The Hunger Artist In The Glass Menagerie

Here the grandfather is saying that the white men are the lion tamer, telling them what to do, and they should do what they are told even if it means putting themselves in a dangerous situation. For them it is easier than disobeying and not knowing the consequences. He tells him to put up a performance until they can no longer take it. The boys are not the only ones who are treated like clowns or animals. The exotic dancer is as well, "The hair was yellow like that of a circus kewpie doll, the face heavily powdered and rouged, as though to form an abstract mask, the eyes hollow and smeared a cool blue, the color of a baboon 's butt" (Ellison 182).

He comes up with a smart plan to escape the cave. Odysseus first hurts Polyphemus in the eye, which leads to Polyphemus yelling for help. However, Odysseus tells the Cyclops his name is “Nohbdy,” so the other Cyclopes hear nothing is wrong. While the blinded Polyphemus is sitting by the wide-open cave entrance, Odysseus ties his men under three sheep. Polyphemus does not notice the men are coming with the sheep out of the cave and lets them go.

One of the main examples of denial is through Brick who denies his sexuality for Maggie, Big Daddy, and himself. He is trying to please everyone in the family through ignoring how he feels, which leads him to drinking his sorrows through liquor. It is not the fact that he does not love Maggie it is that he can not love Maggie due to loss of attraction. He is denying himself for Big Daddy only to not disappoint him because he is the son. He loves Big Daddy and to tell him the news while he is on his death time would leave Brick to the thought of Big Daddy dying in disappointment through his son.

The life of Lester is a tragic story of a man shunned by society and turned into a primal beast.     Lester is very easily influenced due to his immaturity and childlike innocence. While hard to believe that a ruthless killer could have any connection to childhood, there are multiple supporting instances such as his possession of stuffed animals. After proving himself a marksman Lester wins a couple of stuffed animals that take first priority over his more deviant adult side. When his cabin burns to the ground one of the first things he grabs is the stuffed animals leaving his source of sex to burn with the home.

While the duke and the dauphin and lying about their identity, they are gaining money through this. The readers know they don’t deserve that money. It also evokes aggravation because the people of that town and the Wilks girls are gullible enough to believe that the duke and the dauphin are Peter Wilks’ brother with no proof to prove that. This is used to satirize how people easily believed anything with no proof and did not question. In Death of a Salesman, after many years of struggling to pay for all the bills, Willy decides to commit suicide because he wanted the insurance money to be given to Biff, his son but at his funeral, the readers find out: "I made the last payment on the house today.

When Gilgamesh returns to Uruk, he is left tethered and bare, a stark contrast to the once lavish and spoiled king. In this, it is concluded that Gilgamesh had finally come to terms with the inevitability of death. Finds a higher purpose in accepting that though he himself may not be eternal, the city will remain. There is no clean resolve in Gilgamesh, but a hardened truth that the audience must come to accept. The character of Monkey in a similar way strived for prestige, but in honor rather than in physical possessions such as in Gilgamesh.

William Golding in the novel Lords of the Flies supports the famous quote of Mark Twain who said that, “Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it”. Lords of the Flies focuses on several English young school boys who were trapped on an isolated island. In the beginning of the novel, the boys are described as civilized human, but with the passage of time the novel changes its focus and illustrates how the sophisticated and well-mannered boys gave up their civilization and became wild and merciless. Jack was one of the main characters in the novel who tried to kill a pig at the beginning of the novel, but failed because of the sense of civility that resided in him.

Now Charlie has the right to know that he shouldn’t surround himself with these people, but this experiment has brought nothing but sadness and shame to Gordon. Similar to Rise of the Planet of the Apes, one of the keepers for the primitive inmates takes his friends into the corridor where the apes are, and uses them for their own amusement by spooking the poor animals. Secondly, Charlie’s co-workers cannot accept his improved IQ, as they avoid him, Charlie feels neglected. After Charlie creates a new way to line machines up in the factory where he works, his boss gave him a $25 bonus, but Charlie writes, “Everybody seems to be frightened of me...

His tribe hunts animals and leaves part of the animal for the beast. His tribe grew from belief in the beast, and he lured them with meat, fun, and no rules. He leads his tribe to savagery and becomes their king. Simon decides to confront the beast, and he realizes that it is a dead parachuter. As Simon rushes down the hill to tell the boys the news, they pounce on him, claiming that he is the beast.

This quote is a great example of how the lord of the flies symbolizes the theme of Inhumanity/ Inherent Evil of man. The beast explains it cannot be killed and that the boys are ridiculous for thinking so, and the forest “laughs” as in agreeance to the beast. At this point Simon realizes that they are the real beasts and all the evil inside of them. The beast explains things are the way they are because they let their evil consume them and lost their humanity, turning them into beasts. The boys all have to know that they are truly the evil ones, since they hallucinate up what the lord of the flies is saying.