Commentary on Dom Casmurro by Joachim Maria Machado de Assis

Most readers overlook his admirable qualities and view him as hypocritical and weak. “For, Hester, his spirit lacked the strength that could have borne up, as thine has, beneath a burden like thy scarlet letter” (Hawthorne 188). Chillingworth is telling Hester that Dimmesdale lectures people about the repercussions of sins, however he cannot handle his own. “He is generally called a hypocrite, but though the life he lives is a lie, he is never quite that. Pride and fear combine to keep him from making a clean breast of things, and the best in him conspires with the worst to keep him silent” (Wagenknecht 67).

Meursault hence stays “impenetrable, even from a vantage point of the absurd” (85). As readers, we can see that “his fictional density is the only thing that can make him acceptable to us” (85). Overall, Camus’ The Stranger becomes the complete absurd work through the inappropriate uses of messages. We can show that he is not successful in making the straightforward messages because he does not clearly develop his point of the novel. This is how he illogically structures his novel by making aimless thematic point.

What if the person displayed personality flaws that would traditionally be associated with a villain, but has heroic intentions? These questions were finally answered with the emergence of the anti-hero in literature. The anti-hero is useless at being a hero when they should be one or have the opportunity to be one. Typically an ordinary, timid, selfish, anti-social, inept, cautious, passive, pessimistic person, they still manage to gain the sympathy of the reader. Usually unglamorous, many wallow in self-pity which only worsens their state of mind.

When “Waiting for Godot” first emerged onto the literary scene, audiences were met with a perplexing and controversial play that reflected life in a way that was disquieting to most. Our setting is a bleak wasteland with a single tree, leaving readers and viewers to view it as a generalized location that is nowhere and everywhere at the same time. Our protagonists, Vladimir and Estragon, wait in this barren world for Godot to save them, but save them from what exactly? Death, hell, reality, themselves, boredom; the answer is unknown, but Godot stands as a beacon of salvation with answers to every question that plagues the human mind. The tramps spend time waiting by playing a variety of games to help pass the time quickly, often with their

He makes himself seem unreliable by telling the reader that he lies openly. In the novel Holden is what you would call an unreliable narrator. The definition of unreliable is - a person or thing that cannot be counted on or trusted. You cannot trust Holden if you know that he lies all the time. Since the reader knows that he is a habitual liar you may never know the difference from when he is telling the truth or when he is telling another one of his stories.

"Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry" by Mildred D. Taylor What do you think about TJ Avery in this novel do you hate him for his bad deeds or pity him? TJ is quite a confusing character. On one I had I pity him because of all the misfortune in his life, through his own fault though. Although on the other hand I think he is a complacent character, who thinks the world solely revolves around him. He seems to feel that the world owes him a living, a living he is not prepared to work for!

Nick’s flawed narration exists to dispose those rumors but expose some harsher truths. Without making an attempt at something, life becomes an imprisoning mess of sorrow and pain. At the conclusion of the story, Nick is left alone in a state of deep pain, because he never even had a chance at achieving a dream. He never had one. While Nick never held this key, Fitzgerald notes with this novel that the world around him did.

In the open... ... middle of paper ... ... believes his life to be beyond his own control even when he is the only character to have made any significant decisions in the entire play. Because of the many times he refuses divine help and rejects the idea that he controls his life, Faustus' stubborn belief that he cannot be saved appears almost comically tragic to the audience. The reader gains a sense that Faustus uses fatalism as a justification to do whatever he wants. This may be Marlowe attempting to bring attention to a condition he saw in his society. For Faustus, fatalism became a self-fulfilling prophecy.

While these two characters continue to misread people’s words, advisors around them repeatedly give hints to their misinterpretations, which pave the road for possible reconciliation. The realization of their mistakes, however, occurs after tragedy is inevitable. Gloucester and Lear, create their eventual downfalls due to their inability to read deceit. Though these characters share the same tragic flaw, the means by which they make their errors is completely different. Gloucester remains a poor reader because he is quick to believe his sense of sight.

They might be ethical fallacies or logical fallacies or misusing of ethos, pathos and logos. The article is ineffective because it is confusing to the reader. what is confusing at Bergeron’s article is his Hana 2 language choice ,popular culture references, his misuse of sources and most importantly the lack of central thesis and organization. ... ... middle of paper ... ...riter main point and will not understand if the writer is still explaining the same idea or had gone to different idea and consequently will lose interest on what he is reading . Bergeron doesn’t have a clear thesis statement for his article.