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- 1751: The Maturing of Achilles
- ... Book 1 summarizes the attitude of Peleus Achilles towards war and man. “Rage---Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus’ son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls, great fighters’ souls, but made their bodies carrion, feast for the dogs and birds…” In the beginning of the Illiad Achilles was known as a ruthless and unstoppable killing force, and he lived up to this description. The people that he did not send to the House of Death he would take them to the holds of his ship. These people were either kept as slaves or were ransomed off to their families for large sums of treasure. Achilles was known to have taken ... would then help Achilles beat the Trojans back into their city almost single handedly. That would show the rest of the world that Achilles was the person who single-handedly saved the Argives from certain death and conquered Troy. There was only one catch to this plan. Achilles mother, Thetis, warned him that if he returns to the fighting instead of returning home, he would die beneath Troys’ walls. So, ...
- 1752: The Concept And Antilogy Of Ne
- ... holding on to all he can. Despite the fact that these objects may hurt the soldier or bring him to his demise, letting go of such articles is very difficult. The late Ted Lavender, whose death is only a memory throughout the book, is one of those men. When he was shot, the enormous amount of weight he was carrying at the time, the fear in his heart, and the weight of the bullet caused him to collapse instantaneously. Symbolically, the act of falling relates to the weight causing his ultimate downfall - death. The Things They Carried exhibits necessity in its advantageous aspects as well as its disadvantageous ones. It examines the burdens of each individual and the effects that the burdens have on the person in given ... war break through to the surface. At the most dangerous times, this would show, but it would not last long for the men would quickly cover it up. They would do this by looking at death in a humorous way as if to destroy the reality of death itself" (19-20). Sometimes, the men would kill and die because they were embarrassed not to. They would only allow themselves to ...
- 1753: A Rose For Emily
- ... effects of those qualities, such as her father. Her father was a great person who was respected by everyone, and the town thought that Emily would take his father's place. After Emily father's death, the situation changed, but people in town did not notice it. Emily became depressive and she leaded her to her own decay. People also thought that she had a strong personality because she dominated the ... The Emily's isolation plays an other major role in this story because it is the reason of her behaving. Emily's father did not like loneliness, therefore he kept her beside him until his death. This fear of being alone was transmitted to Emily, who first would try to keep his father's body in the house and later, she would do anything to maintain Homer by her side. Her ... Through the beginning of the short story A Rose for Emily, Emily has leaded her to her own decay. At the beginning, she was a person respected by the town, but after her father's death, she started acting with nonsense and then, she found herself being all alone for the rest of her life. Some people might thing that she was crazy, but others could say that she was ...
- 1754: A Good Man Is Hard To Find 2
- ... get what she wants. By manipulating her grandchildren, she gets her son to go back to the house with the "secret panel", causing them to meet The Misfit, and ultimately sealing the entire family's death. O'Connor makes the trite seem sweet, the humdrum seem tragic, and the ridiculous seem righteous. The reader can no longer use their textbook ways of interpreting fiction and human behavior because O'Connor is ... heartedness. This scene marks an incredible emotional accomplishment for the family. The story never breaks its comic book format, even as the family is dragged off a few at a time to be put to death. The deaths are framed in a series of comic book squares. Irony again sets in when the only survivor is the cat, which the grandmother would not leave home by its self for fear it ... critics complain that the grandmother and her family do not behave nobly enough during their execution. (155) He quotes Martha Stephens in his book American Gargoyles expressing the opinion that "The family is shown in death to be as ordinary and ridiculous as before," (155).Nothing changes aboutthe characters, even in death, they are seen to be "flat," never losing their cartoon-like quality. For example, when Bailey is dragged ...
- 1755: The Metamorphosis
- ... Gregor wanted to drag himself forward, as if this startling incredible pain could be left behind him" (p. 39). Of course, Gregor finds he cannot leave the pain behind him, and begins his slide towards death. Gregor's reaction to the violin playing episode is the climax and symbol of Grete's metamorphosis and Gregor's demise (Lawson 33). The boarders are extremely interested in hearing her play an impromptu recital ... her rapport with him (Lawson 33). At this point she dissociates the name of her brother from the insect when addressing her parents: "We must try to get rid of it. It will be the death of both of you, I can see that coming" (p. 51). And later, "It has to go" (p. 52). Gregor is no longer "he," but "it." She sees the complete disappearance of Gregor the human ... this were Gregor, he would have realized long ago that human beings can't live with such a creature, and he'd have gone away on his own accord" (p. 52). Grete condemns Gregor to death when she urgently locks him into his own room, crying "At last" (p. 53) to her parents as she turns the key in the lock. Even in death, Gregor retains tender feelings for his ...
