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…their institutions. Voltaire uses mockery in his book Candide to express his bitterness towards nobility, philosophy, the church, and inhumane cruelty. Throughout the book we come across a lot of characters. One in which is a baron named Thunder-ten-tronckn…

…of cruelty...it is extremely necessary that he should not mind being thought cruel¡±(184). To maintain his power and to be the strongest, it is necessary to have all those evil characters to be aware of the others, to control them, or to destroy them without…

…, and runs. Edmund’s evil trickery continues to increase in its cruelty until he commits an inconceivable crime. Edmund has reached a point in his pursuit of power that he will stop at nothing to gain more. He writes another letter. This one is similar…

…admires him, as though his mercurial nature, his temper, his massive dreams and little cruelties, served her only as sharp reminders of the turbulent longings within him, longings which she shares but lacks the temperament to utter and follow to their end…

…Wuthering Heights is an attempt to understand and reconcile those natural forces within us with the expectations of society. Heathcliff is an example of the effects of cruelty, deprivation and alienation that are the by products of civilization…

…and there was slavery. With this slavery came accounts of cruelty and unnecessary violence. Without help from first hand accounts of slaves and activists, we would have never emerged from this dark era in American history. Proud American men and women joined the armed forces…

…. Many of Poe's tales are distinguished by the author's unique grotesque inventiveness in addition to his superb plot construction. Such stories include “The Pit and the Pendulum” (1842), a spine-tingling tale of cruelty and torture; “The Tell-Tale Heart…

…to the decisions of the United States government. Patriotism is staring unblinkingly into the face of history. It is to acknowledge the injustices and cruelties that have been a part of the nation's history, as well as the marvelous accomplishments. It is, most of all…

…. Holden is then expelled from the school, and starts to venture out the world on his own. He goes back down to New York, the dirt and grind capital of the world. He gets more and more sickened by the fakeness, and cruelty of the world. An example of this would…

…“They possessed another method of intoxication, which sharpened their cruelty, for if they used certain small toadstools . . . they would see a thousand visions and especially snakes . . . They called these mushrooms in their language teunamacatlth…