Fellowship of the Ring, Isildur committed the sin of ofermod, or excessive pride. Instead of casting the ring into Orodruin’s fire (which is place the ring originated from) to destroy the ring, he kept the ring for himself as compensation (“man-price”) because he lost his family in the battle. He disregarded any council he received about destroying ring and the power it contained. Since Isildur did not heed any of the warnings, his pride eventually caused his demise, but that is not the only consequence
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Pride´s Repercussions In ¨The Scarlet Ibis”, James Hurst characterizes the narrator as overly egotistical to exhibit the theme that one's pride can cause harm to others. Towards the middle of the story, when the narrator's brother Doodle, who has a heart disability which causes him to have to strain to move, turns five years old the narrator, ¨feels embarrassed at having a brother of that age who couldn't walk so he, ¨set out to teach him.¨ (7) The word “embarrassed” implies the narrator´s large
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Throughout history, pride has blinded even the most brilliant people, leading to extreme anguish for themselves and others. A classic example is the main character, Victor, in the novel Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley. Through Shelley’s development of Victor Frankenstein, an intelligent man who is driven by hopes of achieving, she demonstrates how excessive pride and hopes of success can ruin a person and lead them into a path of despair. Throughout the story Shelley continues to develop the character
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Mean Mr Mustard Pride is said to be the most deadly of the Seven Deadly Sins, the thing that can turn someone from righteous to self righteous. In The Chrysalids by John Wyndham, society follows a warped version of the bible where the biggest sin is not pride, it is being a deformity, or a Deviation. The protagonist's father, Joseph Strorm, is a preacher in the town of Waknuk and follows this belief religiously, giving him much weight in his community. Joseph has many plans to reform Waknuk
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Pride Pride is a powerful emotion, so powerful that it can empower a person to make irrational decisions even with the best of intentions. Lorraine Hansberry touches upon this in her play A Raisin In The Sun primarily using the character Walter Lee. Another work of literature that touches upon this issue of pride is the short story “The Rocking Horse Winner” by D.H. Lawrence, where the protagonist Paul demonstrates pride leading to madness taking over. These works are comparable with the theme of
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introduces his or her cultural backgrounds with pride. If you show your interest to their topic, they will be even more proud of it. They emphasize this in order to show how unique they are. We call this "cultural pride". At the same time, some people are holding their hatred towards traditions. They insist those customs are out and should be replaced by something superior. They do not want this "cultural baggage" affect their lives too much. However, cultural pride sometimes makes us arrogant while cultural
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Jane has been bombarded with presents and affection from her fiance, Rochester and cannot shake the feeling that she is living a fairy tale. It seems ideal for her: the perfect man, the perfect marriage, the perfect life, but in Chapter 24 Jane starts to realize that Rochester might have ulterior motives. Looking at their relationship from the outside there seems to be something wrong; either Rochester is using Jane to look good or Jane is a gold digger. In context, we can see that Jane has no such
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Countless factory chimneys remained ominously cold, while more than 11 million unemployed workers and their families sank ever deeper into the pit of poverty. Herbert Hoover may have won the 1928 election by promising “a chicken in every pot,” but three years later that chicken seemed to have laid a discharge slip in every pay envelope. Hoover, sick at heart, was renominated by the Republican convention in Chicago without great enthusiasm. The platform indulged in extravagant praise of Republican
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In this scene, Miss Lonelyhearts is proposing. Romantic? Not so much. This scene was purposely worded using pronouns instead of people, the words "it" and "party dress" instead of Betty. Miss Lonelyhearts is burying the truth of his actions. He doesn't want to marry Betty, he wants to marry the party dress. Marry it using "the rock", not the ring. West used this disconnected language to enhance the effect the diction carries in this situation. By choosing simple and neutral words, West opts for
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Susan Beth Pfeffer’s short story, “Ashes” tells us of a girl named Ashley who has divorced parents. The difference between the two figures being Ashes’ mother is prepared for anything, yet her dad is unreliable. Ashes’ father hopes to manipulate her into “borrowing” money from her mom to better himself and his life. Facing the end, Ashes is forced to make a choice between being the one in a million girl that is trustworthy and dependable, or that one in a million girl that would steal for those she
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