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- 1321: Comparing Tragedies (how To Te
- Tim O'Brien's "How to Tell a Ture War Sotry" and Margaret Atwood's "Death by Landscape" are tragic stories that are relived through the memories of the narrators. I would not consider "How to Tell a Ture War Sotry" and Death by Landscape" ghosts sotries. My understnatding of a ghost story is a haunting of someone or something. Both stories are interpretations of a personal belief of what happened to thier friends. The narratior of "How to Tell a True War Story," describes how he saw Lemon die. He is mostly disturbed by the politician's and colonel's actions in the war. In "Death by Landscape," Lois tries to live two lives, Lucy's and her own. Lois' life is confined due to her fear of the wilderness. She also collects landscape drawings. "Despite the fact that there ...
- 1322: Mark Twain and His Masterpiece: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- ... The inside of the book B. Critics of the book. 1.Characterization IV. Samuel Clemens Downfall A. Family Life 1.Deaths B. Money Problems 1. Bankruptcy 2. Move to Europe C. His comeback D. His death V. Effects of Twain's stories A. How he affected his era B. How the era affected his writings VI. Conclusion A. My feelings B. End notes C. Bibliography Samuel Clemens was an American writer ... Hannibal, Mississippi when he was four. There he received a public school education. Samuel Clemens was a difficult child, given to mischief and mis adventure. He barely escaped drowning on nine separate occasions. His fathers death was a calamity in which Samuel was not prepared for. Albert Bigelow Paine, Clemens official biographer, offers the following glimpse of the young Clemens "The boy Sam was fairly broken down. Remorse, which always dealt ... mother held him for a moment, thinking, then she said: "No, Sammy; you need not go to school anymore. Only promise to be a better boy. Promise not to break my heart." After his fathers death, Clemens got a hold of two Hannibal printers, and in 1851 began setting type and contributing articles to his brothers newspaper, The Hannibal Journal. After leaving his first job he took his printers and ...
- 1323: Macbeth- Triumph Of Good Over
- ... wine and wassil so convince That memory, the warder of the brain, Shall be the fuma and a receipt of reason A limbeck only, when in swinish sleep Their drenched natures lie as in a death, What cannot you and I perform upon The unguarded Duncan? what not put upon The spongy officers, who shall bear the guilt of our great quell? (Act 1, Scene 7, l 66 - 79) This shows ... make mayhem. The compatriots of good in this story are more obvious, there are many minor good characters but only four of them are very important. The first good person was subject to the tragic death at the beginning of the play, Duncan, who was a good king, and a great leader. He was the reason that so many good men were around to avenge his death. The second was Banquo, he was the first person to suspect Macbeth of foul play and his death turned alot of suspicion onto Macbeth. The third member of good in the play Macbeth was ...
- 1324: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... to the rank of regimental sergeant major. After a while, he got tired of the same daily routine involved in military life. Poe wrote regularly to Mr. Allan. He met with Mr. Allan after the death of Mrs. Allan in February of 1829. With Allan's support, he received his discharge and enlisted in West Point on July 1, l830 (Asselineau 410). While at West Point, Mr. Allan, who had remarried ... Instead of really living, he took refuge from the physical world in the private world of his dreams-in other words-in the world of his tales (Asselineau 413)." In the "Masque of the Red Death", Poe uses his imagination throughout the story (Rogers 43). A plague has devastated the entire country. It takes only half an hour tofor the course of the disease to run. At first one feels sharp pains and dizziness. Then one starts bleeding at the pores. The disease results in death. Prince Prospero has ordered one thousand lords and ladies to the deep seclusion of one of his abbeys. The building was built by the Prince and is filled with his exotic ornaments. It is ...
- 1325: The Symbol Of Blood In Macbeth
- Blood is known to all of us to represent life, death and often injury. Blood is an essential part of life, and without blood, we could not live. This is known to everyone, and because of this, when Shakespeare uses the symbol of blood to represent treason, murder and death, it is easily understood and fits in perfectly with the ideas we have of blood. Blood is mentioned often in the play and most times in reference to murder or treason. The first sinister reference ... says : "there's daggers in men's smiles: the nearer in blood, the nearer bloody." Meaning that their closest relatives are likely to kill them. Again, blood is being used to describe treason, murder and death. In Act 5, Scene 1 - the sleepwalking scene, while Lady Macbeth is sleepwalking, there are constant references to the evil deeds that Macbeth and herslef have committed, most of which include references to blood. ...
