The Themes Of Jack Torrance

In Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men the narrator, Jack Burden attempts to distance himself from any darkness surrounding him and his actions, yet simultaneously disclaims all responsibility. Throughout the novel he accepts human responsibilities and dismisses the moral relativism and “The Great Twitch.” Jack is Willie Stark's political right-hand man, comes from a prominent family and knows many of the most important people in the state. He lacks his ambition and his responsibilities. By the end of the novel jack is transformed by different events like departure of Ellis Burden, the case of Judge Irwin and his relation with Anne Stanton that gives him a chance to live his life with a different manner.

The Shining, one of Stephen King’s most famous novels, was inspired by The Stanley Hotel (in the novel, the Overlook Hotel), where the writer stayed for a night. At the time, he and his wife were the only guests in the hotel. According to Stephen King, that night he had a strange dream about his son “running through the corridors, looking back over his shoulder, eyes wide, screaming. He was being chased by a fire-hose.” (Beahm 1998)

In all works of literature (fiction and non-fiction) individuals experience certain situations, which define their character. These experiences can be self-initiated or based on factors beyond his or her control. They can also strengthen one’s character or exploit certain weaknesses. Certain situations and experiences in life can positively or negatively define an individual.

I am going to start by talking about is the Id. The Id is our instinctual part of our personality that we have at the start of birth. The Id only seeks pleasure and acts on impulse (Rathus 397). Jack best fits as the the Id. His primitive instincts kick in and he becomes a savage and has a thirst for power. The first

Contemporary Literary Criticism, vol. 341, Literary Resource Center, Accessed 6 Nov. 2017. Thomas Whissen shares a deeper look into the critically acclaimed, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. In Whissen’s writing, he describes how the book is a depiction of a modern morality play. Kesey’s writing gives his readers a relatable, savior of the institution, Randle McMurphy. Kesey also delights his readers with a mysterious, yet decisive character in Chief Bromden. Whissen gives insight on how this book became a world renown cult classic representing true evil that lives inside all of us. Thomas is able to clearly compare the writing of Kesey to the infamous Adolf Hitler and the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps. Throughout the book the reader is able to realize that Kesey’s main idea was to develop a type of good vs evil or conformity vs nonconformity and Whissen is able to demonstrate multiple examples through his representation of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. One of the many examples Whissen provides is how McMurphy is able, in such a short time, to change the whole structure of the ward. McMurphy is able to change the ideologies of all the men in the institution and encourage non-conformism of the men through a series of protests and strikes. Mr. Whissen is able to bring this to light by saying that even though someone is condemned by society they can still rebel and put a dent in society's

characters) that he instills in the reader a sense of understanding of his motives. Unlike

Two of the primary characters, Jack and Ralph, who constantly fight to gain authority and respect from the boys on the island. Jack’s way of government is significantly based on dictatorship, he is constantly fighting against Ralph’s democratic ideas. When the boy’s become two rival groups, innocent and moral characters suffer the consequences of their actions. ( insert quote).

This is aided by the fact that the narrator’s point of view invokes a sense of familiarity with the reader. The reader empathizes with him as they understand how betrayal can affect someone. Although our narrator initially seems to be the protagonist in this story, he ultimately becomes the antagonist. At the end of the story, the irony and the feeling of dread come to a head

People in every decade and every place have had problems or fears they had to live with. To cope with their issues, individuals have turned to crime, drugs, therapy, and many other methods, some ways are good and some are bad. To deal with his issues and fears, Stephen King turned to writing horror stories. Through the character Jack Torrance in Stephen King’s novel The Shining, King is able to project his life as a writer, display the hardships he went through, and reveal his writing persistence in the novel.

In the book, the author William Golding, describes jack as “ - a boy with a confident stride, as though his cap badge was golden. And a fair-haired boy. He was a tall, think, and bony; and his hair was red beneath the black cap. His face was crumpled and freckled, and ugly with silliness. He had two light blue eyes.” He was a boy with already so much anger inside of him, although in the beginning he could tame it, but he slowly loses his control.He thought himself as a boy who had a right to have so much power, and he would get it in anyway possible. He could not care less about the consequences just as long as he succeeded to obtain his way.

Men like Father are afraid of the change of the new century and are opposed to progression and modernization. Doctorow’s use of celebrities and family titles as his characters give a diverse plotline and allows the reader to think on a higher level to understand the conflicting stories. Doctorow uses Father to represent the upper class through Father’s hypocrisy towards race, depression, the common family structure, and new changes that are coming of the early 1900s.

Characterization works well to explain the theme because it really makes it stand out. It does a good job of showing how jack evolves into a more evil being, and how an event like getting trapped on an island can force this evolution. The quotes do the same, they show his evolution. The quotes that have been chosen aren't showing the worst he is, but just a fraction of how evil the was. There are many different types of traumatizing events, and not all trigger one’s bad side. For example, something as simple as getting called names can trigger this forced evolution. This is shown through the many school shootings, stabbings, and etc., usually, the person who committed the crime had something like that going on. Because they trigger such reactions, a person should not be put through so much trauma, even if they don’t have this said bad

In the novel, Jack is a character who has a lot of id in his personality.

In Horror, characters frequently make active decisions that take them directly into the monster’s literal or metaphorical lair. In contrast, a thriller protagonist is frequently drawn against his/her will into the antagonist’s evil plan. In other words, the antagonist drives the action in the Thriller genre; the protagonist is generally unsuspecting and would have lived a “normal life” had the antagonist not kicked everything off. (Hay)

The availability of alcohol being cause of their inaugural sex, as they drink too much that night, mitigates the responsibilities of their alternative desire-Jack didn’t want to spend the night with sheep. Supporting the view, the struggle of Jack’s behavior towards masculinity by showing anger, denial, and physical violence and Ennis’s turning out into storm, punching a roughneck and then beaten, the screenplay and film again participates in an apparent endorsement of traditional masculine behavior. Traditionally the masculinity is measures as a tendency of one to give a harsh pain to another man. Although this role of both subjects is less cited, but less occurrence of an event or few expositions from subject doesn’t deny the existence of occurrence at all. These are some various aspects of traditional masculinity both characters, Jack and Ennis are