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- 1601: George Bernard Shaw and His Short Story About the Cremation of The Narrator's Mother
- ... spirit lives on. He imagines how she would find humor in the bizarre event of her own cremation. The quality of humor unites Shaw and his mother in a bond that transcends the event of death and helps Shaw understand that her spirit will never die. The reader is also released from the horror of facing the mechanics of the cremation process when Mama's own comments lead us to understand ... he observes two cooks picking through Mama's dainty little heap of ashes and samples of bone the mood of dark humor is the only way he can handle the horror of his mother's death and cremated body. He has remained an unemotional observer on a journey through the crematorium with humor as the buffer between reporting the event and expressing raw emotion. Humor is the device to release himself ... chronological structure to his process of release. These details also provide an emotional way out for the reader who can share Mama's sense of humor about her own cremation thereby replacing personal fear about death with a feeling of the continuation of life and ones spirit. The first person narration of this letter hightens the focus and insight of the principal subject. I went behind the scenes, and I ...
- 1602: My Antonia
- ... very beginning, a young Jim Burden's parents have died leaving him to go to Nebraska to live with his grandparents. Right from the start Cather plants the seeds of abandonment, with the finality of death, in Jim's life. When he arrives in Nebraska he is very numb to life, but he is soon caught up in daily life on his grandparents farm. He is blissfully happy when he first ... happy in the America, that maybe everything will be fine. Then he kills himself. An abrupt and incredibly sad and poignant parting. The trend of parting is beginning to be associated with the finality of death. Another way Cather expresses the inevitability of these separations is through the changing seasons. In summer everyone in the story is happy and Cather uses beautiful, descriptive imagery that brings to life a world that is alive and wonderful. Inevitably though, summer is followed by the sobering fact of winter. Winter, in Cather's narration that becomes synonymous with death, sickness and separation. Winter is always loathed by the characters in the story, but most of them also find a beauty in it. This suggests that in the inevitability of the sadness and partings ...
- 1603: Beowulf
- ... evil monsters such as Grendal and Grendal's Mother. After these fights, he was offered treasures and kingdoms to rule, but refused to accept the kingdoms and remained loyal to his king, Hygelac. After the death of his beloved King, he ruled with the main purpose to care for his people. Then, after half a century of rule in his country, he fought a dragon that was angered by a warrior who stole some treasures from his lair. During this fight, while Beowulf received a wound that lead to his death. We consider Beowulf to have the traits of a Scandinavian hero because he exhibits the following traits: Physically Strong, Loyalty and Popularity. A Scandinavian trait that was well recognized was being a physically strong person ... protect his people. During the fight between Beowulf and Grendal, he decided to make the fight fair by not using a sword since Grendal was a terrible sword player, therefore Beowulf wrestled to monster to death. (p64-64) The final example ________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ Although Beowulf was strong he served his king in the most loyal way a warrior could. He was offered lands and treasures for himself, but denied every offering. Instead ...
- 1604: Egypt 3
- ... This whole procedure was done to dry the entire body and to prevent as much rot and decay as possible. If the body was to decompose, no Egyptian could be assured of everlasting life after death. Therefore huge emphasis was in preserving, embalming, and mummifying the corps. Not only were humans mummified, but pets were as well. Cats were considered sacred. Over 500 million ancient Egyptians were mummified by recent counts, which indicates a fascination and a perception of life after death. Western man owes the Egyptian culture a great deal of respect and gratitude because we used their "Ka" and their belief in a afterlife as the foundation of our Christian faith. The October of 1922 ... four coffins which were inside a deep underground chamber. Each coffin layer was composed of 24k gold. An artificial inner coffin cover concealed the mummy. King Tuts embalmed corpse was wearing the famous Egyptian Death Mask, which covered the upper half of his body. The treasure of King Tut still remains the largest riches found by Western man. Unexpected was the death of Lord Carnavon, his wife, and many ...
- 1605: "The Baltics: Nationalities and Other Problems"
- ... and Latvia look to the Baltic, and have maritime and fishing interests; Lithuania is almost entirely an inland and agricultural country - her only port (Klaipeda, or Memel) has a preponderant German population." (6) "After the death of Vytautas in 1430, Lithuania rapidly fell into a position of dependence on Poland, with which country she had already been nominally connected under a personal union since 1386." (7) That had been accomplished by ... In Latvia, 34,250 died or diappeared. In Lithuania 30,500. Most of these deported from the Baltic States in that year and after the war perished, and less than 20% returned after Stalin's death." (25) Within a year of this region being seized by the Soviets in their quasi-legal manner, Germany invaded the region, and had taken most of the area under their control by the end of ... guerilla and deportation losses, Lithuania's population probably decreased from about 3.1 million in 1940 (within postwar borders) to 2.6 million in 1953, about 75% of whom were Lithuanians." (38) After Stalin's death, party growth was slow, and lacked participation by ethnic Balts. Latvia and Estonia had been able to bring a small amount of expatriates back to run the party in their countries, but Lithuania had ...
