Guilt In Mary And The Narrator

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Individuals will react to guilt in different ways. Mary and the Narrator both display guilt in their own different and unique ways. Marry doesn’t feel any guilt up until the moment of coming home from the grocery to find her husband dead by her hand. However, she manages to string out her lie and get away with the murder for the fear of her child’s life. However, the narrator had a less important motive for the cover up for his crime ‘there was no reason for what I did. I did not hate the man; I even loved him. I did not want his money. I think it was his eye. His eye of a vulture’ in this part of the text the reader gets a clear essence of what the narrator is like and what he is capable of. Mary was glad she had killed her husband and essentially

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Inequality In Invisible Man

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above all else, a buddy with whom he can share discussions with. His excitement at having Victor appear on his vessel indicates his wish for a friend, as does his terrible frustration when Victor passes away. In this way Robert is a trustworthy narrator because he too understands the loneliness felt by Victor and the creature as well as Victor's drive of adventure and discovery. After Victor creates and shuns his creation, the creature turned to killing all of Frankenstein's loved ons. The creature…

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