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- 1871: 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 ...
- 1872: Hamlet: Revenge of Their Fathers By Hamlet nad Laertes
- ... supposed to be revenge by his son prince Hamlet. The second murder is Polonius who is supposed to be revenged by his son Laertes. Both Prince Hamlet and Laertes go to seek revenge for the death of fathers, however they will each use different methods to accomplish their deeds. Prince Hamlet has a meeting with the dead ghost of his father King Hamlet. King Hamlet's ghost reveals to his son, his murder by his brother Claudius. Hamlet is informed by his father that he needs to be avenged by the death of his brother Claudius. By this time Claudius has already ascended the throne, and married Hamlet's mother Queen Gertrude. Hamlet decides to take a passive approach to avenge his father. Hamlet first decides to ... Polonius his discovered listening to Hamlet, and his mother's Queen Gertrude conversation . Hamlet unknowing of who the person behind the tapestry is, kills Polonius from where he was spying. When news of his fathers death reaches Polonius's son Laertes, he comes back with an entourage to seek revenge for his fathers death. In this conversation Laertes believes Hamlets uncle King Claudius is responsible for his fathers death. " How ...
- 1873: Hamlet As A Madman
- ... telling the truth or not, which is why he has The Mousetrap performed by the visiting players. If Hamlet had killed Claudius solely on the ghost s advise, he would certainly have been put to death himself. There would probably have been a civil war to choose a new king. Being the humanitarian that he is, and taking account of his responsibilities as a prince and future king, Hamlet would most ... great deal of stress on Hamlet. Even if Hamlet is truly only pretending to be mad after his first encounter with the ghost he is most truly insane by the end of the play. The death of his father and loss of contact with his lover begin driving him to insanity. We can say with some certainty that the ghost is real on its visit to Hamlet because others witness it, but after the death of Polonius, Hamlet is its only witness. By this point Hamlet must surely be insane. He has been brooding for so long over how he will get revenge and just as he thought it ...
- 1874: Hiroshima
- ... fully knowing what kind of devastation it would cause. Many people lost their lives and an entire city was economically devastated. Nuclear proliferation should be banned in order to prevent other countries from suffering the death and destruction like that of Hiroshima. Governments around the world have the power to regulate what kind of warfare is used during battle. However, by permitting the use of the atomic bomb, many innocent civilians ... by the bomb and 50% died from other bomb related injuries. Although the use of nuclear proliferation is often used to set an example for the rest of the world, it causes intense suffering and death to many innocent civilians. Although many governments use atomic warheads to protect their own citizens from harm, the survivors of these atomic bombs are permanently affected. The effects of the bomb cause damage to physical ... severe burns which left terrible koloid scars, others had broken bones, and many thousands more suffered from nausea and fatigue due to extreme radiation exposure. Many became very bitter as a result of seeing such death and destruction(72). In addition, thousands of homes located near the hypocenter were destroyed. Many citizens of Hiroshima were left homeless or living in shelters due to the bomb. Food and water supplies were ...
- 1875: A Worn Path
- ... will do whatever it takes to help her nephew. Phoenix Jackson seems to be one with nature and brings peace and harmony to everything living in the forest. However, the forest has the aura of death. For instance, Phoenix spots a buzzard sitting upon an old, dead tree that resembled a black man. The buzzard represents death, but the old women made her way through the furrow and left death . She then comes upon a field of dead corn, which stood a scarecrow. The job of the scarecrow is to scare away the black crows, which also symbolize death. Phoenix Jackson dances with the ...
- 1876: The Accidental Tourest
- ... control of his life. In this scene not only does Macon take a major action on his own for the first time, but he also finally begins to cope with, and accept his son's death. One thing in this scene that helps us to see how Macon has changed comes on page 339. Macon is reflecting back on his life, and he realizes that he "had not taken steps very ... other place, no matter how unreachable that place was, then maybe "He might be able to bear it after all."(342) This shows that Macon is finally moving on, and getting over his son's death. He has spent the entire last two years grieving over his son's death. He feels guilty, because he gave in to Sarah and let Ethan go to camp. He is constantly haunted by this guilt, as he frequently dreams of Ethan coming home, or calling from camp, ...
- 1877: Canterbury Tales Historical Si
- ... us that what they were saying was most likely true or commonly believed. The beginning of the story shows us that there are a great number of deaths in the town, and each time a death occurred it was indicated by a hand-bell clink from the church. This shows that something was killing off the citizens, and since most deaths back then occurred because of the Black Death, that was what it probably was. Later on in the story the rioters speak of being hung if they took the large sum of money home, because People would call us robbersa strong gang. This shows how easily it was to get killed back then, one false accusation or claim that was believed by some would lead to death. Also represented in the tale are the moral codes of conduct that were followed during the time. Since the main characters were drunken rioters, we would presume that almost all the moves they made ...
- 1878: Sexual Abstinence
- ... pelvic pain, discharge, and painful urination. It may leave its victims sterile. Perhaps even more serious is the disease Syphilis, which killed famous mobster Al Capone. It causes sores, rashes, brain and organ damage, and death. It can also harm an unborn child. AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome) is a growing danger, and is by far the most serious sexually transmitted disease. "Kids don't take AIDS seriously," said Dr. James W. Curran. "One thing they do have is sex. They have sex. They have sex. They have sex." (Ferriss 16) AIDS is the sixth leading cause of death among 15- to 24-year-olds. Cases among teens have grown 62 percent in the past two years, and the number of teens with AIDS doubles every 14 months. A fifth of all AIDS victims ... 6:18 says that we should "flee from fornication...he that commiteth fornication sinneth against his own body." In biblical times, any married woman who was proven to have had premarital sex was stoned to death at the door of her father's home by the men of the city. If an engaged woman was seduced by one other than her fiancee, she and the man who seduced her were ...
- 1879: Maggie: A Girl of the Streets - Innocence vs. Experience
- ... of the loss of innocence through experience. This story can be used to develop the polarity of innocence and experience. Stephen Crane's Maggie is allowed no such Heaven. Her traumatic experience ends in her death without redemption. Crane allows for the dual existence of innocence and experience but without the catharsis enjoyed by Mamie. Innocence surrounded by experience, but unable to survive there, is the dominant theme of Maggie: A Girl of the Streets. After her little brother's death near the beginning of the story, Maggie exists as the sole example of innocence in the Bowery. Her parents drunken rages and constant fighting are tragic representations of the horrors of experience. Her brother Jimmie ... The trauma which is her experience is when she is tossed aside by Pete and her family and forced to wander the streets; she finally loses her innocence. Crane's story ends with Maggie's death and her family's reaction to it. They do not admit that she was forced into experience by them, but rather wonder how she could have lost the innocence they imagined they taught her. ...
- 1880: Beautiful Blueberries (About Into The Wild)
- ... that McCandless was an idiot. He was "simply one more dreamy half-caulked greenhorn who went into the country expecting to find answers to all his problems and instead found only mosquitoes and a lonely death". Some people blamed Krakauer, in the magazine article that preceded the book, for glorifying "a foolish, pointless death". But the beauty of Krakauer's writing is that he doesn't glorify Chris McCandless' life or even try to hide his personal weaknesses. Instead, that which becomes evident is a vivid portrait of McCandless' journeys and an examination of why people are attracted to high-risk activities. Krakauer begins the book with Chris McCandless hiking into the Alaskan wilderness to his ensuing death. He does not return to this scene until the next to last chapter, effectively forcing the reader to see McCandless as more than an unprepared misfit who deserved to die because of the risks ...
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