The novella Jekyll and Hyde tells the tragic story of a battle between good and evil, a battle for total control over the mind and soul. The clash between the pure and impure sides of man: a fight to the finish. It explores the aspect of a person’s good and bad side; holy and unholy, the one who bathes himself in God’s light and the one whom plays with The Devil’s fire. The battle between the good-willed Dr. Jekyll, and his evil persona: the murderous Mr. Hyde. The author, Stevenson, presents this
Introduction To be good leader in a way, you need to know how to influence, motivate and let other to contribute towards to the road of success which they are the members in the organisations. There are a lot of elements of leadership which lead the leader to be a good leader. The most common element is motivate others and keep on stimulate the desire and energy into people to continually interest and committed to attain a goal. Different element created different types of leadership which is useful
characters who thought of her as an inhuman monster who manipulates to do evil and destroy someone’s life. Her beauty does not reflect her actions, making her an innocent illusion, sugar coated, with despicable sprinkles, and poisonous filling. She mostly has evil intentions behind every - even good - action. Cathy can be nice and do good actions, but only with a selfish reason behind it, which shows how Steinbeck portrayed distorted evil in a woman and how this façade is all revealed and hated. Catherine
Confidence and Othello’s Destruction Society often perceives confidence as a positive trait. However, in Othello, Shakespeare examines the theme of confidence in Desdemona and Othello’s characters and how their varying levels of confidence cause their downfalls. Through the results of the tragedy, Othello demonstrates that having an excess of confidence, whether based on truths or lies, can be dangerous. Desdemona is confident that she can persuade Othello on Cassio’s behalf, and her persistence
The two stories of Macbeth and Beowulf have different plot, but hold similar elements. The legend of Beowulf, set in 500 A.D., begins with an evil monster terrorizing the mead hall of Heorot. The monster, Grendel, attacks Heorot with desire for wickedness. For copious amount of years, Grendel slaughters the men by night, each night. Until a hero named Beowulf hears the Geats cries and comes to their rescue. Beowulf arrives and devises a plan to kill the beast at night when he comes to attack the
his own sense of faith, “It is not the children who are unmindful of their obligations towards the ministry” (473). John Proctor defies the church by forgetting the adultery commandment, a major sin that is punishable by death. This causes tension between him and Judge Danforth who believes Proctor is guilty of adultery because of his affair with Abigail Williams. Danforth begins to conceive that Salem citizens can not only carry out sins and break away from the church, but from the government as well
a character to be admired? Journey’s End by R.C Sherriff is concerned with soldiers who faced life in the trenches during World War 1. The play focuses on the fear, anxiety and horror the men suffered in the trenches, through the relationship between all the soldiers, especially Raleigh and Stanhope. Throughout the play, Stanhope is portrayed as the distorted hero of Raleigh. However, through the characteristics of Stanhope who cares about Raleigh till the end, and shows consideration towards
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm popularly known as the “Grimms Brothers”, were characterized as one of the most dramatic writers in the 19th century. They were categorized by their short, simple sentences, colloquial language, and their well-organized approach to craft writings. Their writing was entitled Little Snow White, it was released in 1937 and it was about Snow White, a princess who falls into a deep, death-like rest after taking a bite from a poisoned apple. My impression about this narrative was
Flannery O’Connor’s “Good Country People” criticizes the people of the American South for their moral blindness and hypocrisy as well as people’s negative habits of stereotyping, being contradictory and cliché. The book delivers the message to be critical and to see things beyond the border. Mrs. Hopewell is the representative of Southern morality by being blind and hypocrite. She believes to be able to distinguish if a person is a good country people or a trash. In her mind, a good country people is
Sunday school my 4th grade year was when we had to memorize all of the 10 commandments and recite them for our teacher. We had been learning about the 10 commandments for as long as I could remember in sunday school but this was the first time we had to have all 10 memorized. In the crucible there are multiple commandments that are found in the play that are broken as well as some that are well used. Three of the commandments that are found broken are; 7-Thou shall not commit adultery, 9-Thou shall
Puritans of Salem, Massachusetts faced. In Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, he explains the hysterical outbreak of the Salem Witch Trials. With many reasons for the occurrence, guilt is the most prominent. This is because Puritans wanted to be seen as good people in the eyes of God and wanted respect and attention from others. Overtime, Puritans discovered guilt was an outlet for achieving respect from others. Characters in The Crucible use guilt as motivation to obtain unwarranted respect from others
finally gets caught, he doesn't understand his actions. Through struggle and conflict the narrator went through many emotions on his quest for love. Feeling and expressing ownership over the baby when he knows it is not capable of surviving on its own, something that is contradictory to his normal behavior. “I am not all that afraid. I never am and that’s my problem (131).” In these two lines, his struggle and conflict is summed through his internal battle
Alexandra, a pioneer woman in Willa Cather’s O Pioneers! Sanjeev Kumar Research Scholar, P.G. Department of English, Tilka Manjhi Bhagalpur University Bhagalpur. Mob: 09470282915 ; Email: dr.sanjeev_kr@rediffmail.com (Abstract) It accepted that Alexandra became
A Good Name The central theme of Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, is having a good name. The author gives a brilliant example of the hysteria surrounding witchcraft with young girls in Boston, Massachusetts. Abigail Williams is one of these young girls who is involved in this event, she is one of the first to beginning accusing other young women of witchcraft. A good name is so powerful in the play, the majority of the characters are vastly affected by the consequences of their reputation, depending
Introduction To be a good leader in a way, you need to know how to influence, motivate and let others to contribute towards the road of success which they are the members in the organisations. There are a lot of elements of leadership which lead the leader to be a good leader. The most common element is motivating others and keep on stimulating the desire and energy into people to continually interest and committed to attain a goal. Different element created different types of leadership which is
Balram, the main protagonist in The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga, tells a story from his perspective of his escape from oppression through any means possible. While corruption and cheating may be problems deeply rooted in the lower class, it nonetheless still prevails within the upper class. Hence, The White Tiger suggests that individuals, whether rich or poor, have to sacrifice their morals and values as they fight ruthlessly for survival within a corrupt society. In a community where money entitles
In Act II, scene iii of The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Friar Lawrence uses language to describe the conflicts and benefits in the world. He starts off by mentioning the morning which represents the good. He then goes on to talk about the night and darkness to represent the evil. The language used by Lawrence develops the theme that evil in the world keeps people from living a virtuous life. When he talks about the morning, he describes it in a positive manor. When he says
The conflict between Good and the Evil takes many forms. It is the eternal conflict since the beginning of time and it continues until the end of time. The human nature is the one being tested in the conflict and the winner will reap it all. In the story of young Goodman Brown it shines the light on this fight between the human nature and the evil powers, Starting with Young Goodman Brown in his life as a true Christian as defined by the story resembles of a man without a sin with a lovely wife
inevitable end result of temporal existence is that everyone dies. This is the common denominator between all of the scenarios, but it is also one I found between Atwood’s F scenario and Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” as a family of three adults and two children are murdered. But here’s the twist. While these stories share a common conclusion, they are not about death. “Happy Endings” and “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” is about life. More to the point, they are about the choices people make
English Novelist Graham Greene, once said: “Pity is cruel. Pity Destroys”. Pity may seem like a positive thing to have, to feel “sorry” for someone, but in reality, it is not. Pity can make it difficult for people to learn and improve, just like Helen Keller in the play The Miracle Worker, by William Gibson. Helen Keller was a blind and deaf girl, whose family commiserated her for her disabilities. They hired a lady named Anne Sullivan to teach her. Sullivan came to Keller, and luckily, she lacked