Anger

machete and cut him down”(61). This presents Okonkwo’s dread of disobeying someone with more authority, and a sense of femininity, causing him to kill Ikemefuna. Because of Okonkwo’s foreboding sense of something bad bestowing on him if he were to anger his goddess, he felt the need to partake in the murder of Ikemefuna, someone who regards him as a father figure. This displays how Okonkwo is inherently savage, because he rather sacrifice someone else, then face the punishments bestowed upon…

My anger towards her heightened even more after that because I knew she was the one that caused it. My daddy had finally pulled his life together and been sober for five years until that day. Once they started drinking together there was no stopping them. They…

imagining of suffering encourages violence and anger, which harm both parties in the situation. In addition, Biswas-Diener introduces opinion that revenge is effective due to its ability to send a message. He suggests that “The real power of revenge is in teaching a lesson” (Biswas-Diener). In spite of this, revenge is not the only way to teach a lesson. As mentioned before, Judith Orloff presents the fact that forgiveness can teach a lesson by turning anger into a constructive situation.…

In Gone Girl, anger is mainly derived by many reasons and one of the main reasons is deception and manipulation. This main factor drives protagonists to their breaking point where their anger speaks loudly. Amy and Nick represent an angry married couple who manipulate and deceive each other and their whole society. Amy is the perfectly cool girl who is funny, smart, pretty and successful and was always referred to be the fictional Amazing Amy. Being compared to a fictional character that was…

is the socio-moral judgment perception and the second is the transgression severity. If the company transgression is severe, social closeness will probably influence third part consumers, such that close-third consumers will have the same levels of anger and as a consequence, the same negative perception of the relationship with the service provider compared to the victim of the transgression. On the other hand, distant-third consumers will take the perspective of the transgression as an…

Jealousy and anger are common everywhere you go. From video games to real life countries, jealousy can always be found. In the story “All Summer in a Day” by: Ray Bradbury, a girl is put on Venus and is picked on by all the other Venusian kids for remembering the sun. They are mad, you see, because the sun only ever comes out every 7 years for only 2 hours. The reason for writing this is so the two themes of the story “All Summer in a Day,” which are jealousy and anger, can be shown and told to…

especially from his mother’s funeral. This can be supported by many things. When Meursault is dealing with the confusing emotions of his mother’s death, he falls asleep which is a sign of hiding emotions. Also, suppressed emotions can lead to outbursts of anger. If he had properly addressed his emotions, he would have never returned to shoot the Arab four more times. And the extra four shots were one of the key reasons why he was caught and convicted. If he had never returned to fire the four…

the emperor. During the three battles, Luke surrenders to his anger and fear as the Emperor and Darth Vader taunt him about his family. Darth Vader finds out about Luke’s sister and threatens to turn her to the dark side. “Sister! So... you have a twin sister. Your feelings have now betrayed her, too... If you will not turn to the dark side, then perhaps she will” (Lucas, Empire Strikes Back). In this moment, Luke is blinded by his anger and begins to attack Vader viciously. The thought of the…

lost himself in anger, he remained true to his teaching methods even when threatened by the new ways of learning, and despite being opposed by others on the subject of roman history he manages to take a stand and overcome overwhelming odds. Within the story “The Palace Thief” one of the key characteristics that seem to focus on Hundert’s character as he develops throughout the story tends to be his formality because he tends not to lose his composure, he does not allow his anger to consume him,…

in grief when they found out Laius had been executed; however, Oedipus took the decision to take action by promising to torture the person responsible for the murder of Laius. Whenever Teiresias tried to open Oedipus’ eyes about the truth, Oedipus anger outraged. Teiresias tried to hint at Oedipus that he was responsible for the…