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- 1181: Phantasia For Elvira Shatayev
- "Phantasia for Elvira Shatayev" Love, fear, jealousy, courage and death all have a major role in Adrienne Rich's "Phantasia for Elvira Shatayev." Adrienne Rich takes us inside Shatayev's head and depicts her joys and feeling of triumph along with her lingering undertones of ... he went on the voyage with the ulterior motive of gaining fame, a selfish goal. These implications show a jealousy that may have clouded Elvira's once true love for her husband. The descriptions of death intense and at times beautiful. Rich's descriptions in the first stanza makes their deaths seem almost gentle. The picture given when Rich writes, "The cold felt cold until the wind grew colder then the ... degrees" the nemesis of her, "yes," her will. This "NO" a strong rival attacking her "yes" opens the door for, "the black hole sucking the world in." These are very powerful and violent descriptions of death. It seems that the loss of her "yes," the embodiment of her journey and the love for her team is more damaging than the loss of her own life. Beyond death there is a ...
- 1182: The Great Gatsby: Doubleness
- ... and customs of their parents and grandparents. After all, the older generation had led thousands of young men into the most brutal and senseless war in human history. People of Fitzgerald's age had seen death, and when they came back, they were determined to have a good time. "How you gonna keep 'em down on the farm, now that they've seen Paree" was one of the most popular songs ... of 1929 had ended America's decade of prosperity, and Zelda's breakdown in 1930 ended the Fitzgerald's decade as the symbol of The Jazz Age. The party was over. From 1930 until his death in Hollywood in 1940, Scott struggled to regain the stature he had earned with The Great Gatsby, but he never could. He wrote Tender is the Night, which is a beautiful novel, during the early ... attack on December 21, 1940. Even unfinished, The Last Tycoon is a fine novel, almost as good as Gatsby. But for a long time the world didn't know that. At the time of his death all of Fitzgerald's books were out of print. Scott who? Oh, that guy that used to write about the '20s. Well, he was much more than that, and during the 1950s and 1960s ...
- 1183: Beowulf And Hero Characterists
- ... He is able to use his super-human physical strength and courage to put his people before himself. He encounters hideous monsters and the most ferocious of beasts but he never fears the threat of death. His leadership skills are superb and he is even able to boast about all his achievements. Beowulf is the ultimate epic hero who risks his life countless times for immortal glory and for the good ... monster Grendel, who has been terrorizing the Danes for twelve years, with his bare hands by ripping off his arm. When Beowulf is fighting Grendel's mother, who is seeking revenge on her son's death, he is able to slay her by slashing the monster's neck with a Giant's sword that can only be lifted by a person as strong as Beowulf. When he chops off her head ... to battle one last time to fight a horrible dragon that is frightening all of his people. Beowulf is old and tired but he defeats the dragon in order to protect his people. Even in death he wished to secure safety for the Geats, so a tall lighthouse is built in order to help the people find there way back from sea. Today, people who contribute to their society are ...
- 1184: Frankenstein
- ... 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 ...
- 1185: Juvenile Justice System In America
- ... early statutes, however, the punishment of juvenile offenders until the 19th century was often severe. In the U.S., child criminals were treated as adult criminals. Sentences for all offenders could be harsh and the death penalty was occasionally imposed. The First institution expressly for juveniles, the House of Refuge, was founded in New York City in 1824 so that institutionalized delinquents could be kept apart from adult criminals. By the mid ... dangerous behavior is trial in criminal court, where children who murder, rape, or commit other such acts can be sentenced to prison. 4 PUNISHMENT AND TREATMENT OF OFFENDERS Punishment in modern criminal law is the penalty inflicted by the state upon a person for committing a criminal offense. In early societies, punishment for a crime was left to the person wronged or to his kin, clan, or tribe. The punishment ...
- 1186: Night
- ... silent in the face of genocide.” Elie Wiesel has paid much attention to an inner desire and need to serve humanity by illuminating the hate-darkened past. Night is a horrifying account of a Nazi death camp that turns Elie Wiesel from a young Jewish boy into a distressed and grief-stricken witness to the death of his family, the death of his friends, even the death of his own innocence and his faith in G-d. He saw his family, friends and fellow Jews first severely degraded and then sadistically murdered. He enters the ...
- 1187: Grapes Of Wrath 4
- ... WRATH Conversion and the many changes that take place Tom and his family undergo significant change due to uncontrollable forces that occur throughout the book. Through these events he and his family go through conversion, death and rebirth, migration, and are on constant pursuit for a better life. Many inner and outer changes occur throughout the entire novel. The Joad family begins the novel as self-centered individuals, and end the ... a land of milk and honey contrast sharply with descriptions of California farm corporations which destroy crops to maintain high market prices . The Joads begin their journey, but it quickly begins with a chain of death and rebirth. The first of these is when Grandpa is forced to leave his land. Grandpa is like a fish and his land is like the sea. If he is taken out of the sea ... adopted style of just living with the people and is born into a new life of speaking for the people and organizing the people to strike back against the corrupt government. This leads to his death, but his death was for his family, the family of humanity. He is often related to Jesus Christ, which are his initials (Jim Casy and J.C.) and he is thought of as Jesus ...
- 1188: Creating the Melancholic Tone in “The Raven”
- ... purpose in writing “The Raven” and also describes the work of composing the poem as being carefully calculated in all aspects. Of all melancholy topics, Poe wished to use the one that was universally understood, death; specifically death involving a beautiful woman. The apparent tone in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” seemingly represents a very painful condition of mind, an intellect sensitive to madness and the abyss of melancholy brought upon by the death of a beloved lady. The parallelism of Poe’s own personal problems, with those of the narrator in “The Raven,” his calculated use of symbolism, and the articulation of language through the use of ...
- 1189: The Great Gatsby: The American Dream
- ... on, Gatsby is in love with the idea of being with Daisy, not actually in love with Daisy. Finally, he is betrayed by it with the help of Daisy's husband, Tom Buchanan, and the death of Myrtle Wilson. Gatsby is called great, which you can call him great by virtue of his ability to commit himself to his aspirations, but at the same time Gatsby himself is a liar, adulterer ... on when she comes with Nick and Tom. For a while in the latter half of this novel, Gatsby is realizing his dream. But as time passes on, he is being driven on to his death. Everything was working out great between Daisy and Gatsby until Tom found out about the affair. Daisy said something at lunch that was a slip-up in front of Tom. It was the hottest day ... He won't annoy you. I think he realizes that his presumptuous little flirtation is over." As they started for home, because Daisy thought her nerves would be calmed by driving, she drove on toward death through the cooling twilight. This sentence had a double meaning. Gatsby and her were driving toward the death of Myrtle, and death becomes nearer and nearer as time passes on in your life. As ...
- 1190: John Dryden
- ... he excelled to the top of his class and was a standout student. John Dryden was the greatest and most represented English man of letters of the last quarter of the seventeenth century. From the death of Milton in 1674 to his own in 1700, no other writer can compare with him in versatility and power (Sherwood 39). He was in fact a versatile writer, with his literary works consisted of ... except what is in his works. Because he wrote from the beginning through the end of the Restoration period, many literary scholars consider the end of the Restoration period to have occurred with Dryden's death in 1700 (Miner 2). Surviving Dryden was his wife Lady Elizabeth and there were three sons, to whom he had always been a loving and careful father. John, his oldest son, followed his father in death only three years later in April of 1700. His wife, the "Widow of a poet," died shortly after his death in the summer of 1714 at the age of 78 (Bredvold 314). Dryden certainly ...
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