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- 1831: Adilf Hitler
- ... squad" who shot hundreds of thousands of people, the majority being Jewish. The Nazis had already setup thousands of concentration camps to imprison anyone who imposed them. These now began to operate as factories of death. Auschwitz was the biggest of these death camps, a city of barricks where hundreds of thousands of people starved to death amid indescribable brutality. At it's center stood gas chambers and creamatoria design to take train loads of human beings, gas them and burn them. The Jews were seperated into two groups upon arrival ...
- 1832: Guilt As Reparation For Sin In
- ... Puritan who showed fierce prejudice against the Quakers. He ordered a public beating for Ann Coleman s punishment, and she almost died consequently (Shepherd iv). John Hathorne was a judge who sentenced many people to death during the Salem witch trials. He was the Reeves 2 Judge Hathorne spoken of in Miller s The Crucible. It is believed that Nathaniel added the w to his last name in an effort to ... He was the second child and the only son of the Hathornes three children. When Nathaniel was four, his father came down with yellow fever and died in Surinam, Dutch Guiana. After his father s death, Mrs. Hathorne moved her family into her parents house in Salem (Shepherd iv). At the age of nine, Nathaniel Hathorne suffered an injury to his legs that kept him from attending school for about two ... completed in England. The Marble Fawn, Hawthorne s Italian romance, is published in 1860 and the family moves back to The Wayside in Concord. Hawthorne publishes one major work entitled Our Old Home before his death in Plymouth, New Hampshire. He died in 1864 while travelling with former President and good friend Franklin Pierce (Shepherd vii). The theme of The Scarlet Letter is that guilt is reparation for sin. All ...
- 1833: The Adventures and Maturing of Huckleberry Finn
- ... a small town in Arkansas. When they stop, they witness a murder and unusual events afterward. They perform their play and almost get cabbage thrown at them. As they head south, they hear of the death of Mr. Wilks and decide to play his brothers from England. They scam the Wilks family out of their inheritance until the real Wilks brothers come. They escape, but don't get any money out ... has an "immortality of youth" way of thinking. By the end of the book, Huck respects slaves because of his friendship with Jim, and he realizes how fragile life is because of his brushes with death. He also gains many moral values. Certainly the people and places he came in contact with through his adventures caused this change. The person who affected Huck the most was Jim. Jim was Huck's ... he stayed with the Grangerfords. The Grangerfords were a well off family in a feud with the Shepherdsons. During Huck's short stay with the family, he experienced the cruelty of humans through fighting and death. The family was good to him, especially their young son, Buck. Buck's death made Huck realize how fragile life is and how awful war is. He found the feud made a boy his ...
- 1834: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... mind, as some think. Rather they came from a tense and miserable life. Edgar Allan Poe was not a happy man. He was a victim of fate from the moment he was born to his death only forty years later. He died alone and unappreciated. It is quite obvious that his life affected his writings in a great way. In order to understand why, the historical background of Poe must be ... the one thing that he was good at never seemed to do him any good. No matter what he wrote, he just kept sinking further and further into an abyss. This abyss could be called death or ultimate despair. When we read Poe's stories, we often find ourselves wondering how such a mind could function in society. This quotation from American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies, very accurately describes ... It might have been fear or something worse, something that could only be scraped up from the bottom of a nightmare. That is what killed him. Poe's stories contain within them a fascination for death, decay, and insanity. He also displays very morbid characteristics and in some cases, sadistic. His murderers always seem to delight in killing their victims in the most painful and agonizing way. Still, terror seems ...
- 1835: Dont Get Too Close Ordinary Pe
- ... brother Buck who was killed in a tragic boating accident. This brings us to the reoccurring theme throughout the book. The lack of intimacy in Conrad's life is portrayed throughout the book. Bucks tragic death has caused Conrad to be weary of close relationships. He trys not to get too close to anyone through the beginning of the story, but as the story progresses he starts to develop closer relationships ... talking about anything important." The reader gets the impression that he has sour feelings toward his parents. Conrad at this point has just returned from the hospital after trying to kill himself. Ever since the death of Buck he had turned himself into a different person. He always blamed himself for things and kept his distance from others. The only person who seems to show intimacy is Calvin at the beginning ... her that he loves her. In return Beth says, "I love you", but in the next breath she is telling Calvin to reprimand Conrad about the type of clothes he wears. Ever since Buck's death, Conrad had disassociated himself with others and tried to keep to himself. He doesn't do things like: touch football, basketball and group activities. The death of his brother had taken its toll on ...
