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- 1891: The Theme of Coming of Age in Literature
- ... many different cultures, through rituals or ceremonies. The rituals, also known as passage rites, mark the passing of a person from one stage of life to the next: birth, infancy, childhood, adulthood, old age, and death. The coming of age is celebrated along with birth, and death because it is known as a universal life crises. Evoking anxiety, these crises often elicit passage rites. Arnold Van Gennep stated that "Passage rituals have three steps: separation from society; inculcation-transformation; and return to ... toward fathers and mothers. Such rites dramatize the power of older over younger males and state that "only women can make babies: but only men can make men." (1995, Grolier Encyclopedia) Such passage rites symbolize death of the child and rebirth as a man, as well as male envy of females. Versions in modern Western society includes religious, confirmation, fraternity initiation, and military training. In addition to the different ways ...
- 1892: The Roots of Judaism and Christianity
- ... the spiritual center of world Jewry. The national union effected by David was shaky. The economically and culturally advanced tribes of the north resented the rule of kings from pastoral Judah, and after Solomon's death the kingdom was divided. The larger and richer northern kingdom was known as Israel; Judah, with Benjamin, remained loyal to the family of David. Israel experienced many dynastic changes and palace revolutions. Both Israel and ... system centers on the person and teachings of Jesus Christ. To Christians, Jesus of Nazareth was and is the Messiah or Christ promised by God in the prophecies of the Old Testament; by his life, death, and resurrection he freed those who believe in him from their sinful state and made them recipients of God's saving grace. Many also await the second coming of christ, which they believe will complete ... the power of the Holy Spirit, preached the coming of God's Kingdom but was rejected by the Jewish leaders, who delivered him to the Romans to be crucified. On the third day after his death God raised him up again. He appeared to his disciples, commanding them to spread the good news of salvation from sin and death to all people. This, according to Christian belief, is the mission ...
- 1893: Analysis of Stephen Crane's "War Is Kind"
- ... affrighted steed ran on alone, Do not weep. War is kind. I found it especially disturbing, when the author addresses the grieving mate or lover that will be left behind and alone because of the death of her man. He does depict the typical Hollywood scene of a gallant soldier violently dismounted and mortally wounded from his mount during a fierce battle, his hands rising to the sky as he falls ... the fact that many of these soldiers have not completed their adolescent years. When he says that these men were "born to drill and die" I believe he means that young men do not fear death and are therefore ideal for the rigors of combat. The glory of conflict and its devastating results is forlorn by Crane in drawing the analogy that the kingdom of the God of war is a ... poet speaking about a real child of this soldier or perhaps referring to the unborn children of the thousands of soldiers that have died in all the worlds conflicts?" His description of the soldier's death is proper and extremely vivid. It paints a clear picture in my mind of the sheer agony and terror of dying in this manner. The fourth stanza points out the indomitable use of symbolism ...
- 1894: Joseph Stalin
- ... Siberia. As a leading Bolshevik he played an active role in the October Revolution. In 1922, he became general secretary of the Party Central Committee, a position that he held until the day of his death. Stalin also occupied other key positions, which enabled him to build up enormous personal power in the government. This is a key point in Stalin’s life where he was enormously confident about himself which led him to do things that were no acceptable in today’s standard life. After the death of Vladimir I. Lenin in 1924 Stalin became leader of the Soviet Union where he made many changes to agriculture and industry. He believed that the Soviet Union was one hundred years behind the West ... else occurred. Along with their crops came all the machinery that they had and everything that they possessed. Due to Joseph Stalin’s actions, many people who were on this collective farm system starved to death. The exact amount of people whom Stalin caused death to is not known but facts prove that there were many of people who died to his actions. In 1945 he conducted foreign policies which ...
- 1895: Gnosticism
- ... in importance with the Dead Sea Scrolls. The first extensive translation into English did not appear until 1977. These writings changed the world's understanding of the doctrines of the early church immediately after the death of Christ and shed some light on Gnosticism. The following are some of the secrets revealed from this amazing discovery.When writing about Gnosticism it is very difficult to present an objective view of this ... the sects on both sides of the schism was the same, to liberate the Spirit by stopping the propagation of life. The Gnostics took Jesus' answer to his disciple Solame's question, "How long will death reign?" literally when he responded, "As long as you women bear children." Also to disobey the laws of the Demiurge, who was evil himself, was justified to the Gnostics. Therefore, to them the Demiurge not ... man feel worthy of himself and his Diety. Brian A. Bain, M.A., says: "Long considered to be heretical, ancient Gnostic Christian texts unearthed this century display compelling similarities between Gnostic conceptions of life and death and modern near death experiences. The Gnostic texts devoted extensive tracts to what readers could expect to encounter when they died. Other passages make numerous allusions to NDE-like experiences that can be realized ...
