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- 1521: Crucible Term Paper
- ... reader that there were ulterior motives to the Witch Trials. We are aquatinted with Giles Corey to let us know that not only were women being accused of witchcraft, but men as well. Corey s death was also especially brutal, in his refusal to enter a plea, he was pressed to death with heavy stones. Samuel Parris, Reverend Hale, and Judge Danforth are brought in as the prosecutors of the witches, although Hale has a change of heart towards the end of the novel and attempts to ... ended by McCarthy s wild imputations. Miller compared this era of paranoia to the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. Thus, The Crucible was born. Miller used the tragic theme of the chose of reputation or death many times, including in another of his famous works, Death Of A Salesman. This underlying theme is snared perfectly in another one of Miller s plays, The Pussycat and the Expert Plumber Who Was ...
- 1522: Heart Of Darkness
- ... the secrets which it keeps. Elaine Ward thought that this quote was: Perhaps the ultimate description of the savagery and uncivilization of the Congo as Marlow and Kurtz try to quickly escape the savagery and death of the Congo. With their escape and these words comes the title of the book, Heart of Darkness (Ward, webpage 1) The symbolic image of the reader was so significant and profound that it does ... soul. The heads which are propped up on stakes represent the fate of one who could not handle the encounter with the darkness in their soul. The very existence of this primitive civilization represents the death which is in the air, on the ground, upon the buildings, and in the inhabitants. The inner station represents the darkness of the uncivilized. There are many characters in the novel and even the most ... take too much notice of them. Marlow doesn’t think of them as humans but merely as something which grew out of the African soil. They are just assets to the African surroundings which represent death and suffering. As Marlow is travelling through the African Congo, he is going through a journey in his soul. As the darkness appears in the jungle it appears within Charlie’s heart. Marlow is ...
- 1523: Ethan Frome
- ... is a poor farmer who has to support a "sickly" wife who does nothing but complain about everything. Ethan married his wife of seven years, Zeena, who is a bit older than he, following the death of his mother, in an unsuccessful attempt to escape the silence, isolation, and the loneliness of the life of Starkfield. The setting for Ethan Frome is winter. Edith Wharton , the author, chose winter because it symbolizes the emotional, physical isolation, cold, darkness and death that surround Ethan. Similarly, the name of the town Starkfield is symbolic of Ethan’s life. Stark depicts the many harsh winters causing unproductive, spiritless, and devastation to the people of Starkfield. One citizen may ... sick and he needed some help around the house, not only for his mother but for himself as well. The house was to quiet and this was driving him insane. Soon after Ethan’s mother death he married Zeena, out of fear of being alone. "After the mortal silence of his long imprisonment Zeena’s volubility was music in his ears. He felt that he might have ‘gone like his ...
- 1524: Stopping By The Woods On A Sno
- In "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", the immense beauty and power of nature is used to enhance the sense of procrastination that is felt towards death; leading to the complete abolishment of time. The indescribable beauty of nature has the ability to control the responsive state of an individual, whereby a loss in the sense of reality heightens the complete awe ... things, and their worlds cannot be intertwined. The choice between the two is a difficult one, but the everlasting peace that nature presents is often turned to. This imagery of nature is used to parallel death, whereby the solemnity and peace that depicts nature, in turn, depicts death. The power of procrastination is strong enough to destroy even the strongest of wills. The man is pondering whether or not he should succumb to the "sleep" he desires, which symbolizes ending his life. ...
- 1525: Epic Of Gilgamesh
- ... these adventures because he wants to make the most out of life. Just being king and never leaving the city can be monotonous and boring. Gilgamesh travels to distant forests and crosses "the waters of death" for, what amounts to, an adventure. He is searching for something worth living for. Just as we, as people, can not live everyday doing absolutely nothing. This theme tells us that we all need some ... searches for immortality. In many stories there is a search for the Fountain of Youth. The water from this fountain would restore youth to the old and one would never have to die. Fear of death and desire to live forever has driven people to do all they can so that they may extend their existence to as long as possible. Because of the Bible, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ... for fame and bragging rights, people today say they have slept with celebrities and seen aliens. Today, in our advanced society, people are still looking for immortality. People do not have the maturity to accept death. This is why there has been an enormous growth in the health care industry. People want to live longer youthful lives. People want wrinkle-free skin in their 50's. People want to play ...
