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- 1591: Gatsby S Sacrifice
- ... hand suddenly ordered divine retribution to stand by" (65). "Fitzgerald makes Gatsby announce, as did Jesus, that his account of himself is 'God's truth'" (Christensen, 154). The events that lead up to Gatsby's death and Gatsby's death itself resemble in some ways Jesus' death and resurrection. Gatsby, "shouldered (his) mattress" on the way to his pool, the place of his death, much like Christ carried the cross to Golgotha before He was crucified. The murder of Gatsby occurs ...
- 1592: A Reflection On Herman Melville's Accomplishments
- ... to create Herman Melville. Herman had the strength of the General, and the crazy hart of the Major. Herman Melville was "hardly more than a boy" when he ran out to sea after his fathers death. A young Melville sighed up as a boy on the St. Lawrence to Liverpool and back to New York. Many of the events that show up in Melville's Redburn are actuarial events that happened ... He still would write something just spectacular every once in a while. "Melville's text in particular are like another of his most famous images - the coffin lifebuoy that empress such opposites as life and death."(Pg. 516, A Companion to Melville Studies). Melville had his own way of writing. Who else but Captain Ahab would have said of the Great White Whale "he tasks me, he heaps me"? Who but ... Billy Budd. That manuscript Melville got published but never new of it success, because he was to die on September, 28th of 1891, quietly in his bed, and "would be gratified to know that his death went all but unregarded by the world."(Pg. 292, Arving). For the last thirty-five years after Melville's, The Confidence Man. Melville had led a quiet unremembered life. After his death all that ...
- 1593: Hockey
- ... blade cannot exceed 121/2 inches. The administration of ice hockey penalties makes the game one of the few sports in which a team is deprived of a player after a transgression. The most prevalent penalty is the two-minute minor, which is assessed for such transgressions as holding, tripping, charging, elbowing, hooking, slashing, and interference. When a referee spots such an infraction, he will whistle the offender off the ice and send him to a penalty box or bench where the player sits during the time of his infraction. Penalties made by a goalie are served by a teammate. The player's team may not replace him on the ice, and until his time has expired he may only leave the penalty box when his club, while shorthanded, is scored against. When a player is charged with a major penalty, he must serve the full time (five minutes), no matter how often his club is scored ...
- 1594: Old Man And The Sea - Santiago Is Hemingway
- ... order to test one's limits. His love of bullfighting clearly demonstrated this. Raymond S. Nelson, Hemingway scholar, states, "He saw bullfighting as tragic ritual, and he lionized the better bullfighters as men who risked death every time they entered the arena -- a stance he admired and chose for himself in other ways." One example of Hemingway choosing this stance for himself was when "he shot and dropped a charging Cape ... few feet before the enraged animal would have killed him." This daring act of Hemingway's sounds peculiarly similar to the sport of bullfighting, and is an excellent example of Hemingway's obsession with courting death. Scholar, John Smith believes that "Hemingway's whole life and outlook suggest that, if he had known in advance of this deadly possibility, he would have embraced it even more enthusiastically." Very similarly, and not ... do and what a man endures." He is telling himself that he will go to his very last limits to prove to the fish his prowess. Santiago, not so strangely like Hemingway, believes that courting death is admirable. This is most clearly shown when he proclaims to the fish, "Come on and kill me." At this point he has already been fighting the fish for days now, he could easily ...
- 1595: The Pit and the Pendulum: Movie vs. Book
- ... moved there when she married Dom Madena, but now she was dead. The castle was used to torture Catholics during the Inquisition. Dom Madena believes that the castle has an atmosphere of torture thick with death, and that led to the death of his sister. The doctor said she died of fright. They buried her in a tomb below the castle. As child Dom Madena saw his father torture and kill his father's brother and his own wife. He accused them of adultery. His father didn't torture his mother to death, he buried her alive. Dom Madena thought that he buried his wife alive. Then one night someone was playing the harpsichord just like his wife did. Another time a servant heard his wife whispering ...
