Okonkwo and Macbeth are both heavily influenced by other characters, fuelled by the expectations of their societies, and driven to act based on their tragic flaw. The reason behind all the actions Okonkwo takes can be traced back to one person; his father. Okonkwo grew up hating Unoka’s laziness and he “was ruled by one passion- to hate everything that his father Unoka had loved” (Achebe 13). This led him to rule “his household with a heavy hand” (Achebe 13), and treat his family poorly. He is afraid to show affection, as seen with Ezinma and Ikemefuna.
[David] flinched back and he [Carl] grabbed the back of [David’s] neck with fingers like a vise. ‘You’re nothing but a lazy brat. I’m going to beat some industry into you if I have to kill you to do it.”’ (Gould, 3) David’s earlier years have been hard, resulting him being unpopular, and being unsatisfied. David begins to feel sick and tired of the abuse from his father and decides to run away from home. David starts to develop hatred towards his father, wanting to hurt and give him the pain he has felt over the years.
When Marie, the housekeeper that David loves, gets sick, his parents ask his dad`s brother, Dr. Hayden, to tend to her. Marie shouts, “Mrs.! Mrs.!” and “No! Mrs.!” (28:6) and his parents learn that David`s Uncle Frank have been molesting and raping Indian women all of his life. Although Marie has a serious cold, she also uses her weak voice to protest being checked by Uncle Hayden alone.
The death of his younger brother terribly affected Holden personally. He constantly worries about his parents and his sister as he does not want to see them going through the pain of another death, even though he's harshly miserable himself. Even though Allie had passed away, Allie’s presence has affected the action, theme, and the development of Holden. Holden’s younger brother, Allie, has played an important role in Holden’s actions. Throughout the novel, there were many reminders of Allie and his death.
Shockingly we find that at just fourteen years old John is verbally and physically abusive to everyone in the house especially Jane. Up until this point it seems Jane has habitually taken this abuse from not only the Reed family but from the help as well them however now it seems as though Jane has reached her boiling point. After causing Jane to shed blood she strikes him and whatever she does seems to hurt him. At the end of the chapter she is shunned into a part of the house known as the red
At this point this becomes crucial, because the Nazi oppression in the concentration camps makes it harder for any relationship. It is shocking to Elie on many occasions, the cruelty sons show their fathers in many of the barracks. He says of this particular boy, “I saw one of thirteen beating his father because the latter had not made his bed properly. The old man was crying softly while the boy shouted, “If you don’t stop crying I shan’t bring you any more bread. Do you understand?” This event serves a warning to Elie not to lose his sense of compassion towards his father so that they can remain close and continue supporting each other because without each other neither of them will survive.
It gets to a point where he wants to quit due to the fact of his wife’s constant stress caused by his continuous endangerment, which caused her to induce her delivery of their son. That ended up being one of the main conflicts in the film along with Mr.Daider’s lack of motivation to educate these children. But in one final stand will his
This quote suggests “Hang thee, young baggage, and disobedient wretch! I tell thee what: get thee to church o’Thursday or never after look me in the face.” Here as you can see he threatens her, he curses and he nearly uses physical violence. In the society in the play, fathers had the power to rule their family. They believed that men were better than the women. The audience would have been shocked by his behaviour because so far what the audience have seen in the play was that he showed respect and love to his daughter when suddenly his temper changed into hatred and anger the audience would be much exited sitting on the bottom of their chairs.
A solider that participated in the removal said I fought through the War Between the States and have seen many men shot, but the Cherokee Removal was the cruelest work I ever knew.”4 Imagine people being uprooted from their home where they occupied it all of their life as well as their parents and their parents. Imagine having your rights ignored to dealing with broken promises, and having to fight for what is yours. In the end, you are tricked or just too plain tired to fight anymore and go on a journey9. A journey where as each mile that goes by, you leave behind a mother, a father, a brother, and a friend. To even set this relocation into movement many of the tribes were tricked into signing treaties.
During the Week of Peace Okonkwo beats his wife, Oljiugo, not wanting to show any sign of weakness. He is unhappy with the lack of progression being shown by women in the community. He after is