Character Analysis: Wicked This Way Comes
I find it clear that the main point that Ray Bradbury is trying to push across in Something
Wicked This Way Comes is that one should learn to appreciate what they have, and not strive to attain impossible flights of fancy. A reason for such that I will set forth is that often, when one attains something that seems impossible, a unknown, hefty price is exacted. Another is that oftentimes, your perceptions of how good what you have and don’t have are often clouded, until it is too late. Last, but not least, these desires are usually not grounded in reason, but a crazy desire, cooked up within the mind’s eye.
It is universal that when we have desires for something unattainable, we do not often dwell on the downsides. Therefore, when the option …show more content…
This is seen in the following quote: "The little girl wept, feeling them near, but not looking up yet. '...me...me...help me...nobody'll help me...me...I don't like this...'" This is a clear cut example. Miss Foley, once hungering for youth, now a broken girl, for she sees now the blessings of middle age, not just the curses of it. And this is once again seen in the following: "'But they're careful not to tell one thing to people who go riding to its music.' 'What?' asked Jim. 'Why, that if you're a miserable sinner in one shape, you're miserable sinner in another. Changing sizes doesn't change the brain. If I made you 25 tomorrow, Jim, your thoughts would still be boy thoughts, and it'd show! Order if they turned me into a boy of ten this instant, my brain would still be 50 and that boy with act funnier and older and weirder than any boy ever. Then, too, time's out of joint another way.'" From here, we can this that all pipe dreams do is strip you of your blessings, and bring you untold amounts of curses. The fact stands; when you want something you can’t possibly have, you are blinded to the beauty of the things you have, and does not realize their glory until they are
Wicked This Way Comes is that one should learn to appreciate what they have, and not strive to attain impossible flights of fancy. A reason for such that I will set forth is that often, when one attains something that seems impossible, a unknown, hefty price is exacted. Another is that oftentimes, your perceptions of how good what you have and don’t have are often clouded, until it is too late. Last, but not least, these desires are usually not grounded in reason, but a crazy desire, cooked up within the mind’s eye.
It is universal that when we have desires for something unattainable, we do not often dwell on the downsides. Therefore, when the option …show more content…
This is seen in the following quote: "The little girl wept, feeling them near, but not looking up yet. '...me...me...help me...nobody'll help me...me...I don't like this...'" This is a clear cut example. Miss Foley, once hungering for youth, now a broken girl, for she sees now the blessings of middle age, not just the curses of it. And this is once again seen in the following: "'But they're careful not to tell one thing to people who go riding to its music.' 'What?' asked Jim. 'Why, that if you're a miserable sinner in one shape, you're miserable sinner in another. Changing sizes doesn't change the brain. If I made you 25 tomorrow, Jim, your thoughts would still be boy thoughts, and it'd show! Order if they turned me into a boy of ten this instant, my brain would still be 50 and that boy with act funnier and older and weirder than any boy ever. Then, too, time's out of joint another way.'" From here, we can this that all pipe dreams do is strip you of your blessings, and bring you untold amounts of curses. The fact stands; when you want something you can’t possibly have, you are blinded to the beauty of the things you have, and does not realize their glory until they are