- 1596: Biography of Edgar Allen Poe
- ... Clem whom Poe had bean living with. Virginia was only thirteen when Poe married Virginia. Shortly after Poe had married Virginia she contracted the deadly disease tuberculosis. Virginia then died ten years later. With the death of Poe's wife Poe became very depressed. Poe then became addicted to many drugs, mainly opium and laudanum. It is also reported that he used morphine (Mankowitz 259,729). It is said that Poe ... from an imaginary Army. Poe then shaved of his mustache so that they would not recognize him (Mankowitz 232). Poe describes his illness in a letter on August 7, 1849, "I have suffered worse than death-net so much from cholera as from its long continued consequences in debility and compression of the brain" (Letters 365) Poe's condition continued to grow worse. Poe was brought to the Washington Hospital of Baltimore on the night of October 6, 1849 after being found in the middle of the road (Moran 78). Poe then recited his final poem. Father I firmly do believe I know, for death who comes for me from the regions of blast afar where there is nothing to deceive hath left his iron gates ajar and rays of truth you cannot see are flashing through eternity (Moran ...
- 1597: Julius Caesar
- ... Tiber River, but once he realized he made a great mistake he called for help. After studying Caesar it actually surprised me that he would actually belittle himself and call for assistance in a near death situation. I find it funny in reading the play further that Caesar is threatened by Cassius now, this man has one large male ego working against him. If I were to categorize Caesar according to ... though. He truly believes hes invincible and that fear itself should terrified of the all-worldly Julius Caesar. When his wife, Calphurnia, urges him to stay in because she had these premonitions of his death and demise and that theres danger out there for him Caesar rebuked, The gods do this in shame of cowardice: Caesar should be a beast without a heart if he should stay at home ... Cassius about what the people would say if he was to dethrone Caesar. ........What is it that you would impart to me? If it aught toward the general good, Set honor in one eye and death I the Other, And I will look at both indifferently; For let the gods so speed me, as I love the name of honor more than I fear death(Shakespeare 1.2 85). This ...
- 1598: Essay on Impulsiveness in Romeo & Juliet
- ... But now I see this one is one too much,(Pg 175, Lines 170-71) and what was this over? It was because Tybalt died, and Capulet acted hastily. Unfortunately it eventually lead to the death of Juliet. And, only when Juliet died did Capulet finally do the reasonable thing when he apologized to Montegue and insisted that the feud end. Capulet's acts of impulsiveness, though rare, can easily be ... it out well. Later inthe play, after Juliet is being forced to marry Paris, Juliet came to Paris and threatened suicide, Friar acted partly on impulse and partly on reasoning. He said A thing like death to chide away this shame,/ That cop'st with death himself to scape from it;/ And, if thou dar'st, I'll give thee remedy.(Pg. 187, Lines 75- 77). By striking this balance he prevented Juliet's immediate death. When Friar preached reasoning ...
- 1599: The Cask Of Amontillado
- ... not kill me. I shall not die of a cough" (Poe 1148). It is extremely ironic, that he makes such a statement, since in just a few minutes, it will be the cause of his death. Poe's use of foreshadowing is clever when he has Fortunato toast to his own death, as he says, " I drink to the buried that repose around us" (Poe 1148). Montresor says in return, "And I to your long life" (Poe 1148). Far from being "fortunate" as his name means in Italian, Fortunato is about to experience the most unfortunate death. In the development of his setting, characters, and plot, Poe makes use of symbolism. One of the strongest symbols that Poe uses in this story was the mason's trowel. When Fortunato questions Montresor ...
- 1600: Balder: God of Light, Joy, Purity, Beauty, Innocence, and Reconciliation
- ... he had little power. His wife is Nanna, daughter of Nep, and their son is Forseti, the god of justice. Balder's hall is Breidablik ("broad splendor"). Most of the stories about Balder concern his death. He was dreaming about his death 1, so Frigg extracted an oath from every creature, object and force in nature (snakes, metals, diseases, poisons, fire, etc.) that they would never harm Balder. They agreed that none of their kind would ever ... shoot with a mistletoe fig. Not knowing what he did, Hod threw the fig, guided by Loki's aim, and Balder fell dead, pierced through the heart. While the gods were lamenting over Balder's death, Odin sent his other son Hermod to Hel, the goddess of death, to plead for Balder's return. Hel agreed to send Balder back to the land of the living on one condition: everything ...
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