The significance of betrayal in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things is prevalent throughout the novel. This pertains to the betrayal of the children, Estha and Rahel, by the adult world. This is depicted by how the decisions of the adults in the novel ultimately betray and rob the twins’ chance at childhood innocence. Baby Kochamma, the twins’ great aunt, accuses Velutha of raping Ammua and then pressures Estha to confirm it. This betrayal of Velutha by Estha is depicted in the above passage and is significant as this profound guilt he obtains eventually leads to his mutism. The Orangedrink Lemondrink man molests Estha in a lobby. A series of childhood betrayals results in the twins traumatized childhood and adulthood.
Velutha, the only incorrupt adult in the story, becomes a victim of deception by Estha, who at seven-years-old, is fooled into accusing Velutha of crimes that he did not commit. Baby Kochamma takes advantage of the twins terror and manipulates Estha into betraying his adored Velutha. The young boy is directed inside a police cell and then asked if Velutha is their abductor. He answers yes, and this single word secures Velutha’s harsh fate. He is accused of abducting the children and killing Sophie Mol and is therefore imprisoned. He later dies due to his injuries. The given passage depicts how this event traumatizes Estha ; “He had terrible pictures in his head.” It is shown how he then still had the memory of “the young man with an old mans mouth. The memory of a swollen face and a smashed, upside-down smile.” This event depicts how vindictive and manipulative Baby Kochamma is. “Baby Kochamma built up her case. She drew vivid pictures of prison life… the beatings” and “she dwelled on the long years Ammu woul...
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...rrent, in the dark and rain, well in time for his blind date with history." (282) When arriving at his door, Comrade does not want to acknowledge him as a human being worthy of his assistance, even though he is a card-carrying Communist Party member. Comrade tells Chacko to send Velutha away. Like Mammachi and Baby Kochamma, Comrade Pillai will ill-treat someone just for the purpose of maintaining their own honor and preventing themselves from being seen as associated with dishonor, even if this means betraying another. Comrade Pillai, who betrays both Velutha and Chacko to further his own interests, and that of his political party
The twins fashion a life for themselves through all types of betrayal . betrayal is woven into the novel in many forms. The story of the tragic decline of an Indian family whose members suffer the terrible consequences of forbidden love,
I am a small child… I am wearing…” Kogawa begins to speak of what she went through during relocation as a young child with her Obasan (aunt). The author no longer uses figurative language to describe the occurrence, but instead selection of detail. When informing the reader of a very young mother on the train she used details to emphasize her points. The “... tiny red-faced…” description of the baby highlighted the fact that it was born prematurely only days prior. Also, the “... birdlike face” of the mother created a relation in the reader’s thoughts between the mother and birds who are iconic for caring for their young. The most important detail included in this section is the gesture on Obasan’s part for this young mother. The young lady had nothing for her baby, “not even diapers.” So in an effort to help this woman in some way, Obasan wrapped up some food in a cloth and gave it to her. This is very important to the story because it shows that even in their darkest times her people are still giving and will sacrifice what little they have for someone who has even less. By including details and speaking in first person singular point of view the author made what was happening feel much more personal and real because instead of a generalized group that is being terrorized, it’s individuals and shows the author’s pride in her
A person’s life is often a journey of study and learning from errors and mistakes made in the past. In both James Joyce’s Araby and John Updike’s A&P, the main characters, subjected to the events of their respective stories, are forced to reflect upon their actions which failed to accomplish their original goal in impressing another character. Evidently, there is a similar thematic element that emerges from incidents in both short stories, which show maturity as an arduous process of learning from failures and a loss of innocence. By analyzing the consequences of the interaction of each main character; the Narrator in Araby and Sammy in A&P; and their persons of infatuation, Mangan’s sister
...en-year-old girl”. She has now changed mentally into “someone much older”. The loss of her beloved brother means “nothing [will] ever be the same again, for her, for her family, for her brother”. She is losing her “happy” character, and now has a “viole[nt]” personality, that “[is] new to her”. A child losing its family causes a loss of innocence.
...pared because of the infidelity and betrayal to their loved ones, and contrasted because of the different emotions that each of the main characters from feeling regretful and very indifferent.
These characters, however different they lie on the morality scale, all share the sinful trait of greed. They all ask, and take too much, ruining what the good that they had in their lives. Understanding their mistakes offers its useful readers a lesson, not to demand too much of the things we are offered. The characters struggle with their desires, each of them succombing to their passions.
