Does being the antagonist always mean you are evil? In AELA this year, we read a short story called Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, by Rudyard Kipling. In the story, the main character, a mongoose named Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, is washed out of his home, and taken in by a family of people. In the backyard, there are two snakes, Nag, and his wife Nagaina. Rikki has to fight the snakes in order to ‘save’ himself, and the other creatures in the backyard. That is, however, only Rikki’s side of the story. This essay is about Nagaina, and how she may be more than just an evil antagonist. In the story, Nagaina is not only sly, but also intelligent and caring. Almost everything Nagaina did was for her children, still eggs at the time. First off, Nagaina is sly. This quote from the book proves that; “...she …show more content…
This is shown multiple times, and you could argue that everything she does is because she is caring for her eggs. The most prominent time that this trait is shown, is here: “Nagaina spun clear round, forgetting everything for the sake of one egg.” (p. 25) This quote shows how caring she is, because she would drop everything for her only remaining egg, thanks to Rikki smashing all the others. Because she cared about this egg so much, she sacrificed herself for it, but it did no good. Rikki killed them both (the egg and Nagaina), in a rat hole that Nagaina had used to escape being killed. After everything she did to keep the egg safe; Rikki ruined it all. Nagaina’s main traits, her slyness, intelligence, and how caring she is, were strongly shown when she attacked Rikki, devised a plan to make the him leave, and left everything for her egg. Every character has many traits. It’s important to see from different angles, before judging a character. We can relate this to real life as well. If there is someone you don’t like, maybe the reason you don’t like them isn’t a great reason, and you need to look at the issue from another
Elizabeth Lavenza (later Elizabeth Frankenstein) is one of the main characters in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. She is a beautiful young girl; fragile and perfect in the eyes of all. Her father was a nobleman from Milan, while her mother was of German descent. Before she was adopted by the wealthy Frankenstein family, she lived with a poor family. After Alphonose and Caroline Frankenstein adopt Elizabeth, they lovingly raise her alongside their biological son, Victor Frankenstein, in hopes that the two will eventually get married. When Victor goes off to Ingolstadt college, Elizabeth writes letters to him that later become a crucial part of the story. It weaves together every piece of the story, holding together each individual
Men must face hardships. Men must face disease. Men must face each other [Parallel]. Men constantly pressure one another into perfection. Some men, however, crumble under the burden looming over their heads [FoS]. When some men cannot face themselves or those around them any longer, they choose a dangerous and deadly escape. They would rather commit suicide than face their hardships. In the japanese culture, society encouraged seppuku to end a life before a man brought dishonor to his family. In a world full of yearning for honor, young men learned that they must express courage through suicide to fulfill their honorable ancestors’ wishes. Gail Tsukiyama uses her novel The Samurai’s Garden to prove that only
In Great Expectations, Pip is set up for heartbreak and failure by a woman he trusts, identical to Hamlet and Gertrude, but Pip is rescued by joe who pushes Pip to win the love of his life. Similar to Gertrude in Hamlet Miss Havisham becomes a bystander in Pip’s life as she initiates the play that leads to heartbreak several times and she watches Pip’s life crumble due to her teachings. The next quote shows Miss Havisham explaining to Pip the way she manipulated his love Estella to break his heart every time. “‘but as she grew, and promised to be very beautiful, I gradually did worse, and with my praises, and with my jewels, and with my teachings… I stole her heart away and put ice in its place’” (Dickens, 457). This quote makes it clear the Miss Havisham set Hamlet up for failure by making him fall for a woman he could never have.
Firstly, Brave Orchid is a woman warrior because she receives an education later in life. Kingston writes, “Not many women get to live out the daydream of women – to have a room, even a section of a room, that only gets messed up when she messes it up herself” (Kingston 61). In this passage, Kingston reveals that a woman going off to live at school was not a commonality. Amongst the other women she lives with, she is by far the oldest. Despite the fact that older women are supposed to be wiser, Kingston does not provide any characters at school that share Brave Orchid’s age; she is about twenty years everyone’s senior. Therefore, being a fully grown adult woman attending medical school must have been a rarity. She did not subject herself to
P. 1: "I teach kings the history of their ancestors, so that the lives of the ancients might serve them as an example, for the world is old, but the future springs from the past."
