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- 1841: Christianity And Love Versus R
- ... be called and enter another place where problems no longer exist. But, what would happen if we all die tomorrow! There will be no future! And what would happen if there was no afterlife! Then "death is final!" said Camus. Albert Camus conceives of the world in terms of incongruity and contrasts: man lives, yet he is condemned to die, death is the only definite destiny one can be sure to reach; most people live believing the existence of an afterlife, yet there has never been any proof of its actuality. Camus critiques in The Plague ... and guilt among Oranians when practical precaustions and courage are needed. To further criticize the legitimacy of Christianity, Camus created confusion and doubt for Paneloux (representing all Christians) of his beliefs by vividly describing the death of the innocent child: no God will allow innocent children to die. "..until my dying day I (Rieux) shall refuse to love the scheme of things in which children are put to torture." (218) ...
- 1842: An Introspective Look On Fate Concerning The Tragedies Of An
- ... Due to his character flaws, he had made decisions that soon led to his inevitable destruction. Upon meeting the King of Thebes at the crossing of three roads, his arrogance and temper resulted in the death of Oedipus's father, the King of Thebes. Passing through the City of Thebes, he ended up marrying Jocasta, his mother. Both are puzzled with who murdered King Laius. They send for a prophet, yet ... words spoken of Tiresias, the blind prophet. Oedipus had then, because of his temper, condemned the man who killed King Laius and said that what was going to happen to him would be worse than death. In reality he had damned himself and shunned himself away from the very city he had thought as his own. The truth is soon revealed, which leads to the death of Jocasta and the pity and remorse the chorus feels for Oedipus as he suffers from what he finally learned to be true. An additional tragedy written by Sophocles, Antigone, expresses the same opinion ...
- 1843: Hamlet 5
- ... of the most cited characters in history. Throughout Shakespeare's play Hamlet knows what he must do, but avoids it in his mind. The problem is: why does hamlet delay in avenging his father's death? Hamlet is afraid. He is afraid of failure. Hamlet tries to play off his fear by blaming outside circumstances, like doubting the existence of the ghost when he knows in his heart it is true ... mere fact that Hamlet hesitates to reveal that he has seen the ghost at all and swears Horatio and the other sentinels to secrecy, shows his want to keep the proof of his father's death secret. When hamlet says, "If his occulted guilt/ do not itself unkennel in one speech,/ it is a damned ghost that we have seen,/ and my imaginations are as foul/ as Vulcan's stithy." (Act ... decides to wait to kill him and blames this on ensuring that Claudius's murder is valid and that he will not be elevated as a martyr or a victim. This is not necessary, Claudius' death must come and waiting is cowardly. Hamlet was ready to kill Claudius at one time, but Claudius was busy praying, and Hamlet says, "when he is drunk asleep, or in his rage,/ Or in ...
- 1844: Romeo And Juliet
- ... hardly any thing that would have made them become friends. In the prologue we learn that the only way the "strife" could be ended was by the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. "Doth with their death bury their parent's strife". (Romeo & Juliet, Prologue, l.8) Neither the Montagues or the Capulets would have accepted the marriage. Keeping the marriage a secret caused Romeo and Juliet to turn to other people ... and Juliet the most sifnificant fact you must think about is fate. Fate, above all, destroyed Romeo and Juliet. Many instances in the play reveals that the love of Romeo and Juliet would end in death. "A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life". (Romeo & Juliet,pg.2, Prologue, l.6) From the very beginning it is evident that they were destined by the stars to bad fortune. Some people may think that there is no way to control fate or change what is in the stars. It could be that the love of Romeo and Juliet was destined for death so that their parent's feud would be over. Also, in the prologue it states that the dreadful course of their love was destined for death. "The fearful passage of their death marked love". ( ...
- 1845: “Agamemnon”: Clytaemnestra
- ... Agamemnon”: Clytaemnestra In “Agamemnon”, Clyteamnestra is the character with the majority of the power. She is not manipulated or convinced by Aegisthus to murder her husband. She kills to gain justice for her daughter’s death. She feels her acts are justified. In her mind, it is a benefit that she will gain more power over the kingdom and retain her lover, Aegisthus. From the onset of the play, Clytaemnestra was ... loving emotions towards her husband, but feelings of revenge and hatred. Clytaemnestra was willing to do anything to follow through on the murder of her husband. The murder has become her life, and later her death. Thus, she blatantly lied to the Chorus in lines 600-611, claiming that she was a faithful and loving wife who had not changed since Agamemnon’s departure. She also puts on a façade when ... about Orestes, there seemed to be a sense that these lines have meaning on several levels. Not only was she informing her husband of their son’s whereabouts, she also seemed to mourn over the death of Iphigenia. Furthermore, she insinuated that the exile of Orestes was her husband’s fault, saying, “You risk all the wars.” (Line 872) It is through these few lines that Aeschylus presented the vulnerability ...
