6. How do the townspeople react when one townsperson speaks out?
When a person dares to speak out against the Hangman, their fellow villagers are quick to shun this outcry for fear it will turn the Hangman against them as well. They remain quiet once that person is acknowledged by the Hangman without ever realizing that they could save everyone by simply standing as a group instead of allowing the Hangman to torment them. This storyline is seen in the Holocaust allegory “The Terrible Things,” in which animals are picked off one by one by a group of fearsome monsters all because they hid while leaving others to face danger until eventually they were left alone with no one to defend them, much like how the narrator is abandoned at the end of “Hangman.” By remaining silent in the face of danger to one, they in turn endanger all.
11. In your opinion, what is the Hangman’s purpose or goal? …show more content…
While a reluctant bad person ends up on the good side and therefore becomes an anti-hero, and anti-villain has good intentions but a cold-hearted way of fixing what he thinks is wrong with humanity. The Hangman wants to teach the villagers a lesson about sticking together, probably because he has seen too many a time how abandoning neighbors can come back to haunt you. One of the most common antiheroes, V from V For Vendetta, has the noble goal of taking down the authoritative parliament which forcibly restricts its citizen's rights. However, his means of destroying the government are brutal and often violent. Similarly, the Hangman is an anti-villain as his noble intentions are diminished in morality by the murders he commits to get his message
When a person dares to speak out against the Hangman, their fellow villagers are quick to shun this outcry for fear it will turn the Hangman against them as well. They remain quiet once that person is acknowledged by the Hangman without ever realizing that they could save everyone by simply standing as a group instead of allowing the Hangman to torment them. This storyline is seen in the Holocaust allegory “The Terrible Things,” in which animals are picked off one by one by a group of fearsome monsters all because they hid while leaving others to face danger until eventually they were left alone with no one to defend them, much like how the narrator is abandoned at the end of “Hangman.” By remaining silent in the face of danger to one, they in turn endanger all.
11. In your opinion, what is the Hangman’s purpose or goal? …show more content…
While a reluctant bad person ends up on the good side and therefore becomes an anti-hero, and anti-villain has good intentions but a cold-hearted way of fixing what he thinks is wrong with humanity. The Hangman wants to teach the villagers a lesson about sticking together, probably because he has seen too many a time how abandoning neighbors can come back to haunt you. One of the most common antiheroes, V from V For Vendetta, has the noble goal of taking down the authoritative parliament which forcibly restricts its citizen's rights. However, his means of destroying the government are brutal and often violent. Similarly, the Hangman is an anti-villain as his noble intentions are diminished in morality by the murders he commits to get his message