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- 1651: Beowulf 11
- ... 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 ...
- 1652: Progression Towards Light
- ... as a consistent image in the Oresteia depicts a progression from evil to goodness, disorder to order. In the Oresteia, there exists a situation among mortals which has gotten out of control; a cycle of death has arisen in the house of Atreus. There also exists a divine disorder within the story which, as the situation of the mortals, must be brought to resolution: the Furies, an older generation of gods ... of darkness and light accompany this progression, thereby emphasizing the movement from evil to good. The use of darkness imagery first emerges in the Agamemnon. In this first play of the trilogy, the cycle of death which began with the murder and consumption of Thyestes' children continues with Clytaemestra's murder of Agamemnon and Cassandra. The darkness which is present in the beginning of the story is further magnified by the death of Agamemnon. This is illustrated when Clytaemestra says, “Thus he [Agamemnon] went down, and the life struggled out of him; and as he died he spattered me with the dark red and violent driven ...
- 1653: Stalin and The Soviet Union
- ... Party, a position that gave him control over appointments and established a base for his political power. Stalin’s rude and aggressive behavior brought him into conflict with the ailing Lenin, who shortly before his death in 1924 wrote his political "testament" in which he voiced misgivings about Stalin. In the testament Lenin expressed doubt whether the party’s general secretary would use his authority with sufficient caution, and he called for Stalin’s removal from the post. Adroit political maneuvering enabled Stalin to have Lenin’s testament discounted and suppressed, however, while Lenin’s death freed Stalin to establish a ruling coalition with Lev Kamenev and Grigory Zinovyev, excluding Stalin’s rival Trotsky from the succession struggle. Stalin reversed his course in 1925 and joined with Nikolay Bukharin and Aleksey ... West. Stalin was determined to catch up with the United States in developing the atomic bomb; he ordered that no resources be spared toward that goal, which was achieved in August 1953, shortly after his death. A Final Years By 1950 Stalin’s mental and physical health had begun to deteriorate and he was absent from the Kremlin, the government headquarters in Moscow, for long periods of time. His subordinates ...
- 1654: Medea: Guilty as Charged
- Medea: Guilty as Charged Men of Corinth, I am here today to confirm who is solely responsible for the death of four innocent victims. Medea. She mischievously murdered the king and his daughter, then proceeded to brutally violate the little bodies of her own children. Some of you may argue that outside factors coerced her ... I send. … those children [Jason] had from me he will never See alive again, nor will he on his new bride Beget another child, for she is to be forced To die a most terrible death by these my poisons” (783-806) Immediately, they tried to convince her not to follow through, but she was already set in her evil ways. The women and the nurse both recalled past accounts of hearing Medea wish for death as if it were superior to life (146-7). They tried to reason with her by explaining that “[the] final end of death comes fast. No need to pray for that”(153-4). She ...
- 1655: What Dreams May Come
- ... Either dead or alive, the two of them saw the same thing and felt what the other was feeling. The two of them are twinned souls that are tuned into each other through life and death. Chris and Annie’s children died tragically in a car accident, and both of them find continuing their lives filled with difficulties, especially for Annie. She blames herself for the death of her two children and starts falling apart emotionally as a person. Chris stands by her in her fight to stop blaming herself and tells her to fight to become a stronger person through this ... paintings for his wife. He died for her, she looks at it that if she didn’t ask him to go get the paintings, he would still be alive and blames herself again for his death. When Chris dies and goes to Heaven he meets Albert, his guardian angel, and discovers that Heaven is even more wondrous than anything he could have imagined. His Heaven is the canvas that Annie ...
