Louse

A Literary Analysis on “The story of an hour” by Kate Chopin The way Kate Chopin uses irony, emotions and symbols in such an exceeding short story to create such an exciting impressive literary piece from a dull and boring theme is truly amazing. Chopin’s rich, complete and full of meaning “The story of an hour” touches the reader’s feelings and mind by describing the feelings of a married woman and feminine identities in late 19th century, and helps the reader to have a better understanding of…

disease is known as camp fever and jail fever which is due to the fact that in times of war or famines when human cleanliness isn’t most important, epidemic typhus runs rampant. It is transmitted among humans by body lice when louse feces are scratched or rubbed into louse bites, wounds, or mucous membranes, and is highly contagious and was very deadly amongst a large…

deprive me of what’s mine. . . Everything I have is here. Here, in the Zone. My happiness, my freedom, dignity. They’re all here. The people I bring here are unhappy like me. They’ve got nothing left to hope for. Nobody can help them. But I can - a louse. A louse can help them! I weep for joy because I can help them. I ask for nothing more. (2:13:43 -2:14:45) The Zone contains the Stalker’s happiness, yet in the same breath he says that he is unhappy. The Zone contains the Stalker’s freedom,…

What would it be like if an average office worker turned into a rat or a louse at night and returned back to his average job during the day? These events, along with challenges the characters face, take place in Yuri Herrera’s dystopian short story, “The Objects.” In “The Objects,” the author uses many different hardships and aspects of the story that the main characters face to symbolize real world struggles, such as immigration and social hierarchy. Firstly, a major theme of the story is…

Society has long been plagued by discrepancies between between the social classes due to lack of mutual understanding. Yuri Herrera’s “The Objects,” a dystopian short story, uses a rat and a louse, the narrator and rafa, to reveal underlying misunderstandings among the social classes. “The Objects” is an allegory which attempts to connect animalistic instincts to the potentially immoral competition among working classes as they climb the corporate ladder. The narrator’s description of his…

believe that he has done nothing wrong. Fruitlessly grasping at an ideal that he ethically and emotionally cannot bring himself to hold, Raskolnikov becomes frustrated and disappointed in himself. “[B]ecause I am just as much a louse as everybody else! [...] If I were not a louse, would I have come to you? (354).” Every time he allows himself to have an…

change into humans and work, then at night, they go back through the vestibule and change into something non-human but reflective of their character. Rafa is transformed into a louse, and the narrator into a rat. The duo know that above them in their building is cats and dogs, but can only speculate what…

Raskolnikov’s attempt on becoming an ubermensch, Dostoevsky dealt out a rude awakening that made Raskolnikov see just how powerless, and how “superior” he truly is, in a conversation between him and Sonia, where he admits ”because I am just such a louse as all the rest.” However, it seems Sonia was able to heal Raskolnikov’s mental decline, adding to her saintly image, and Dostoevsky finally let Raskolnikov change for the better as said in the Epilogue, ”But that is the beginning of a new…

Dostoevsky’s protagonist also struggles with his own faith, seemingly using atheism as another disguise and further reasoning for his argument that his crime was justified. However, we see that Raskolnikov only flirts with the idea that a God may not exist as a result of his disillusionment with the distribution of hardship. Dostoevsky creates characters all around Raskolnikov who face great hardships of varied degrees and kinds. For example, “Sonia is kind-hearted but pushed into whoredom by…

theory, by definition, made him not a great man. Raskolnikov killed the woman and was plagued by his conscience. Raskolnikov killed “ . . . for myself alone. . . . I had to know and I had to know right away: was I a louse like all the rest or was I a man?” (p. 399). He was a louse. He did not kill for the bettering of humanity, or his mother, or to provide the means and power of becoming a benefactor to mankind, rather, he killed for himself. All this suffering was because his pride lead…