The people who go to his parties gossip about him constantly saying, “he’s a bootlegger” (Fitzgerald), or “he killed a man” (Fitzgerald). He also did not “suffer the absence of parental support” (Brucker) Alger’s characters went through causing their lack of knowledge of right and wrong. Demonstrating how his success does not gain respectability because he chooses wrong instead of right. Since Gatsby is not virtuous, he is not rewarded by the divine. Alger’s characters are to be believed as
In Lord of the Flies, all of the boys were turned into savages in several different ways. The navy officer had guessed, “’We saw your smoke. What have you been doing? Having a war or something?’” The officer did not even know the level at which the war (caused by Jack doubting Ralph) was at. The battle was between the only good left on the island (represented by Ralph) and the evil of dictatorship.
In Dr. Faustus an individual’s collusion with the dark powers becomes the pretext for a Psychomachia in which the protagonist finally succumbs and secures his damnation. Discuss. From the start of this play Faustus is very much his own individual, his own ideas and his own voice. This is evident through his first monologue in which he describes how he plans to ‘win over’ the world and rule it. We know that he has powers but from the onset it looks like he plans to use them in the intention of doing well.
Later in the play, her before ‘happiness’ becomes loneliness and obsession over the ‘kiddy’. “I keep wondering about the kiddy opposite”. Still Miss Ruddock believes there is abuse or cruelty going on in the house and even tells the doctor about it. Her loneliness and obsession of the ‘kiddy’ build up, until we reach the climax to find Miss Ruddock has been writing ‘poison pen’ letters. “… Who was it that wrote to the chemist saying his wife was a prostitute?
Many instances of power are seen within the film. One of the first instances is an example of both physical power as well as power of least interest. Charles McCarter, Helen’s husband in the beginning of the film, tells Helen that they’re getting divorced. When she won’t leave, Charles literally drags her out of the house kicking and screaming, until she’s thrown onto the doorstep with the front door closed behind her. Another example of power is the conflicting power between Charles McCarter and Jamison Jackson, a drug dealer.
Lord Henry’s obsession with Dorian leads Dorian to a life full of immoral activities such as drugs, meaningless sex, and the murder of famed artist and friend, Basil Hallward. Dorian explores these sensations as he looks to feel something real, but his entire life now revolves around his appearance and his state of self-denial. “Lord Henry Wotton is perfectly right. Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself,” (Wilde Chapter II) throughout the novel, Lord Henry influences Dorian’s decisions to be a pleasure seeker, to date only the elite, and to act in an high class manner.
From getting into fights, using and selling drugs, and getting into gangs and shooting. My friends have told me that they got into multiple fights, I couldn’t believe it . They never seemed to be the people to do that. I always think they have more self-control then me but I’m guessing not because they start using and selling drugs. Drugs are never good and from what I’ve seen and heard that they never end well sometimes.
What I found alarming is that Michael did not know anything about the partying and club scene, much less anything about drugs. It just took that one chance to be drawn in the club and partying scene, to destruct and destroy his life for good. Michael was just a simple victim of the negative outcomes that partying in the wrong type of clubs and with the mistaken crowd of people can possibly lead to. This is a common occurrence in present day, when constantly parents unfold stories of how their straight A child started associating with the wrong crowd, and got introduced to drugs and now they are faced with the addiction that needs the attention of urgent medical care before it can possibly lead to something worse. This is what happened to Michael, he like many, was not associated with the club scene, but just like everything in life, he was intrigued to be a part of it since he had no friends.
For far too long the American mantra has been “Hip hop causes violence!” Presidential candidates, senators, even our current president has placed blame on hip hop for staining the moral fabric of our country. School shootings, domestic violence, children being lost in a world of drugs is all placed on the shoulders of hip hop musicians and their soul deep lyrics. Studies have shown that those prone to violence do listen to a heavier style of music than adult contemporary and light jazz, but their home life was lacking. Their parents were either already into drugs and drug dealing, they always witnessed violence in their home and surroundings and they were never guided down the right path. Their parents took little to no interest in them as they were seen as a “mistake” and most came from single parent homes.
A Clockwork Orange is a novella by Anthony Burgess, set in a distant future of London where teenagers run rampant, raping, killing, and thieving. The State, the antagonist of the story, has tried to stop the ultra-violence by imprisoning the offenders to no avail. When the main character, Alex, was taken to jail, the government tried to control him by brainwashing him to feel pain every time the urge to break the law seizes him. Throughout the story, Burgess questions whether people should be allowed to make their own moral choices, even if they are in the wrong. To make the readers examine if all humans should truly follow their ideals, Alex is a true dichotomy.