The Fisher brothers, unlike the Castellos, are based on hate and negligence. They don’t care about each other and as in the text Paul says, “I would be relieved to have him (Erik) dead.” That shows their hate for each other enough for Paul to want Erik dead. Also, in the Prologue, Paul remembers that he blamed Erik for trying to kill him and Erik says, “There he goes blaming me again.” This shows that Paul blames Erik for lots of things.
His parents lied to Paul his whole life. They said, “ We wanted to find a way to keep you from always hating your brother.” Erik is a bully and blind to appropriate social behavior. Erik thinks he has discretion over everyone else. He is a star kicker for the High School football team, and hopes to play in college and then professional ball. He jokes about a football teammate being killed by lightning. Erik tells Arthur, his ball holder and sidekick goon, to punch Tino’s big brother Luis, and hits him on the head with a “blackjack” club. Luis then dies of an aneurysm about a week later. Erik is blind to how his actions affect others. He is not able to take accountability for what he does to other people. He is not accountable for the harm he has caused Paul, Luis, or anyone else. If he is good at football he acts like he can be an exception to the rules of
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Many people advocate the philosophy of "An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth," but few of them realize that to take revenge is often to sacrifice oneself and that the very purpose of law is to put an end to revenge. People are willing to sacrifice their freedom, their careers, and even their lives for revenge. Lorenzo Carcaterra's novel Sleepers, and Tom Savage's novel, Valentine, evidently express this. Although its true that it might take couple of years for criminals to get what they deserve, most of the time the law gets the job done. In addition, some may argue that the law doesn't always ensure justice. This is also true, but it’s still not worth to sacrifice oneself. We should let the law do its job.
Imagine flying on a plane and crash landing on an unknown island with a select group of people. How would humans deal as a result of this horrific situation? Is cruelty and violence the only solution when it comes down to it? In Lord of the Flies, William Golding explores the relationship between children in a similar conflict and shows how savagery takes over civilization. Lord of the Flies proves to show that the natural human instincts of cruelty and savagery will take over instead of logic and reasoning. William shows how Jack, the perpetrator in the book, uses cruelty and fear for social and political gain to ultimately take over, while on the other hand shows how Ralph falters and loses power without using cruelty and fear. In Lord of
Hamlet’s Denmark is described as being a prison, “[a] goodly one, in which there are many confines, wards, and dungeons, Denmark being one o’th’ worst” (Shakespeare 2.2.241-242) sets the setting, which illustrates that Denmark is a dystopia in which its people are enslaved. The world of Hamlet’s Denmark is a world that exudes injustice, revenge, deceit, slaughter, corruption, and most importantly, immorality. Modeled after Shakespeare’s very own England, Hamlet’s Denmark is a place filled with spies and espionage where the ambitious, immoral, corrupt and unjust rise to power and revel in glory. Hamlet, though argued to be a play centered and focused on the act of vengeance and avenging sons, is actually a play about morality and the consequences of poorly thought out and impulsive actions, in a corrupt and damaged society.
“Revenge is a dish best served cold.” The Sicilian proverb used as Kill Bill Vol. 2's tagline perfectly points out a tragic flaw shared by Shakespeare's Hamlet and Quentin Tarentino's modern hero: Bill (from Kill Bill Vol. 1 and Kill Bill Vol. 2). In Kill Bill Beatrice is a killer belonging to a team of assassins lead by a man by the name of Bill. Beatrice and her master fall in love and one night while she is on a job, she discovers she is pregnant. She realizes the world of assassins is no place for a mother and makes the decision to leave the team and leave Bill. When Beatrice does not return to him, Bill searches everywhere for her, not willing to accept she may have been killed on the job. He finally finds her only to learn that she is pregnant and about to be married! From this, Bill derives his motivation for revenge. Hamlet obviously has more of a just cause to act on, where Bill, and really all the corrupt characters in his world, act based on selfishness. Though However much they may differ, their likeness is shown through choices made when taking their time in exacting revenge, when they let their situations drive them to madness, when they refuse to act without confirmation, and when they let their arrogance and need for revenge blind them. While similarities between Hamlet and Bill's moral standings are little to none, it is the element of revenge that reveals the shared traits that bring these men to their demise.
Throughout time, stories have been passed down from generation to generation in order to make sense of our world and to share that understanding with others. The main thing that has changed is in the way that we tell these stories, which most commonly has always been between one another. But every new medium has given rise to a new form of narrative. “Los tres hermanos (The Three Brothers)” and “El indito de las cien vacas (The Indian and the Hundred Cows)” are two Tales of the Hispanic Southwest that I feel the reader could truly relate to in terms of the important moral lessons that were meant to be taught and inferred. The lesson in “Los tres hermanos (The Three Brothers)” involves understanding that the characters involved failed to consider the needs of the thirsty and hungry, the unsheltered, the old and are justly served with moral ruin, death, and perhaps worst of all, eternal damnation, while “El indito de las cien vacas (The Indian and the Hundred Cows)” ultimately involves the notion that God helps those who help themselves.