- 1896: Sonnet 72
- ... fair from fair sometimes declines, c By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed; d But thy eternal summer shall not fade, e Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st; f Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade, e When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st: f So long as man can breathe, or eyes can see, g So long lives this and this ... of the persona’s adoration does not suffer from this finiteness. His "eternal summer’s day shall not fade", or, as described in line 10, his beauty will remain his forever and the personification of death in line 11 shall not be able to make him follow him into the realms of the dead. This immunity from devouring time is accomplished by immortalisation in lines of verse. These lines will even ... However, in a number of lines there are spondaic feet, used to emphasise threats to the beauty and the idea of eternity. Clear examples of this are the "Rough winds" in line 3 and the "death" that will not "brag" in line 11. In the latter example the threat of death is reinforced by the assonance between the words "death" and "brag". Line 9 is an interesting line as regards ...
- 1897: Genocide
- ... was sold at a very high price, and unemployment and poverty were common. The population was large, and the amount of people reached six or seven persons in a room. Typhus became common, and the death rate rose to roughly 1 percent a month. At the time of ghettoization in Poland, a project was launched farther in the east. In June 1941, German armies invaded the Soviet Union, and at the ... Great Britain. In April 1943, the 65,000 remaining Jews of Warsaw put up a fight against German police who entered the ghetto in a final roundup. The battle was fought for three weeks. The death camps in Poland were Kulmhof, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Lubin, and Auschwitz, Kulmhof was supplied with gas vans, and it's death toll was 150,000. Belzec had carbon monoxide gas chambers in which 600,000 Jews were killed. Sobibor's gas chambers accounted for 250,000 dead, and Treblinka's for 700,000 to 800, ...
- 1898: A Tale Of Two Cities - Foreshadowing
- ... includes the breaking of a wine cask to show a large, impoverished crowd gathered in a united cause. Later, we find find Madame Defarge symbolically knitting, what we come to find out to be, the death warrants of the St. Evremonde family. Also, after Marquis is murdered for killing the small child with his horses, we come to see the theme of revenge that will become all too common. The author ... of Paris are and how rowdy a crowd can become when they are unified under a united cause. Later, we find find Madame Defarge symbolically knitting, what we come to find out to be, the death warrant of the St. Evremonde family. Madame Defarge was a very hateful character. She hated the upper-class and was never able to get past this hatred. Thus, she and her husband become leaders of ... knitting is a register of those that she thinks must be killed. We then find out that she as decided that Charles Darnay should be included on her register. This foreshadows the unjust imprisonment and death sentence that Darnay is given later in the novel. This not only foreshadows the imprisonment of Darnay, but also how ruthless the revolution will get. People will die because of who they are related ...
- 1899: Hamlet 2
- ... 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 ...
- 1900: Lillian Hellman
- ... husband, something typical in her day. She married another playwright named Arthur Kober, but this relationship ended in divorce ("Hellman," 1999; James, 1999). Her intimate friendship with the novelist Dashiell Hammett would continue until his death in 1961 (1999). Yet, Hellman would never remarry. Hellman did not begin to write plays until the 1930s, her dramas are well known for focusing on various forms of evil ("Hellman," 1999). Her work has ... me" becomes false. This author demonstrates clearly in The Children's Hour that words can not only hurt, they can kill. The work The Little Foxes is too based on a lie and there is death, but for different reasons. The Little Foxes takes a completely different approach to the subject of lying, although it is a major thematic element. The Little Foxes focuses on a family embarking on a business ... as if some of the characters are propelled by greed and in one sense, it is the lure of easy money that eventually turns people into monsters. Like The Children's Hour, this force causes death. Indirectly, in both plays, death results due to emotional strain. One might conclude that Hellman focuses on emotion to show how much of an impact it has on life. In a very indirect way ...
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