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- 2251: Bram Stoker
- ... much the critic (and still holding his civil service position), gave Irving's performance a favorable review. Impressed with Stoker's review, Irving invited Stoker back stage and the resultant friendship lasted until Irving's death in 1905. The Stoker/Irving partnership solidified around the year 1878. During this time Henry Irving had taken over his own theater company called the London Lyceum, but he didn't like the management, and ... was published in 1891 and was well received by some of the critics, but others thought the book too terrifying for children. Stoker was already fascinated with the notion of the "boundaries of life and death" (Leatherdale, p.63) which made this book too terrifying for children at least in some of the reviewer's minds. By the time Stoker had received favorable reviews for his romance novel "The Snake's ... based on the information given to Stoker by an Egyptologist. In 1905 Henry Irving died, leaving the aging Stoker without a steady jot for the first time in his life. A year after Irving's death Stoker wrote "Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving." Stoker managed to write other novels after this point until the time of his death in 1912 at the age of 64.
- 2252: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat"
- ... circumstances I detail with awe, nothing more than an ordinary succession of very natural causes and effects." Tomorrow the narrator will be executed for the brutal murder of his wife. As he awaits his own death, he finds it necessary to record the events which seduced him into murder and informed the police of his crime. From infancy, the narrator had been noted for his "docility and humanity of... disposition." His ... white began to take the shape of an object that terrified the narrator. This ghastly shape was that "of the GALLOWS!--oh, mournful and terrible engine of Horror and of Crime--of Agony and of Death!" "...[N]either by day nor by night ...[could the narrator find] the blessing of rest any more." During the day, the cat would never leave the man's side, and at night, he would wake ... the slightest appearance of having been disturbed." The narrator cleaned up the mess with "the minutest care." His next step was to look for the cat. The man had "firmly resolved to put it to death." However, the cat must have been frightened by the man's previous actions, and it was now nowhere to be found. "It did not make its appearance during the night; and thus for one ...
- 2253: Catullus
- ... was feeling about her. In his earlier poems, there was a playful banter between the two. He would ask for enough kisses to equal each grain of sand in the desert. Then sometime after the death of his brother, whom historians can only assume were very close, his writing took on a more morbid slant. Catullus took a closer look at the relationship and saw the flaws in the perfect love ... s breast all day. He ends the poem with “Ah, would that I Could rest my aching love, sharing, canary bird, The ache with you.” (Havelock, pg. 19) The poem, which follows, speaks of the death of this bird. Rather than it be a mourning for the actual lost pet, Catullus actually makes it a love poem in disguise by using it as an opportunity for lamenting the tears in Lesbia ... we read on to more of his poems, we start to witness a rejection of this passion and resentfulness from the narrator for feeling what he does. Critics believe this resentment may stem from the death of Catullus’ brother and the fact that the woman was married. Catullus as the narrator not only knew her husband, but was actually made to speak to her like they did not know or ...
- 2254: "Not Waving but Drowning" and "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers"
- ... Drowning" and Adrienne Rich's "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" are similar in that both poems' characters have lived their lives with regret and sorrow. Neither of their lives were lived to the fullest and as death approaches, the question of, "what could have been?" remains forever unanswered. Upon first reading, Stevie Smith's "Not Waving but Drowning," the image of a man, out in the middle of the ocean, may first ... or how he really felt inside. No one really knew him. The irony of the poem is that the very stereotype placed on this man throughout his life ends up being the downfall to his death. "I was much too far out all my life," could mean a number of things. Perhaps the misconceptions pertaining to this man began during childhood. It's possible that he came from an abusive or ... she views her own life. She sees her life as being dark and gloomy, and by using bright colors in her quilt, she further exposes how she wishes her life could have been. After her death, "still ringed with ordeals she was mastered by," her artistic creations live on, "prancing, proud and unafraid." The greatness of her art outlives the sorrow of her individual existence. Adrienne Rich has created a ...
- 2255: Prenatal Diagnosis: Heredity Disorders, Other Biochemical Diseases, and Disfiguring Birth Defects
- ... do not cause mental retardation, or impair the child's normal development or general health to any great extent, if at all. Many others, however, cause severe mental retardation, seizures, stunting of growth, and early death. Close to 150 of these biochemical disorders can now be diagnosed in the affected fetus early in pregnancy. (Nora,1989). The first diagnosis of a biochemical disorder in the fetus while in the womb was ... her intramuscular injections of massive doses of vitamin B12. This method secures the child's health at birth, when a special low-protein diet is started. In this way serious illness, mental retardation and early death have been averted. Another considerably more common disorder is congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH). This heredity disorder is inherited equally through a gene from both parents (autosomal recessive). About 1 in 5,000 to 13,000 ... Critically important in about two-thirds of affected children is the occurrence of a life- threatening crisis one to four weeks after birth, characterized by vomiting, diarrhea, and salt loss leading to collapse and even death if not diagnosed and treated with "cortisone". Where needed, surgical correction of the female genitals is possible, and normal growth, puberty and fertility can be achieved through lifelong medical treatment with cortisone like supplements. ...