Fear and hatred have a simple, yet sometimes illusive relationship. Numerous people, including Shakespeare, have defined this relationship to be that hatred originates from fear. In the first five chapters of Things Fall Apart, Okonkwo’s seemingly unrelated fear of weakness generates his unequivocal hatred toward unfortunate recipients. Okonkwo has a “fear of failure and of weakness” (13), which is exemplified by his father who “was in fact a coward and could not bear the sight of blood” (6). This sufficiently explains Okonkwo’s deeper “fear of himself, lest he should be found to resemble his father” (13). When trying to find the opposite of weakness to differentiate himself from his father, Okonkwo resolves “to hate everything that his father Unoka had loved. One of those things was gentleness and another was idleness” (13). Consequently, Okonkwo’s hatred of the various interpretations of weakness, failure, and anyone who embodies them signals his underlying fear that he may “be found to resemble his father” (13). Although not nearly as elusive, this relationship between fe...
The novel a Tale of Two Cities is an extravagant story filled with action, revenge, and love. The remarkable writer Charles Dickens is the author of this novel, which fills the readers with suspense, mystery, happiness, and sadness. Dickens sets his novel during the controversial times of the French Revolution, 1789-1799. Dickens draws in his readers by using metaphors and clues to slowly unfold the mysteries of all the complex characters he portrays. The metaphors that are used, stand as symbols of the themes of the story. Dickens successfully uses the metaphors of a wine-cask, a fountain, and knitting as symbols to enhance the theme of revenge.
Prejudice can lead to violence. The violence can be a physical, emotional, or mental state. I was close friends with a girl with Aspergers. People made fun of her for it and then started to make fun of her friends as well. She’s very knowledgeable, but people jeered at her. The same people jeered at her friends, similarly to the way they mocked her. In the book Flowers for Algernon, Charlie, the main character, has a mental disorder. His I.Q. is 68 and all he wants is to be considered “intelligent.” At work, he got adjudicated, picked on and treated inadequately for his mental problems. Charlie gets put in for a developmental surgery to make him “intelligent.” The people at work start to be more compassionate regarding him, and people
When events like terrorist attacks or natural disasters occur, at least a few people are often left alone. Someone, or everyone, in their family has died and they have to pick up the pieces and figure out how to move on. As they struggle to continue with their life they often feel survivor guilt. Survivor guilt is when people who survive an event like 9/11 or the holocaust, where other people died, feel guilty, even though they had no control over what was happening. Many people argue about if people should or should not feel survivor guilt. Some people believe survivors of life threatening situations should feel survivor guilt. Others feel they should not. Survivors of life and death situations should feel survivor guilt.
"Schindler's Ark" is an account of the even minded triumph of good over shrewdness, a triumph in famously quantifiable, factual, unsubtle terms. "Schindler's Ark" perfectly mirrors the mentality of numerous Jews, for whom mythology trumps memory and nothing lies past good and evil. It is anything but difficult to demonstrate the certainty by which fiendish obtains all of what one could call the land of the story, despite the fact that good might finish up with a few imponderables like dignity and self-knowledge. Deadly human vindictiveness is the staple of narrator's, unique sin, the mother of antiquarians. It is difficult to declare that Jews did nothing to secure themselves. "Schindler's Ark", "The Pianist: a true story of one man's survival" plainly delineate the torments that Jews had experienced. The books are an unmistakable parody on the world that god made which has no humankind left.
Quentin Tarantino’s latest offering, “The Hateful Eight,” gave a touch of the classic era as it was shown like a blast from the past. From the movie’s setup to the premiere, people behind it made sure that they gave their viewers a different kind of experience over the Christmas weekend.
Antwone Fisher was an individual that endured so many things. He faced a lot of challenges that may have seemed impossible to recover from. This story was an example of the many things that some children may experience. Antwone was not raised in an upper crust home. He did not grow up in a home in which his mother and father was present. Instead of having positive role models, he had to live with individuals that were abusive to him. When observing Antwone’s personality, one may refer to two different theorists such as Bandura and Rogers.
In the world today, many people face family problems every single day, but there are few people who face adversities as tough as those in William Shakespeare’s plays. Coping with family problems can cause a person to do vile things to themselves as well as to others. Shakespeare’s famous play revolves around revenge, which is the desire to do harm in return for a wrong. His play shows how the loss of loved ones can affect people. He builds up the idea that people do harmful things through anger rather than reasoning. In the play Hamlet, the characters face emotions that lead to revenge because they are unable to cope with the death of love ones.