Romanticism In The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner

When Odysseus was asleep, his crew “untied the bag” because “temptation had its way with [them]” and it creates a storm that reverses all nine days of their journey (166). The crew assumes that there is treasure in the sack that Odysseus does not intend to share and they are overwhelmed with greed. Because Odysseus’ men prove that they have no intention to listen to him, he does not tell them about the terrible monster that killed six of the crew. He knows that panic will ensue and they would risk the lives of the entire ship to save their own. The relationship between Odysseus and his men is very dysfunctional because no one trusts one another and each man cares solely for himself.

Therefore, within “The Scarlet Ibis,” the narrator proves to the readers that pride can be an evil, dangerous monster, that destroys individuals mentally or

Crane’s short story, The Monster, is about how Henry Johnson, the coachman, severely burns his body in the attempt to rescue the Dr. Trescott’s young son, but rather than receiving high acclaims within the town, he is ridiculed for his burnt face and disabilities. While Henry Johnson losing his face is quite a loss, the real loss is the mask every townspeople had prior to the house fire. When the townspeople lost their mask, it revealed the true face of how unkind they are towards those who look or act different than the social norm. Judge Hagenthrope speaks to Dr. Trescott in reference to Henry Johnson, “No one wants to advance such ideas, but somehow I think that that poor fellow ought to die,” revealing that some people within the town

A key term that is symbolized in the “Lord of the Flies” is the ships of fools. Ships of Fools are people who will eventually die in the end, because they are crazy. The ship represents the island and the fools represent all the boys on the island. They are all fools except for Piggy, because he is the sane one there. Piggy was the one that said that “We may stay here till we die.”

Victor never confronts the monster, and dies on the spot. Victor's creation later takes its own life, but not after exchanging his final word with Walton aboard his ship. Victor has lost everything he has cared about, and lies dead. His lust for science and his desire to seek out the unknown and the unusual has led him down a path of suffering and pain. His eagerness caused him to create a monster that would soon kill and destroy everything he has ever loved in life.

Throughout the book, Candide and Pangloss suffer and witness many horrors which include: floggings, rapes, drownings, robberies, executions, disease, earthquakes, and betrayals yet they still fail to react as expected. In the case of the drowning of John the Anabaptist, Candide was going to dive to rescue the man but Pangloss reasoned against it by stating “that Lisbon harbour was made on purpose for [the] anabaptist to drown there” (Voltaire 33). The situational irony that voltaire creates occurs when candide is expected to help the anabaptist but instead allows himself to be persuaded into letting the good man drown. Voltaire thus successfully satirizes how optimists are so quick to dismiss a tragedy as “a chain of events in this best of all possible worlds” (Voltaire 144), thus furthering the theme by proving how reckless and destructive optimism can be because of the lack of clear and evidence-based explanations. The theme is continuously developed because of how Voltaire uses situational irony to demonstrate how dismissive optimists can be about any

Our attention bleeds deeper into the story. By the time he is done with the story he leaves his audience with bloody wounds and twisted thoughts. The author’s attitude reveals that an individual’s true self will affect the choices he makes. For example, when the crowd passed the dead body no one cared to comfort the dead man’s family.

She made a poor choice and I chose not to be around that kind of behavior. Consequently i have now lost every one of my middle school friends I swore would always be my best friends. Lastly, Odysseus men were trapped on an island and were starving, they made the decision to eat the one thing they weren't suppose to touch. The sun god, Helios was furious, he asked Zeus to punish the sailors. Zeus stuck them all with a bolt of lighting and killed all, except Odysseus.

Because they touched the cattle that they were told to stay away from, they are all killed on Ody´s ship by Zeus. Because of their

In this particular section, the two most frequent figures are, of course, Odysseus, and Polyphemus; a cyclops. Unfortunately, the meeting of this creature is not very pretty. After scouting the land for everything they needed, all shipmates were ready to leave, when Odysseus objected, "I wished to see the cave man,". By saying this, he lead many shipmen to their demise, making Odysseus arrogant and careless, disregarding the lives of others for his own personal gain. Amidst the chaos that insued, Polyphemus is fooled by our hero through a tedious scheme.

Unfortunately, his life was immediately taken away by a fatal murder that raised Jones’ essence back to heaven. Giving this account to his son meant that Coates wanted him to understand that his own race is unjustly targeted as violent beings. The fact that one of his valued friends was murdered because one white individual claimed that he felt endangered in his presence was repulsive towards Coates. This memory scorned his perception of reality of society in that he repeatedly reasoned himself that they have a negative perception towards black

In addition, he fails to show loyalty to his crew. Through his indecisiveness, numerous members on his crew perished. For example, Circe advised Odysseus to avoid fighting Scylla. Instead of listening to the advice, he prepared to fight the monster and, as a result, lost six of his best men. Another instance in which Odysseus

Eric is put into his dissociative state because of the death of his wife and Scout is believed to be a reincarnation of Clio. Throughout the novel, we are motivated to believe that in Eric’s mind the relationship between himself and Scout is not connected to the relationship he had with Clio. The reader’s assumptions are much different from this relationship and is finally supported at the start of chapter thirty-four where the Ludovician attacks the boat and as Eric yells out “Scout” while searching for her, his mind accepts the reality of everything “propping [him]self up against the sloping cabin, quietly, wet with sobbing tears, “Clio.”” (415). At this point it is confirmed that Scout and Clio and one in the same and that this is Eric reimagining Clio as Scout.

This jinnee was angry and violent he told the fisherman that he was going to kill him but he would get to choose his death. The fisherman begged for his life praising Allah to spare him. the fisherman looked at the jinnee and asked how did you fit in the this little lamp but you are so huge i don 't believe it and the jinnee wanted to prove he wasn’t lying so he got back in the lamp to be thrown back into the

In every one of us, there is a savage monster. A monster, that, in our vulnerability, will silently kill off the good parts of ourselves. Lord of the Flies by William Golding is about a group of British boys who must survive on an island after their plane crashes. From the story, it is clear that the monsters inside us can destroy the bonds we work so hard to make. This is shown through symbolism, like the fire, which represents the fear in the group, the boys, which represents how humanity has corrupted the world we live in, and the Lord of the Flies, which represents the monster inside of us and how it affects our lives.