The presentation of Mr Creakle as a calculated, ,cruel teacher who enjoys inflicting pain on, and bullying bullying his students, is achieved through the authors use of imagery and metaphors the enhance the reader’s image of the teacher. The evocative phrase ‘the satisfaction of a craving appetite’ suggests that Mr. Creakle uses his harsh treatment of the boys as sustenance and has formed a dependent nature with his abusive actions. Furthermore it stresses the pleasure he gets from the punishments he enforces on the boy. The of the phrase directly is that Mr Creakle’s desire for punishment is fulfilled by his brutality toward the boys Though using the phrase “delight in cutting at” Mr Creakle’s enjoyment of violence becomes more prevalent