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- 3811: Sir Gawain And The Green Knight
- ... with love. The ages in which these stories were written plays a major part in the messages that are trying to be conveyed through the author’s poetry. Beowulf was probably written around 400 A. D. when the main idea was survival of the fittest. The monsters Beowulf fought were actual monsters, but there was an everyday battle against plague and disease, hunger, and thieves who will stop at nothing to ... Saxon’s everyday life. They would have never been able to relate to Sir Gawain and his struggles internally. Sir Gawain’s time was by far less threatening. King Arthur was in charge, and every day seemed to be like one right out of a fairy tale. They ignored and forgot monsters, dragons, or plagues; there were only noble men, and great feasts. With no obvious threat on Camelot, King Arthur ...
- 3812: Siddhartha
- ... of losing the Self, but every time he couldn't completely flee from it. He always came back to the Self in the end. He wonders if he came nearer to his goal. Govinda, one day said that he wanted to go and listen to the Buddha's teachings with Siddhartha. Buddha had a lot of names like Gotama, the Illustrious one, the Sakyamuni, and he was rumored that he was ... back again to the river. Vasudeva was not a thinker, but was a great listener. Siddhartha decides to stay with him. He listened to the river with Vasudeva and learned a lot from it. One day, Kamala came to their hut, with Siddhartha's son. She was bitten by a snake and soon dies from it. Siddhartha loved his son, but the son was unfriendly and sulky. He was accustomed to ... from the river he learns how to heal the wound and how to feel no sorrow. Siddhartha kept on listening to the river with Vasudeva. He heard thousand of voices from the river. But one day, when he mastered the art of listening, he realizes that all of the voices were interwoven, interlocked, and entwined in a thousand ways. And that all the voices, goals, yearnings, sorrows, pleasures, good, and ...
- 3813: Shawshank Redemption
- ... many of them mutual friends, but each man spent his time with only one. That friend for Brooks was Jake, a crow. Brooks had raised Jake from the time he was a hatchling until the day he released him on the same day he was freed from prison. For Red, his companion was Andy Dufresne – an ex-banker who shaped rocks. In many ways, the friends that Brooks and Red choose are symbolic looks into their futures. Brooks ... so it is not surprising that Brooks later comes to embrace it. Literary references aside, Brooks does not make it on the outside simply because he is alone. He worked bagging groceries and returned each day from work to a strange, empty apartment room. Brooks tried to find purpose in his life by going to the park to feed the birds, wistfully hoping that Jake would come and visit. The ...
- 3814: Shawshank Redemption
- ... many of them mutual friends, but each man spent his time with only one. That friend for Brooks was Jake, a crow. Brooks had raised Jake from the time he was a hatchling until the day he released him on the same day he was freed from prison. For Red, his companion was Andy Dufresne – an ex-banker who shaped rocks. In many ways, the friends that Brooks and Red choose are symbolic looks into their futures. Brooks ... so it is not surprising that Brooks later comes to embrace it. Literary references aside, Brooks does not make it on the outside simply because he is alone. He worked bagging groceries and returned each day from work to a strange, empty apartment room. Brooks tried to find purpose in his life by going to the park to feed the birds, wistfully hoping that Jake would come and visit. The ...
- 3815: Robert Gray
- Poetry essay, Robert Gray. Question: Poetry can help us think and feel in new ways about every day experiences. Show how four of Gray's poems offer a new prospective on everyday experiences. One of the major effects of poetry is to take the reader to another place. To have one look at ... prospective on the everyday experience of work for the reader. This is done by the shocking images and feelings shown in the poem Meatworks. This poem uses the experience of a worker, from his first day, to the repetition of life, which he goes through. Firstly, Gray uses vivid imagery to set the scene of the "meatworks". A place in which the slaughtering of animals is done. And Gray introduces the main character, a new worker at this factory. Gray has the worker remember his first day, on which he broke a machine, after a stick slipped from his hand, and was grinded in the machine instead of the dead steaks. Gray uses the shocking images of the "sticky stench of ...
