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- 1151: The Harness Conspiracy
- ... true in literature from many different times and many different authors. This theme is definitely a part of "The Harness," for within the story lies a conspiracy. Emma, in cooperation with Peter, staged her own death for the purpose of making money. Emma wanted Peter to plant sweet peas on all their land and get rich. She knew that if Peter decided he was going to plant sweet peas, everyone else ... demand one can easily see that if everyone planted sweet peas, the prices would plummet, and leave Emma and Peter with less money than they started with. She then devised the plan to fake her death so Peter would lose some credibility afterwards. Because of him losing this credibility, people would look to the other highly respected farmer in town, Clark DeWitt. They would plant whatever Clark planted, which just turned ... a business trip, Emma was ailing for a month or two . . . " (40). She never got sick when Peter was away on "business." They kept this charade of her "illness" to give the impression that her death was imminent. It is also peculiar that Emma always did her own work and refused to hire a girl, but the house was described as the epitome of cleanliness. If she was so weak ...
- 1152: Catcher In The Rye 7
- ... children innocent and pure. There are several quotes and examples to support this in Catcher in the Rye like when the kid was singing in the park of Radio City, the school scene, Allie s death and Holden s rage over Allie s death. Allie s death helps make Holden s decision about wanting to be a catcher in the rye. Holden wished he could have caught Allie before he fell off the cliff and died. Holden wanted to save Allie ...
- 1153: Hamlet: Growing Pains
- ... entrapped in a world of evil that is not of his own creation. He must oppose this evil, which permeates his seemingly star-struck life from many angles. His dealings with his father's eerie death cause Hamlet to grow up fast. His family, his sweetheart, and his school friends all appear to turn against him and to ally themselves with the evil predicament in which Hamlet finds himself. Hamlet makes ... I.i. 8-9). This readies the audience for the appearance of the ghost which will represent the perversion of the harmonious order that Hamlet must restore. Hamlet's reactions to his father's questionable death begin to reveal his immaturity. Suffering from an unnatural grief over his father's death, Hamlet lets his immaturity be revealed when he says the death was a will most incorrect to heaven' (I.ii. 129). As of now, Hamlet has a ...heart unfortified, a mind impatient, / An understanding ...
- 1154: Frankenstein 4
- ... he fashioned out of clay the first woman, Pandora. Thereafter, men would no longer be born directly from the earth; now through women, they would undergo birth by procreation, and consequently old age, suffering and death. She was given a box which contained all manner of misery and evils and was responsible for letting them escape, to torment humankind forever. Secondly, Zeus caught Prometheus, chained him to a rock, and each ... deathbed, Victor asks them, Did you not call this a glorious expedition? ..... You were hereafter to be hailed as the benefactor of your species; your names adored, as belonging to the brave men who encountered death and honour, and the benefit of mankind (214). Despite Victor s rousing speech, the crew resolve to return to the safety and warmth of Mother England , no longer able to call themselves true men . Or ... might bestow upon humankind: Wealth was an 3. inferior object; but what glory would attend the discovery, if I could banish disease from the human frame, and render man invulnerable to any but a violent death! (40). And like Prometheus, he is able to fashion a living being from inaminate parts. But here he has made a double transgression. Not only has he gone against nature, and circumvented the act ...
- 1155: Romeo and Juliet: Night - Rejoice or Rebel?
- ... Romeo and Juliet night has a positive image, a welcomed time for love, protection and exchanging of covenants, while in Night the image is portrayed in a negative way, a time for fear, suffering, and death. Night in the great romances is a greeted time of romance and in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet a time to hide from the harsh reality of the outside world. Juliet greatly yearns for the ... night's cloak to hide me from their eyes..." (Shakespeare Act II Scene ii:74) Night, although it can be a time of love and happiness, can also be the complete opposite --- fear, suffering, and death. Elie Wiesel uses stunning, vivid descriptions to show the readers the negative side of night, the side probably most metaphorically associated with night. Night can bring on great fear, whether on a lesser scale during ... the book, when the Fascists are slowly taking control of Elie's town. Elie's family and their fellow townsfolk did not dare go out on the streets after six o'clock for fear of death. Later in the book there is a lot of fear leading up to the selection, determining who would keep on strenuously working and who would be sent to the crematories. "It was my turn..... ...
