Why did Chris McCandless go into the wild?

The
two reasons that you have listed are good reasons for why Chris McCandless wanted to go out into
the wilderness. Keep in mind that McCandless's passion to be out in the wilderness did end up
killing him; however, he also managed to survive living in the wild for quite some time before
he even began his Alaskan debacle. McCandless passed away during the trip, so Krakauer couldn't
ask him why he chose to live like that. Readers are left to come up with our own reasons, but
McCandless's letter to Franz is really good support of the two reasons that your question has
already listed.

The very basic core of a mans living
spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new
experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for
each day to have a new and different sun.

Notice how
McCandless emphasizes the passionate pursuit of adventure. He longs for the endlessly changing
horizon. McCandless continues his letter...

Show how Orwell uses contrast as a means of effect in chapter 10. To what extent is it effective?

Book 2,
chapter 10 of s is a jarring turning point forand . The plot of the
chapter is something of a contrast in and of itselfthe languid, luxurious post-coital morning
exploding in Big Brothers troops bursting through the window. There are smaller moments of
contrast within the chapter. When Mr. Charrington reveals himself to be a member of the Thought
Police, he does so by reciting the end of a nursery rhyme: Here comes a candle to light you to
bed, here comes a chopper to chop off your head! The violent lyrics entangled with what is
supposed to be a ditty for children has a spooky contrastthe feeling of vile things hiding in
plain sight.

Another example of contrast earlier in the chapter is when
Winston notices the Prole woman out the window: The solid, contourless body, like a block of
granite, and the rasping red skin, bore the same relation to the body of a girl as the rose-hip
to the rose. Why should the fruit be held inferior to the flower? Winston comments that she is
beautiful even while He held Julias supple waist easily encircled by his arm. Julia and the
Prole woman are physical contrasts of each other, one being blown up to monstrous dimensions
by childbearing, then hardened, roughened by work, and the other being Julia, a character noted
for her classical, physical beauty. Butuses this contrast to make the point that the Prole woman
is the more beautiful of the two. She is free, in a manner of speaking, and her ability to have
children means that some part of her will live on. The contrast is so stark that it leads
Winston to remark on how meaningless the lives of Party members are, commenting, with Julia
agreeing: We are the dead.

Oedipus gives a practical set of reasons why he should seek out the murderer. List one of these reasons.

seeks
out Laius's murderer mainly to lift the terrible plague that's descended upon Thebes. At the
start of the play, Oedipus is petitioned by a number of desperate Theban citizens to save them
from this deadly epidemic. As king, Oedipus must do his duty. On a purely self-interested basis,
he must also get to the bottom of the matter if he's to keep his throne secure. If the plague
carries on much longer, then the populace will become more restless, making it more likely that
they'll try and replace Oedipus with...

Margaret Atwood says that in Never Let me Go, Ishiguro picks "a difficult subject; ourselves seen through a glass darkly." How far do you agree that...

Atwood
applies an interestingto her understanding of this novel. The reader does indeed look
"through a glass darkly" to see a version of humanity that is disturbing, but the word
glass can also be understood as a mirror rather than just something transparent, like a window.
In this glass, Atwood observes a reflection that is true in its darkness, which makes the
novel's themes all the more chilling.

In ,...

In the banquet scene, what complaint does Macbeth make about murdered men in Macbeth?

In Act
Three, Scene 4, complains that the murdered men, particularly , have come back
from the dead to haunt and terrify him. After briefly learning that the assassins
were able to kill Banquo but not his son, ,comments that he is experiencing feelings of fear and
uncertainty again. Macbeth then attends a feast with the nobles and begins to hallucinate.
Macbeth is terrified when he sees the ghost of Banquo sitting at the table. Upon noticing
Banquo's ghost, Macbeth begins speaking to the apparition which worries his wife.
Macbeth then complains to his wife that the murdered men no longer stay dead in their graves and
insist on haunting the living. He says,

"The time has been that, when the brains were out, the man would die, and there an
end. But now they rise again with twenty mortal murders on their crowns and push us from our
stools. This is more strange than such a murder is" (3.4.81-86).

Macbeth then gives a toast and Banquo's ghost returns once more.
Macbeth commands the ghost to leave and stay in its grave. After Banquo's ghost exits, Macbeth
explains to his guest that he is ill and the feast ends. 

Why does Oedipus blind himself in Oedipus Rex?

After he
accusesof trying to take his throne, and the seerof being blind to the truth in Scene
I--"Why, he is no more clairvoyant than I am!"-- comes to realize that in his
, he has ironically placed his maledictions upon himself rather than on the
seer or Creon. Before he learns the truth, Oedipus articulates this curse: 

May I never see the day! Never!

Rather let me
vanish from the race of men'

Than know the abomination destined me!

Then, in Scene 3, Oedipus learns the terrible truth and
exclaims,

O Light, may I look on you for the last
time!

I, Oedipus,

Oedipus, damned in his birth, in his
marriage damned,

Damned in his blood he shed with his own hand!

Truly, in this drama the words of a --"The greatest griefs are
those we cause ourselves"--explains the absolute despair of Oedipus and his
"madness" that "[L]eaped on" him and made him punish himself.  In Stophe 2,
he explains why he blinds himself,

How could I bear to
see

When all my sight was horror everywhere? 

Thus, Oedipus blinds himself in order to punish himself, and to prevent himself from
ever seeingand his children against whom he has sinned.  That is, since he has been
metaphorically blind for so long, he physically blinds himself in a gesture symbolic of his
ruin. This self-punishment also demonstrates the act of justice that Oedipus places upon
himself, for he believes his suffering is deserved since in his hubris he
has been convinced that he could end the plague of Thebes.  

What secret does Roger Chillingworth believe is buried in Dimmesdale's heart?

Quite
right, tthakker, I would add only that
the "A" has actually been created bywho has
seared and cut his own
flesh...