- 2256: Poe's Literary Vengence
- ... built the same barrier that separated their ability to communicate at any level. The barrier that was built severed all ties between he and his stepfather. The story the "The Tell-Tale Heart deals with death, but in a different murderous plot. I feel this is another story where a plot of murder relates to his stepfather and that again he never took action upon his thoughts. To understand this story ... agrees and it is Hop- Frog who gets the last laugh. As he has the king and his council set on fire. This story is another way that Poe reveals his thoughts towards his stepfather. Death is his ultimate revenge and each story provides a different plan for executing the plans of death. No one will ever know the true meanings of Poe's literary works. There are only theories and beliefs of what his stories, poems, and essays mean and represent. I do feel that his ...
- 2257: Edgar Allan Poe 4
- ... s works, setting is used to paint a dark and gloomy picture in our minds. I think that this was done deliberately by Poe so that the reader can make a connection between darkness and death. For example, in the "Pit and the Pendulum", the setting is originally pitch black. As the story unfolds, we see how the setting begins to play an important role in how the narrator discovers the many ways he may die. Although he must rely on his senses alone to feel his surroundings, he knows that somewhere in this dark, gloomy room, that death awaits him. Richard Wilbur tells us how fitting the chamber in "The Pit and the Pendulum" actually was. "Though he lives on the brink of the pit, on the very verge of the plunge into ... narrator often seems to have some type of psychological problems. For example, In Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado, " the story opens with a first person narrator, Montresor, speaking about the planning of Fortunato's death. By the anger and remorse that Montresor has for Fortunato, one might think that this was a recent incident. It is not until the very end of the story that we realize that the ...
- 2258: Knowledge of Information
- ... him by not telling him the truth. When the nurse consulted with Ralph's physician, he agreed with the family's decision, as he felt that they needed time to accept their mother's recent death and Ralph's impending death. The doctor ordered the nurse not to oppose him and not to disclose any further infomation to Ralph. THE PRINCIPLE: TRUTH-TELLING & DECEPTION (Should be "FIDELITY") In most cases, a rational person has a right ... harm overrides autonomy rights. If I were involved in Ralph's care as his nurse, I would have great difficulty with deceiving or withhold information from him, but considering the impact of his wife's death, combined with the knowledge of his own inevitable demise, I would take into consideration his emotional state first, as his advocate, and work with his daughters in establishing a set time to inform him ...
- 2259: Everyone in A Man For All Seasons is Pursuing Their Own Ends. What Makes More Different?
- ... legal, and what he thinks is right. He is one of very few people who have died with their integrity intact. He is a special man, who is steadfast in upholding his principles, even when death breathes down his neck. Sir Thomas More truly is a paragon. One character in the play particularly concerned with his goals, regardless of the path he must take to reach them is Thomas Cromwell. Cromwell ... it was, there was no way the Cardinal could be in any sort of "…laughing mood." One thing Cromwell fails to realise is that by doing his job for the King and arranging More's death, he, "…plants my own." In order to reach his goal of receiving flattery and credit for the King's business he is scheming and brutal and boldly proclaims, "When the King wants something done, I ... the time being by ending the friendship. Sadly, Norfolk fails to see the selflessness More has exhibited and simply continues to do his job on the investigative committee which is ultimately responsible for More's death. More too, is pursuing goals of his own. However, there are dramatic differences between his pursuit and the pursuit of others. More's primary goal is to pursue good, in the true sense of ...
- 2260: Faustus
- ... fitteth Faustus’ wit: / Bid philosophy farewell” (Marlowe 14). To complete his life Faustus considers following God, however after reading from the Bible he decides that God cannot offer him truth, “The reward of sin is death. That’s hard. /…/If we say that we have no sin / We decieve ourselves, and there’s no truth in us. / Why then belike / We must sin and so consequently die, Ay, we must die an everlasting death/…/…Divinity, adieu!” (Marlowe 15). Having denied God completely leaves Faustus completely desolated from society, In acceptance of Mephistophilis, Faustus completely denies society and all that has been handed to him by science and learning. “Marlowe ... 158). Faustus’ deal with Lucfier ultimately commits Faustus to this belief. By making a deal with Lucifer, he is putting into practice his belief that he can make himself immortal and challenge both God and death. Clearly, Faustus must believe that God exists since he emprically knows that Lucifer exists. Even though Faustus knows that God exists he states, “The word damnation terrifies him not [Faustus]” (Marlowe 25). This early ...
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