Georg Znaeym’s Hateful Character
Your personality will influence the things you say and do. Similarly, a character’s personality can be determined by the things they words they say and their actions. In the short story “The Interlopers” by Saki, two men, Georg and Ulrich, have kept generations of family feuding going. Both men plan and pray that misfortune will fall on the other, which happens one day when they end up meeting each other in the woods. Saki reveals that Georg is a hateful character by what he says, thinks, and does.
Georg is characterized as a hateful character by what he says and thinks. For example, when Ulrich confronted Georg about poaching on his land Georg had reacted by threatening him. Georg responded, “We fight this quarrel out to the death, you and I and our foresters, with no cursed interlopers to come between us. Death and damnation to you, Ulrich von Gradwitz”(202). This shows that Georg is hateful. His anger towards Ulrich and his family had overtaken his logical thinking and made him want to hurt …show more content…
For example, when Georg saw Ulrich when first entering Ulrich’s property he hated him so much that he wanted to kill him. He and Ulrich “each had a rifle in his hand, each had hate in his heart and murder uppermost in his mind”(200). This shows that Georg has a very hateful personality because he wants to kill Ulrich. He has so much hatred towards Ulrich that he sees Ulrich as an enemy that he must get rid of. In addition, when Georg and Ulrich had gotten pinned down to the ground because of the tree falling down on them Georg had laughed “mockingly” and “savagely” at Ulrich (200). This shows that Georg is a hateful person. He doesn’t even care that Ulrich is hurt--like a normal person would--and isn’t taking the situation seriously because his extreme hate for Ulrich is overshadowing any sympathy he has for him. Georg shows, through his actions, that he has a hateful
Your personality will influence the things you say and do. Similarly, a character’s personality can be determined by the things they words they say and their actions. In the short story “The Interlopers” by Saki, two men, Georg and Ulrich, have kept generations of family feuding going. Both men plan and pray that misfortune will fall on the other, which happens one day when they end up meeting each other in the woods. Saki reveals that Georg is a hateful character by what he says, thinks, and does.
Georg is characterized as a hateful character by what he says and thinks. For example, when Ulrich confronted Georg about poaching on his land Georg had reacted by threatening him. Georg responded, “We fight this quarrel out to the death, you and I and our foresters, with no cursed interlopers to come between us. Death and damnation to you, Ulrich von Gradwitz”(202). This shows that Georg is hateful. His anger towards Ulrich and his family had overtaken his logical thinking and made him want to hurt …show more content…
For example, when Georg saw Ulrich when first entering Ulrich’s property he hated him so much that he wanted to kill him. He and Ulrich “each had a rifle in his hand, each had hate in his heart and murder uppermost in his mind”(200). This shows that Georg has a very hateful personality because he wants to kill Ulrich. He has so much hatred towards Ulrich that he sees Ulrich as an enemy that he must get rid of. In addition, when Georg and Ulrich had gotten pinned down to the ground because of the tree falling down on them Georg had laughed “mockingly” and “savagely” at Ulrich (200). This shows that Georg is a hateful person. He doesn’t even care that Ulrich is hurt--like a normal person would--and isn’t taking the situation seriously because his extreme hate for Ulrich is overshadowing any sympathy he has for him. Georg shows, through his actions, that he has a hateful