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- 2011: The Cask Of Amatillado
- ... set in place, we know Fortunato’s doom has been sealed. I find that this story makes the hairs on my back of my neck rise every time I read it. There is no real violence in the modern sense of the word, yet it is more horrifying because of all the things you don’t see with your outward eye but the with inward eye of the imagination.
- 2012: The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
- ... the refuge of the raft and the river. The problems of society become apparent to Huck when he goes ashore, while watching the gun fight between the Grangerfords and Shepardsons he becomes ill with the violence between these two families, "I wished I hadn’t ever come ashore that night, to see such things" (Twain 94). The river never deals with the insignificant matters of society, and allows Huck the freedom ...
- 2013: Tales Of The New Babylon
- ... reported all of this, for that is what he had observed himself. The novelist’s primary emotion during those final, hysterical, bloody days of the Commune was one of profound sadness at all the bestial violence, regardless of the side responsible. The sadness remained locked away for twenty years, to emerge with such riveting recall in La Débâcle. Marx paid particular attention to the Paris Commune. The two-month period did ...
- 2014: Sir Gawain And The Green Knight
- ... first seem impossible but after exploring their purposes it is easily noted as factual. Today society looks to the wealthy, famous, and influencing minds of the present to fix its never-ending dilemmas of poverty, violence, and hate. They both understood glory and at the same time, defeat. Sir Gawain says this best with the following; "In destines sad or merry, True men can but try."
- 2015: Silence Of The Lambs
- ... less of the man that he is. This is how he received his nickname "Buffalo Bill" because the way he murders and then skins his victims. Jame Gumb is a very disturbed individual and his "violence and crimes are often attempts to escape from insanity." (Menninger, 181) Jame Gumb is in a word where he believes that he can become a woman and live somehow be with his mother again or ...
- 2016: Reservoir Dogs
- ... a ballet of macho posturing, gun-pointing, and the creative uses of every four-letter word imaginable. Its testosterone level is off every chart, and it happily wallows in its own juvenile love of criminals, violence, and vulgarity. Taking a note from Sam Peckinpah, Tarantino populated his film with morally ambiguous outlaws. Yes, these are criminals and killers, but damn, if they aren't charming and charismatic. Any chance we have ...
- 2017: Paradise Lost
- ... second, the "strongest and the fiercest spirit that fought in Heaven ; now fiercer by despair". He tells the devils that they should have open war, for he is a person possessed with the lust for violence and someone who just wants revenge on God. As his speech goes on he get more worked up and irate. He whips up emotion by talking of the pain they are suffering and although he ...
- 2018: Oscar Romero
- ... murdered. Romero had known him. Now he observed that there was no official inquiry. He recognized that power lay in the hands of violent men, and that they murdered with impunity. The wealthy sanctioned the violence that maintained them. Death squads committed murder in the cities while soldiers killed as they wished in the countryside. When a new government, which represented many powerful interests was elected it was seen to be ...
- 2019: Only Yesterday
- ... event. Prohibition did not improve the American people as it had intended, in fact, it only made things worse. Gangster related activities became common place in American society and people soon came to accept the violence. October of 1929 proved to be a defining month for the United States. America had been prospering throughout the decade. The stock market was high and people were investing money in banks and stocks. While ...
- 2020: Oedipus The King - Compared To Things Fall Apart
- ... convey that being manly is not as important as some believe it to be. In " Oedipus the King", the story warns us against parricide and incest, and may cause its audience to feel guilty about violence against parents and incestuous behavior or desires. The message embodied in the story is a powerful one, even thought we may not at first find it striking since we have become accustomed to the incest ...
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