- 1656: A Critical Appraisal of: Beowulf and Gilgamesh
- ... When he rejects her, she sends the Bull of Heaven to destroy the city. Gilgamesh and Enkidu kill the bull, and, as punishment for his participation, the gods doom Enkidu to die. After Enkidu's death, Gilgamesh seeks out the wise man Utnapishtim to learn the secret of immortality. The sage recounts to Gilgamesh a story of a great flood (the details of which are so remarkably similar to later biblical ... the first half of the 2nd millennium BC; the poems have been entitled "Gilgamesh and Huwawa," "Gilgamesh and the Bull of Heaven," "Gilgamesh and Agga of Kish," "Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Nether World," and "The Death of Gilgamesh." The Gilgamesh of the poems and of the epic tablets was probably the Gilgamesh who ruled at Uruk in southern Mesopotamia sometime during the first half of the 3rd millennium BC and who ... Enkidu are narrated in Tablet VIII. Afterward, Gilgamesh made a dangerous journey (Tablets IX and X) in search of Utnapishtim, the survivor of the Babylonian flood, in order to learn from him how to escape death. He finally reached Utnapishtim, who told him the story of the flood and showed him where to find a plant that would renew youth (Tablet XI). But after Gilgamesh obtained the plant, it was ...
- 1657: Billy Budd
- ... dead with one blow to the head. In an effort to uphold military law and regulation, Captain Vere holds a trial in which he manipulates the reluctant court into convicting Billy and sentencing him to death. But his death was not agonizing or tortuous. It was instead, majestic. "At the same moment it chanced that the vapory fleece hanging low in the East was shot through with a soft glory as of the fleece ... Lamb of God seen in mystical vision, and simultaneously therewith, watched by the wedged mass of upturned faces, Billy ascended, and, ascending, took the full rose of the dawn"(80). Such glory and beauty in death can only be achieved by those who are truly ready and without regret, as Billy was. The question, then, is presented. Innocence or wisdom? Which philosophy, which way of life is more correct? Claggart, ...
- 1658: A Rose For Emily 5
- ... Everything appears to be decaying, just as Miss Emily herself. The picture of her father is just another symbol of immobility and no sense of time. When he died, Miss Emily refused to acknowledge his death. She stopped time, at least in her mind. Miss Emily is "a small, fat woman in black, with a gold chain descending to her waist and vanishing into her belt." "Then they could hear the ... of time; yet in this house, time is invisible. Miss Emily has lost her understanding of time. When these men try to convince her that a lot of time has passed since her father's death and that she must pay her taxes, she repeats, "I have no taxes in Jefferson," and vanquishes them. From this point, Faulkner makes a smooth transition to a period of thirty years ago, when Miss ... fathers about the smell." The plot continues in the backward direction, demonstrating Miss Emily's lack of understanding of time. A smell develops in Miss Emily's house, which is another sign of decay and death. Miss Emily is oblivious to the smell, while it continues to bother the neighbors. These town's people are intimidated by Miss Emily, and have to sprinkle lime juice on her lawn in secrecy. ...
- 1659: Female Infanticide in India
- ... out of her mud hut while her mother- in- law mashed poisonous oleander seeds into a dollop of oil and forced it down the infant’s throat (John Anderson, 1993, p. 6). After the infants death, under the cover of nightfall, Rani buried the infant in a nearby field in an unmarked grave. “I never felt any sorrow,” Rani , a farm laborer with a weather beaten face, said through a interpreter ... s marriage. For other mothers, killing a female infant is better than letting it grow up in a society of discrimination, poverty, and sickness. “Indian law bans infanticide and imposes penalties of life imprisonment or death. However, few cases are brought to trial, especially in rural areas, and those that do reach the courts seldom result in conviction.”(Naomi Neft, Ann Levine, 1997, p. 307) Sociologists and Indian government officials began ... considered middle class. The dowry is traditional and necessary to insure a proper marriage and maintain the honor of the bride’s family, failure to pay exposes the bride to future neglect and abuse, even death. Most specialists blame the social pressures, which are rampant in all castes and economic classes. “Even before you conceive, it’s drilled into you that you must produce sons,” said Sheila Ghatate, director of ...
- 1660: Dreams: Their Analysis
- ... surface meaning or the dream as recalled by the dreamer. Freud's basic assumption was that all dreams are wish- -fulfillment's. Freud noted three typical anxiety dreams: the embarrassment dream of nakedness, dreams of death of a beloved person and dreams of failing an exam. In my case I dreamt the death of my mother and felt guilty for not saving her. Freud interprets the death of an older person such as a parent as fulfilling the Oedipal wish. During my dream I felt anxiety and guilt which he depicts as typical for adults as well as children. The female ...
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