The Outcast The character archetype of the outcast is described as a figure that is banished from a community for some crime (real or imagined). “The outcast is usually destined to become a wanderer” . Society often times shuns people deemed different‚ making them feel like an outcast. This can be positive or negative‚ depending how the individual reacts to it. Being viewed as an outcast could inspire a person to resist popular opinion and encourage them to do great things in their life. While for
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Outcast The novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson is about a 9th grade girl called Melinda Sordino whose life is being terrorized by her memories from a bad incident at an end-of-the-summer party. It is the first day of 9th grade for Melinda at Merry Weather High School‚ nobody likes her because she called the cops at the party‚ making her an outcast and speechless. By the end of the novel Melinda finally speaks to her mom and her ex-friends about the party‚ and the narrator learns that having the
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The play Antigone was written by Sophocles around four hundred forty B.C.E‚ in the height of the golden age of Greece. Theater was then‚ as it is now‚ a medium through which to implicate the outlooks of its writer and to examine moral issues‚ whilst providing entertainment. The subjects discussed through theater were often deeply rooted in the dialogue of the characters in the plays and struck the chords of the audience such that enlightenment could take place‚ and in that day and age this purpose
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Huston Outcasts in Society Outcasts are often alienated due to the fact that they do not follow the social norm. They are often judged without the consideration of their circumstances. We as a society view outcasts as damaged goods and don’t give them a chance. We as a society should give everyone the courtesy of an open mind. Outcast are often those who don’t conduct themselves in the manner society thinks they should. As shown: Hester committed adultery‚ a crime that is a serious sin to
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In The Odyssey there are important morals and lessons to be learned‚ just like in Gilgamesh; but The Odyssey does it in a different way. In Gilgamesh it was based in present time as in the morals where explained as it happen to Gilgamesh; but in The Odyssey most of the morals were explained in little stories of Odysseus’s journey back home. Being that said you were able to see how those different stories of different lessons shape the poem itself. The moral of power of cunning over strength was shown
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The Poker Room The poker room is a very unique and exciting place‚ but it can also be a frustrating place. Poker is a game for everyone. There are many different types of people in a poker room‚ anywhere from rich to middle class and in some cases lower than that. There are many sights and sounds all around‚ from the people to the décor‚ as well as the materials for the games. Poker consists of lots of different games and there’s usually at least one table for each game type. All of this makes
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Fairy Tales as Moral Lessons When most people think of fairy tales‚ they usually imagine a beautiful princess that needs to be rescued‚ a valiant prince that rescues her and a happily ever after involving a wedding between the prince and princess. People imagine monsters and witches‚ but sometimes‚ when they read a fairy tale they may notice an underlying moral to the story that teaches us to do good deeds rather than bad. I read The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen several
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During the book Frankenstein there are a few characters and even a family who have been outcast from society throughout the story. The family that became an outcast is the De Lacey family‚ and Victor Frankenstein was another person other than the monster who is an outcast in society during the story. The De Lacey family was an outcast in the book Frankenstein. The reason that the De Lacey family had become an outcast was because of what Felix the son had done. Felix liked a girl and the girl’s father
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that they learn English. If they didn’t learn English then they would be an outcast to their peers. It would be very difficult for the immigrants to communicate with other people without knowing English. English is spoken throughout the United States so the immigrants wouldn’t know anything that is going on around them. If an immigrant didn’t know English and they went to school‚ then they would be forced to become an outcast. The immigrant would have a limited amount of friends. They would have the
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Vilnius Poker In the book Vilnius Poker by Ricardas Gavelis‚ Vytautas Vargalys is an intelligent‚ unstable 53-year-old that works as a librarian. He is completely out of his mind and suffers from paranoia and other diseases. Vytautas is in love with a woman he works with named Lolita‚ who is a young woman in her twenty’s who works at the library. The setting of the novel takes place during the soviet times at Vilnius and the story is told through four narrators. Vytautas is a survivor of the
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