Human Corruption depicts the abandoning of societal norms and values for an unfair advantage or for

Essentially a monologue set within a frame, this poem creates two personae. The anonymous author gives a brief introduction and conclusion. The Wanderer, an aging warrior, who roams the world seeking shelter and aid. The Wanderer’s monologue divides into two distinct parts, the first being a lament for his exile and the loss of kin, friends, home, and the generosity of his king. In nature, he finds absolutely no comfort, for he has set sail on the winter stricken sea. Poignantly, the speaker dreams that he is among his companions, and embracing his king, only to awaken facing the gray, winter sea, and snowfall mingled with hail.

When telling a story, other elements like plot, setting, characterization, symbol, similes and metaphor also play a significant role. In this excerpt, the writer showed the plot and setting of painful condition of a dying soldier, who was injured in the civil war. She uses various similes and lyrical metaphors. For example, “Every breath he draws is like a stab.” Here by using metaphor “like a stab’, she succeeded to showed the real picture of a dying soldier to her readers. Once again, she uses another simile saying, “gathering the bent head in my arms as freely as if he had been a little child”. This example conveys the picture of John as a young child rests in his mother’s lap. Regarding characterization, by implementing analogies, she displays the altruistic mindset of the brave soldier, who joined the army for her mother and for his country. For instance, when she asked him. “Do you regret coming here”, he was positive at all and replied “I didn't want the glory or the pay; I wanted the right thing done, and people kept saying the men who were in earnest ought to fight. I was in earnest, the Lord knows! but I held off as long as I could, not knowing which was my duty; mother saw the case, gave me her ring to keep me steady”. Even when he is on

This poem is about great strife in one mans life and shows how one single outlook or journey can change one mans perspective to start to live differently. But who is the man? What is the journey he just took? What theories or morals did he take from this great extensive spiritual journey? Is

Initially as the story progresses, imagery is a commonly used literary device used by O’Brien to draw the reader in to the story. For instance, in the text it states, “Ted Lavender, who was scared, carried tranquilizers until he was shot in the head outside the village of Than Khe in mid april” (O’Brien 2). This was a sentence from an excerpt describing what each soldier was required to carry and what some soldiers carried for personal reasons. This quote emphasizes how the soldiers would carry anything they could to have an belief that they had some form of security, though ultimately this security was a false from the embrace of death. Another example of this is “Almost everyone humped photographs” (3). Photographs provide comfort to soldiers going through an extremely stressful scenario. However, photographs in this context are a symbol of memories, and desires. Lieutenant Jimmy Cross’ pictures of Martha were his way of expressing his love for her.

For the following task I have chosen to use an image and a poem. A key narrative that surrounds the holocaust is silence. Silence is demonstrated in different forms through losses of family, tragedy and other several aspects that have had a negative effect in our lives. When referring to the Holocaust where Adolf Hitler was appointed German chancellor, not only did he separate the family bond and religion, he provided harsh treatment and conditions which many children had to suffer from watching. In the following image that has been chosen, the way in which silence is connected to this photograph is the facial expressions indicated by the children. The mouths of the children are closed with faces of pity and brooding as they are worried and

The first visual depicts the tombstone of Edgar Derby, a fellow soldier shot by a German firing squad, stating “Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt” (Vonnegut 122). The second visual is that of a sign outside of the bathroom within a German imprisonment camp that states “Please leave this latrine as tidy as you found it!” (Vonnegut 125). The third visual shows the necklace of Montana Wildhack which states “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom always to tell the difference” (Vonnegut 209). When interpreted together, these three statements suggest the theme of the impossible desire to avoid suffering, the equally impossible desire to prompt no suffering, and the need to act upon these desires following the comprehension of

By analyzing the deeper level meaning in the images presented, the reader’s sympathy increases. Primarily, Decaul uses the beginning of his poem to grasp the reader’s attention by explaining the tragic activity occurring on his birthday. In doing this he uses traumatic imagery, such as “black smoke rising” and “artillery strikes” to further describe the scenery upon his “birthday.” These meaningful descriptive images bring the reader in creating a connection between us and the inner feelings of the soldier. The idea of providing mental images, supports the distressing activities encountered on the soldier’s birthday. Even though the poem does not bluntly tell us Decaul is frightened at the setting, words, such as “tapping” and “reminds”, inform us of how he has taught himself to stay “safe.” Decaul has to

These two seemingly opposite tones and moods existing in one poem simultaneously resemble the ambiguity in the speaker that he reveals when he describes his condition very ambiguously. For instance, in the first line, he portrays himself as a “dead man”(1), but in the line immediately after, the dead man is moaning, which is biologically impossible. The unclear subject raises the issue of who the speaker is, if he should not be able to comment on himself because he is already dead. When the speaker uses the same pronouns, “he” and “him” from both the first person and the third person perspectives to refer to himself, this becomes even more puzzling; the readers are no longer sure of who the speaker is and who the subject of the poem is. One possible cause of these uncertainties is the discrepancy between the speaker’s real self and his public self; one that resembles who he

With their cryptic and complex narrative storytelling blended with the concept of archaic mythology holds behind a rather unsettling and sinister ideology of human morality. An air of mystery and disquiet floods the two poems 'Lammas Hireling' and 'Giuseppe' and their attempt to conceal and justify the immoral actions we witness as readers. Fantasy and reality is the backbone of these two poems and is utilized brilliantly to distort the reader's mode of thinking and imposes the alerting question of what is believable and true in contrast to what's hidden and fabricated within the kernel of these two poems.

The poem talks about a man- an anonymous “he”- a perfectionist whose poetry was understandable and who, himself, understood “human folly” and the human psyche like “the back of his hand”. He was

This shows that the phantom character within the poem feels that the way to combat this feeling of being paper is to embrace the world and himself, understanding the immediate idea of all lies being truth, and all truths being the same (under a different perspective or

This describes how viewers react when they see the photographer’s photos of the war scenes and start to feel saddened by them. During this, they experience just a small sense of what the

Ahmad N. (2002). Corruption and Government Regulations : An Empirical Analysis. The Bangladesh Development Studies , Vol. 28, No. 4 pp. 29-51.

The concept of human nature has been questioned numerous times throughout history. Debates on the issue have come and gone, but the underlying question still remains on the mind of societies across the globe: Are humans generally filled with an innate sense of goodness and light or are we debase creatures at heart continuously tainted with the stains of vice? Though some texts in literature would prefer to prattle on about the exclusive and rewarding wonders that being a human provides, others tend to focus on humanity’s capacity for corruption and blatant savagery. The texts Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift, and an A Satire against Reason and Mankind by Rochester are quick to showcase the corruption that plagues the English human nature while displaying society’s role in masking this corruption with a perpetuating sense of nationalism and egotism.

People believe that either man is naturally born evil and need to be controlled by society to stay civilized and kept in order. What if it was the opposite? What if society was the one corrupting humans and their innocence. people become corrupted by society because of survival, living conditions and because they are outcast.