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- 2201: A Comparison of Alfred Hitchcock and Edgar Allan Poe
- ... Hitchcock, it is the mother who is at first seen as a murderer and tyrant, but who turns out to have been dead for years, and who lives only through her son's insanity. The death of both women is a source of mystery and horror. In both stories the woman is kept in the lower section of the house — Madeline in a coffin and Mrs. Bates as an embalmed corpse. Other narrative techniques tie the two tales: the dark and stormy night in which death takes place, the dead birds which Norman Bates stuffed — Poe's most famous poem is "The Raven" — the pond in which the House of Usher disappea rs and the pond in which Norman Bates entombs ... escape from the dreaded outdoors. Inside of this motel their are many pictures of birds. Birds, beautiful animals free to fly away, in this story - as in The Birds - are a symbol of evil and death. Poe is also very illusory. He carefully depicts the House of Usher stressing the fissure splitting the building — it seems on the verge of collapse. Despite its unstable appearance it remains firm until the ...
- 2202: The Crucible
- ... empty promise, since before the ending of Act One he already mentally decides Salem is plagued with witchcraft, with or without concrete evidence to support his allegation. Hale uses such scant evidence as Putnam’s death of her first seven children and Giles’ wife reading of strange books which keep him from reciting the Lord’s prayer. Ironically, he encounters, Tituba, after hearing that this Barbados slave had been practicing voodoo ... all inferior compared to the time in Act Three that he confronts Danforth on the court’s conduct and while admitting his own guilt in the due process, "Hale: Excellency, I have signed seventy-two death warrants; I am a minister of the Lord and I dare not take a life without there be proof so immaculate no slightest qualm of conscience may doubt it. Danforth: Mr. Hale, you surely do ... I believe him! Pointing at Abigail: This girl has always struck me false! She has--[then interrupted by Abigail’s chanting]." (114). This is when Hale fully confesses that the people he has condemned to death were probably all innocent. After Proctor is accused as a wizard by Mary is when Hale finally storms out of the courtroom and turns to trying to save the lives of the ones accused ...
- 2203: The Crito
- ... we are to abandon it or believe it" (Plato 46-47). In this case Socrates is saying that regardless of what the situation may be he is standing forthright in his decision to face his death. Socrates is trying to explain to Crito that even if he is trying to bully him into exile it will not work. Crito says that Socrates is making a cowardly move by facing death, whereas Socrates believes that he is the one who will end up the stronger man in the end. I think the point Socrates is trying to get across is that regardless of how the current ... improve one's moral development, one should consult an expert, not the majority (Plato 51). In this particular situation I think Socrates believes the "expert" to be the men who have condemned him to his death. Socrates believes that just because he was unable to convince the Athenians of his innocence that doesn’t mean he failed and the assembly, not the law, did an injustice. The "majority" that Socrates ...
- 2204: The Importance of Gender Conflicts Literature to Society Past and Present
- ... matter (Read 16). It is these social attitudes that Miss Emily defies in word and deed. She defies the leaders of her community by acting in what was considered an unladylike manner. After her fathers death she is said to have paraded around town with a Yankee beau, brazenly holding her head high. No mention is made as to whether behavior of Homer Barron is acceptable, implying a double standard that ... is said to be hard and at times unloving. (Brown XI) In this play Antigone is denied her religious duty to give proper burial to her brother Polyneices. Antigone believes that Kinship demands service in death as in life (Brown 76) Antigone feels that the edict by her uncle forbidding the ceremonial burial of her brother is sacrilegious and defies her uncle by performing the burial rites not one but twice ... soldier on the battlefield. She also boldly takes responsibility for her actions, when as a women she could easily have denied the first burials as an act of the Gods. Antigone also accepts her eventual death for her actions and faces death with her belief that she did the right thing. In contrast to the works of Faulkner and Sophocles, Colleen McElroy shows how gender conflict enters the life of ...
- 2205: Josef Mengele
- By: Colin Price THE ANGEL OF DEATH: JOSEF MENGELE "Right, left", what man could send people to their death with a flick of a cane, without batting an eye? Josef Mengele. The stories and pictures of Auschwitz tell a gruesome tale of death and torture. Stories of the abused, used, and killed, the tales of the torturees have been told, but what about the torturers? The SS, the "doctors", the ones who carried out the deeds, what ...
