He honestly wanted to befriend Rainsford, but once things go opposite of how he wanted, he decides to try to kill him. Zaroff believes that he is the top of the food chain, above humans that he considered “scum of the Earth”. Zaroff is not well mannered or respectful when it comes to fellow humans. Zaroff even captures humans and keeps them
This can be inferred that he likes the thrill of almost dying while hunting, maybe he thinks that there is no way he would rather die. Zaroff could possibly want to die while hunting, he would die doing what he loves. He wants to be challenged in hunting and people are what challenge him the most. “What are the attributes of an ideal quarry?' And the answer was, of course, `It must have courage, cunning, and, above all, it must be able to reason."
“I am strong, I hunt the scum of the earth”(17). He only kills them because he wants to hunt something that can reason, something that can change its mind when faced with a life or death situation. “But they are men,” said Rainsford hotly. “Precisely,” said the general”(17). Zaroff is an apex hunter, and he demands the ultimate prey.
His madness derives from a life of luxury, riches, and a militarist lifestyle. He remains this way throughout the story. He has a delirious desire to make others suffer for his own enjoyment. The reader can see a sense of insanity when viewing Zaroff because of his way of treating the killing people as a “game”. He is incapable of perceiving the difference between man and beast.
Chris McCandless was a man who made his own destiny, who seeked the challenges and thrill of adventure life had to offer. He was morally driven, and was not tied down by the dogma of society. McCandless’s hubris, his ultimate downfall in his quest to shake off the clashing ideals of materialistic culture, allowed him to live a life without regrets. Brought up in a home where his parents pushed their ideals onto their children, McCandless developed morals quite differently than that of his parents. His ideals clashed between that of a libertarian and a transcendentalist.
I wanted the ideal animal to hunt” (34). This statement highlights Zaroff’s predatory nature, as he views humans as nothing more than animals to be hunted for
He eats, dines, and dresses like the highest members of society. On the other hand, he has a sinister, dark side that leads him to hunt men for sport. In this passage Zaroff reveals some of the ideological underpinnings that drive his desire to hunt. As is evidenced by the passage, he truly believes that he was made specifically for this single pastime.
The Overuse of Television Kameron G Loyd BYU-Idaho During an average week, how much television does the average child watch? Parents, educators, and concerned citizens alike would be appalled at the answer of 1,480 minutes (BLS American Time Use Survey, A.C. Nielsen Co.). They would also be revolted by the statistic that 54% of four to six year olds would rather spend time watching television instead of spending time with their fathers (BLS American Time Use Survey, A.C. Nielsen Co.). In 1984, Neil Postman saw how devastating television watching was becoming to the culture of America, and gave a speech to the literary community at the 1984 Frankfort Germany Book Fair entitled “Amusing Ourselves to Death” which deals directly with this monolithic issue. Although the speech and subsequent article, published in Et Cetra, were directed at the publishers, writers, illustrators, etc., all those who read this article can also benefit from Postman’s overarching desire to decrease the hours of mind-numbing television watching.
All in all, Zaroff’s words and actions indicates that he is an immoral man who holds himself really high up on the spectrum of the strong and the
“Whoso would be a man, must be a non-conformist” (Emerson). McCandless defied society by, living in the wild and rarely cared about possessions. Chris McCandless is a true transcendentalist because he existed off the land in Alaska, the west coast, Mexico and he did not want to have any else but happiness in life; he found this through his experiences in wilderness. In Emerson’s Self-Reliance it states, “Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of ever on its members.”
The book “Into the Wild” written by Jon Krakauer, tells McCandless’ story on his jounery. By comparing Christopher McCandless to classic influential transcendentalist, Ralph Waldo Emerson, it can be observed that many of their core beliefs and fundamental principles align with each other. These similarities validate that McCandless is in fact a modern day transcendentalist. Throughout his life Christopher McCandless has always been the individual to defy society’s standards and even loathe them to a point, the same characteristic of nonconformity can be found in influential transcendentalist, Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Aldous Huxley utilises a variety of conventions of speculative fiction in Brave New World to provoke a response within the audience by incorporating them into the text along with his complex and descriptive style of writing. This is to make the audience react in different ways and think of certain ideas or messages as the story goes on. Huxley uses a variety of themes of speculative fiction to evoke a reaction within the viewers as they give them an overview of how the story will play out. The theme of technology and control makes the audience feel worried as having control over advanced and powerful technologies such as Bokanovsky's Process and special conditioning can be especially dangerous.
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McCandless takes on the world and sees it in a different perspective, then most others. The author writes, "No longer would he answer to Chris McCandless, he was now Alexander Supertramp, master of his own
Essentially, he talks about two contradictory outlooks manifested by the ancient Greeks: the Apollonian and the Dionysian. Together, they birthed one of the world's first, most famous art form—the Athenian tragedy. Apollo, the Sun god, is considered to bear rational clarity who lights up the world with knowledge. For Nietzsche, individuals who see things from an Apollonian point of view see the world as methodical, levelheaded, and limited by definite borders. They see humanity as rather discrete and separate people not as a nebulous whole.
