In Sara Gruen’s “Water for Elephants”, due to his single-minded desire for Marlena, Jacob achieves beyond what might have seemed possible for him. He committed adultery, attempted to kill August in an act to protect Marlena and even bought back the animals and went back to veterinary school, to make her happy. Upon meeting Marlena, Jacob’s core morals such as integrity remained the same, although he developed traits such as bravery, compassion and ambition. Jacob committed an act that most would describe unthinkable. He himself might have thought the same if not for the circumstances.…
In Frank Stockton’s “The Lady or the Tiger” and Charlotte Stetson’s “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the protagonist is forced to conform to the society in which she lives. In “The Lady or the Tiger,” the king’s daughter must endure her father’s harsh laws, and watch as her lover is thrown into an arena, forced to randomly choose a fate: a life married to a beautiful woman, or a terrifying death by tiger. In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the main character struggles with post- partum depression. Her husband, John, who also acts as her physician, sentences her to bed rest, hoping this will cure her depression. In both stories, a life altering conflict is brought to pass by loved, trusted males.…
In the short story "The Scarlet Ibis" written by James Hurst, the narrator's guilt about the effects of his actiion upon Doodle is portrayed in the Characterization of Doodle, Brother, and their relationship, and also in flashback which the narrators reflect and regrets upon his past actions to…
Tears of a Tiger is the first book in Sharon Draper's Hazelwood High trilogy. The book begins with a brief newspaper article about a car accident in which one Hazelwood High student, Robert Washington, was killed. Andy who is Robbie’s best friend feels guilt about Robbie’s death because he is the one who was driving. Andy is told to keep it moving, to act normally, as though nothing happened,but he can't do that anymore. He knows he'll never get over his guilt, so he decides to commit suicide instead.…
The Endless Conflictions of Love “For That He Looked Not Upon Her” appears to very conflicting throughout. The poem appears to reflect the effect a girl had on the speaker’s mind and feeling of despair. Throughout the poem there are a couple different attitudes or tones displayed such as a depressed, regretful tone and a hopeful, admirable tone. By using metaphors, structure, and diction, the author is able to portray different, conflicting tones within the poem.…
He saves and trusts her in the story to keep her alive. This is a call to treat all humans kindly and with trust and a call to be answered by carrying this out in the…
Topic sentence Lady Macbeth is one of the most intriguing characters to analyse in Macbeth. Her actions seem to be fleshed out well and she irrefutably holds power and control when she speaks. Nonetheless, being a woman in the Dark Ages holds in its own inadequacy. She keeps it all to herself; all the events that happen around her and her partner, Macbeth, after murdering Duncan which causes her to feel guilt.…
In the beginning of the play Macbeth, it can be seen that the driving force behind the plotted murder of King Duncan was, in fact, Lady Macbeth. However, as the play progresses, Lady Macbeth's mental state deteriorates and she is no longer the driving force in the relationship. This is shown clearly in one of her last soliloquies (5.1.37-42) where she is sleepwalking through Dunsinane and plagued with memories of the night Duncan was murdered. This soliloquy reveals her guilt towards the murder and her emotionally weak state in contrast to the start of the play. First and foremost, Lady Macbeth was the one, who not only planned the entirety of the plot to murder Duncan, but she also belittled Macbeth for his lack of manliness, however, her…
He who is guilty and driven by ambition will be blindly pulled around until justice stares him in the face. The Lion King by Roger Allers and Macbeth by Shakespeare are two very different pieces of work but have similar themes throughout. The Lion King and Macbeth have two character in which guilt haunts them in different ways. Blood is significant in both pieces of literature because the main characters feel that they cannot get the blood of others off their hands. Both characters go on a journey significant to their upbringing or downfall.…
Stockton recounts the tale of a princess placed by her father in a position to either offer her boyfriend to a tiger or to another young lady. Living in a semi-barbaric society the king used a public arena as a mean to refine his people by exposing them to man and animal valor. In one of his fancy exhibitions that resembled a court, someone accused would go to his arena and decide his fate. The king would give the person an option to open one of two doors and depending on the door chosen the accused would either get killed by a tiger or married a chosen woman on the spot, whether the person was innocent or guilty. It happened once that the princess of this king had a boyfriend not fitting her social stature.…
In the excerpt from the novel Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively, the speaker dramatizes three perspectives. A brother and a sister fight over a location to find the best fossils as their mother watches nearby. Commotion causes the sister, Claudia to fall down the cliff. The scene is viewed from three different perspectives. The author portrays complex relationships between brother and sister and mother and children using literary devices.…
The tale began with the story of a knight who violated the rules and raped a young girl. He was sent to the king and was about to receive a death penalty. However, the queen stepped in and told the king not to kill the knight. The part after this is described in lines 72 - 74, “... he gave the queen the case And granted her his life, and she could choose Whether to show him mercy or refuse.” From these lines, it suggests that at this moment, the queen (woman) has the power from the king (man) and is now able to manipulate the knight’s life (man).…
Ending Of The Lady Or The Tiger When the young man opened the door, the tiger was waiting for him. The young man was so surprised and in fear, “why?” he thought. When he reaction to escape, the tiger already pouncing on him. The tiger tear his body, blood and body residual limb drop on the ground from the tiger mouth.…
Most of all, she could not bear to see the priest or hear the happy wedding bells when she wanted it to be her! The jealousy was really getting to her, slowly killing her. Lastly, I believe that the princess is full of hatred; therefore, she chose the door containing the tiger for her lover’s fate. Her hatred was aimed at the beautiful young maiden chosen for “her” boyfriend, and she did not want him to live and be happy with “that” woman.…
In the movie My Sister’s Keeper, Sara and Brian Breslin make the decision to conceive their daughter Ana through in vitro to donate compatible organs to their daughter Kate who suffers from acute promyelocytic leukemia. The ethical issue in this movie is the decision Ana’s parents made to go through with genetic pre-implementation with the specific goal of saving their older daughter Kate. The moral agent, Ana, faces moral obligations to save her sister by serving as an organ bank. She is at the center of an ethical dilemma as she has to decide what is best for her and her family.…