- 1836: Romeo And Juliet - Comparisson To West Side Story
- ... Gang members were often seriously injured or killed during their "rumbles". If a member of one gang killed a member of a rival gang, a member of the rival gang would avenge his friend’s death by killing the member of the first gang. Revenge was necessary because of the inflexible code of loyalty to one’s gang. Although there is hatred present in West Side Story, there is also much ... on the list, and Romeo decides to go to the party - the party where he meets Juliet. Fate’s role is reaffirmed throughout the play as the lovers sense its interference. Romeo foreshadows his own death many times throughout the play. Romeo has a dream in which Juliet finds him dead and kisses him back to life. This foretells his own death as well as the fact that Juliet will find him dead. Also, before Romeo goes to Lord Capulet’s party, he says that if he goes, it will be the cause of his death. ...
- 1837: The Art Of Torture
- ... Torture like this works, torture is a way that can really make you have second thoughts before you do anything stupid. Torture was practiced in numerous ancient civilizations. Convicts and war prisoners were put to death by using torture to give them a slow, humiliating death. To some American Indian tribes, it is a custom to torment and burn prisoners. Crucifixion was a popular torture technique in ancient Rome. Rome also used torture to get slaves, criminals, just about anybody, to ... had to get the job done by using a knife and since Charlier was a bald man, he had to hold up the head by the ears instead of the hair. This grotesque scene of death led to the execution of the executioner and his assistant. Back then you were killed for not killing the correct way. The Tools of Medieval Torture: The tools used for torture range from completely ...
- 1838: The Poetry of John Keats
- ... Through Keats' eyes, the world is a place full of idealistic beauty, both artistic and natural, who's inherent immortality, is to him a constant reminder of that man is irrevocably subject to decay and death. This theme is one which dominates a large portion of his late poetry and is most readily apparent in three of his most famous Odes: To a Nightingale, To Autumn and on a Grecian Urn ... the poet reveals the nightingale for what it truly is: a symbol nature's immortal beauty. The bird has now entirely escaped the physical limitations of the poet's world where all is subject to death and decay, for it "wast not born for death", and is an "immortal bird" living in an imaginary realm. It lives outside of the human world "where beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes", yet still affects the poet so profoundly that he wonders ...
- 1839: William Shakespeare
- William Shakespeare William Shakespeare was surely the world's most performed and admired playwright. He was well known in his time, and like many artists his fame continues to grow after his death. His plays dealt with many controversial topics, from racism to witchcraft- perhaps adding to the appeal of his plays in general. Shakespeare led an amazing life for his time, a time when actors and actresses ... stereotype and altered the world perception of theatre forever. In this report, I will outline many areas of Shakespeare’s life, including His birth, marriage and children, parents and family, education, as well as his death. Birth and early years 1564 William Shakespeare the famous playwright was born in April, 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, about 100 miles northwest of London. According to the records of Stratford's Holy Trinity ... that Shakespeare resided in Stratford at the Henley street residence these years, at least through 1585, but his manner of life and activities are not known and have become the subject of many speculations. (Website) Death 1616 Undoubtedly Shakespeare's son-in-law, Dr. Hall, attended him at his death. The nature of his final illness is remains unknown. A legend has grown up based on an entry in John ...
- 1840: A Farewell to Arms: The Chaotic and Brutal World of War
- ... found it bitter in the end. Many critics have strong feelings about Henry as an individual because of his outlook on life in response to the many experiences that he faces with war, love, and death. However, many agree as a result of war, the character of Lieutenant Frederick Henry experiences a change in his morals and values. In the novel, Lieutenant Frederick Henry volunteers as an army ambulance driver in ... Once again the character reflects the real life Hemingway's attitude towards life. The critic notes that Hemingway himself had come unhappily into fatherhood himself and was not happy at the onset either. Hemingway portrays death as a tragedy in which the innocent victims discover that love does not triumph. "The pathetic misfortune which Frederick Henry suffers in losing Catherine through childbirth, at the end of A Farewell to Arms, is ... is either as the justly punished outlaw for having clergy, or as the pitiful victim of the arbitrary and remorseless fortunes of war." (Friedman 105) The author's treatment of love, like his treatment of death, betrays his own fear of the full spectrum of experiences in life. According to the critics, Hemingway's views on life are marked in the novel, but is not completely evident in his description. ...
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