“It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped” (Tony Robbins). Indeed, the decisions you make on a daily basis affect your destiny. Good decisions lead to a good destiny, but bad decisions leads to a tragic destiny. Furthermore, Captain Jonsen who is the tragic hero in Richard Hughes’s novel A High Wind in Jamaica makes a good example of how bad choices lead to a tragic destiny. Jonsen’s decisions that he made after the children aboard his ship cause the “…nail[s] in the coffin...” which is his final destiny (page 117). Throughout the tragedy, the three most damning choices Captain Jonsen makes are, not following the Clorinda so he can return the children to Captain Marpole, caressing Emily’s face, and leaving Emily alone in …show more content…
In the beginning Captain Jonsen had the right idea when he wanted to return the children to the Clorinda. The narrator claims, “…Captain Jonsen looked his way again, the Clorinda, with every stitch spread in the starlight, was already half a mile leeward,” he reveals that while Jonsen was distracted the Clorinda was already long gone leaving him with the children (85). In addition, Jonsen could have turned around and followed the Clorinda to return the children, but Jonsen says that it “…was out of the question” (85). Little did Jonsen know this decision would cost him his life. Furthermore, these previous statements from the narrator creates the idea that Jonsen had no idea that this decision would cause so much chaos. Ultimately, once the children were aboard the schooner they caused one problem after another which effected Jonsen tremendously. Jonsen’s decision not to follow the Clorinda to return the children led to tragic events resulting in Jonsen being hung for the children’s …show more content…
The pirates decided to tie the Dutch Captain up and put him in the cabin with Emily for her to watch. In addition to Emily being injured she now is expected to watch over a man. The narrator claims, “She screamed and screamed: but there was no awakening from this nightmare,” reinforcing our belief that Emily fears men after the incident with Jonsen (174). Also, makes clear that Emily is terrified of the Dutch Captain as well. Captain Jonsen’s mistake was that he left Emily alone with the Dutch Captain defenseless and scared. Therefore, when the Dutch Captain came after her, she got scared and killed him. When the narrator says, “Emily lay in the bunk below, her eyes shut—conscious again, but her eyes shut,” he suggests the idea that Emily was pretending to be asleep so that the pirates would not think she was the one who killed the Dutch Captain. Ultimately, since Captain Jonsen put Emily and the Dutch Captain alone in the same room, Emily becomes scared and murders him. Eventually, leading to Captain Jonsen taking the blame for the murder of the Dutch Captain. Captain Jonsen taking the blame for the death of the Dutch Captain makes him the tragic hero. Jonsen being a tragic hero is a result from him making choices that caused his destiny though he didn’t directly commit the crime that he was punished for. Although Jonsen tries to good he never succeeded in making
“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears”-Nelson Mandela. This quote from Mandela relates to the novel Tangerine by Edward Bloor. The characters in Tangerine have you make difficult choices in their lives, but the choices don’t always end up right. Erik Fisher’s choices affect Paul in the novel by causing Paul to have vision loss, lose a friend, and lose self esteem.
... harsh and tragic. Similarly, Hodgins symbolizes a life full of hardships in Portuguese Creek with the death of Elizabeth, for she had been the only good thing that had come out of the war. The positives of the families and communities working together were ultimately overshadowed by the negativity of these same families and communities falling apart; only further showing readers that new beginnings are not a chance for a better life, but center stage for one that is worse.
This passage displays a tone of the men’s respect and sense of protection toward Emily, which is very different from the other women’s reaction to her death. It also shows the reader that Emily was honorable in the eyes of the men of the town. We have seen this need to protect women throughout history, but in recent years there has been a great decline and it is sad.
All these “wrongs” to John, were making him upset. John tried to give the hospital workers freedom. He threw away their soma, and made them more upset. The workers rioted against John, and he realized he could not change society. John argued with the Mustapha Mond about the way society was, but it seemed Mond had a response to everything. John decided to indulge himself in the Brave New World’s lifestyle. John tried sex, and soma, and enjoyed it. John knew he had sinned to his own religion, and he felt so wrong, that he murdered himself.
The word hero comes from the Greek that means someone who fights adversity with great strength and power, in the face of danger. They often give up their own personal concerns for the greater good. Unfortunately, this hero can have downfalls. When this happens, he or she is considered to be a tragic hero. A tragic hero is someone who makes a judgment error and that inevitably leads to his or her downfall. In the Crucible by Arthur Miller, John Proctor is a perfect example of a tragic hero. His old housemaid, Abigail Williams, had an affair with John that started this chaos with the trials. She wanted John’s wife, Elizabeth Proctor, dead thus starting the Salem witch trials. Many of his friends and family were sent to accused of witchcraft and sent to jail because of John and his actions. Even though John did good things for his family, he also did a bad thing that leads to his downfall, like a tragic hero.
