbeth.
He is obsessed with defending his sanity not his innocence as he embarks on the tale that freely admits to committing cold blooded murder. The narrator lives with an old man whose blue, vulture-like clouded eye haunts him so much that he felt murdering the old man was his only option. He recalls in almost slow motion, calm detail his movements for the week before the murder, leading to the death of the old man and event after. In this essay we will look at the relationship between the criminal and the victim from the storyteller’s point of view as this is the only source the reader is presented with, and discusses how effective the first person narrative form is, in drawing the reader further into the story. Although we are not told what the relationship between the old man and the narrator, he tells us that he loved him “I loved the old man.He has never wronged me”(7) It was the eye not the old man that he wanted rid of as he became so obsessed with it.
Candy is lonely because of his age, he lost his dog, and his physical disability. Candy’s age is one of the reasons that affect his loneliness, “I ain’t got the poop no more” (20). He said this when the others go to town on Saturday night because he is too old to go out with them, and he thinks he would not fit in. Secondly, after Candy lost his dog he was lonelier, “Candy lay still, staring at the ceiling” (49). When Carlson asked to take Candy’s dog to kill it, Candy would not answer and just lay still and stare at the ceiling because he was sad that he would lose his only friend.
Tony’s hubris is also heavily shown in this scene. After he shoots the assassin he yells, “What do you think I am?...I told you, don’t F*** with me! I told you, no kids!” A close-up depicts his rage well, and the non-diegetic music track came to a sudden, unexpected halt when Tony shot to increase the dramatic shock of the moment. This scene depicts both Tony’s fatal flaw and his hubris strongly. Tony’s is also a very ambitious person, and this characteristic also leads him into his
His willingness to slaughter the man for so weak a reason is frightening though. It helps to show how twisted Chillingworth truly is. During the end of the novel though, Dimmesdale thwarts Chillingworth’s revenge plot by telling the Puritan community how he had an affair with Hester. This act absolutely ruins Chillingworth because he no longer possesses the power over Dimmesdale. All the horrible acts he had done in the past were undone, because Dimmesdale "Hast escaped me!"(228).
He explained that white men always win and cheat, so the white men are the victors but the white man is always a bad man. This shows that it can be prejudice because Tom`s story was not heard and he was accused of being guilty and so he was killed. In cases of Tom being wrongly accused, harassment by others, on Scout and Atticus defending the jail can have an opinion of people that is destructive. When the group of men came to kill Tom, it shows that if Scout and Jem did not have a father would be the same thing for Walter Cunningham.
The narrator in “Tell-Tale Heart” lost his composure after he murdered the old man, in contrast to when Rainsford murdered General Zaroff. After the narrator murders the old man and visitors come to the house, he still hears the heart of the old man beating. As he talks to the visitors, it seems to him that the heart beat gets louder and louder to the point where he loses self-control and admits to the deed. However, after Rainsford wins the most dangerous game he clearly keeps his serenity. Instead of showing any guilt, Rainsford actually seems to be more at peace after he pulls the trigger.
The judges made it seem obvious that the narrator’s life was coming to an end. The fear that the judges put into the narrator is used to help him realize the fate that awaited him. The judges are the most villainous from the chosen stories because of their evil conception of torturing and killing the narrator. The short-stories villains are arranged from least villainous to most villainous. Okeke would be the least villainous because his actions were not as extreme as the other two villains.
The old man, who is deceived by the narrator, and whom also trusts the narrator with his life, never suspects the him of this gruesome act. To the narrator, who is intrigued by the old mans evil eye, insanity foreshadows the olds man’s death, and symbolizes insanity in the narrator, and blindness in the old man. The eye in Poe’s short story is perceived upon its negatives, reflecting the way many people of the time thought and observed things. Owen Meredith’s view on an eye is very much like how people think of an eye today; something beautiful. In todays world people understand an eye to be a gift, something that is used a lot, a open eye to success, a tool to help take a view on your life and finally can symbolize the presence of an individual in