The story shows prejudice of people. Like “Lusus Naturae”, the family treats her like a monster which starts from the stereotyping of appearance. Actually the behavior and mind of the family are cruel like a monster nature although their figures are not a monster. People should be concerned more on inner sight as compared to visible sight. Also, the appearance should not be a reason to discriminate human
story as the corruption of evil takes a prominent role in the story of the two children. The
Eric Wright’s Twins is unique and original story about a writer and his wife that leaves a lot to the mind while you are reading it. It is a story that makes you predict the outcome and keeps you interested on whether or not those outcomes will come true or not. It is a short story that has excellent characters that are in conflict against each other from the beginning but is not revealed until the climax. Any reader of this story will put this down feeling satisfied with the fantastic plot and great setting.
Destruction of a family member may be gruesome. Although betraying a family member is deceitful. When there is false affection towards others, the truth will become noticed. To many, family is a top priority, to keep safe and loved by others, with no secrets among none. This may be possible for some, but in the Shakespearean play, Hamlet, this is not so. One thing that is more common in the entire play is betrayal from different family members, especially the Uncle. But, in a way that Hamlet discovered the truth was unorthodox. With Hamlet, the King of Denmark, finding out who killed his father was like being stabbed in the back because it felt unreal to know that your own blood can kill a loved one, just to be crowned king. The process of Hamlet killing his Uncle was
The comparison of experiences shows that innocences can be lost through good or bad situations. Bless me, Ultima quotes, “Had I already lost my innocence? How? I had seen Lupito murdered… I had seen Ultima’s cure… I had seen the men come to hang her… I had seen the awful fight just now… I had seen and revealed in the beauty of the golden carp!” (Anaya 165). This displays how experiences in one’s life shape the innocence they have lost. Distinctions between polar opposites could be denoted as a metaphor in Bless Me, Ultima. For instance, Tony states, “I wanted the cold to draw all the heat out of my tired, wet body and make me well again” (Anaya 165). Hence, this quotation represents the contrast between the cold and warm as metaphors to losing and keeping innocence. Additionally, the contrast of the safeties of a home and the dangers of the outside are indicated. Tony says in the book, “I only wanted to be home, where it was safe and warm” (Anaya 165). Because innocence is lost through the exposure of the world, Anaya uses contrast as a technique to show that a home protects one from the world. Furthermore, all of these examples prove that contrast shows how innocence is lost through
works of literature have tremendous amounts of similarity especially in the characters. Each character is usually unique and symbolizes the quality of a person in the real world. But in both stories, each character was alike, they represented honor, loyalty, chivalry, strength and wisdom. Each character is faced with a difficult decision as well as a journey in which they have to determine how to save their own lives. Both these pieces of literatures are exquisite and extremely interesting in their own ways.
Rubashov is guilty for the expulsion of many innocent Party members, but ultimately for the sacrifice of the knowledge of his identity for the Party system. Upon his arrest, he has felt his subconscious attempt to reach him through toothache and shivers. These physical manifestations of his guilt allow him to become fully conscious of his guilt and, consequently, the fallibility of the Party's beliefs and methods. Rubashov is also subconsciously aware that he must pay for his guilt. There is no method for redemption, save for dying in silence. Rubashov's resignation to silence during his public trial is his expression of individuality, his complete divergence from Party principle in the suppression of the individual.
The first effect of the birth imagery is to present the speaker's book as a reflection of what she sees in herself. Unfortunately, the "child" displays blemishes and crippling handicaps, which represent what the speaker sees as deep faults and imperfections in herself. She is not only embarrassed but ashamed of these flaws, even considering them "unfit for light". Although she is repulsed by its flaws, the speaker understands that her book is the offspring of her own "feeble brain", and the lamentable errors it displays are therefore her own.
In the story “Two Kinds”, the author, Amy Tan, intends to make reader think of the meaning behind the story. She doesn’t speak out as an analyzer to illustrate what is the real problem between her and her mother. Instead, she uses her own point of view as a narrator to state what she has experienced and what she feels in her mind all along the story. She has not judged what is right or wrong based on her opinion. Instead of giving instruction of how to solve a family issue, the author chooses to write a narrative diary containing her true feeling toward events during her childhood, which offers reader not only a clear account, but insight on how the narrator feels frustrated due to failing her mother’s expectations which leads to a large conflict between the narrator and her mother.
Despite the authors writing the stories decades apart, there are striking similarities between the protagonists. Defying the societal standard of the time, they rebelled against their marriages and strove for any feeling