- 1326: An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bri
- ... the victim being hanged in this story, envisions these thoughts as his life unknowingly closes out. Throughout the story he imagines himself escaping from the hanging and sees the most positive side possible of his death. Bierce illustrates this optimism through the thoughts of Peyton, and each part links to the hanging. From paragraph 35, one can see that Peyton's neck was in deep pain and was swollen. Peyton thinks ... himself from this thirst he stuck his tongue out in the air, or so he thought. He was sticking his tongue out in the air because he was dying, which is a common reaction to death. He began to walk on the untraveled avenue, which symbolizes the avenue of death, and could no longer feel the ground beneath his feet. It felt as if he were walking on air, which proved to be an indication of hanging. Peyton Farquhar had taken the best possible ...
- 1327: Views Of King Lear
- ... hero and that there is exceptional suffering and calamity slowly being worn in as well as it being contrasted to happier times. The play also depicts the troubled parts in his life and eventually his death that is instantaneous caused by the suffering and calamity. There is the feeling of fear in the play as well, that makes men see how blind they are not knowing when fortune or something else ... two daughters as well as the error he has made with Cordelia and Kent. Lear also suffers from rest when he is moving all over the place and the thing that breaks him is the death of his youngest daughter Cordelia. This suffering can be contrasted with other happier times like when Lear was still king and when he was not banished by his two daughters. The feeling of fear is ... a confused old man. At the end of the play Lear has completely lost his sanity with the loss of his daughter Cordelia and this is the thing that breaks Lear and leads to his death. Lear dies with the knowledge that Cordelia is dead and dies as a man in pain. "And my poor fool is hanged! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, ...
- 1328: "Evil is the Underlying Element in Life of a Living Creature"
- ... the idea that undeserved retribution towards someone who is abnormal develops from pre-existing hatred of someone different than the others in society. In William Shakespeare's play, "Romeo and Juliet", hatred leads to the death of several people. A long-lasting feud between two families, the Montagues and the Capulets, results in the death of many of the major characters in the play. Tybalt, one of the first characters in the play to be killed, loses a duel to Romeo after he murders Mercutio, Romeo's friend and a relative of Prince Escalus. Thus, the prince exiles Romeo from Verona. However, this is not the end of the killings because Juliet's fake suicide ultimately leads to the death of Paris, Juliet's to-be husband, and the suicide of Romeo. Seeing Romeo dead, Juliet stabs herself with a dagger. The root of these deaths was the feud between the two families. This ...
- 1329: Hitler, Nazis, and The National Socialist German Workers' Party
- ... and property. Violence and brutality became a part of their everyday lives. Their places of worship were defiled, their windows smashed, their stores ransacked. Old men and young were pummeled and clubbed and stomped to death by Nazi jack boots. Jewish women were accosted and ravaged, in broad daylight, on main thoroughfares. Some Jews fled Germany. But most, with a kind of stubborn belief in God and Fatherland, sought to weather ... other conquered peoples. Month by month the horrors escalated. First tens of thousands, then hundreds of thousands of people were led off to remote fields and forest to be slaughtered by SS guns. Assembly-line death camps were established in Poland and train loads of Jews were collected from all over occupied Europe and sent to their doom. At some of the camps, the Nazis took pains to disguise their intentions ... toward us. They fell right down in front of our eyes and lay there gasping out their last breath." What had begun as a mean little edict against Jewish civil servants was now ending the death six million Jews, Poles, gypsies, Russians, and other "sub-humans" Uncounted thousands of Jews and other hapless concentration-camp inmates were used as guinea pigs in a wide range of medical and scientific experiments, ...
- 1330: Hamlet
- ... Hamlet. Once Hamlet learns of his fathers return, he at once insist that he go on watch to witness his fathers' appearance. The next night Hamlets' father does appear and commands Hamlet to avenge his death. Is this where corruption could take affect? Perhaps Mr. Bates was thinking about this scene when he made his statement. Hamlets' father tells him what corruption has taken place behind the walls of Elsinor. He ... goes by the name of Claudius. Hamlets' composure, wit, and strength would now be tested to their limits. With one wrong slip of the tongue, one wrong hateful glance, Hamlet would go straight to his death. What could Hamlet do, what will he do? A clever wit and common sense are his only hope to avenge his fathers' death. Hamlet then lives in madness and by that madness hopes to force Claudius to confess his sin. Through the second act the plot thickens as Hamlets' mind begins to ponder the possibilities of confession ...
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