The cruelty of war, the power of an alliance and the honor of a man are vividly described in Hernado Tellez short essay "Just Lather, That All". In This short fiction story/essay Tellez tells a story that seems to real. It is almost as if he was describing what is going on today in Central and Southern American countries, such as Colombia. His story/essay is about one man who is caught in a dilemma during an encounter with his enemy. The dilemma of this man is his own conscious.
It is strange how one mans conscious can go trough so many things, such as contradicting and asserting itself. And in this story/essay this occurs a lot as most of the story/essay is told from the conscious of the character. The character/man is a local barber who has great pride on his work, which is captured in a quote from pg. 700: "I am a good barber, the best in town, if I may say so". He is also part of an alliance of rebels .
The dilemma of the barber starts when a Military group enters his work. The group is a team of soldiers whom haunts and kills rebels; and at the top of this group is a Captain named Torrez. Captain Torrez is a men who has a really bad image, he is painted in such a way that he resembles Fidel Castro in a line from pg. 699: " he took off the bullet-studded belt that his gun holster dangled from. He hung it up on a wall hook and placed his military cap over it". The barber is not pleased at all with this man being at his work "Damn him for coming because I"m a revolutionary-(pg.701). .
The first thing that crosses the barber's conscious is to kill the captain or to not kill the captain. This question in his mind is what begins the entire dilemma. He had never had the captain so close to him and it was not known that he was a revel. But the barber knew one thing from the beginning; Torrez was a customer in his shop and not an enemy. This is clear through the entire story/essay as he quotes many times "I took a sheet out of the drawer and knotted it around my customer's neck"(pg.
The only good Indian is a dead Indian and to save the man the Indian must be killed. ... When they regained conciousness he brought them back. ... The Indians must die if the man wants to live. ... Indians no longer felt like Indains but instead felt like an imataion of a white man. ...
WIthin Jekyll's statement he mention his realization of the dual parts of man. Jekyll sees "that man is not truly one, but truly two." ... This causes Jekyll's concious to suffer on account of all of Hyde's evil deeds. To console Jekyll's concious, he would "undo the evil done by Hyde." ... This was obviously a path in which man was not meant to pass. ...
Macbeth by William Shakespeare is an outstanding and tragic story of an noble man who later became a cruel and unmercifull guy. This hero was Macbeth a courageous, brave man and a great leader. ... Before killing his first victim Macbeth is fighting with his concious but later he starts killing everybody without regreating it. Macbeth was one of the strongest and courageous man in the world, he was one of the leaders of an army. ... At the end Macbeth became so isolated that he couln't trust in anyone anymore, he became an isolated and cruel man. ...
While some people were laughing at how pathetic the man was, this made me realise how each person is capable of inflicting the same amount of violence on another individual. The main tactics this man faced was pressure and not having to feel responsible for his personal actions.It showed that certain people may have to reject their moral consciousness to do what they are told by an authoritative figure .Even though in different environments we all fall victim to things everyday and . This helps us better to understand this mans tough situation.The ultimate point is that we are responsible fo...
The Conscious of a Man The cruelty of war, the power of an alliance and the honor of a man are vividly described in Hernado Tellez short essay "Just Lather, That All". ... His story/essay is about one man who is caught in a dilemma during an encounter with his enemy. The dilemma of this man is his own conscious. It is strange how one mans conscious can go trough so many things, such as contradicting and asserting itself. ... The barber is not pleased at all with this man being at his work "Damn him for coming because I"m a revolutionary-(pg.701). ...
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man- by James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man -1914, 1915- draws on many details from Joyce's early life. ... He was one of the first writers to make extensive and convincing use of stream of conciousness, a stylistic form in which written prose represents the characters' stream of inner thoughts and perceptions rather than render these characters form an objective, external perspective. ... A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man tells the story of Stephen Dedalus, the main character of the novel. ... Joyce paints a ...
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