- 1156: Creation As Seen Through Greco
- ... creation is an excellent example of how only a few things are created instead of all things from Chaos, eventually, Nyx and Erebus was born. Nyx was Night, and Erebus is the "unfathomable depth were death dwells." This was all, and there was nothing else. Then from Night and Death, Love, or Eros, and Aether, or "upper air", was born, and that's when things started to turn around, bringing beauty and order, as Love created Light and Day. Nyx, alone, was the mother of Hypnos, Thanatos, and Moros, who are "sleep", "death" and "doom." In some instances, she is also the mother of The Fates and Nemesis (3). Only two basic concepts are created from the void known as Chaos, night and the underworld. The other ...
- 1157: Socrates
- THE LIFE AND DEATH OF SOCRATES Philosophy was both serious and dangerous, Socrates chose to ignore both. Ignoring the first made him one of the most engaging of all philosophers, ignoring the second was to cost him his life ... vote was that thirty more people found him guilty than not. To this his response was along the lines that he did not deserve anything, for he had done no wrong and was afraid of death by Meletus hand due to the fact that he did not know if that was good or bad. Socrates turning to his "friends"(those who did not condemn him) that death is either a state of nothingness or unconsciousness or a passage of the soul to another world. His last words to them were: "The hour of our departure has arrived, and we must go ...
- 1158: Buddha
- ... again, returned to the palace to reflect on sickness. On his third trip to the park, Siddhartha approached a funeral in a garden and was educated by the charioteer about how every man must experience death. Finally, on the fourth day, the young prince saw a shaven-headed man wearing a yellow robe. He was amazed and impressed by how peaceful the man seemed; he carried with him only a begging ... him milk to aid his hunger. Gaining back his strength he decided to abandon the teachings that he had learned thus far and walked to a Bo Tree where he would stay until enlightenment or death. While Siddhartha meditated, the God of Evil, Mara, who saw the attempt of the prince to reach his goal, visited him. Mara attacked Siddhartha with several demons, but there was a force of goodness surrounding ... to ignore his lusts and enter into a deeper stage of thought. At this point, Siddhartha is able to recall all of his previous lives and gains the knowledge of the cycle of birth and death. He now casts off the ignorance, which has led his to great passion for his self and bounded him to the suffering of Samsara. This marks the beginning of Buddhism, when Siddhartha becomes the ...
- 1159: Beloved 2
- ... birth to her fourth child. After a short period of recovering in the free states, her former owner tries to recapture her, which drives her in the attempt to kill her children, resulting in the death of one daughter. Finding release from the death-penalty, she ends up living alone with her daughter in a haunted house. When Paul D, a former slave and friend of Sethe returns, the ghost, Sethe's murdered child, is not finally successful in ...
- 1160: Famous People With Mental Illnesses
- ... quipping that he'd "give 'em their money's worth" if the crowds came out to see him. Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848) was a world famous opera singer. Like Piersall Gaetano suffered from Bipolar depression. Death to close family members plagued Gaetano throughout his life. He met his wife Virginia Vasselli while he was in Rome in the 1820's and later married her in 1828. They had three children, none of whom survived. His parents died in the mid 1830's. A year after his parents death, his wife succumbed to a cholera epidemic. Donizetti himself suffered from cerebro-spinal syphilis. Symptoms of his illness became evident as early as 1843, and by 1845 his condition deteriorated to the point that he was institutionalized for almost a year and a half. Friends in Bergamo finally arranged for Donizetti to be brought back to his home town, where he stayed at Baroness Scotti's palace until his death in 1848. Robert Schumann (1810 to 1856) was one of the first Romantic musical composer. Born in Zwickau, Germany in 1810, Robert Schumann stared his musical education on the piano. The son of a ...
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