Father: Arthur's Father affected him by keeping him in the house and making him anti-social. The legend was that he was cutting papers for his scrapbook and he stabbed his father in the leg and returned to cutting the paper like nothing happened. He was taken to a courthouse and was locked up for a month, then his father said he would take care of everything, and kept him inside of the house. Afterwards, he didn’t come out of the house during the day because his father kept him inside, and prevented him from communicating with people. Because he didn’t go out during the day and also didn’t talk to anyone, he became mysterious to everyone.
Inherit the Wind: Granting the Right to be Wrong While the practice of limiting a man’s ideas may now be seen as archaic, Inherit the Wind brings to light this very injustice, prevalent in an era not yet shrouded by time. In this final scene of the play, Drummond poignantly summarizes the beauty of free thought. The following passage highlights the central theme of Inherit the Wind: theological and scientific beliefs can co-exist, on the condition that an individual has the right to believe whatever he or she deems fit: DRUMMOND. Say - you forgot - (But Rachel and Cates are out of earshot.
In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale commits a mortal sin by having an affair with a married woman, Hester Prynne. As a man of the cloth in Puritan society, Dimmesdale is expected to be the embodiment of the town’s values. He becomes captive to a self-imposed guilt that manifests from affair and his fear that he won’t meet the town’s high expectations of him. In an attempt to mitigate this guilt, Dimmesdale acts “piously” and accepts Chillingworth’s torture, causing him to suffer privately, unlike Hester who repented in the eyes of the townspeople. When Dimmesdale finally reveals his sin to the townspeople, he is able to free himself from his guilt.
Arthur Dimmesdale has experienced multiple changes during the novel. During the novel, Arthur Dimmesdale has been extremely convicted about the sin he has committed because he hasn't told anyone but Hester about it. Arthur is so extremely convicted that he intentionally tried to hurt himself every day in order to cope with his horrible sin. To avoid telling anyone, Hester, Pearl, and Arthur plan to board a Spanish ship headed to Europe. Arthur and Hester believe that in doing this, he will not be as convicted and will be able to live a happy and wonderful life with Hester and Pearl.
The Wart, the Roach, and the Monarch After reading The Once and Future King, by T.H White, the main character, the Wart goes through many transformations, this reflection will be reviewing chapter 5 and the lessons the Wart learns; compassion through the roach and swan and the dangers of a tyrannical government through Mr. P. The Wart’s first lesson starts out on a hot summer day by the moat of Ector’s castle. Merlin talks to the god Neptune and asks if he will turn the Wart into a fish, Neptune accepts and the Wart is off on his first lesson. “Snylrem stnemilpmoc ot enutpen dna lliw eh yldnik tpecca siht yob sa a hsif?” (White 45).
Arthur was molded by Merlyn’s philosophies because he experienced them all personally growing up, thus he tries his best to follow them. However, he sometimes fails to follow his own dogma; an example would be him knowing Lancelot and Guenever having an affair behind his back, but he tries to ignore it because of his excessive trust in his friends. Before Arthur’s battle with Mordred, he has already developed into complex figure; “Perhaps man was neither good nor bad, was only a machine in an insensate universe” page 630. During his contemplation, he had several epiphanies about human nature.
The domino effect of events from the affair, to fixing a relationship and guilt, to confessing lead to death for Arthur and
During the first two books of T.H. White’s “The Once and Future King”, the lives of Arthur, Lancelot, and Guenever are drawn out for the audience, everything in order and the friendship between them strong and faithful. By the fourth book, the relationship between these three characters has become severely broken, the Author vividly illustrating their lives of sin, adultery, and hypocrisy that none of them can recover from, the Kingdom’s downfall set into motion. As Lancelot and Guenever continue to do wrong, Arthur must make the difficult decision of going against the two people he loves most. Honoring his new set of laws and expelling justice is the only route he can take. Arthur continuously struggles to deal with harming his friends when they have been proven guilty, being bound by
People in our society face experiences and deal with problems that make them lose their sense of innocence. Once their innocence is gone they forget how to act according to society and start to act wild. The loss of innocence is seen all throughout Night and Lord of the Flies. Elie and Ralph face a series of unfortunate events that can break someone and their ideas of civilization. The life experiences they were thrown changed the way they acted and felt towards the end.
In the book heroes, innocence is a very prominent theme. This is seen in most characters because in the end we see that most characters are left sinful and have made many mistakes, but even at the start we know that not everyone is innocent because of the book not being in chronological order. It could mess with people's minds, but it could also show a way of looking at things. Firstly, the structure of the novel is important because when we read the book we are not reading the start, we are technically reading the end, which is confusing but it relates to the theme of innocence because the innocence is already gone and Francis looks back on the flashbacks in despair.
An Analysis of the Innocence of Leonard Marnham in Ian McEwan’s The Innocent: A Novel The first example of Leonard Marnham’s “innocence” is based on the fact that he is a virgin, which defined through his relationship with Maria. This aspect of Leonard’s role as a spy define the complex interactions he endures when attempting to be engagement to Maria, which eventually ends the killing of her former husband, Otto, that makes him an accomplice to murder. In this manner, the initial assumption of innocence is that Leonard is inexperienced in sexual and romantic relationships, and it defines his ineptitude to the depth of personal feelings and perceptions of women in his life: “”Leonard was able to define himself in strictest terms as an initiate,
Arthur’s life is not very different from day to day and he does not have an exciting life. This part of Arthur’s life is easily seen as the Ordinary World of the Hero’s Journey, where Arthur’s life is nothing out of the ordinary. After the Ordinary World, the hero is given the The Call to Adventure which is when there is a calling to change the character's daily life to adventure on a new path. This stage is parallel to the novel The Sword in the Stone when Arthur is given an order, by Sir Ector, in T.H.White, Sir Ector,”...to start a quest for a new tutor as soon as he had time to do so…” (White 11).
The characteristic qualities of a legend that this story possesses are things like a vision and glorifying the hero in some way .In the beginning of the story It starts with a vision or prophecy telling Arthur that if he were to battle Mordred he would smote him unless he could make a treaty and this prophecy is characteristic of most legends. Later in the story he almost makes the treaty but in a twist of fate an adder ruins the deal and brings forth a most doleful day for our hero who is shown to be very noble and never faltered,"...and did full nobly,as a noble king should;never at any time did he weaken." in this statement like any other legend it glorifies the hero and makes him very noble even in times of great peril. However even after
In the Medieval British legend King Arthur three character archetypes are prominent; the Hero, the Mentor, and the Villain. These archetypes are universal, found in myths from around the world. One ubiquitous archetype that is present in King Arthur
One Christmas after Uther has died, Arthur pulls a sword from a stone and becomes king. Early on during his rule, Arthur successfully defends his lands from an alliance of twelve Northern kings. Unfortunately, he also makes the awkward mistake of sleeping with his sister, Morgause, with whom he
