This story also shows Odysseus’ resourceful attribute when he uses the rams for concealment. In the story of the Sirens he uses the wax from the ship to block the ears of his comrades, which shows resourcefulness. Additionally, the story of the Sirens shows that Odysseus is unable to endure the temptations of the sirens, as he struggles and calls to be released. From surviving this ultimate test of forbearance, Odysseus learns endurance and later, when he returns to Ithaca he will need this skill. His temper during these four books can be ungovernable, as he says: ‘Now when Eurylochus said that, I considered drawing the long sword from my sturdy side and lopping his head off to roll in the dust, but my men held me back and calmed me down’1.
Through the novel, Golding demonstrates that rules are essential to keep people from becoming savage and to maintain order in society. Although some might still defend civilization and follow their morals without concrete rules, the majority, that have returned to their savage instincts, eventually annihilates them. A character that becomes savage with the absence of rules is Roger. The reader learns about his malicious nature early in the novel, when he throws stones at Henry. Although he wants to hit him, he always aims to miss because he still has vivid memories of “the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law” and he feels that there might be consequences for such actions (62).
Odysseus was the first one to realize that if they had killed the Cyclops they would be trapped in the cave forever. “If we kill him now, we may be trapped inside this cave forever.” (Homer 7) Odysseus knows that actions always have positives and negatives, so he thought of the harm that would create if he killed the Cyclops so he waited. As Odysseus’s intelligence grows his knowledge of speech grows too. When the Cyclops, Polyphemus, asks Odysseus his name, he replied in a very sneaky, intelligent way. “Nobody, that is the name my father gave me: Nobody.” (Homer 8) Odysseus was able to
Instead of just shooting Fortunato or something equally quick, Montresor instead handcuffed him to the catacomb wall, and buried him brick by brick (Poe 416 – 417). By cruelly drawing out his punishment, it is clear that Montresor thought out his actions, and wanted Fortunato to feel as much pain as possible. While Chillingworth dies very soon after the subject of his hatred is gone, Montresor lives on long after, as if the thought of his completed revenge sustains. Instead telling the story as it happens, Montresor is telling it from the future, “half a century later” (Poe 417). By telling the story with the same passion fifty years later,
From time to time I hear the saying ’‘You have to die in order to protect your life.’’ There is no sense in that what so ever. If you die to protect your life you aren’t alive anymore so how did you protect your life? Nobody says ’’I will spend all my money in order to save my money.’’ Those sayings pretty much have the same logics to me. If I were to guess, I would guess that every soldier that was fighting for his county and had a near death experience was praying and hoping that he would come out of this alive while he was lying there and dying. Joe Bonham was a soldier who almost lost his life fighting for his country.
The torture, and what Winston does to escape it, breaks his last promise to himself and to Julia, never to betray her. The original intent of threatening Winston with the rats was not necessarily to go through with the act, but to force him into betraying the only person he loved and, therefore, breaking his spirit. "Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing" (Orwell, 276). Hope for the reader is finally destroyed when Winston claims to love Big Brother and betrays the only thing he truly loved,
The play ends in bad terms with no direct resolution other than killing off all who confessed. A court should know the problem's true definition, have clear reasoning, possess few mistakes, and ultimately achieve a fair and proper outcome in order to go beyond a simple understanding of the Salem witchcraft trials. The general outline of events in The Crucible corresponds to what happened in Salem of 1692, but Miller’s characters are often composites. John Proctor didn’t want his name tainted for adultery but ultimately used it to free his wife. He finally finds his moral center at the end of the play and is willing to die for his belief.
By killing Lennie, George gets rid of a major hazard in his life; even though Lennie would never hurt George, Lennie’s actions would eventually get George into some serious trouble or even killed. The sad truth is that George is forced to shoot the only thing that made him different from the other ranch hands and admit that his dream will never happen. George is now no different than any other workers, Slim tries to comfort him in the end by saying “you hadda George…I swear you hadda” but the sad truth that this book has always alluded to is that one has to give up on one's dreams in order to survive. In the book Of Mice and Men the American dream is simplified to the dreams of two men and this dream eventually seduces two more characters, their dream is to get a little bit of land, own crops and animals and live off of the land. It is a simple dream, one of self reliance.
Picture a world of much pain and suffering;Were only death can bring happiness, Were after life is the only possible escape for a peasent's social class. Place This image clearly in your mind, now imagine that this afterlife is guaranteed .A so called war; will redeem you in gods eyes for any misconsumptions he may have of you and without no doubt allow you access into his kingdom in heaven. On your crusade to recapture the holy land. You see new things but nothing will amaze you more then what your eyes come across at the end of your journey. Your used to a wretched life style, tasteless food, hard labor from sun up to sun down.
Dumbledore helps the students by leading them in the right direction. He is the teacher of many pupils, whom he cares about so much that he dies in order to protect their innocence. He allows a friend to kill him in order to prevent a young boy from having to take a life, because preserving his peace of mind was the right thing to do. A hero is selfless and unconcerned about themselves. Sydney loves a young woman named so much that he dies to prevent her from having to life without the man that she loves, Charles Darnay.