- 2206: Taoism 3
- ... profound. Why do people believe that this is the only life there is to lead, that they must achieve so much by society's standards, when they do not know what else lies ahead after death? So many people go through life fearing death, and this is one of the things that Chuang Tzu pities most of humankind for. This fear that is instilled in us seems worthless. People are afraid of the unknown, which is almost pointless because ... at of harms way. That is the way to lead a successful life. The discussion of how a person should live their life is a great discussion topic in Chuang Tzu. He asserts that "Life, death, preservation, loss, failure, success, poverty, riches, worthiness, unworthiness, slander, fame, hunger, thirst, cold, heat - these are the alternatives of the world, the workings of fate...Therefore, they should not be enough to destroy your ...
- 2207: Bleeding Ireland and Black America
- ... Nearly four times as many black families exist below the poverty line as white families. More than 50 percent of African American families have incomes below $25,000 dollars. Among black youth under age twenty, death by murder occurs nearly ten times as often as among whites. Over 60 percent of birth to black mothers occur out of wedlock , more than four time the rate of white mothers. The net worth ... combat zones of today. These bullet hole and blood spattered places are growing and are now four to five times bigger than their original sizes in almost all major cities of the United States.16 Death has become an accepted, even expected result of life in the ghetto. In North Richmond and other places like it, children live a life of want, of deeply segregated and ill equipped schools, of gang ... hope for in life, which isn't much, considering only a small group of people will treasure their short lives; they truly become 'just another statistic'. In the slum a pager beacons the message of death: three numbers- 187 those three numbers are self explanatory, their appearance chilling. They represent the penal code designation for murder as well as who is marked for assassination on the street. It is written ...
- 2208: The Black Cat
- ... mythology, Pluto was the god of the dead and ruler of the underground. The symbolism of the cat’s name can be used to show that in some way the cat will be involved with death. When the narrator returned home after a night of drinking and noticed that Pluto was avoiding him, he went on a search for it. Upon finding and grabbing Pluto, the narrator is bitten in the ... come to the wall to pray and mourn the dead. When the narrator approaches the lone standing wall of his house, he sees only an image of the cat. He is actually just mourning the death of Pluto. As the narrator said before, he had a lot of regret when hanging his cat. He even says that he could not "rid himself of the phantasm of the cat" (349). This means ... Christ, opposites of what black is associated with. Later in the story, the narrator describes this white spot as having the distinct shape of the gallows. This symbols that the cat will lead to the death of the narrator. He is writing this story from a prison cell and is going to die the next day. One can assume that his punishment is death by means of hanging from the ...
- 2209: Animal Testing
- ... S. government, the Army and Air Force in particular, has designed and conducted many animal experiments. The experiments were engineered so that many animals would suffer and die without any certainty that this suffering and death would save a single life, or benefit humans in any way at all. An example of this is some tens of thousands of Beagles experimented with. In Albuquerque, New Mexico, 64 Beagles were forced to ... Program” which has been paid for by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. In this experiment 26 dogs died. One of the deaths occurred during an epileptic seizure; another from brain hemorrhage. Other dogs, before death, became feverish and anemic, lost their appetites, and had hemorrhages. The experimenters compared their results to those experiments conducted at the University of Utah and the Argonne National Laboratory in which beagles were injected with Strontium 90. They concluded that the dose needed to produce “early death” in fifty percent of the sample group differed from test to test because the dogs injected with Strontium 90 retain more of the radioactive substance than dogs forced to inhale it. Also, at the ...
- 2210: The Joy Luck Club 2
- ... 2/13/92). The dynamic center of the novel is contained within the four sets of four stories. For example, the four places at the Mah Jong table are thrown out of balance by the death of Jing-Mei Woo's mother, and Jing-Mei must replace her at the table to restore the balance and support the dynamic center which is the ritual of the game itself (Tan, 19, 22). In this same way, the structure of the first section is unstable (due to her mother's death), and Jing-Mei must narrate all four Woo stories in her mother's absence. Confucianism and Taoism were both responses to times of conflict. Confucianism is usually dominant in times of peace, while Taoism is ... pot when his wife died, to the horror of his neighbors. "If I should break down and cry aloud, I should be like one who does not understand destiny [Tao; the relativity of life and death]. Therefore I stopped" (Yutang, 180). A healthy sense of relativity is useful to the Taoist for dealing with life's extremes. Jing-Mei completes the fourth corner of the Club after her mother's ...
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