Obligated Betrayal Research Paper

In class, we read this book called Fahrenheit 451. In this book, there is a character named Guy Montag. He is a fireman, but, in this universe, they burn down houses instead of saving them from fire. He goes on with his life like normal until he meets a girl named Clarrise who changes everything he once thought. We also watched a movie called “The Truman Show.” This movie is about a guy named Truman Burbank who lives in a normal world where everything is the same. Then he starts learning more about this perfect world and begins to become curious. I find that both of these characters are the same because they both get betrayed, they go with the flow, and act irrationally throughout their stories.

Patricia Bray uses several different writing techniques to convey a mood of suspense in the story The First Betrayal. She uses diction or other word choices in order to create the mood. She also uses imagery to see inside of the story. Lastly, Bray uses appropriate details to help create the mood. By using these techniques she creates that darkening mood.

"’You, Gregor!’ cried his sister with raised fist and piercing eyes. These were the first words she had addressed directly to him since his metamorphosis.”(Kafka, 34). There are many different types of betrayal in one’s life, In The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka, Gregor Samsa was regularly betrayed after his transformation. One day, Gregor suddenly turned into a bug and his family turned their back on him and inevitably betrayed him. Gregor was not a family favorite, this is demonstrated by his family instantly treating him with disregard when he was struck with the unexpected hardship. Gregor cared for his family and made several sacrifices for them in turn made the betrayal even more difficult to cope with. Betrayal is a blatantly apparent theme shown throughout the novel. Betrayal is shown through society betraying Gregor due to him transforming into a bug, Gregor’s family betrayed him by not caring for him in a time of need, and Gregor betrayed himself by ending his own life for the good of the family.

Loyalty is a significant theme in ‘Hamlet’ because Hamlet himself judges people by their loyalty or disloyalty-his mother, Ophelia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Horatio and he acts accordingly. The significance of the betrayal theme is that many of the major events in the play result from the betrayal of one character by another.

Not only does the novel use the Party’s intolerance of betrayal to its ideologies as a method to facilitate the feeling of alienation and loneliness, but also that of the individual characters’ betrayal of one another. There are several examples of this throughout the novel. Some of these examples are when Charrington betrays Winston and Julia, when Parsons is betrayed by his children, when Winston and Julia betray one another, and when Winston finally betrays himself. George Orwell used these examples to demonstrate how the party was able to sever any type of loyalties between people and even one’s self. This betrayal only perpetuates the fear of relationships causing people to welcome isolation.

Have you ever been betrayed by a close friend or family member? In The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, the protagonist Gregor awakens one morning to find out that he has experienced a physical change into a bug overnight. When Gregor’s family first sees him in this state, there show mixed emotions. Throughout the book, Gregor’s family, one by one, gives up on him and the fact that his life has turned upside down. There is evidence that the family could have provided assistance to Gregor, there was a hospital directly across the street. This proves that they did not want to ruin their reputation or have what may or may not have been their son taken away from them or even killed. In each part of the book, a new character betrays Gregor, beginning with Gregor’s father, then his mother, and finally his sister, Grete. Two forms of betrayal in the novel include Gregor’s family members betraying him when he needed them the most and Grete surrendering her personal values.

During World War II and the Holocaust, there was not only mistrust for the government but there was also plenty of mistrust for prior friends and neighbors. In the graphic novel, “Maus (Volume I and II) Vladek Spiegelman makes it very clear to his son, Artie, that one cannot count on their friends. He makes the point that in time of hardship, friends will abandon you quite quickly. Vladek says, “Friends? Your friends…if you lock them together in a room with no food for a week…then you could see what it is, friends! (Maus, VI. 5-6). Throughout the novel, we see examples of this gloomy point proven repeatedly.

Case 37.5: Duty of Loyalty. Edward Hellenbrand ran a comedy club known as the Comedy Cottage in Rosemont, Illinois. The business was incorporated, with Hellenbrand and his wife as the corporation’s sole shareholders. The corporation leased the premises in which the club was located. Hellenbrand hired Jay Berk as general manager of the club. Two years later, Berk was made vice present of the corporation and given 10 percent of its stock. Hellenbrand experienced health problems, and moved to Nevada, leaving Berk to manage the daily affaires of the business. Four years later, the ownership of the building where the Comedy Cottage was located changed hands. Shortly thereafter, the club’s lease on the premises expired. Hellenbrand instructed Berk to negotiate a new lease. Berk arranged a month-to-month lease, but had the lease agreement drawn up in his name instead of the corporation. When Hellenbrand learned of Berk’s move, he fired him. Berk continued to lease the building in his own name, and opened his own club, the Comedy Company, Inc., there. Hellenbrand sued Berk for an injunction to prevent Berk from leasing the building. Comedy Cottage, Inc. v. Berk, 145 III.App.3d 355, 495 N.E.2d 1006, Web 1986 III.App.Lexis 2486 (Appellate Court of Illinois).

