Misery

reason to perform such devilish acts. For example during Act 1 Iago claims Othello sleeping with his wife Emilia fuels his anger toward him, even though no evidence was found to prove it. This portrays Iago as a wicked man who finds happiness in the misery of others. In high school Denzel sought out revenge against Peter because he didn’t invite him to his birthday party at Six Flags. Also out of jealousy after finding out that Peter got the lead role of Tevye in the schools play Fiddler on the…

Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847) involves the themes of the supernatural, the melancholy of characters, violence, and mystery. These features allow us to locate the novel in a large tradition of Gothic narrative. Following Sigmund Freud’s essay The Uncanny, the unheimlich purports that “something should be frightening because it is unknown and unfamiliar. … Something must be added to the novel and the unfamiliar if it is to become uncanny” (Freud 124-125). The Gothic novel, then, is…

I have learned much about how depression makes a person feel and how hopeless life can seem for people who have depression. This is why I believe people should be a little more considerate of someone who is going through depression because of the misery they…

through his midnight vigil, the minister, in deafening silence and seclusion from all thoughts but his own, lets out a shrill cry into the night that “... reverberated from the hills in the back-ground; as if a company of devils, detecting so much misery and terror in it, had made a plaything of the sound and were bandying it to and fro” (Hawthorne 135). It is evident that Dimmesdale is pent up with even more guilt than in the initial scaffold scene. This is shown through his sheer frustration…

William Blake the theme, connotation, and style can be compared in many ways. Throughout “Washing-Day” there is a theme of restriction. For instance, fresh linens on a drying line getting in the mud due to their heaviness is seen as one of the “petty miseries of life.” (28) Women deal with the restrictions of only being a housewife to many men. In “The Chimney Sweeper” the reoccurring examples of limitations. Blake writes about the dreams the children working as chimney sweepers have of an…

“And then this one crazy sister ruins it all” (131). The reliance on memory as fact in this book is a theme until the end “I watched her do so in my memory, and I heard Lowell saying again how the world run on fuel of an endless, fathomless animal misery” (250). This is during the scene that Rosemary has repressed with Fern and the gray kitten. Throughout the book Rosemary is blamed for Ferns disappearance but she doesn’t know why. After this memory is relieved we see why Rosemary remains silent…

hostility toward other living beings, including their own human kind . Hazlitt makes no big arguments but instead, all his essays build up with well-drawn points to create a conclusion. Hazlitt argues that it is human nature to hate and to exploit the misery in other beings. It is our own self-knowledge of the undesirable within us that leads us to chase and despise what we see as bad: we are self-loathing, self-criticizing, but look outwards to inflict punishment on others to cover up our own…

The author, Ursula Le Guin, presents a utopian society in this story, but it ends up not being everything that it seems. To be the utopian society that it is, the town must sacrifice the happiness of a child by locking them away with no light and very little food. The story is set during the summer festival. All the people of the town are happy and we are led to believe the town is perfect. Then Le Guin tells us about the child. The child is kept naked in filth and given only a half a bowl of…

Secondly, heightened emotions evoke thrill and fear for the audience throughout the story. The strong use of horror is an important aspect that makes up gothic literature and is a key element in penny dreadfuls. For example, Victor sees the Creature as ugly and frighting; leading him to decide that it is automatically an outcast in society and Victor says, “Oh! no mortal could support the horror of that countenance. A mummy again endued with animation could not be as hideous as that wretch.”…

Of Mice and Men: “George- you asleep?” “No. Whatta you want?” “Let’s have different color rabbits, George.” “Sure we will,” George said sleepily. “Red and Blue and green rabbits, Lennie. Millions of ’em.” “Furry ones, George, like I seen in the fair in Sacramento.” “Sure, furry ones.” “’Cause I can jus’ as well go away, George, an’ Live in a cave.” “You can jus’ as well go to hell,” said George. “Shut up now.” (17) (18) Lennie had Cognitive disabilities. Cognitive disabilities affect a…