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- 2451: Hamlet - Ophelia Character Analysis
- ... her to be something she’s not. That weakness of mind and will, which permitted her obedience to her father and thus destroyed her hope for Hamlet’s love, finally resulted in her insanity and death. When her father had challenged the honor of Hamlet’s intentions, Ophelia could only reply "I do not know, my lord, what I should think" (III, iii). Used to relying upon her father’s direction ... and Hamlet. An example of hate is when she sings about a "baker's daughter"(IV, v). Ophelia is referring to the way her father used to treat her before the tragic incident of his death. The love within her madness is when she speaks about the events on "Valentine’s Day"(IV, v). When Ophelia speaks about Valentines Day she is referring to the events of romance that she was ... her family tried so hard to protect her from has passed. Her father’s admission of error might have embittered a more independent Ophelia. This explains Hamlets rejection of her. Being tormented of scenes of death and the burial, she reaches out to the beauty of hanging flowers in a willow tree and somehow drowns. Ophelia was never able to understand exactly what Hamlet was suffering from, and in a ...
- 2452: Ancient Summerian Mythology
- ... be shared among citizens. He believes that when this task is done, more wisdom is gained to the individual. A hero is a character whose actions are inspiring and or noble. Deeply troubled by the death of his friend Enkidu, Gilgamesh embarks on a quest not for glory but for everlasting life in the flesh. Gilgamesh is a great hero known for defeating Humbaba. Gilgamesh has a restless and arrogant nature ... you choose into this land, but I will go back to the city, I will tell the lady mother all your glorious deeds till she shouts for joy; and then I will tell her the death that followed till she weeps for bitterness.” (Wolkstein 143.) This quote shows how Enkidu is rather reluctant to assist Gilgamesh in fighting Humbaba. Gilgamesh on the other hand is so arrogant and naive he doesn’t know Humbaba’s strength. When Gilgamehs was fighting Humbaba, Enkidu died. Gilgamesh is deeply troubled by the death of his companion and friend Enkidu. “Hear me, great ones of Uruk, I weep for Enkidu, my friend. I weep for my brother.” (Wolkstein 144.) The king can’t accept the inevitability of death, ...
- 2453: Julius Caesar – Victim of Tragic Flaw
- ... is basically the ruler of Rome. He’s very compassionate, and most of all, very trusting of others. It is this, his undying trust and compassion for others that leads to his tragic downfall and death. The best example of the phrase “tragic flaw” in the play Julius Caesar is the character Julius Caesar himself. Almost all the citizens of Rome adore Caesar. There are only a select few who do not trust him and truly feel that his death is the only way to preserve the greatness and freedom of Rome. A couple of these few happen to be some of Caesar’s close friends. This circle of people forms a conspiracy and organizes the assassination of Caesar. Caesar trusts almost everyone, and it is this that leads to his death. He doesn’t realize that his trust would end up getting him killed. An example of his trust is when Calpurnia has a dream of the citizens of Rome bathing in Caesar’s blood. ...
- 2454: Pablo Picasso
- ... caused a climate unfavourable for his work. The war also caused his separation from his friends. In 1917, a young writer, Jean Cocteau, persuaded Picasso to leave Paris and travel to Rome, after the sudden death of Marcelle Humbert. Following a phase of depression, Picasso designed sets for the ballet "Parade", in which Cubist "stage managers" were involved. In the opening-night, the audience hissed at the ballet performance but applauded ... create the 11 by 25 foot masterpiece which he named "Guernica". This large mural was, without doubt, the greatest of all creations made by Picasso in his lifetime. It depicted war through anger, violence and death using the tragedy of the bullfight. The critic Jean Cassous stated, "it overflows with fullness and presence, with signs and cries." During World War 2, Picasso was forbidden to exhibit his work after the German occupation of France. He experienced severe hunger for the first time since his early days in Paris. His paintings were harsh and the colours used were, in a sense, cruel. Suddenly, soon after the death of his friend Julio Gonzales, he modelled the "Man with Sheep"(1944), a figure of peace and hope. One year after, Picasso joined the Communist Party and, for the first time, exhibited at the ...
- 2455: Aristotle
- ... Aristotle was born in Stagira in northern Greece, and his father was a court physician to the king of Macedon. As a young man he studied in Plato's Academy in Athens. After Plato's death he left Athens to conduct philosophical and biological research in Asia Minor and Lesbos, and he was then invited by King Philip II of Macedon to tutor his young son, Alexander the Great. Soon after ... his colleagues that he must die for the sake of avoiding hypocrisy. Socrates' whole life he preached that the state's laws must be held supreme for justice to prevail. The state sentenced him to death, and to avoid death would be to contradict the state's laws. In the process he would be contradicting what he had lived for. Many people likened Socrates to a gadfly, always buzzing in the state's face ...
