Screaming for Vengeance

symbolizes the role of aspirations in the human experience as his aspiration to regain his wife and home drives him to take revenge on the suitors, and screaming, “You dogs! You never imagined I’d return from Troy...now all your necks are in the noose- your doom is sealed” Odysseus kills every last one of them (22.36-42). Odysseus’s incredible vengeance is fueled by his aspiration to take back what is rightfully his in the first place. Through risking his life and overcoming all odds to fulfill…

While he slipped into his depression filled abyss, I drove on with my power fuelled vengeance trip. The once kind, generous young child that I was had turned into an arrogant, selfish, power-hungry monster. My grandfather was no longer my idol, being replaced with corrupt figures such as Gordon Gekko. My feelings were soon replaced with self-interest…

court when the trials begin. She was part of the accusers, the group of women who began the hysteria. When Mary was given the opportunity to right the wrongs of the accusers, she failed, and gave up, accusing Proctor of being a witch. “Mary Warren, screaming at him: No, I love God; I go your way no more. I love God, I bless God… Abby, Abby, I’ll never hurt you more!” (52). Shown as weak, Mary gives in to the power she knows the girls have, and brings even more chaos to the town. She has accused…

Stepan Holovchak Ms Sator ENG 4C1 18 Dec 2015 Recovery from the war Death seen during the war is a powerful thing that can break everybody 's mind even if you have a strong body or a huge gun . Often men who returned home are completely changed after the violence they have passed through . Mostly this effects children that were involved in the war in the age of 16 or even younger .During these years children form their vision of the world , so the events like a war, especially if they…

sort of started pretending I had a bullet in my guts… What I’d do, I’d walk down a few floors- holding onto my guts, blood leaking all over the place…As soon as old Maurice opened the doors, he’d see me with the automatic in my hand and he’d start screaming at me, in this very high-pitched, yellow-belly voice, to leave him alone. But I’d plug him anyway. Six shots right through his fat hairy belly.” (Salinger 56) As demonstrated in the quotes above, Holden clearly has serious mental issues. He…

Having society terrified of him all the time angers him. The monster had just “saved a human being from destruction, and, as a recompense, withers under the miserable pain of a wound…” (103) which the man causes. The monster “vows eternal hatred and vengeance to all mankind” (103); the monster feels that every time he tries to do something nice for a human being, he gets put down even more. All of his good deeds have been for nothing. When the monster starts to turn good, circumstances start to…

How far will someone take their family motto? When someone’s family motto says “No one attacks me without paying dearly,” we think someone is going to die. Indeed this is the case of the story. This story is more than just horror and suspense; it is about a successful murder and revenge. People will do anything, even go to extraordinary lengths to exact revenge like in the story, “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe, in which Poe creates an atmosphere of ongoing horror and tremendous…

characteristics of a ruler and can’t actually be one. At the end of the day, however, Hamlet does not know why Ophelia is cutting him off. Although suspecting Polonius’ hand in the matter, Hamlet deems Ophelia’s actions as betrayal. He proceeds in screaming at Ophelia that she can only “marry a fool, for wise men know well / enough what monsters [she] make[s] of them” (3.1.139-140). Ophelia is one of Hamlet’s heavier anchors to this world, and with that chain being cut, Hamlet gets pulled…

That in itself administers deep, dark emotions that soldiers felt on a daily basis. Hospitals overflowing with wounded soldiers in need, memories of men being shot and falling helplessly to the ground, screaming for help, and watching a fellow soldier get his brains blown out in front of him were, unfortunately, scenes that were encountered every day during the war. Hoffman spares no expense in portraying the gruesome and violent measures that war went to…

Edie stood in front of the grave of her parents Eduardo and Ana Salazar, holding in her hand two long stemmed red roses on a cool autumn day. Silently she monitors and captures the everlasting magnificence and amicable nature sound that encompasses her. Melodic sounds of singing birds sitting in the towering oak trees in their autumn color beauty of yellows, oranges, and reds scattered throughout the cemetery. Along with its vibrant fall shower leaves sheltering the deep green grass and the…