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- 2221: Something Wicked This Way Comes: Perfect Love Casts Out All
- ... of his son and is eventually saved, whereas Miss Foley us ruined by her preoccupation with fear and failure to love. Mr. Halloway's life is plagued by the constant thoughts of his ever nearing death. As he approaches his middle age, he feels that he has failed as a father to his son, William. Speaking to Will, he tells him, "(I am) always looking over your shoulder to see what's coming ahead instead of looking at you to see what's here." He fears that death is going to come to him and he would have missed out on his son's life as well as his own. Meanwhile, a carnival comes into Green Tree, Illinois, offering eternal youth while at the same time threatening with fear in the form of death. When Mr. Halloway is lost in the carnival's Mirror Maze, the mirrors show him aging and slowly dying as they "bled him lifeless (and) mouthed him dry." His will is weakened by that ...
- 2222: A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning: Love Between Two People
- ... series of bold and unexpected comparisons for the love between the speaker and his lady. Donne makes his first surprising analogy in the first stanza when he compares the impending separation of the lovers to death. The speaker compares his parting from his lover to the parting of the soul from a virtuous man at death. According to the speaker, “virtuous men pass mildly away” (line 1) because the virtue in their lives has assured them of glory and reward in the afterlife; hence, they die in peace without fear and emotion. He suggests that the separation of the lovers be like this separation caused by death. In the second stanza the speaker furthers his comparison for a peaceful separation. “So let us melt, and make no noise” (line 5) refers to the melting of gold by a goldsmith or alchemist. ...
- 2223: Bram Stoker's Dracula: Anti-Christian
- ... or unclean animals and, he can change form and disappear into the air. Christians believe that consuming God's body and blood will give them everlasting life with God in heaven. Dracula getting life after death or living an afterlife on earth by consuming the blood of the living to survive, build his strength, and create more followers of him in his evil ways. By this, Dracula is relying on humans to renew his life after death and thus not concentrating on God as the source of life. As Dracula feeds on the blood of the living he creates followers as Jesus had disciples. Dracula has evil ways and spreads his evil ... he didn't care of his religiln. Dracula, having so many Anti-Christian qualities could also be considered an Anti-Christ like Vlad Tepes was to his people. Stoker got the idea for Dracula's death, where he disappears into dust, directly from the mysterious death of Vlad Tepes. Vlad Tepes was buried in a monestary near the front of the altar. About 450 years later people were curious if ...
- 2224: France And England In A Tale O
- ... never given a sense that Paris is likely to become a 'beautiful' city that ennobles or is ennobled by its people. Carton's "solemn interest in the streets along which the sixties rolled to a death which had become so common and material, that no sorrowful story of a haunting Spirit ever arose among the people out of all the working of the Guillotine " (298; bk. 3, ch. 9) is one ... down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy, in that England which I shall see no more" (357; bk. 3, ch. 15). The future awaiting the "villains of the piece," on the other hand, is death in France. In the penultimate chapter of the novel, Madame Defarge, who has been driven by a desire to see each and every descendant of the Evrémonde family executed, dies by accidentally shooting herself in ... both French and English, will finally pay for their crimes on the guillotine in France. The only character to contradict this pattern is Sydney Carton, who is executed on the guillotine in Paris. However, his death is not rendered as part of the workings of poetic justice, as in the case of the villains, but rather as a divine reward. From the moment that he decides to sacrifice himself by ...
- 2225: Shooting An Elephant
- ... to terminate the animal’s life. He walked as close to the elephant as he could without startling it and pulled the trigger. George Orwell then goes on to describe in great detail the horrible death that the elephant experienced. I liked the message of this story, but I did not care for the way that the author chose to present it. The message was very clear in that there was ... in situations that they do not want to be in, yet they feel obligated to do what the crowd wants. I didn’t like the way the story was presented for the fact that the death of the elephant was described in such graphic detail. For example when Orwell states, "His mouth was wide open- I could see far down into caverns of pale pink throat" (684). He also goes into ... of the guilt the officer felt and how long it took the massive mammal to die. I feel that the author would have been able to make his point just as effective without describing the death in the way he chose to. At the end of the story it is described how the officer feels about being responsible for the elephants death. It is made clear that he knows what ...