- 1606: Burial Practices Of The Ancien
- ... also done with a specific purpose in mind. Unlike the Egyptian's the Greco-Roman cultures did not employ elaborate tombs but focused on the use of a simple pit in the ground. Right after death, not too dissimilar from the practices of the Egyptians, it was necessary for the persons to carefully wash and prepare the corpse for his journey. It was vital for all persons to receive a proper burial and if they did not they were dammed to hover in a quasi-world, somewhat of a "limbo" between life and death. One Greco-Roman myth that illustrates this point is The Odyssey by Homer. There is a part in Book eleven of the work in which Homer specifically addresses proper burial rites. When Odysseus wishes to contact Tiresias, he comes across Elpenor, one of his soldiers. This particular man fell (in a haphazard fashion) to his death on the island of the Kimmerians, but did not receive a proper burial and was stuck in limbo. Elpenor begged Odysseus and his men to return to the island and care for his body. ...
- 1607: Oedipus Rex - Plot
- ... life. This is the exposition of the dramatic conflict of finding out the mystery of king Laios murder. The rising action is this search. It starts with Oedipus promising that the person responsible for Laios death will be driven out of Thebes. Oedipus sends for Teiresias, the blind seer who serves Apollo. Teiresias does not want to tell Oedipus about the murder, but tells Oedipus to leave things as they are ... and they call a truce for Iokaste, wife of Oedipus and sister of Kreon. Oedipus, continuing with the rising action, then questions Iokaste, the widow of Laios, what she knows. She tells him that Laios death was foretold. That he would be killed by his own child. To prevent this, Laios took their three-day-old son, pierced his ankles and left him for dead in the mountains. Iokaste also gives ... encountered a group of men traveling in the same fashion as the king. They forced him off the road and Oedipus retaliated and killed them all. He believes that he is responsible for Laios's death. Iokaste questions this saying that the stories are conflicting, that more than one man attacked the king. To confirm or deny this, Oedipus sends for the only witness, a shepherd. Iokaste prays to Apollo ...
- 1608: Macbeth 11
- ... she does not understand that the deed is morally wrong; her only concern at the time is to destroy the evidence. Macbeth awakens to a consciousness of guilt that will remain with him until his death. Trace the effect the betrayal of human nature has on each of them. Following the murder of Duncan the Macbeths appear to have achieved their hearts desire; in reality, they only gain torment and dismay ... To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this pretty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more; it is a tale Told by an ... of the play, as the soldiers move closer to Dunsinane, Macbeth does not respond with excitement. He has lost the ability to feel fear or, as we see when he hears of his wife s death, grief. Macbeth chooses to die in battle. Macduff challenges him, but he is reluctant to fight: ?Of all men else I have avoided thee: But get thee back, my soul is too much charg ...
- 1609: Theresienstadt
- ... in the dirt. They were crammed into any space available including attics, which also had lack of heat and plumbing and were stifling in the summer for lack of ventilation. The people would freeze to death in the winter and die of heat exhaustion in the summer. Rooms that had once housed four to six people now housed close to 60. To make room for such an amount of people, they ... overflowing. During 1943, alone 30% of the population were ill due to conditions, which did not include the starving. The other 70% were busy taking care of the sick, starving or working. During July the death rate was 32 people a day and by August it rose to 75 people a day, then even higher still in September to 131 people a day dying in Theresienstadt. It was more then 25, 000 thousand deaths a year, which is 25 times the death rate in any normal central European city. Most of those were due to starvation, lack of medicine, disease, and torture. Like most ghettos, there was an obsession with food in Theresienstadt. Meals consisted of ...
- 1610: Mark Twain
- ... Hannibal, where Clemens spent his boyhood years. Clemens boyhood dream was to become a steamboatman on the river. Clemens' newspaper career began while still a boy in Hannibal. In 1848, a year after his father death, he was apprentice to printer Joseph Ament, who published the Missouri Courier. Did tragedy make Samuel Clemens (Cox Clinton). Missouri Courier only last for a few weeks before he started working for his brother at ... ill and spent long periods of isolation in Maine, before being advised to seek warmer climates of Florence Italy in late 1903. Sam and Livy were apart most of the time leading up to her death in Florence in June 1904. By 1908 Clemens moved into his final home in Redding Conn. Which he called Stromfield? During the final years of his life, Clemens organized the Angelfish Club informal organization of ... schoolgirls. Although this setup may seem inappropriate Clemens relationship with the girls appears to have been fully platonic. In December 1909 Clemens youngest daughter Jean died at Stormfield. Immediately after this tragedy Twain Wrote "the Death Of Jean" (Cox Clinton). Clemens health deteriorated after Jean death. In April 21, 1910 he sank into a coma and died of heart failure. He was 74 years old. On April 23, a large ...
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