Resentment

One Theory on the Salem Witch Trials One theory on why the Salem Witch trials happened is because of tensions and resentment (Staff). Hatred and stress were running high due to the afflictions the people had faced. Jealousy rose up and caused those who were innocent to be accused and may have been lead to death and extreme torture. Whether it was because of revenge, jealousy, resentment, need of attention, or fear of someone, many were accused. Witch trials were already happening in England back…

his morals and ego were challenged by the Burmese natives. He finds himself struggling with an internal conflict over his attitude toward the empire he serves and the natives he oversees. Orwell uses diction to reveal an attitude of bitterness and resentment towards the Burmese natives, despite having to prove his strength and dominance as a British soldier. Orwell opens his piece by revealing his antipathy toward imperialism and the British regime. This is evident when he claims that he “was…

“literary anti-Semitism has existed in Germany since the 1900s” (p216). This acknowledgement was part of the fact that he knew many believed that anti-Semitism became part of the German society after the election of Hitler. As a writer, Roth’s resentment for Berlin and Germany, seeing the growth and path of anti-Semitism under Hitler, stemmed from seeing the Third Reich’s attempt to separate the German from the Jew. He scolded their lack of appreciation for the role Jews have played as part of…

the rationalist explanation of war that states that war occurs due to indivisible issues which are impossible to reach agreement on. In 1990, an ethnic civil war ignited between the Hutus and Tutsis due to uncompromisable issues and long-standing resentment surrounding class division, bigotry, exile, and revenge. From the beginning tension existed between the two peoples. In the 1300s when the Tutsis migrated into present day Rwanda, it had already been established by the Hutu people. Overtime…

Dr. Archibald D. Hart uses his professional clinical psychologist experiences combine with his personal childhood experiences surrounding divorce to create the book Helping Children Survive Divorce: What to Expect: How to Help. Dr. Hart (1997) purpose of writing this book is to help the dissociating parents to be able to lessen the toll of the unhappy homes making the children turn out to be the unhappy children (130-131). Dr. Hart’s (1997) book will help the divorcing parents learn the…

toward politicians, ideas and other people. It's the signature failure of liberalism anywhere: Understanding and careful consideration are much higher-order functions than succumbing to fear, nurturing resentment and rejoicing in punishment, which has been the right's schtick since Torquemada. And resentment, fear and punishment are very good at accommodating themselves to new facts. We could discover a thousand touching Hallmark moments in Hillary Clinton's emails, and people who already hate…

"The Destructors" by Graham Greene 1. The protagonist in the story is Trevor. One of the conflicts in the story is when he suddenly becomes the head leader of the gang in Blackie’s place. The antagonist would be Mr Thomas, aka Old Misery, whose house the gang was looking forward to break into and destroy. 2. Suspense is created through the withholding of information between the characters and toward us the readers. For example, when Trevor arrived to the gang with the story of being…

“I am full of fears, for if I fail there, I am an outcast in the world forever.” (Shelly 15). In the novels Grendel and Frankenstein, the main characters hold many similarities and differences. For example both the Monster and Frankenstein resent their Creators and are lonely, shunned outsiders. However, while the Monster’s motive for violence is revenge, Grendel’s is simply done out of blood-thirstiness. One of the similarities that both creatures share is neither have any friends due to their…

innocent and reasonable motives, filled with both resentment and curiosity. Giles is an old man, old enough to maintain a hateful relationship between the Putnams and him, which started a long time ago with Thomas Putnam’s grandfather and Giles fighting over land. He says to Proctor with Putnam in the room, “...he nearly willed away my north pasture but he knew I’d break his fingers before he’d set his name to it” (32). This long-lasting resentment Giles clutches inside his heart builds the…

what to say to her" (35). In this quote, the metaphor “bitter seed grow in my chest” represents a dark beginning of a hard time for Aibileen. The steady rise of her resentment towards the white people she works for is being…