- 2226: Elie Wiesel
- ... and that they had to work or else they would be sent to the furnace. However, the furnace was not a threat to them they had been through so much already that the idea of death really had no meaning. A few days later they were to leave Birkenau. They marched away from that camp to another destination. They reached another camp with a sign to the entrance reading “Work is ... that occurred during their stay at Buna was an air raid. The Americans bombed the camp. The raid only lasted a little over an hour. The bombing made the prisoners happy they did not fear death. It also made Elie happy that the warehouse he worked in was not bombed. A week after the bombing, the prisoners were forced to watch a hanging of a man who stole during the raid ... he felt betrayed. The Jewish were supposed to observe Yom Kipper by fasting. Many questioned whether or not they should fast. If they did fast it might make them weaker and possibly lead to their death. Elie did not fast. Elie was separated from his father. They were placed on separate units. The rumor of selection was passing around the camp. Elie was afraid his father was to weak to ...
- 2227: I Felt A Funeral, In My Brain
- In my opinion, Emily Dickinson as a transcendentalist used her poetry to describe the process of transcendental meditation, particularly the meditation of death. In this poem she tries to allow us to expierience our true nature by entering directly into our conscious. The poem is a deep seeking of the nature of death, the death that is a process of expansion and transformation from solidarity to a spaciousness. When she says: "I felt a funeral in my brain, and mourners to and fro, kept treading, treading till it seemed ...
- 2228: Owen Meany As A Prophet
- ... to be sullenly embracing his 'vision' like the typically doubtless prophet he so often seemed to be…" (Irving 246). Owen believed he had seen his name on a gravestone along with the date of his death. No one could convince him otherwise. The fact that Owen was correct about the date of his death confirmed that he had visions; this proved he had qualities of a prophet. A prophet uses prophecies to not only prove they have powers, but also to benefit others. The second prophecy came to Owen ... a special, heroic purpose. Owen thought he was the reason John's mother was killed. One night, Having gone into her room, he witnessed an apparition. Owen believed the task of John's mother's death had been passed to him for he had interrupted the angel of death at her holy work. To imply that this incident was an accident was to be accused that you lacked faith. In ...
- 2229: College Hazing
- ... which could adversely affect the mental health or dignity of the individual”(“Pennsylvania Hazing Law” 1). The importance of this hazing situation is the fact that people are being injured, both physically and mentally, causing death or lifelong trauma. Though it may seem like an easy to control situation, the truth is that it is not easy at all. The only times that these groups, who subject individuals to hazing activities, are caught or penalized is after the damage done to an individual is so horrible as to result in death or hospitalization. The act of hazing may consist of something as subtle as a “pledge”, one who is trying to become a part of the group, having to answer phones at a fraternity house to ... go to the school for help in organizing the possible incentives and alternatives. Works Cited Bradley, Lydia. “Collective Murder.” Campus.org. 23 Mar. 1994. Online. Internet. 10 Dec. 1999. Chenowith, Karin. “When Hazing Leads to Death: One Campus’ Response.” Black Issues in Higher Education 25 Jun. 1998 : 20. Crothers, Taylor C. “Hazing Days: The Fraternity Initiation Remains the Most Secret of Campus Rituals – and the Most Debauched.” The New York ...
- 2230: To Kill A Mockingbird Notes
- ... Maycomb's attention for about two days, and everyone agrees that it is typical for a black man to do something irrational like trying to escape. Mr. Underwood writes a long editorial condemning Tom's death as the murder of an innocent man, and the only other important reaction comes when Bob Ewell is overheard saying that the death makes "one down and about two more to go." Commentary Atticus advises Jem to stand in Bob Ewell's shoes, echoing to advice he gave Scout earlier in the novel. Here, however, Atticus' attempt to ... when she considered the oppressed (in Africa)," Scout notes, yet the same woman can complain that "there's nothing more distracting than a sulky darky." In the wake of the tragedy of Tom Robinson's death (which Mr. Underwood's editorial compares to "the senseless slaughter of songbirds," an obvious reference to the novel's title), however, the tea party becomes an opportunity for the Finch women to display moral ...
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