- 1846: A Look Into The Human Mind. Sl
- ... a hunting accident, then he gets in a plane crash and everyone aboard dies but him, and while he is in the hospital recuperating, his wife dies of carbon monoxide poisoning. There is so much death surrounding his life, that it is no wonder Billy has not tried to kill himself yet. Billy proves throughout the book that he is not mentally stable, yet somehow, he is persuasive in his interpretation ... novels, which, coincidentally, have many similarities with the “alien” encounter and the “time traveling” Billy often experiences. The encounters are barricades Billy puts around himself so he does not have to face the reality of death and war. They are a way of shielding him so he can pretend everything is all right and there really is no death. Many times throughout the book, Vonnegut indicates that the “encounters” are merely figments of Billy’s imagination brought on by the novels of Kilgore Trout: “It was The Gospel from Outer Space, by Kilgore ...
- 1847: The Stone Angel and The Fifth Business: Analysis of the Main Characters
- ... two main characters share is a birth of one of the characters presented in the novels. In The Stone Angel Hagar blamed herself for being born, because it was she that caused her mother's death. She felt that it should be her who should die not her mother. In The Fifth Business the main character Dunny felt really guilty for dodging a snowball that hit pregnant Mrs. Dempster. He knew ... play with him and even teach him his magic tricks. He was not able to get over the snowball incident as Hagar couldn't stand the fact she was the cause of her mother's death. Hagar didn't like mentioning that subject and when she did she quickly changed to another, "Auntie Doll...had been with us since my birth." (Davies 4) She didn't like to tell anyone about her mom's death, "He did not marry after our mother died..." (Laurance 14) Hagar was ashamed of it and that's why the reader can figure out by going further into the book that she felt guilty ...
- 1848: An Exploration Of Femininity I
- ... Horatio is demonstrated in the final scene. Hamlet, referring to Horatio, exclaims "as thou'rt a man", and the power of Horatio's feeling is expressed through his lines on Hamlet the 'sweet prince's' death, as his "noble heart cracks". This is a particular formula used again by Kent upon Lear's death; the intimacy and tender warmth of these lines is unmistakable. Horatio's masculinity is more clearly set in focus when contrasted with Ophelia's femininity. The relationship between Hamlet and Ophelia is closely bound up ... s son. Cuckoldry represents a spur to his duty to his father. However, in Hamlet's case, cuckoldry is a reality, which only complicates his duty by adding an embarrassing dimension to his father's death. Although, a blemish on his idealised opinion of his father, the notion of cuckoldry is a bone of contention in Hamlet's relationship with Gertrude. It is here, in the filial relationship with the ...
- 1849: Catcher In The Rye 3
- ... in the Rye, a book describing a nervous breakdown, that caused the media to speculate widely about the possible connection. This gave the book even more recognition. The character Holden Caulfield ponders the thoughts of death, accuses ordinary people of being phonies, and expresses his love for his sister through out the novel. So what is the book Catcher in the Rye really about? Superficially the story of a young man ... engaging and believable Full of right observations and sharp insight, and wonderful sort of grasp of how a boy can create his own world of fantasy and live forms"(3) Holdens continuous thoughts on the death are not typical of most teenagers. His near obsession with death might come from having experienced two deaths in his early life. He constantly dwells on Allie, his brother s death. From Holden s thoughts, it is obvious that he loves and misses Allie. In ...
- 1850: Aztec Jungle Agriculture
- ... tribes to the Spaniards. The human soul was threshed out like maize in the endless granary of defeated actions, of mean things that happened, to the very edge of endurance, and beyond, and not only death, but many deaths, came to each one: each day a tiny death, dust, worm, a light flicked off in the mud at the city's edge, a tiny death with coarse wings pierced into each man like a short lance and the man was besieged by the bread or the knife, the cattle-dealer: the child of sea-harbors, or the dark captain ...
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