Cowardice

that I felt sympathy for at all. I agree with Harold Bloom that the reader’s sympathy lies with the creature for a number of different reasons. I would find it hard to believe that Victor could receive any sympathy from the reader because of his cowardice and selfish acts. Sympathy lies with the creature because he was created without a say in the matter. He never chose to be created, but instead was created by Victor who was trying to play God. Victor wanted recognition and he went as far as…

While reading this excerpt of Marinelli’s The Nobility and Excellence of Women and the Defects of Men it was shocking to learn of all the animosity that existed between the sexes. However, it wasn’t totally unbelievable because of the inequality that existed with women having limited rights, married off like property, and not receiving fair wages (much like today). Initially, when she wrote about a myth about a man being jealous of his goddess wife I couldn’t accept it as factual evidence.…

raging and Henry feels compelled to enlist, while he is unconsciously afraid of dying in battle. The conflict occurs on the battle field where Henry witnesses the horrors of war and the deaths of many soldiers. Motivated by fear Henry surrenders to cowardice and deserts the fray. The conflict intensifies as Henry, motivated by a sense of self-preservation, abandons the battle field. After deserting, Henry’s regret for his cowardly act and his desire for true courage intensify. The first…

Honor is given to those who follow the domain’s moral cowardice, the conspicuous, howbeit, have lost all honor by those who are followers. One of the most prominent themes in To Kill a Mockingbird is lost honor. Honor means to have high respect and Mr. Dolphus Raymond lost his respect when he professed to love a colored woman, have mixed children with her, and chose to be surrounded by those who don’t share the same skin color as him. “He’s got a colored woman and all sorts of mixed chillun”…

In the book Fahrenheit 451 it shows many examples of knowledge and how it is important but at the same time bad. The government sets everything from the rules to the schedule of everyone’s life. There is no education or knowledge being taught in their schools and no one questions anything. All they do is play sports and watch TV. They watch the TV for hours at a time and can buy attachments to say their names at home so they can watch more of it. The TV’s are screens that replace walls in your…

Although he at first believed suicide is the only way to escape his misfortunes, Hamlet grew through his experiences to consider the consequences of death. Hamlet also recognizes the cowardice within himself that delayed his tasks because of his fear of dying. As he learns that death is a natural part of life, it becomes clear to him that he needs to make his time alive worthwhile. So although the concept of death may be complex, it…

‘Do you know the enemy who has come in during the night and overthrown our windmill? SNOWBALL!’ Napoleon’s cowardice and greed shows itself when he says that Snowball is the culprit. Greed and corruption is also shown through the disappearance of the milk (pg.25). The animals desired their faire share of the milk, but instead it was mixed every day into the pigs…

In The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, it shows the hangings of numerous people for being accused of witchcraft. Some of the deaths were unnecessary and could have been avoided without interrupting or taking away from the story; while on the other hand some were crucial as to stopping the trials from going any further. I also believe that some deaths were meant to teach some characters in The Crucible a kind of lesson that they learn from. A death that I don’t believe was especially needed in…

The factors that led some non-Jewish people to work against the Nazi Holocaust in German-occupied Europe were their beliefs/convictions, personal characteristics and simply for reason of humanity. Righteous Among the Nations is an honorific that describe non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. This is because, resisting the Nazi movement during World War 2 was deemed as a capital offense; accordingly, people who helped Jews would have been incarcerated in camps and…

The Contradiction of Brutus Despite his primary goal to prevent Rome from falling into the hands of a dictator who would ruin Rome from the inside out, Brutus himself ironically acts like a totalitarian, tyrannical, despot. Even though Brutus meets up with the other patricians planning to kill Caesar because of his threat as a king, Brutus ironically acts like a king when he overrides the other’s ideas to enforce his own logic. When Cassius confronts him in the second scene, Brutus first reveals…