Misery

alone in a house in Silver Creek with a farm. Along with a pet pig named after her favorite character, Misery from her book of interest, ‘Misery’. I assumed she has an average income, unemployed and with a high religious belief. Her occupation was a…

right-wing totalitarianism, which emphasized the subordination of the individual to the advancement of state interests. Author Bertolt Brecht, a proud supporter of anti-Nazism, alluded to both fascist and totalitarian principles in his play, “Fear and Misery in the Third Reich.” In this literary work, Brecht walked his audience through Nazi Germany during the 1930s, a land full of poverty, violence, and fear. The play presents twenty-four scenes that show how suspicion and anxiety permeated…

apartheid. the first good piece of evidence is “The passes that make their lives a misery that control where they must live, where they must- everything”. (64) this means that the passbooks make the black south africans life a completely misery because they can’t go out of their homes without the passes. Passbook are a lice that the black people from south africa need to have, the passbook made the black people a misery because they came go to the street without passbook because they…

the wife starts telling the story of why she is now in exile alone. It appears that she was peace-weaver, a woman who is married off in order to stop the fighting between two families; however, this plan did not work. “I must endure without end the misery of exile… my lord departed from his people over tossing waves; I worried when day came in what land…

agonizing despair, evil is in all corners of life that we face every day. When we lose something or someone close to us, many people’s initial thoughts are, “Why God?” They question how God could allow for something so awful to occur, and cause such misery. Many may ask, if God is an all-powerful, all-knowing, and perfectly moral being, why has he allowed for evil to wander freely about this world? And is the unprovable existence of God possible when there is clear proof of evil? Many…

This aspect can be depicted through, John Milton’s, Paradise Lost, which expands on the initial chapters of Genesis through the story of Adam and Eve. Paradise Lost follows the story of Adam and Eve getting kicked out of the Garden of Eden after Satan tempts Eve to eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. In Mary Shelley’s, Frankenstein, the main character, Frankenstein, creates a monster out of dead body parts and electricity. As Frankenstein grows to resent his creation, the monster…

In both “Bartleby the Scrivener” Herman Melville and “The Underground Railroad” by Colson Whitehead the main character goes through a traumatic experience or set of experiences. Our main characters, Bartleby and Cora, have exceedingly different lives but they face the challenges associated with abuse. Cora, being a slave, suffers much more pain than Bartleby, but the way that these characters handle their troubles is what defines them. It is often said that when someone’s world is darkest…

elaborated setting where there are many different levels an individual can encounter depending on his or her sins in life. While, in book eleven of the Odyssey, Homer’s Greek description of the underworld is a place where every soul faces unhappiness and misery throughout eternity. Although both stories have several similarities, they also have striking differences when examined carefully. Virgil explains what the Romans believed in the afterlife, where one’s doings…

sloppy and disorganized. He is depicted as wasting his brilliance and youth on alcohol and misery. But, why is he like this? He was obviously hurt in the past and went through many painful experiences. It is known that his parents died when he was a child and that he was often writing other kids homework for school. So you can infer that he has always been a very smart person. So why is he in such misery? Why does he dislike himself and make his reputation look bad? He must have gone through…

The metaphor of Iago’s lies to a poison that slowly works on Othello, enhances the deadly influence Iago has over Othello. Poison often leads to death or serious illness when it infiltrates individuals. This may foreshadow Othello’s moral death or serious injury from Iago’s psychological poison. Poison can symbolize deception, corruption or betrayal, therefore the use of the word poison to describe Iago’s plans is aptly placed; there is deception in the lies that Iago uses, betrayal of the…