- 1756: God V. Man In Antigone
- ... in the drama, for it is the application of this theme that decides her fate. Faced with the decision to defy the King and properly bury her brother, Polyneices, or leave his body unprepared for death as Kreon wished, she chose to obey the wishes of the gods and bury him. At the time of the drama, the Greeks believed that a decent burial was essential for the soul to be ... her blatant disregard for the King s law by commenting, Antigone: But I will bury him; and if I must die, I say that this crime is holy: I shall lie down With him in death, and I shall be as dear To him as he to me. It is the dead, Not the living, who make the longest demands: We die for ever (140). Antigone feels that her crime is ... its people, and they will outlast any law that mortal man could conjure up. Her faithfulness is obviously with the rule of a higher power, which Kreon does not approve of. Kreon sentences her to death by locking her in a stone vault and leaving her to fend for herself. She makes one final plea to the people of Thebes in defense of her actions before leaving the presence of ...
- 1757: Brent Staples' A Brother's Murder
- ... streets. The inner streets of our nations' cities have, over the years, proven to be war zones. Gangs are roaming the streets to protect their territory, making gunplay an everyday task. The smell of fear, death, and misguided souls reek to the nose of the onlooker. Brent Staples does an outstanding job of describing the severity of these problems. His brother, Blake, leads a life molded by this street life. His official cause of death was murder. However, at the young age of twenty-two years old, they should have noted his death as a casualty of war. He played a part in the war of gangs and guns. If he did not live in the inner streets of Roanoke, Va., he would probably be alive today. ...
- 1758: Comparison: Treatment of War in "The Rank Stench of Those Bodies Haunts Me Still" and "The Soldier"
- ... line stanzas. The lines are all pentameters, but there appears to be no rhyme system. Its structure seems less formal than that of "The Soldier". The opening line acts as a shock, bringing images of death and destruction. In only a few words, you seem to be transported to a battlefield. This opening line also serves as the poem's title. I was unable to discover whether the poem was originally ... the soldiers and insects, as though they too are part of a collective. In the next stanza, the lines "Gun-thunder leaps and thuds along the ridge; / The spouting shells dig pits in fields of death," seem to recreate the sounds of the weapons. The shells dig pits in the fields as though ready for the wounded men to fill. The poet expresses the hope that anyone he cares for could ... can give something back in return. The expressions "English air", "suns of home" and "English heaven" tie these symbols of freedom to nationalism. The poem presents a sanitised view of war, with the idea that death serves a purpose and is not futile, and the view that one nation is superior to others. It relies on stock responses, stirring up senses of nationalism, duty and a romanticised view of England ...
- 1759: Christian Elements In Beowulf
- ... the word “wyrm” meaning a serpent or worm, and the word “draca” meaning dragon. In the Old English poetry, the worm and dragon represent enmity to mankind. The worms who devour man’s corpse after death, the dragons and serpents who receive his soul in hell, and the dragon of sin and mortality who rules over earth until Christ cancels for all time the work of the tempest. The Beowulf dragon ... that allude to Christian references in Beowulf; the fight with Grendel represents the salvation of mankind, the fight with Grendel’s mother represents Christ’s Resurrection, and the fight with the dragon resembles Christ’s death. There is real conscious analogy between Beowulf and Christ. There is, for example, the familiar parallel between Hroogar’s praise of Beowulf, “Yes, she may say, whatever, woman brought forth this son among mankind-if ... to fight the dragon accompanied by a band of twelve, one of whom is a culprit; during the fight the eleven retainers flee, and one returns. This parallels the picture of Christ shortly before his death attended by the twelve Apostles: the treason of Judas, the flight of the eleven remaining Apostles, and the return of John at the crucifixion. Beowulf and Christ are icons of wisdom and power. Christ ...
- 1760: Eaters Of The Dead
- ... conflict on a higher level. This is the battle of intelligence. The Northmen acquire knowledge from the helpful dwarves in the caves of Venden, who aid them in killing the leader of the wendol. The death of their leader causes the wendol to become outraged, which leads them to their downfall. It is because of the intelligence the Northmen has, and used, that they are able to outwit the wendol. The ... without, and this allows the wendol to move freely over the land. His lack of intelligence causes his settlement to encounter the terror of the wendol. A better example of this is the angel of death in each settlement, who symbolizes knowledge. Everything the angel of death says is thought to be real and is trusted since she is able to see into the future. The Northmen depend on the angel of death for answers to their problems, which she answers ...
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