Moral character

Shark Cull and Moral Panic The occurrence of three shark attacks had been concentrated in three weeks so much so that it generated the public concern about the safety of the swimmers and the considerable pressure on the government to implement risk-control policy. A state government policy of capturing and killing large sharks near swimming beaches using baited drum lines, also known as ‘shark cull’, was implemented in 2014. But people’s questions about government’s response led to the…

delve further into the depths of character exploration. Assigning the young and naïve Pyongt’ae as the eyes and ears of the readers, Yi tells a story of power and respect as in the lives of the young and maturing. As a result, in this tale of rivalry, readers expect to be greeted with clear-cut heroes and villains – characters to fight against and characters to fight for. Instead, Yi presents characters with nearly equally ambiguous motivations along with morals neither black nor white but the…

Jodie Foster, Dakota Fanning, Josh Hutcherson, and Emma Watson are all names of successful child actors. With the worry of children who are in the acting career becoming like Miley Cyrus or Honey Boo Boo, several individuals want children acting to disappear. Acting as a child has several great side effects and can help them later in life because performing teaches responsibility and independence, it helps kids learn empathy, and it helps children learn the skill of overcoming rejection.…

Joyce Carol Oates and the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, unique gender/sexual roles and disobedient actions are shown through the main characters’ features to defy the cultural status quo. Irony, juxtapositions, and foreshadowing are in each piece of literature to help the reader comprehend and compare what the author is saying about the characters and their motives now and in the near future. Readers can compare Connie, in “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been,” to Bernard and…

“Thieves Like Us” by Edward Anderson strips down conventional understanding by questioning the legitimacy of crime and undermining certainty while limiting the ability of the reader to distinguish between the narrator and the thoughts of the main character, Bowie. By breaking down the rules of formal thought, this novel forces the reader to simply just think critically about meaning. This comes in many forms as the novel asks about what it means to steal, whether anything can be set in stone,…

universal themes of heroic scenario’s,moral lessons,social cohesion,and likable characters. The Maze Runner displays many Heroic scenarios.When Thomas saw that the door’s were about to close, he ran into the maze to try and save Alby and Minho.When Minho saw what he had did he said, “Good job, you just killed yourself”.(The Maze Runner)The main character Thomas, was the first one to kill a griever and survive. In these dystopian stories the main character is always the one to do something…

their stories, often in subtle ways that creates profound meaning and self-discovery. Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Books is one such work that has been “variously applauded and condemned over the years as an apology for imperialism, a racist tract, a moral fable and a collection of simple anthropomorphic…

essay by including some arguments that have been made against the epilogue, condemning “it as an undesirable addition.” An argument by Simmons says that it is “neither artistically palatable nor psychologically sound,” and Shklovsky claims that the characters in epilogues “are dead as far as the author is concerned, for “epilogues are to novels what life in the other world is to our life.” With the remainder of the essay Matual goes on to explain his argument; in defense of the epilogue. Saying…

the protagonist and the audience repeating important lines to portray emphasis on a particular issue or viewpoint. In literature, or more specifically, in Greek tragedy, the chorus is a mere commentator, commenting on the actions of the various characters and representing the voice of a certain set of people. To focus my research, I will be discussing how Euripides’ uses the chorus as a vehicle of social comment and cultural values. To completely understand this issue and delve into…

tragic hero, where the hero would also be considered a the leading character or protagonist. Tragic heroes look at themselves as honourable with high morals. They are often indeed people of good character. Though these “heroes” are portrayed in a good light at the beginning of the story, they often go through a downfall as the story progresses. Their downfall is due to their own character flaws. An example of a flaw that a character may have is ambition. Ambition is usually used in a positive…