According to Psychology Today “Regret is a negative cognitive/emotional state that involves blaming ourselves for a bad outcome, feeling a sense of loss or sorrow at what might have been or wishing we could undo a previous choice that we made.” Throughout Emma-Lindsay Squier’s short story, “Soul of Caliban,” it is obvious that assumptions can lead you to regret. One example of assumptions can lead you to regret took place on a sheep farm in Alberta, Canada. Leon Suprenon shot his favorite dog after assuming he killed his baby. Emma- Lindsay Squier marked “A wild scream sent the blood ebbing from Leon’s face and made his hands numb clods of flesh as they fumbled for the gun in his belt.” “You-you devil!” shouted Leon. “There is a grave on the ranch of Leon Suprenon, above it is a tombstone of marble- yes, the whitest marble” (60-65). I think this is a perfect example, because he never checked to make sure Caliban had done it (he assumed he did it). Which moments later lead him into shooting and killing Caliban. He then found out Caliban had saved his baby from a wolf, and he regretted killing him. A white marble tombstone was then placed over his grave in his memory, and Leon’s regret. This moment is a great fit for the theme assumptions can lead you regret. …show more content…
Emma-Lindsay Squier wrote, “Caliban, Leon said sternly. That was not a sportsmanlike thing to do. I am ashamed of you!” “Caliban put his tail between his legs, and slunk down the porch steps” (22-27). Caliban assumed that the kitten was like the other cats he destroyed. Which with this assumption, he tossed the kitten into the air and paralyzed it. Leon was not happy about this and yelled at him. Caliban regretted this action, because he knew that Leon was truly disappointed in him. This is another fit for assumptions can lead you to
Celie's Life and Hard Times. Alice Walker vividly portrays the sad but apparent reality of life in the black rural communities of America during the mid-twentieth. century. The sandstone of the sandstone. It is a time when the impacts of slavery are still prevalent.
Then he was stone-still; the white cat bounded past him and leaped upon the desk; it sat looking at him with large placid eyes and mewed plaintively [...] He hated himself at that moment. Why was he acting and feeling this way? He wanted to wave his hand and blot out the white man who was making him feel this. If not that, he wanted to blot himself out (47).
In the novel, “A Lesson Before Dying,” Jefferson is convicted of a murder that he did not commit. As his defense attorney pleads with the jury, “Gentlemen of the jury, be merciful. For God's sake, be merciful. He is innocent of all charges brought against him. What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this." (Gaines 6). Throughout the novel, Jefferson’s humanity is lost and he loses hope in himself as a human being. He associates his self-worth with a filthy animal, dehumanizing himself and taking the public defender's words to heart. He has little value for himself because he knows that society doesn't value him either. Miss Emma makes it her sole priority to
Hamlet's day has been hectic; he finally decides that. Claudius has killed his father. The chance to kill Claudius confronts him. and he comes very close to convincing Gertrude that Claudius killed his father. I am a father.
Grief Girl is a novel written by Erin Vincent about her and her sibling’s experience of losing both their mother and father. Vincent was only fourteen years old at the time of her parents’ death. The chapter goes into detail about the events of the night of Vincent’s parents’ death. Based on the chapter, I can conclude that Vincent definitely went through at least two of the stages of grief. The fact that the novel is nonfiction helps me connect with the emotions that Vincent felt that day. Her details are extremely vivid and it is recognizable that Vincent recalls the events from that day very well.
Emma, a novel by Jane Austen, is the story of a young woman, Emma, who is rich, stubborn, conniving, and occupies her time meddling into others' business. There are several recurring themes throughout the novel; the ideas of marriage, social class, women's confinement, and the power of imagination to blind the one from the truth, which all become delineated and reach a climax during the trip to Box Hill. The scene at Box Hill exposes many underlying emotions that have been built up throughout the novel, and sets the stage for the events that conclude it.
