Epoch It’s confusing to explain about my life. Quite frankly, the capacity of my knowledge is the extent of what I’ve been told, such as my name, Sammy Whitehorse, and all the restrictions and limitations, rules and laws that dictate every moment, every day, and every single second of my life. These lists of commands flash in front of me like paths in a fork in the road presenting the possible plots that can ensue, but I really, seriously, passionately dislike this. The character, Sammy Whitehorse, will raise hell. He will do it, despite his protests, or else the plot can’t progress. It is the Creator who is the master of my fate, the captain of my soul. With an easy brush stroke, my story etches into my fate; with a mindless erase, my life …show more content…
From his grief state, he decides to seek solace in revenge. After all, it is natural instinct for humankind to have malevolent thirst for the blood of their enemies. First, it is the school, which destroyed his heritage and self-respect; how he hates it. Then, it is the evil imperialists, who executed his parents and sister and caused his abject existence. No. Stop. Please, Creator, I beg you. Sammy Whitehorse thinks that he’s the one in power, but he easily forgets that he is the rebellious character. Is the reason for my existence to serve as an antagonist, a dysfunctional maniac full of hatred, a minor character destined to be struck down by the sword of justice? My will tells me to follow my dreams. After all, I am the master of my fate, am I not? Sammy Whitehorse, dressed in an oversized trench coat, stands motionlessly at the front steps of the building. His hands are in his pocket, his fingers at the trigger. His horrifying thought of the morbid consequences sojourns in him like a laughing devil. No, I must not. He’s being tentative; what a foolish boy, he’s being indecisive, again. His fingers waver uncontrollably as they shift on the trigger. I won’t. I can’t. I must not. There is no trigger. Yes there is. On.
In the war, it often thought that soldiers, go to a country to keep peace in that part of the world. Unfortunately that is not always the case;during these tours ,soldiers die everyday from cultural violence,and misguided information by their superiors and in this story that has occurred. Jimmy Cross is characterized as a man who is filled with emotion and the loss of one of his men. “Cross carried a compass, maps,...He carried a strobe light and the responsibility for the lives of his men.” (Tim O’Brien pg. 4) Cross felt directly responsible for his men. Death lead Cross to the realization of who Cross truly is, and who he will become. Jimmy Cross has to find himself one way or another, when he is ready to face the truth is completely up to
seen as someone different, someone with a darker side. Both of these so called heroes, have to
In the early 16 century, Europeans learned about Natives in the Americas through images depicted by early conquerors. Fortunately, we have several first-hand account by a settler who depicts them in paintings by the name of John White. While these accounts have their limitations in terms of accuracy, it is apparent that Europeans tended to view the indigenous peoples as lacking morality but in my opinion John White proves all the speculation wrong.
We see his arrogance from the beginning of the movie take a turn for the better once he agrees to move the location of his summer home to a hilltop next to Pacha’s family so that they can all spend more time
Occasionally throughout the chapters a picture of a dictator’s child will be included. Looking into the eyes of these children causes a lot of thought. What was their life like? Did they admire their evil father? Their faces are full of innocence and unknowingness. Do they really understand what their father does?
In the book Journey of Crazy Horse written by Joseph. M. Marshall III, we learn about a man who draws on a Native American oral tradition to carefully unfold the life of Crazy Horse as a storyteller would. The result is a vivid biography that acknowledges the author's boyhood hero. With more than 300 pages, you learn a lot about Crazy Horse in this book. You can learn about Crazy Horse, the man who "reluctantly answered the call to serve".
Hamlet is as much a story of emotional conflict, paranoia, and self-doubt as it is one of revenge and tragedy. The protagonist, Prince Hamlet of Denmark, is instructed by his slain father’s ghost to enact vengeance upon his uncle Claudius, whose treacherous murder of Hamlet’s father gave way to his rise to power. Overcome by anguish and obligation to avenge his father’s death, Hamlet ultimately commits a number of killings throughout the story. However, we are not to view the character Hamlet as a sick individual, but rather one who has been victimized by his own circumstances.
