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- 1001: Hamlet: Emotions of Despair, Sadness, Anger, and Inner Peace
- ... when one looks at the horrible conflicts Hamlet goes through. Sorrow, perhaps the most evident emotion, is very well developed throughout the play. Initially, the only cause of Hamlet's sorrow is his father's death. However, after reading Act 1, scene 2, we see in Hamlet's asides that another source of his melancholy is his mother's hasty marriage to Claudius, the new king of Denmark. Further, when Queen Gertrude asks her son why his father's death "seems" so important, he replies, "Seems, madam? Nay it is. I know not 'seems'." In addition, Shakespeare reveals another source of sadness; now Hamlet is alone, with the most loved character in his life, Ophelia ... toward Claudius and when Gertrude denounces his murder, he states it's just as bad to "kill a king and marry his brother." Furthermore, when Hamlet sees Fortinbras risking 20,000 men to revenge a death, it pushes Hamlet to action. Finally, after the Queen has been killed by the poison Claudius meant for the Prince, Hamlet takes a very decisive action and in a fit of justified outrage strikes ...
- 1002: The Life of Emily Dickinson
- ... to find morning. It can be inferred that morning, something so common place and taken for granted, cannot be grasped by even the greatest so called minds. Emily also saw the frightful part of nature, death was an extension of the natural order. Probably the most prominent theme in her writing is death. She took death in a relatively casual way when compared to the puritan beliefs that surrounded her life. Death to her is just the next logical step to life and compares it to a carriage ride, or ...
- 1003: The Cause of Macbeth's Ruin
- ... every king should or else their reign is deemed as insignificant. In order to solve this problem Macbeth has Banquo and his son Fleance murdered, so that Banquo's line will never become kings. His death is an example of Macbeth's uncontrollable ambitions because Banquo went from being one of Macbeth's close companions to an enemy all in the name of power. The death of Macduff's family is another prime example of Macbeth's uncontrollable desires. In Macbeth's second meeting with the witches he is told to beware of Macduff by the apparition. Up to this point ... Sc.4,Ln.132) in the home of Macduff as a spy. After finding out from the apparitions that Macduff will be indeed a real threat, Macbeth has his whole family brutally slaughtered. The aimless death of Macduff's family proves that Macbeth fears Macduff and thinks that the death of his loved ones will show his powers and thus deter Macduff's intentions towards Macbeth. Their deaths gave him ...
- 1004: Analysis
- ... his father treated him; his father made him feel as though he was not wanted by the way he treated him. His suffering and depression would make him think of disturbing thoughts like his own death. In "Metamorphosis," Gregor had a slow and painful death. First, he began to lose his vision. Second, the apple that his father had thrown at him began to rot. He was also cut by a piece of glass from a bottle of alcohol, which made him bleed heavily. On his way home from getting cut, he gets stuck in the door. All of these occurrences and descriptions suggest what Kafka thought of. They suggest a slow a painful death, or maybe even Kafka's own death. In addition to his descriptions, he also describes how he feels that nobody cares about him. Anyone would expect that a sudden death would shock the family ...
- 1005: Irony In Poe's Writings
- ... irony in this story is when Fortunato says he drinks to the dead in the vaults, and Montresor declares, “And I to your long life.” This is ironic because Montresor is thinking of Fortunato’s death at that moment. Fortunato’s connoisseurship in wine was an irony as well, perhaps the biggest. It is what led him into the trap, so Montresor could commit the murder. “The Cask of Amontillado” is ... dresses him, along with his ministers, as apes, actually showing their true character. This is a tremendous irony. “Hop-Frog” could be considered one of Poe’s most ironic stories. “The Masque of the Red Death” was in third person, just as “Hop- Frog”, and just as ironic. An obvious irony was in Prince Prospero’s name, for he was not prosperous at all. Poe describes Prince Prospero as happy, dauntless and sagacious, ironically Prince Prospero was none. His country was half-dead from the Red Death, which would certainly make him unhappy. He basically deserted his people and ran from the Red Death- not the most accurate definition of dauntless. Moreover, he was definitely not sagacious, as he spent his ...
- 1006: Essay over The Epic of Gilgamesh
- ... interpreted the other way. Throughout the book, many things cause Gilgamesh to change. He gains a friend, he makes a name for himself by killing Humbaba, and he tries to become immortal because of the death of Enkidu. Through these main actions his personality changes and he becomes a better person. First, the quest for immortality after the death of Enkidu shows that Gilgamesh has changed. Gilgamesh becomes frightened when he realizes that he isn't immortal. After the death of Enkidu, Gilgamesh tries to find immortality by trying to cross the ocean to find it. He sounds pathetic as he rambles of his reason for trying to find everlasting life. His state of ...
- 1007: Good Vs. Evil Miltons Paradise
- ... Satan, he quickly adjourned the meeting, and the plans to accomplish his idea were begun (74-75). The final two essential characters that interacted with Satan representing sin were his daughter Sin and incestuous son Death, showing the reader the perversity in evil. Sin was Satan's daughter, born from his head in Heaven, only to fall with him into Hell. The poem described her as a woman, beautiful above the ... of her stomach. These hellhounds aided Sin in her main duty, which was to guard the gates of Hell (John). Sin carried on an incestuous relationship with her father, which brought forth a son named Death (Blessington 40-41). Death, described by the poem as a threatening, shadowy figure, carried a dart as a weapon and even threatened his father with it. Death had two specific tasks, first to serve as Satan's jailer, ...
- 1008: David And Hamlet
- ... their natures . Both Hamlet and David are similar because they are conflicted by foils and similar in the nature of this tragedy. Each has deep inner problems of conflict. Hamlet is first tormented by the death of his father, the king of Denmark. Then he is cast into utter agony when Gertrude, the mother he loves dearly is hastily married to his uncle, Claudius. Through a ghostly revelation, Hamlet learns that ... Laertes father, Polonius, thinking it to be Claudius. Hamlet quickly brushes it aside. He also sends his friends , Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, to their deaths when he learns of Claudius plot to have him put to death when he arrived in England as a so called diplomat. Hamlet cannot decide between a life of action and revenge, or contemplation and fate and he is genuinely concerned with the deeper truths upon which ... Canaan, in conflict, through a slow moving metaphor from the valley to the mountain. David is a deeply intellectual character and like Hamlet has a conflicted dichotomous nature. One of his difficulties arise from the death of his girlfriend Effie. He feels guilty and responsible for. Also, when his friend Toby comes to the valley for the first time, David is torn between making Toby feel comfortable, while at the ...
- 1009: The Good Death -
- Terrorism is a highly effective tool in getting worldly attention but if we increase the punishments we can then decrease the amount of terrorism. In order to stop terrorism we need to understand what terrorism is. Terrorism is ...
- 1010: Contrasting Views In Home Buri
- ... such works, conceived from his and his wife's anguish at the loss of their first-born son as well as from the estrangement between his sister-in-law and her husband due to the death of their child. In Donald J. Greiner's commentary on Frost's works, "The Indespensible Robert Frost," it is revealed that "Mrs. Frost could not ease her grief following Elliot's death, and Frost later reported that she knew then that the world was evil. Amy in "Home Burial" makes the same observati Often it seems that writers have their own personal inspiration that fuels a great ... such works, conceived from his and his wife's anguish at the loss of their first-born son as well as from the estrangement between his sister-in-law and her husband due to the death of their child. In Donald J. Greiner's commentary on Frost's works, "The Indespensible Robert Frost," it is revealed that "Mrs. Frost could not ease her grief following Elliot's death, and Frost ...
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