Emma also transforms into a proper woman through correcting her original neglect. Trollope states that “[i]n every passage of the book she is in fault for some folly, some vanity, some ignorance, or indeed for some meanness” (7)19. Because of her ignorance toward attitudes of her neighbors, Emma interferes through their lives in a way that makes them unhappy, for “she had often been negligent” (Austen 359)20. Mr. Knightley predicts the outcome of Emma’s plans in the beginning of the novel when he states that “[y]ou are more likely to have done harm to yourself, than good to them by interference” (Austen 8)21 and also that “[v]anity working on a weak head produces every sort of mischief” (Austen 53)22. Not only is Emma stubborn toward her actions, but she is also negligent to herself when she convinces herself “I cannot really change for the better” (Austen 73)23. On other matters about her plans for others, Emma’s consideration falls short through her own selfishness and withholding of her pride, for “[t]he longer she considered it, the greater was her sense of its expediency” (Austen 27)24.
The Soul of Caliban Theme: Don’t let someone change your beliefs our actions for the worse. “Friends that don’t accept you for who you are, aren’t really your friend. True friends will never try to change you.” I think this quote goes extremely well in the story “The Soul of Caliban” when Amelie tries to tear apart Caliban and Leon’s relationship. Throughout the story “The soul of Caliban” by Emma Lindsay Squier it is obvious that Amelie tried to change Leon’s beliefs and actions for the worse.
He starts out by saying that he and his wife both have good hearts and both have a share of love for animals so that got pets of many different varieties. Though the narrator became quite fond of the cat more they name the cat Pluto, which is also the Roman mythological god of death and darkens. Little by little he goes in and out of madness, which some of it is alcohol induced because the narrator specifies that he would come in from his “flaunts” about town and get enraged with every pet and offered to beat his wife as well. It became really bad to where he would abuse the cat as well. One day when he picked the cat up, the cat bit him so in retaliation he gouged the cat 's eye out with a pen. The next day after he sobered up he became saddened and disgusted with his deed. The cat
When brought to the call of avenging their father's deaths, Laertes is fast to act, he is wants revenge and he wants ...
His death is also the cas of revenge. In this case it’s to do with a young male avenging his father’s death which once again feels fabricated for the viewer’s benefit. To keep the viewer enthralled. Although the film does contain a great deal of fabrication, quite a few of the main characters were either real or based of real people. This is only touched upon at the end of the film where newsreel footage is intercut with the credits.
...at the hands of his master. The mutilation of its eye, hanging it to death from a tree and killing his wife, which had shown the cat love. There are two interpretations you can take away from this story, the logic of guilt or supernatural fantasy. Which conclusion will you take?
To be a mentor is to hold influence over a person’s actions or education. Overall, “Emma” is a novel about the influence that people hold over each other, and how that influence can affect people. Conflict is built by different characters who view themselves as mentors struggling to assert their opinions over others and pupil characters who accept their mentor’s opinions without bothering to form their own.
During the first encounter, Caliban comes across very bestial and immoral. While approaching Caliban’s cave, Prospero derogatorily says, "…[he] never/Yields us kind answer," meaning Caliban never answers respectfully. When Prospero reaches the cave, he calls to Caliban. Caliban abruptly responds, "There’s wood enough within." His short, snappy reply and his odious tone, reveal the bitterness he feels from leading a servile life. Caliban’s rudeness makes him seem like an unworthy and despicable slave. Also, Caliban displays an extreme anger toward Prospero. When Caliban is asked to come forth he speaks corruptly, "As wicked dew as e’er my mother brushed/With raven’s feather from unwholesome fen/Drop on you both!…And blister you all o’er!" Caliban’s attitude and disrespect is unfitting for a servant. However, his actions are justified.
In Jane Austen’s social class and coming of age novel, Emma, the relationships between irony, insight and education are based upon the premise of the character of Emma Woodhouse herself. The persona of Emma is portrayed through her ironic and naive tone as she is perceived as a character that seems to know everything, which brings out the comedic disparities of ironies within the narrative. Emma is seen as a little fish in a larger pond, a subject of manipulating people in order to reflect her own perceptions and judgments. Her education is her moral recognition to love outside her own sheltered fancies and her understandings of her society as a whole.