- 1526: Comparing Two Poems
- ... Song of the Whale differs mainly in their subject matter and the way they evoke different feelings and images and also the style and presentation of the poem. Coincidently both poems contain the themes of death and caring for the environment, which the writers feel strongly about. The poem Package of the Distant Future tells the story of a person who finds a time capsule from a previous civilisation. The capsule ... history of the people before his or her civilisation came into existence. This poem differs greatly in the subject matter to the subject of The Song of the Whale. This poem discusses the cruelty and death of whales in the present time. Whale, I hear you Grieving. Great whale, crying for your life The quote 'Whale I hear you grieving' creates and image in the reader the whales are suffering and ... a free verse form. Therefore, we can see that the two poems have a totally different style and presentation. The two poems are similar, however, in the way that they both produce a sense of death. The older generation in Package of the Distant Future no longer exist and that the new generation must be told about the past, how death is just a beginning of a new generation. Similarly ...
- 1527: Strong Before Their Time
- ... air. “ No, he must be left unburied, his corpse carrion for the birds and dogs to tear, an obscenity for the citizens to behold!” (Sophocles 636). Anyone caught burying his body will be sentenced to death. Creon puts the good of the city before his family. When Creon finally learns Antigone is the culprit that buried Polynices he is outraged. He upholds his rule and sentences her to death. “ Go down below and love, if love you must- love the dead! while I’m alive no woman is going to lord over me!”( Sophocles 646). Creon later states that no woman will rule him ... only wanted to give Polynices a proper burial. To her, family was more important than anything in the world was. She had to do what was right in heart. Nothing, not even the threat of death could stop her from doing the right thing. “Die I must, I’ve known it all my life- how could I keep from knowing? -even without your death sentence ringing in my ears. And ...
- 1528: Edgar Allen Poe
- ... work and this is where he not only marries his cousin Virginia, but is also the place in time when his writing courier really launches. In 1847 Poes’ life becomes a disaster due to the death of his beloved wife, Virginia. Poe become absent minded and began drinking heavily. Edgar Allen Poe’s life experiences, particularly his repeated substance abuse and the loss of the women he loved, are evident in ... that helped us understand his feelings that were felt due to the loss of his wife(Double Day & Company). The words used to describe the raven in the story make the raven up to be death coming for him. The words such as "so faintly you cam tapping, tapping at my chamber door" show how the raven resembled death which took his wife away and will soon take him. Poe also described his heart ache by describing the ravens eyes as burning through his chest. Alcohol and drugs played a key role in ...
- 1529: Edgar Allen 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 ...
- 1530: Edgar Allen Poe
- ... among his horror stories; and The Raven one of his best poems which among all these, made him very famous in 1845. "The Fall of the House of Usher", and "The Masque of the Red Death", made him a forerunner of symbolism, and impressionism. Poe antagonized many people with a scathing campaign against an American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow for supposed plagiarism. Later that year Poe admitted to being drunk, which ... of tuberculosis on January 30, 1847 after five years of illness. Then Poe himself became ill, he had a deadly addiction to liquor and his alleged use of drugs which probably contributed to his early death. In the summer of 1849 he revisited Richmond, lectured , and was accepted anew by the fiancée he had lost in 1826. After his return north he was found unconscious on a Baltimore street. Poe was only 40 when he died in 1849. Newspapers gave the cause of death as "congestion of the brain" and "cerebral inflammation", which my sources said was terms that suggest doctors didn’t have a definitive explanation but they thought it was a severe neurological disorder. Another doctor ...
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