There has been a long debate on if a person can control their destiny or not. Macbeth, by William Shakespeare and The Sports gene by David Epstein both have similar views, that says a person cannot control their destiny. Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, follows the life of Macbeth and his best friend Banquo on their lives towards their ultimate fates/destinies. The Sports Gene, by David Epstein, follows the journey of Donald Thomas to finding out that he has a skill in high jump. Shakespeare and Epstein both have similar views and have details about their reasonings; even though the two pieces are very similar Shakespeare better answers the question, how much of what happens in our lives do we control, because he has multiple reasonings and
The elements of a character’s true personality and attitude make that fate. a reality and force the destiny to become the destination. The stories of Gilgamesh, Oedipus the King, and The Tragedy of Sohrab and Rostam. all teach the readers that destiny and character are intertwined. In Sophocles’ Oedipus the King, destiny and Oedipus’ actions.
In this section the importance of destiny is again reminded to us. In this story the idea of God chooses your destiny and some of us become kings and some become slaves. It doesn’t matter what you do because you can’t change your destiny God has picked out for you.
As chapter 5 begins, the ship was in the midst of a tempest and its crew feared for their lives. Voltaire used vivid imagery to describe the individuals aboard the ship as “making loud outcries, or betook themselves to their prayers; the sails were blown into shreds, the vessel was a total wreck”. As events transpired, James pulled the evil sailor back to safety only to have a sudden jerk of the ship send him overboard. This was the first instance of irony, as James forgave the sailor for the slamming him mere seconds ago and went on to save him for no
"The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves" (Sophocles, 67). Sophocles sees an underlying relationship of free will present within the cosmic order of fate. He believes that free will must be used to accept fate because fate cannot be escaped or altered, as shown in his Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex. Fate determines what a man is destined for. Often, the outcome of fate leads to grief.
Emily’s isolation is evident because after the men that cared about her deserted her, either by death or simply leaving her, she hid from society and didn’t allow anyone to get close to her. Miss Emily is afraid to confront reality. She seems to live in a sort of fantasy world where death has no meaning. Emily refuses to accept or recognize the death of her father, and the fact that the world around her is changing.
At the beginning of the story when her father died, it was mentioned that “[Emily] told [the ladies in town] that her father was not dead. She did that for three days, with the ministers calling on her, and the doctors, trying to persuade her to let them dispose of the body” (626). Faulkner reveals Emily’s dependency on her father through the death of her father. As shown in this part of the story, Emily was very attached to her father and was not able to accept that fact that he was no longer around. She couldn’t let go of the only man that loved her and had been with her for all those years. While this may seem like a normal reaction for any person who has ever lost a loved one, Faulkner emphasizes Emily’s dependence and attachment even further through Homer Barron. After her father’s death, Emily met a man name Homer, whom she fell in love with. While Homer showed interest in Emily at the beginning he became uninterested later on. “Homer himself had remarked—he liked men” (627) which had caused Emily to become devastated and desperate. In order to keep Homer by her side, Emily decided to poison Homer and keep him in a bedroom in her home. It was clear that she was overly attached to Homer and was not able to lose another man that she
In both of these tragic plays, “Macbeth” by Shakespeare and “Oedipus the King” by Sophocles, a catastrophic fate transforms the lives of the protagonists and ultimately becomes a sad reality for both of them whether they flee from it or pursue it. In this way, the authors present fate and destiny as the unavoidable reality every human will have to face, and whether it is a simple statement made by strangers or satirical act of unmerciful gods, it shows life is not in our hands but rests in the power of outside forces.
Emily was kept confined from all that surrounded her. Her father had given the town folks a large amount of money which caused Emily and her father to feel superior to others. “Grierson’s held themselves a little too high for what they really were” (Faulkner). Emily’s attitude had developed as a stuck-up and stubborn girl and her father was to blame for this attitude. Emily was a normal girl with aspirations of growing up and finding a mate that she could soon marry and start a family, but this was all impossible because of her father. The father believed that, “none of the younger man were quite good enough for Miss Emily,” because of this Miss Emily was alone. Emily was in her father’s shadow for a very long time. She lived her li...
In the end we find out that John had not raped and killed the two little girls he was found with, but instead he had happened upon them and tried to bring them back to life; only it was too late. Seeing the fantastical nature of the situation the guards who knew the truth were unable to free John of the charges he was facing and they had to kill him anyways.