Misery

Ray Bradbury’s book, Fahrenheit 451, The main character realizes that his life isn’t all that joyful, and witnesses the unhappy society that he lives in. Happiness is a difficult trait to come by it’s like trying to find a needle in a haystack of misery, but is well worth the suffering. Guy Montag struggles to find the happiness in his society filled with unhappy people, what is happiness, and makes readers ponder if his or her society is as happy as Guy’s. Once, Montag began to see the…

with a painful and terminal condition would want to suffer until their natural death comes about. Many patients who suffer from excessive pain have asked their doctors and even their love once to put them out of their misery, but due to the laws putting them out of their misery is considered murder. An example is Matthew Donnelly, who was suffering from skin cancer for more than thirty years.…

When Medea is in her house crying and protesting of her misery, she tries to take out her anger by yelling “The pain that I’ve suffered, I’ve suffered too much, worth oceans of weeping. O children, accursed may you die-with your father” (Euripides 8). Medea truly beliefs that people need to suffer, especially Jason, because they have to experience all the pain and the misery that she had to go through in order for them to understand her true emotions and feelings…

because money does not buy happiness. For example, the lord lived in misery and could not comprehend why the Dame was so happy if she lived in poverty. This caused the lord to hate the Dame only because he lived wealthier and was not happy therefore the Dame to be so happy the lord killed her. This is another strong message in one of the poems, killing another individuals happiness will not make one happy, but it will just cause more misery in one’s…

Although it is commonly alleged that destiny is by choice, there are those individuals who don’t obtain the privilege of having the free will they would desire. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a well known writer of American feminist short stories and author of “The Yellow Wallpaper,” writes about the interaction between a husband and a wife. The short story involves a mentally troubled young women, who’s suffering from “nervous condition” that is kept in her bedroom by her husband whose name is John;…

Greek play writer, Sophocles, in his play, Oedipus the King, teaches how having too much pride can lead to a tragic fate. Sophocles’ purpose is to teach the reader that being blind to the gods’ power and having too much pride will lead to a terrible demise. Sophocles adopts a solemn tone in order to show the reader how the consequences of being blind to the prophecies of the gods will lead to a horrendous fate. Throughout the play the theme of sight is common and shows how Oedipus has great…

states that the men in the prison are “groaning in unnecessary misery” and are “pitied for a moment… and then forgotten.” Not only does he believe these people shouldn’t be imprisoned, he also believes that there is not enough enough awareness of what is happening to these men. Samuel Johnson says “more than twenty thousand are at this time prisoners for debt” and he later says that many of these men are “groaning in unnecessary misery” proclaiming that ther are innocent and should not be…

As Douglas Adams so succinctly posited, the meaning of life is 42. However, as the characters in his novel soon realize, the answer to the meaning of life is useless without a properly - and, perhaps, a more specifically - formed question. If we narrow the rather uselessly broad question, we can ask about our individual purpose or place in our world, or what is morally or ethically right and wrong, or what we can do to satisfy our maker (or in the absence of a conscious greater being, ourselves)…

W.W. Jacob’s short story “The Monkey’s Paw”, showed the devastation and suffering when one tries to control their own fate. The White family suffered severe misery throughout this short story. But who is to blame? Many people are to blame for the sorrow and misery the Monkey’s Paw allocated, but the person who started all of this pain for the White family is Sergeant-Major Morris, because he as the one who brought the paw to the family, he made the paw seem interesting, and because he was als…

In the novels Youth and The Bluest Eye, the narrative is ambiguous to the characters. In The Bluest Eye, there are multiple narrative perspectives that equips a more knowledgeable response to the events of the novel. The novel jumps around in characters lives to explain a better perspective to why some characters act the way they do or how past events shape them to whom they are in current events. In Youth, the main character 's perspective is vague. The narrative expresses to what the character…