- 2456: The Story of an Hour: Irony
- ... of an Hour: Irony In Kate Chopin's short story "The Story of an Hour," there is much irony. The first irony detected is in the way that Louise reacts to the news of the death of her husband, Brently Mallard. Before Louise's reaction is revealed, Chopin alludes to how the widow feels by describing the world according to her perception of it after the "horrible" news. Louise is said ... not beating the furniture instead. Next, the newly widowed women is looking out of the window and sees spring and all the new life it brings. The descriptions used now are as far away from death as possible. "The delicios breath of rain...the notes of a distant song...countless sparrows were twittering...patches of blue sky...." All these are beautiful images of life , the reader is quite confused by this ... feels like a "goddess of Victory" as she walks down the stairs. This is an eerie forshadowing for an even more unexpected ending. The reader has just accepted Louise's reaction to her husband's death, when the most unexpected happens; her husband is actually alive and he enters the room shocking everyone, and Louise especially, as she is shocked to death. The irony continues, though, because the doctors say ...
- 2457: Bless Me Ultima 2
- ... his first glimpse into the world of men. Ultima gives Tony spiritual healing throughout the book, as well as advice to keep him in harmony with nature and his spirit. The more Tony sees of death in the little town of Guadalupe, New Mexico, the more he questions the Christian God and turns towards the golden carp, a pagan god of the river. Rudolfo Anaya is indicating that each man must ... its good light upon a new earth. (176) comes an ending and a new beginning for Tony to show that all things must come to an end, even beliefs. As Tony is jolted by the death of Narciso he doubts whether God exists and in doing so questions whether his beliefs of God have ever been justified. Tony s final spiritual step has him questioning whether there really is a God ... god. In Tony s dream, he believes The old gods are dying... (244) because he sees Cico kill the golden carp, whereas in real life Cico was like a preacher of the golden carp. The death of the gods confirms the idea that religions come and go and therefore no religion is right. Also, if there is no God in heaven to bear Tony s burden then Tony must bear ...
- 2458: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- ... Its plot, a fairy tale combined with strong Masonic elements (Mozart was a devoted Freemason), is bizarre, but drew from Mozart some of his greatest music. When produced in 1791, two months before Mozart's death, the opera survived an initially cool reception and gradually won audiences over. The year 1788 saw the composition of Mozart's two finest symphonies. Symphony No.40, in the tragic key of G minor, contrasts ... the Requiem. He became ill in autumn 1791 and died on December 5; his burial the next day was attended only by a gravedigger. Rumours that Mozart had been poisoned abounded in Vienna after his death, many suggesting that rival composer Antonio Salieri was responsible. Many now believe a heart weakened by bouts of rheumatic fever caused his death. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria in January of 1756. By the age of four, he had exhibited such extraordinary powers of musical memory and ear-sophistication that his father, Leopold (a ...
- 2459: The Madness Of Prince Hamlet
- ... madness, for he does behave madly, only to become perfectly calm and rational an instant later. These inconsistencies are related with the internal dilemmas he faces. He struggles with the issue of revenging his fatheris death, vowing to kill Claudius and then backing out, several times. Upon this point Hamlet teeters through the play. The reason for this teetering is directly related to his inability to form a solid opinion about ... thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain (1.5.99-103) Hamlet is declaring that he will be committed to nothing else but the revenge of his fathers death. There is no confusion about Hamletis character. He has said earlier that he is what he appears to be, and there is no reason to doubt it. In the next act, however, Hamletis status and ... middle of acting and objectivity. Hamlet finally gets his act together, and decides to act the part his father had given him, after he sees the soldiers going off to war to die. The imminent death of twenty thousand men That, for fantasy and a trick of fame, Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause, Which is not tomb enough ...
- 2460: Yukon Jack: The Life of Jack London
- ... support him. Both Jack London and the man in “To Build A Fire” are in control of their own destiny. As it turns out for the man in “To Build A Fire,” he faces his death because of his solitude. London may be implying that if he had someone to guide him through the early stages of life, he might have turned out to be a more fulfilled and successful person ... contradicted his belief in socialism with his individualistic notion of the survival of the fittest. In the short story “To Build A Fire,” London shows us what happens to the weak. The man freezes to death and the dog survives. London maybe using this story to expand on his survival of the fittest belief. In order for a man to survive the potentially blizzard cold temperatures of the Yukon, he must ... languages” (Kunitz and Haycraft 843). By the age of forty, London was done writing. He made his fortune in his writings, but he managed to spend a greater one. “Although the cause of London’s death [in 1916] was given out as uremic poising, a pad on his night-table, with a calculation of the lethal dose of morphine sleeping tablets, and two empty vials on the floor indicated that, ...
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