In his book 1984, George Orwell creates a fictional world with a strict and secretive form of government which seeks to control its citizens. Some of the situations he includes in his book are reminiscent of things learned in a high school history classroom. Other characteristics of his secret government include purely wicked and new ideas. Orwell explores various kinds of betrayal, including self-betrayal to heighten the mood of loneliness and alienation in 1984. Through his writing, he supplies readers with an imaginative world that some may fear could become a reality someday.

Betrayal is something that is a recurring topic of discussion within the entire novel of 1984. Betrayal starts in the beginning of the novel and eventually ends at the end of the book when Winston betrays everything that he once was completely against and then joins with the party. Betrayal is something that not only just affects one character but is also changes the whole novel and how you look at characters and how you judge what they do. The government/party make everyone crazy and feed false information to everyone and everything that breathes. Force feeding non valuable information and propaganda can only make people crazy and make them betray one another. The thought police completely make everyone scared because they feel as if they have no secrets that they can keep and that someone is constantly watching over them making sure nothing is done that shouldn't be.

aniya nelson 11-27 -17 The book Fahrenheit 451 is about burning books and people betraying each other through certain problems. Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury. It's about how they weren't allowed to have books and other situations about depending on each other because Montag stole a book and didn't tell somebody he stole a book. In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury uses betrayal in several ways to illustrate his stance on burning books through conflict, and exposition.

Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon depicts the fallacious logic of a totalitarian regime through the experiences of Nicolas Salmanovitch Rubashov. Rubashov had fought in the revolution and was once part of the Central Committee of the Party, but he is arrested on charges of instigating attempted assassinations of No. 1, and for taking part in oppositional, counter-revolutionary activities, and is sent to a Soviet prison. Rubashov, in his idle pacing throughout his cell, recollects his past with the Party. He begins to feel impulses of guilt, most especially in those moments he was required to expel devoted revolutionaries from the Party, sending them to their death. These

Nicole Richie once said “ It’s hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it.”This quote is saying to me that even though someone has been by your side for years, they can still be the one to turn around and stab you in the back. In my view, besides the physical violence, the worst thing a person can do is Treachery, because the emotional after match can be mentally destructive, once you stab someone in the back, it only hurts more to take the knife out of their back, and it can destroy future friendships and relationships.

In Things Fall Apart, Umuofia is representative of Africa. Achebe writes the novel in the tumultuous time of postcolonial Africa. Western literature at this time has not been friendly towards the African nations. European arrogance and unfamiliar African mythologies and religions create stereotypical ideas about the Sub-Saharan cultures and lifestyles. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of darkness specifically aids in the Western mindset about Africa. Conrad’s aim, although perhaps not primarily meant to degrade Africa, nevertheless paints a picture of African citizens and cultures in a light that Achebe could not accept . In a conscious effort to counter the influence of novels like Heart of Darkness, Achebe decides to write Things Fall Apart as an attempt

. Friends betray you. Girlfriends/ boyfriends can cheat. Betrayal can occur because of money in relationships and friendships when an individual needs financial help. Betrayal feeds the human ego (selfishness). Is it natural or human nature? Or is this made worse in madness and unstable mental health states? In Hamlet people were maybe not mentally stable. Prince Hamlet thought of betrayal even though it may not have been considered betrayal to others. The Queen marrying Claudius was probably what people expected to happen. People jump to this conclusion today too. Taylor Swift made betrayal and revenge popular in her song Bad Blood - "did you have to do this? I was thinking that you could be trusted. Did you have to ruin what was shiny? Now it's all rusted”. This goes back to Katy Perry’s and Taylor Swift dispute, a trio of dancers on Swift’s world tour had performed on Perry’s tour previously. Which then they were approached by Perry during middle of Swift’s tour. Which then caused bad blood and then lead to public controversy. It’s sad that people these days are so convicted to going into battle, and so skeptical about creating peace.