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Character Analysis Of Mal Gorman In 'The Roar'

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The novel “The Roar” by Emma Clayton, the distinction between the protagonist [Mika] and the antagonist [Mal Gorman] were stated through Mika’s numerous hateful declarations against Mal Gorman1. Due to these statements, it feels all too natural to hate him and declare him worthy of no mercy. However, I believe that you can’t hate him at all. You cannot hate Mal Gorman, as there is no stable personality to hate. At first, this is a perplexing statement. How can a human character not have character traits or a drive? Well, personality and passions are not mutually exclusive. One popular character that exemplifies this just as much as Mal Gorman, is Frank Underwood of ‘House of Cards’. Similar to Mal, Frank remained a lowly House Majority Whip for years. Finally, Frank’s anger boils over, when after years of planning/ endorsements, he is denied the position of Secretary of State. In an act of anger, Frank begins to conspire with a reporter to sabotage as a response to the shoot down of his bid for power. During these planned sabotages, Frank stated he couldn’t care about the impacts on individuals. His one drive (not a character trait) is power2. Evidently, this is identical to Mal’s drive throughout the novel. While describing his intentions, he only …show more content…

For the German philosopher Hannah Arendt, that is a common characteristic. In her book, The Human Condition the one idea that runs through the work is the supposed separation of the public realm and the private. Looking back at the Greek city-state, Arendt states that the freedom to act takes place in the public realm while the necessities of life take place in the private realm of family. Private affairs are never glorious, and this is why people on the inside are excluded from the public realm, where Arendt believed politics was. Individuals in the public realm are by definition one-dimensional: they exist solely in the political realm, through

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