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- 1921: Antigone Essay
- ... also causes the downfall of many others in the kingdom of Thebes. The formers stubborness leads to her being alienated from Thebes. She then who hangs herself because she is put into solitary confinement. Her death leads Haimon to kill himself when he finds out the horrible news. Haimon, who loves Antigone and can t bear the thought of living without her, intimates at revenge on his father by killing himself for putting his lover into solitary confinement. The death of Haimon, the only son of Creon and Eurydicκ causes the latter to commit suicide because she was very emotionally attached to Haimon. These deaths leaving Creon emotionally crippled along with many of the other people of Thebes, were attributed to Antigone s headstrong attitude. Suffering greatly, Creon is left to live a life in death. Antigone s stubborness and Creon s malevolent ruling causes the death of almost the entire dynasty of the family. With his wife and child dead, Creon has nothing left to live for. The dynasty ...
- 1922: Hamlet Observations Of Madness
- ... V scene II) Guildenstern and Rosencrantz in their attempt to make the kings favor, escort Hamlet to England. In return for their dutiful service and heightened ambitions, the rewards for both men are the same, death without trial or question. Hamlet also comments that he feels no guilt for friends that betrayed him, and that men who betray others deserve their fruits in life, in this case, death. Rosencrantz: Take you me for a sponge, my lord? Hamlet: Ay, sir, that soaks up the king's countenance, his rewards, his authorities. But such officers do the king best service in the end: he ... time for morning is over, and that he should resume his life as everyone else has done. As the play goes on, she begins to realize that the problem is more than just his fathers death, and acquires the aid of Hamlet s countrymen to discover the reason for his odd behavior. Gertrude: Thanks, Guildenstern and gentle Rosencrantz: And I beseech you instantly to visit My too much changed son. ...
- 1923: Richard The Lion Hearted
- ... daughter and heiress of William X, duke of Aquitaine and count of Poitiers, who possessed one of the largest domains in France--larger, in fact, than those held by the French king. Upon William's death in 1137 she inherited the Duchy of Aquitaine and in July 1137 married the heir to the French throne, who succeeded his father, Louis VI, the following month. Eleanor became queen of France, a title ... she gave her sons considerable military support. The revolt failed, and Eleanor was captured while seeking refuge in the kingdom of her first husband, Louis VII. Her semi-imprisonment in England ended only with the death of Henry II in 1189. On her release, Eleanor played a greater political role than ever before. She actively prepared for Richard's coronation as king, was administrator of the realm during his crusade to ... the tragic loss at Hattin, where the crusaders had lost Jerusalem to the Saracen leader Saladin. Richard soon took up the cross of the crusades, much against his father's approval. In 1189, upon the death of Henry II, Richard was crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey London. One of his first actions was to free his mother from prison. His second was to begin to raise funds for ...
- 1924: Hamlet: Revenge or Scruples?
- ... were to murder Claudius, the reigning king, and claim his motive was the words of a ghost. Hamlet already disapproves of Claudius due to his marriage to Hamlet's mother, Gertrude, so soon after the death of her first husband, King Hamlet. Prince Hamlet feels that the widow did not sufficiently mourn and that the marriage is incestuous due to the relation between the late husband and the new groom. The ... causes Hamlet to suspect that Claudius and Gertrude had an affair during her marriage with King Hamlet. Despite this, most Danes see nothing wrong with the marriage and express no suspicions about King Hamlet's death. Because he must expose Claudius's murder of King Hamlet in order to legitimize his own murder of Claudius, Hamlet can not immediately kill Claudius and explain his motive later, once he is guilty of murder. He must first find proof that Claudius did in fact do wrong that brought about his father's death. Some of Hamlet's opportunities for killing King Claudius are poorly timed, most notably following Claudius's expression of alarm after watching an enactment of the murder of Gonzago. This is a time when ...
- 1925: Discuss Some Of The Main Ideas
- ... in values and morals from parents and society and enables us to feel guilt. Freud grouped together ego and sexual instincts calling them EROS or the life drives. In opposition to Eros he proposed the death instinct (sometimes called Thanatos). By the death instinct, Freud meant an urge to self-destruction and ultimately a universal impulse to return to an earlier state. The death instinct may express itself in potentially self-destructive behaviour such as taking increasing risks, drug or alcohol addiction and attempts at suicide. The death instinct might also be directed outwards in the form of ...
