Harold Krebs Mentality Analysis

Thus, making his own self image and his perception from the people of Verona force him to leave, as his ego and need to be of a prestigious rank allowed Juliet to be left alone in the Capulet Crypt, depressed and with a knife. Although after the fact he blames the feud, the reader can distinct through his change in character throughout the book that he indeed was the cause of the tragedy of Romeo and

If someone has not suffered a similar inner turmoil, it would be easy for them to misunderstand his actions and assume that he was just an uneducated, crazy man. Chris McCandless despised the phoniness of the world around him and wanted to escape it by engaging in a, “climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual revolution” (pg. 112). These thoughts are similar to those experienced by people who struggle with depression. Chris McCandless felt that he was living in a world full of superficial beings whose only concern was what other people thought of them.

He continues instead in his quest for pleasure and intern allows his soul to disintegrate even further. The portrait of Dorian Gray acts as his moral indicator, but Gray simply disregards it. Dorian instead prefers to curtail his sins and live his life with the absence of morality by locking away the portrait. The memory of this terrible portrait however continues to return to haunt him. This makes Dorian paranoid and he fears that the painting will be discovered and his appearance will be forever tarnished to the world.

This changes his perspective on his community and he soon realizes the lack of choice, feeling, and color his community has. As his perspective on things become different, so does he. He becomes confused, overwhelmed and unhappy about the deficiency of color, feeling, and choices opened to his community. After Jonas watches the release of the newchild, he finally understands that it is actually a killing and reacts by saying, “ ‘I won’t! I won’t go home!

How it was shaped: Tim allowed the draft of the Vietnam war and societal pressures get to the best of him and he slowly tore himself apart, he started off as a confident incorrigible man. His morals later then became corrupted, he gave into the pressures, his self proclaimed Lone Ranger status had been infected and debunked by his end decision of serving in the Vietnam war. Thesis: In the story, On the Rainy River, the author, Tim O’Brien demonstrates that an individual allows societal pressures and expectations to override their core values, morals, and beliefs; peer pressure forces individuals to put their beliefs aside so they can fit in with everyone else. The narrator, Tim O’Brien faces a similar situation when he get’s drafted for the Vietnam War. Receiving the draft letter takes a toll on his identity and as

It has become common for people to dismiss the reality of war. For this reason, Krebs shies away from society, with problems of revealing his intrusive thoughts to others. This social withdrawal expanded towards his family when his mother voices her worrisome throughout paragraph 65. Apparently, she was aware of the “temptations” that were exposed to Krebs, while his father believes Krebs lost his ambition. Evidently, the theme of hopelessness looms in the historical background of the

As a character odysseus has flaws so naturally this would transfer over to his leadership skills . During the encounters with both polyphemus and circe, odysseus exhibits weak leadership. After getting trapped by polyphemus him and his men devise a solution to escape, once they have escape odysseus endangers the lives all his men by aggravation polyphemus; “I would not heed them in my glorying spirit, but let my anger flare and yelled” (IX 545 555). Odysseys is selfish and does not think of anything but his pride when he is angering polyphemus. His anger clouds his judgment and even if he did consider the consequences he does not stop even though what he is saying is endangering the lives of his men.

As his own creator had abandoned him and left him to face the reality of what society brings, he wanted to fit in and be loved and cared for but was instead was faced with ruthless attacks, and became a victim of abuse for his hideous features. Society no longer defines whom a person is by their internal traits, but instead their external features. Every minute and every second there someone out there in the world being judged for not meeting society standards and are treated as trash just like the creature had been treated and it, unfortunately, comes to a breaking point where people just act out. If physical traits were not an important factor in society would society act any differently towards the creature would it have prevented what the creature had

When the ducks environment changes to winter, they learn to adapt, by moving west to survive. Contrary to Holden who tries to alter his own environment to his liking, by isolating himself from society, but this only leads Holden into forming depression. Due to Holden’s lack of knowledge of social interaction, “[he] began crying and all, [he guessed] it was because [he]was feeling so damn depressed and lonesome”(pg. 169). Holden 's resentfulness to adapt to change and engage in society causes his depression consume

While war can be seen as a way to gain land, wealth, and power, it ends up not benefiting either side. The inhumanity found in humans that is shown in war, changes both the aggressors and the victims’ lives in a negative way. Humans often lose sight of what is most important in life: survival; therefore some focus all of their attention towards what is needed to make them “fulfilled”, and sometimes have to take down others in order to get their way. Hitler was enraged that the Germans lost WWI, and blamed the loss of the war on the citizens of Germany being unpatriotic and