The intriguing stories emphases the relationship of how madness can consume someone’s life without them understanding the consequences. Creation and revenge act as important aspects throughout the stories driving the main characters to unforeseen and unimaginable means. This leads to the destructive power of revenge which drives individuals to make very rash decisions that end up ultimately leaving them with a guilty conscience or the inability to find true happiness, which we see in the case of the monster and Montresor.
, carries weighty implications: it establishes an essential equality between people and provides for an essential justice among people stemming not from law but fromargument and conversation. Douglass holds out the possibility of a public sphere in which thedictates of law and culture can be debated, tested, and, perhaps, altered. He implicitly calls fortha place, in the words of James Boyd White, proceeding from argument and conversation, a place“for complicating clichés and first attitudes into deeper understanding and for extendingimaginative sympathy to those differently situated from ourselves…a place of coherence in a process of cultural change” (White 274).By writing
Poison is accepted in the English language as a substance that has the capacity to destroy life or impair health. However, Hamlet, the timeless play, suggests that poison is not restricted to a substance form; the emotion of revenge is one of the most lethal poisons in existence. An angering feeling of revenge deteriorated the the mental and relational health of Shakespeare’s infamous character Hamlet. While at the finish of Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet and many other characters lost their lives due to the consumption of poison, the poisoning of this man began long before anyone’s lips graced the toxic goblet. The detrimental emotion gained its great toxicity from the origin of the revenge. Readers tend to interpret the revenge of Hamlet as a passion to avenge the death of his beloved father, yet his actions prove that the revenge stemmed from selfish desires. Hamlet sought revenge for the sake of his self esteem and satisfaction rather than desiring revenge for the sake of his father’s death.
The relevance and significance of the revenge tragedy is in the way it explores human nature and forces audiences to evaluate ideologies such as revenge and justice. The concept of revenge is accompanied by moral conflict and Shakespeare demonstrates that by acting immorally society is likely to be riddled with corruption. Hamlet seeks to avenge the death of his father but struggles with the ramifications of seeking righteous revenge through an immoral act. The imposition of revenge instills the existential questioning on Hamlet as it contradicts his with his social expectation. His
The theme of Revenge has been utilized in numerous works of art throughout history, including books, plays, movies, etc. Revenge is the result of one’s desire for vengeance, however, revenge is known to be implied under high emotions of anger thus not with reason concluding with a horrible outcome. Shakespeare’s play ‘Hamlet’ is no doubt a play about a tragedy caused by revenge; Prince Hamlet’s retribution for his father, King Hamlet’s murder and Laertes vengeance for his father, Polonius’ murder. The theme of revenge in Hamlet is portrayed through various literary techniques such as foreshadowing and irony.
Sometimes friends can get into an argument and some things can hurt them, but not to a point where they want to hurt each other physically. Vengeance can bring justice to someone, but as well bring pain to the other. Revenge is a horrible emotion which can lead someone to do horrible things. Two companions, Montresor and Fortunato, destinies are controlled by one thing only, vengeance and murder. In the story, the narrator seeks revenge on Fortunato because he mortally insulted him. Montresor succeeds in luring Fortunato to his death without raising any suspicion. A horrible revenge made significantly more awful by the way that the retribution is being taken when no genuine offense had been given. In the short tale, “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar A. Poe, the major conflict of revenge is between Montresor and Fortunato, but it is interesting because Montresor is the only one who is aware of the conflict. The author uses the conflict to build suspense and to change the mood of the reader.
Revenge is one of literature’s most common and important themes. Some may think of it as overused or simple, however, when revenge is in play one of two things is true: The character seeking revenge was disturbed before they were wronged or the need for revenge was so strong that it caused the character to become obsessed. The obsession is toward the one that wronged them, making it so that the obsessed loses themselves along the way. Which means that the revenge that was so hard fought for, was truly their own downfall in the end.
In a New Historic analyzation, it is important to note Hamlet’s madness that leads him to paranoia, revenge, and murder. In Shakespeare’s Elizabethan era, madness was defined as “internalization of disobedience”. Using this definition, it can be interpreted that Shakespeare derives Hamlet’s lunacy from the plea for vengeance made by his father’s spirit. Hamlet feels blameworthy and that