- 1926: Carson Mccullers The Heart Is
- ... that the mute understands them. McCullers clearly show that Singer isn't all-knowing many times in the book. In one instance Jake, the socialist, furiously tells Singer about how most people work themselves to death so a few can profit. Jake is so upset that he wants to start a fight with someone, when Singer carefully writes the simple question: "Are you Democrat or Republican?" (McCullers, Heart, 211) Jake crumples ... kinship with another human being. When the imagined attachment can no longer be maintained, life becomes unbearable, and something must give. The worlds of Mick, Jake, and Dr. Copeland are all disturbed by Singer's death. Dr. Copeland leaves his nice house in town to live with his family, people he sees as lower than him, and not living up to their own potential. Copeland had been able to believe that ... to rise himself to tell his black family of their potential. He feels he has no way to communicate, and can no longer keep up with his cause. The reader feels that Dr. Copeland's death is imminent, though it doesn't occur in the course of the novel. Jake feels anger when he hears of Singer's death. He feels as if his secret thoughts are lost now that ...
- 1927: The Optimist's Daughter: Summary
- ... Courtland, Tish Bullock, Major Bullock, Miss Tennyson, and Miss Missouri. Becky Mckelva was Judge Mckelva's wife before she died and had Laurel Mckelva with him. Wanda Fay remarried Judge Mckelva after his wife's death. Dr. Courtland did surgery on Becky Mckelva and the final operation on Judge Mckelva. Miss Adele Courtland is the sister of Dr. Courtland and is a bride's maid to Laurel McKelva. Tish Bullock is ... it out of the operation and die, like her mother, blind and confused. I predict that Judge McKelva will not make it through the surgery or he will die shortly afterwards. With such a sudden death, Laurel and Fay will not have time to say good-bye to him and this will lead to complications later in the book. 3.4 As predicted, Judge Mckelva dies after his surgery, but he holds on for a few weeks before his ultimate death. Although the Judge did eventually die, he did not die shortly after his surgery as predicted. Laurel and Fay show an almost immediate dislike to each other during the Judge's decline and after ...
- 1928: The Holocaust - The Way It Was
- ... abandoned munitions factory.) Fifty thousand " Aryan-looking" Polish children were kidnapped and taken to be adopted by German families. Many were later rejected as incapable of "Germanization" and send to special children's camps, where death by starvation, lethal injection, and disease was all very possible. During the beginning of the war, Hitler authorized an order to kill institutionalized, handicapped patients deemed "incurable." State hospitals filled out questionnaires on their patients, which were then reviewed by a special commission of physicians who would simply decide if the subject lived or died. Those marked for death were sent to one of six death camps in Germany and Austria, where special gas chambers killed them. Public protests in 1941 forced the Nazis to continue this "euthanasia" program in secret. Lethal injection, pills, or forced starvation killed babies, small ...
- 1929: An Analysis of Hamlet
- ... conscience and from without by Hamlet's knowledge of his crime. Finally, he pays for his crime with his life. The play depicts also the troubled part of the hero's life. Beginning with the death of Polonius, Claudius must plot to kill Hamlet. Moreover, he must deal with rejection by Gertrude, the madness of Ophelia, and an insurrection brought by Laertes. At the end of Act 5, he dies. In the end there is a sense of waste. Our reaction to the death of the protagonist can be expressed with the words "If only . . ." All the foregoing characterize Shakespeare's tragic heroes. What is missing in Claudius's case is a tragic effect. There is no sense of waste in Claudius's death, no sense that this death could have been avoided, no arousal of "pity and fear" as there is in Hamlet's, Macbeth's, Othello's, Lear's and Romeo's and Juliet's deaths. ...
- 1930: My Antonia 2
- ... very beginning, a young Jim Burden's parents have died leaving him to go to Nebraska to live with his grandparents. Right from the start Cather plants the seeds of abandonment, with the finality of death, in Jim's life. When he arrives in Nebraska he is very numb to life, but he is soon caught up in daily life on his grandparents farm. He is blissfully happy when he first ... happy in the America, that maybe everything will be fine. Then he kills himself. An abrupt and incredibly sad and poignant parting. The trend of parting is beginning to be associated with the finality of death. Another way Cather expresses the inevitability of these separations is through the changing seasons. In summer everyone in the story is happy and Cather uses beautiful, descriptive imagery that brings to life a world that is alive and wonderful. Inevitably though, summer is followed by the sobering fact of winter. Winter, in Cather's narration that becomes synonymous with death, sickness and separation. Winter is always loathed by the characters in the story, but most of them also find a beauty in it. This suggests that in the inevitability of the sadness and partings ...
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