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- 1481: Brave New World: Comparing Life In the World State With Life In the US Today
- ... and marriage are in a way looked at as one of the highest accomplishments in our society, unlike the brave new world where it was looked down upon severely. The brave new world insists that death is a natural and not unpleasant process. There is no old age or visible senility. Children are conditioned at hospitals for the dying and given sweets to eat when they hear of death occurring. This conditioning does not prepare people to cope with the death of a loved one or with their own mortality. It eliminates the painful emotions of grief and loss, and the spiritual significance of death. Death in the United States today, and throughout the world ...
- 1482: Trapped Inside the TV
- ... TV Philosophy Paper #2 What is it that controls what is accepted and rejected within any society? Who decides what is right, and what is wrong, and what is an illusion? In Amusing Ourselves to death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show business, Neil Postman makes many arguments that the dominant medium of culture conversation, does not simply reflect a culture that is already in effect, but rather this medium ... longer considered an elitist activity but rather an activity that was spread throughout all of America. “Every man was close to what [printed matter] talked about. Everyone could speak the same language”(Amusing Ourselves to Death, pg. 34). Americans in the Colonial day immersed themselves in reading. In order to comprehend the scattered symbols that lie on the page, one must posses something of great importance, an imagination, and a desire to reflect. The written word has context, a semantic, paraphrasable, propositional content. (Amusing Ourselves to Death, pg. 48). As America moved into the nineteenth century the people were also introduced to new forms of readings, pamphlets and newspapers. Everyone could “Read All About it!” as we watch them say on ...
- 1483: Compare and Contrast the Language of Romeo and Juliet in the Balcony Scene
- ... so she interrupts Romeo's prolonged phrases and charmed declarations. She uses short phrases and sentences. For example when she speaks to Romeo about being caught by her avenging relatives. She says, "… And the place death, considering who thou art, If any of my kinsmen find thee here." Her use of words and short sentences and phrases shows that though Juliet is very much in love she thinks practically about the ... love and answers each of her worried questions with an airy, unrealistic and overly sentimental response "And but thou love me, let them find me here. My life were better ended by their hate, Than death prorogued , wanting of thy love." Romeo unwittingly foretells his own death here, surrounded by the imagery of darkness. Romeo says he would rather have his life ended quickly by being discovered by Juliet's kinsmen than die suffering slowly without the love of Juliet. Ironically, ...
- 1484: The Lives and Works of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning
- ... Then after receiving news that her brother Samuel had died of yellow fever, they learned that her brother Edward also died when his ship capsized. She was heart broken. Elizabeth felt she had caused his death just by wanting Edward to return home so badly. For months Elizabeth hung between life and death. She took opium to regulate her pulse and to bring her to sleep. She was withdrawn and sat in her room reading and writing poetry. In 1945 Browning saw Elizabeth’s Poems and wanted to ... to enjoy her book. Through Aurora Leigh she gave expression to her observation, her sympathy, her convictions on beauty and truth, and the relations of the sexes. On June 28, 1861, Mrs. Browning died. Her death brought Browning’s life in Italy to an end. “Life must begin anew,” he wrote, “all the old cast off and the new one put on. I shall go away, break up everything, go ...
- 1485: Beloved: Sethe's Character
- ... dirtiness" of slavery(Morrison 251). In this respect, her act is that of love for her children. The selfishness of Sethe's act lies in her refusal to accept personal responsibility for her baby's death. Sethe's motivation is dichotomous in that she displays her love by mercifully sparing her daughter from a horrific life, yet Sethe refuses to acknowledge that her show of mercy is also murder. Throughout Beloved ... beginning, it is clear that Sethe believes that her actions were justified. This is stupid she is basing this on the murder of a child. By not even approaching the subject of her daughter's death, it is also made clear that Sethe has detached herself from the act. Even when Paul D. learns of what Sethe has done and confronts her with it, Sethe still avoids the reality of her ... the motivation and pride of Sethe's character, made the statement, "To kill my children is preferable to having them die"(Morrison 1987). Saving her children from slavery and the promise of spiritual and emotional death that such an institution imposes is the rational of love that Sethe's character clings to. The truth that Sethe's character selfishly avoids is the actual physical death that she has inflicted upon ...
- 1486: 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 ...
- 1487: Ernest Hemingway - The Man And
- ... nurse Catherine Barkley, become the victims of a cruel and hostile age. Their love story, which starts in a field hospital where the lieutenant is being treated for severe leg injuries, ends with Catherine’s death. She dies in childbirth but it is actually the war that condemns them both to destruction. After the Italian defeat at Caporetto, the lieutenant becomes a deserter. He flees with his now impregnated lover to ... A Farewell to Arms is a modest chapter from Hemingway’s own life. Not only does the lieutenant’s fate correspond with his own – from the trenches, through injury, to the hospital – but Catherine’s death was also inspired by personal experience. Hemingway’s second son, Patrick, was born while writing the first draft of the novel. The delivery was difficult and the mother had to have a Cesarean delivery, like Catherine in the novel. Then, just as Hemingway was starting on his final draft, his father committed suicide. This greatly influenced the author’s views on death. “The fact that the book was a tragic one,” Hemingway wrote, “did not make me unhappy since I believed that life was a tragedy and knew it could only have one end.” Along with ...
- 1488: Emily Dickinson
- ... sappho.com/poetry/ historical/e_*censored*in.html ] Emily began to write poems at an early age. She had several inspirations in her poem writing. Emily Bronte was a poet, and after her brother's death she stayed home until her death. Bronte's book became a big success after her death. [ 8. http://www.geocities. com/CollegePark/1380/emily.htm] Emily Dickinson life was similar to hers. Ralph Waldo Emerson was an essayist and a poet. [ 5. http://encarta. msn.com/find/concise.asp?ti= ...
- 1489: Biography of Karl Marx
- ... the favorite child to his father, Heinrich. His mother, a Dutch Jewess named Henrietta Pressburg, had no interest in Karl's intellectual side during his life. His father was a Jewish lawyer, and before his death in 1838, converted his family to Christianity to preserve his job with the Prussian state. When Heinrich's mother died, he no longer felt he had an obligation to his religion, thus helping him in ... the other universities. While at Berlin, Marx became part of the group known as the Yong Hegelians. The group was organized in part due to the philosophy teacher Hegel that taught from 1818 to his death. The teachings of Hegel shaped the way the school thought towards most things. Those who studied Hegel and his ideals were known as the Young Hegelians. Hegel spoke of the development and evolution of the ... and made him withdraw from his work; much like the ending of the Communist League had done. This time, it was for good. The last ten years of his life is known as "a slow death". This is because the last eight years many medical problems affected his life. In the autumn of 1873 he was inflected by apoplexy which effected his brain which made him incapable of work and ...
- 1490: The Symbol of Blood in Macbeth
- 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. ...
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