- 3816: Robert Browning
- ... peace, Robert Browning continued to face conflicts in his spiritual and religious future. In 1849, Robert Browning's mother died. One year later he published two of his less-famous poems, "Christmas Eve" and "Easter Day". These poems, due to their ambiguity, were neither extremely popular, nor critically praised. The two voices in Easter Day, the more powerful of the two poems, are often difficult to distinguish. While one maintains that it is difficult to lead a Christian life, the other scolds and argues that it is easy. These associations ... of Christianity states that "He who in all his works below adapted to the needs of man, Made love the basis of his plan...while man who was so fit instead to hate as every day gave proof"( line 981), and blames man alone for his fall. The other sees Christianity as the ultimate struggle: " With darkness, hunger toil, distress.. No ease henceforth, as one that's judged...shut from ...
- 3817: Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
- ... the warmth of God it grows cold, and without his guiding hand, all is confusion. For those in his fold, God will guide them to the right path. "And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so as to go by day and night." Exodus 13:21 In the poem, a white albatross appears and leads the ship out of the iceberg-infested waters. Showing no compassion, the mariner takes out his crossbow and kills the albatross ... and his burden, the dead albatross, fell into the sea. Blessed with grace by a saint above, he finally make his way home, and now tells his story to anyone who will listen, until the day he dies. Not all the different. Before someone is saved, they have sinned and carry their own heavy load. But when they ask for salvation, they are forgiven and their loads are taken away. ...
- 3818: Red Badge Of Courage
- ... of fear about death. Crane introduces gray in another way when he writes:" . . . he could see long, gray walls of vapor where lay battle lines" (105). These are the battle lines which will, later that day, go on to kill Jim Conklin, the tall soldier. This tragedy of the day is also foreshadowed by a "gray dawn" (67). On another day of intense battle there is a similar dawn: "Gray mists were slowly shifting before the first efforts of the sun rays. . . . The gaunt, careworn features and dusty figures were made plain by this quaint ...
- 3819: Pride And Prejudice - Marriage
- ... At that time Mr Collins was paying attention to Elizabeth. Charlotte ‘helps’ her friend. ‘She owed her greatest relief, Miss Lucas, who often joined them and good naturally engaged Mr Collins’ conversation to herself.’ The day Mr Collins proposes Charlotte is there. She overhears all the conversation and how Mr Collins withdraws his offer of marriage. She deliberately stays in the room and is pretending to look out of the window ... keeping Mr Collins company. Charlotte is really out to get Mr Collins, ‘its object was nothing less, tan to secure her from any return of Mr Collins addresses, by engaging them towards herself’. The next day Mr Collins goes to Lucas Lodge. Charlotte perceives him from an upper window and instantly sets out to meet him accidentally in the lane. Mr Collins proposes to Charlotte who immediately accepts. Charlotte knew how ... goes for walks. Colonel FitzWilliam tells Elizabeth the Darcy had stopped Bingley from ‘a most imprudent marriage’. Elizabeth is very angry indeed with Darcy and blames him for causing her sister great unhappiness. That same day Darcy proposes to her. He says that he has tried to suppress his feelings but cannot. ‘In vain have I struggled.’ What made him try to stamp out his love was the ‘inferiority’ of ...
- 3820: Pride And Prejudice
- ... educated woman could not support herself. Unless you are very wealthy woman or had very wealthy parents then marriage seems to be the only way you can live a decent life. Most people of the day thought that marriage "was the only honorable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune." It became a source of financial security that in many cases went no further. Elizabeth is the first woman ... marriage. Elizabeth's closest friend Charlotte is not as interested in the aspect of love and happiness that Elizabeth believes should come with marriage. She would probably better represent most of the women of the day. When Mr. Collins proposes to Charlotte she "accepted him solely from the pure and the disinterested desire of an establishment." Elizabeth is extremely upset that her friend could make such a decision only considering her ... your future happiness. Elizabeth claims that giving up love in marriage is "sacrific[ing] every better feeling to worldly advantage," but that was a choice every woman like her had to make. Women of the day seemed to have faced one of two constraints in marriage. Either they had to have a husband that made them happy, or they had to have a husband that had enough money and promise ...
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