I am reading The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan, and I am on page 302. This portion of the novel is about three newfound half-bloods named Jason, Piper, and Leo. This novel starts off with Jason waking up on a bus, not knowing who he is. Apparently his best friend is a guy named Leo, and he has a girlfriend named Piper. They’re all apart of the same boarding school for troubled kids. They arrive at the grand canyon, when one of their thought to be classmates turns into a storm spirit and tries to kill them, because they are half-bloods. At the time they do not know that they are. Their coach, also known as their Teacher, is actually a Satyr that tries to defend the kids. Jason eliminates the storm spirits with his golden sword, even though he was
Anne Frank a young girl who died believing that people are good at heart. ‘’You could not do this you could not do that.’’ A quote from Anne Frank. Found in the collection book page number 283. In this essay, I will be showing you why Anne might feel certain ways during this hardship. Also what it reveals about her character. Anne is a brave young girl who always does what she feels is right and her way of taking on life and its challenges is taught for a person to do in that time and she managed to take on so much. In advance to Anne hard life, she keeps a diary to share her thoughts and option on life in hiding during the dreadful event called World War Two. This dairy was a miracle to the world. They now know the hardship and struggles that the Jews had two indoor. Anne dairy opened so many doors for journalists and many others. They have a diary of a real end of the Holocaust in their hands.
People have free will. People have the ability to choose right from wrong. With this responsibility people need to think about the outcome of actions and how it will affect society.
The first aspect of Adela’s characteristics is that she is very proud of her family history, but in a negative way. She
After chiyo finally accepted her fate, she worked really hard to become a geisha. She worked so hard that she broke records and as a result she was adopted into the okiya. Pumpkin, another girl who lived in the okiya was supposed to be adopted instead of Chiyo. When Chiyo broke the record for the highest cost of her mizuage, or virginity, Mother pushed aside Pumpkin and congratulated Chiyo. Chiyo felt bad for her but since they were friends, she thought Pumpkin would understand. Much later, to her surprise, she found that Pumpkin was still bitter and jealous about it. Chiyo’s view on it was the fact that she had worked hard for that honor and she had earned it. Pumkin felt that she deserved to be adopted since she had become a geisha first and she was already in the process of being adopted. Their difference of opinion on that subject drew a wedge between them that was never removed.
In The Young Elites, written by Mari Lu, Adelina, a young girl who had the blood fever when she was younger, is sitting in a jail cell. She has been blamed for murdering her dad. Adelina flashes back to the night of her dad's death. People have always told her father that his two daughters were beautiful, but that has changed ever since Adelina had the blood fever. She rants about how he has cherished Violetta, Adelina’s sister, because Adelina had been influenced by the blood fever. Both Adelina and Violetta had the blood fever, but Violetta hadn’t been influenced badly by it.
The antagonists in this novel play quite a significant role in this story unlike most traditional villains. The early villain in the story is Alex Goodfellow, the man responsible for putting Tom Tin’s father in debtor’s prison. Mr.Goodfellow is definitely one of the people Tom hates the most and the reason for Tom’s strong will to avenge his father. Walter Weedle is yet another antagonist who tortures Tom in is already tough situation. Together however, these antagonists turn on an internal switch in Tom to keep fighting until the end.
...thers as well. Her manipulative ways can be seen throughout the novel, specifically when she hides her marriage and pregnancy and when she seeks revenge on others. Therefore, she is undoubtedly evil. Ultimately, because it is the Duchess’s own personal decisions that result in everyone in the story being killed, she is the true villain of this story.
The White Witch is the most evil person in Narnia. “The White Witch is pure evil and tries to kill everyone who stands in her way of being queen of Narnia” (Persson 6). Here the reader is witnessing a figure that is truly evil and just wants to rule Narnia; so it can be hers, and so she
fact that she s a female but also because she is a poor orphan living