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- 2601: The Fall of the House of Usher: Poe's Writing Technique
- ... Technique The Fall of the House of Usher is acclaimed as one of Edgar Allan Poe's greatest works. Poe uses Symbolism and analogies in both characters and setting to tell this gothic tale of death and downfall. He often drew upon memory for the setting of his stories. He combines atmosphere and analogy to form the setting which provokes to the reader a sense of insufferable gloom. Too much of ... texture; the odors of all flowers were oppressive; his eyes were tortured by even the faintest light. The characters also show gothic tendencies. Just as Usher simultaneously exploits and loathes his disease, he longs for death and at the same time fears it. at the same time fears it. Roderick is himself a symbol of isolation, and of a concentration of vitality so introverted that it utterly destroys itself. He is ... a face or a skull with eye-like windows, and hair of fungus. The reader knows that a house can't just split apart, therefore it must be seen as symbolic. A symbol of the death of both Roderick and Madeline Usher.(MacAndrew, 196, Neilson,197) The happenings which are not supernatural are Roderick's illogical and irrational behavior. The most interesting one of these events is the burial of ...
- 2602: Irony Moll Flanders
- ... nauseous to me." At first she conceals the situation from her husband, merely telling him that the union is not a lawful one. This alone has a strong effect on him: " he turned pale as death, and stood mute as a thunderstruck, and once or twice I thought he would have fainted" . He recovers, but when Moll decides to at last that the full truth must be told the reaction is ... pensive and melancholy, "a little distempered in his head", eventually falling "into a long lingering consumption.” Every detail here matches one in the first episode. Just as Moll's brother begins to "turned pale as death" and nearly fainted, so does Moll when the elder brother begins to suggest that she might marry Robin (turning pale as death she nearly sinks down out of her chair). And just as Moll's brother becomes ill when he hears of his incest so, we recall, does Moll when the elder brother, on another visit, ...
- 2603: Iliad/Odyssey Summary
- ... Patroclus and the Greeks were able to push the Trojans away from the Greek ships they were planning on burning, and sent them back to Troy. But Hector killed Patroclus. When Achilles heard of Patroclus’ death, he rejoined the Greek army and was determined to kill Hector. He and Agamemnon settled their differences and Achilles went back to fighting. When Achilles found Hector, Hector ran around the walls of Troy, trying ... running and faced Achilles. When Hector finally realized that it was not his brother, he knew it was his time to die. After Achilles shot him in the neck, Hector reminded him that his own death was drawing near. Achilles tied Hector’s body to his chariot, and dragged it behind him. Achilles would not give the Trojans Hectors corpse. This angered them and upset Hector’s parents. Finally he gave ... Teiresias. Teiresias told them of what to expect on their journey home to Ithaca and ways to avoid many deaths. He warned him about the Sirens who’s beautiful voices would lure them into their death trap. He also told him of Scylla, with her many heads and snake like necks. And Charybdis, with its mouth that sucked the sea water in and all that was near it, and then ...
- 2604: The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- ... foot tower which housed the bomb was totally destroyed by the blast. ("World War II", 1997, 1-2). After the bomb exploded, Robert Oppenheimer, the head of the Manhattan Project, said, "Behold. I have become death, destroyer of worlds." (Hoare, 1987, 18) When Harry Truman became President after Franklin D. Roosevelt's death, he appointed a committee to advise him about the atomic bomb. The committee was headed by Secretary of War, Henry Stimson. The committee argued about whether to drop the bomb on a Japanese city or ... these cities, their children will develop birth defects. Even though this is not a direct cause of the atomic bombs, it is still related. These people have survived the effects of the bombs and the death. The people who were considered lucky to survive are now victims of their own peoples' uncertainties. People affected by the atomic bomb are called hibakusha. Many hibakusha felt guilty about surviving when most of ...
- 2605: The Circle of Souls in John Donne’s A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
- ... we attempt to bring back to our lives a semblance of the order that existed before the loss. To mourn is to withdraw from the world. However, “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning,” is not actually about death, but rather a separation. The poet, John Donne, engages in a didactic lesson to show the parallel between a positive way to meet death and a positive way to separate from lover. When a virtuous man dies, he whispers for his soul to go while others await his parting. Such a man sets an example for lovers. The separation of the soul from the body and the separation of lovers are not an ending but the beginning of a new cycle. Donne uses the reaction of people to death as an analogy of how their love is to be viewed. Donne uses many examples of figurative language throughout his poem eventually ending it with an image of a circle, the symbol of perfection. ...
- 2606: O'Brien's “On the Rainy River”
- ... used to describe the motive behind numerous acts, encompassing a variety of definitions. Courage manifests itself in many different forms, most commonly, acts of physical courage; pushing the body into an act of bravery. Risking death to save a stranger from a burning building. Society perceives such a selfless act as the epitome of bravery and courage…to have done otherwise would be ridiculed as cowardice. And there’s moral courage ... King stated, in his “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, we have a “moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws…One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty.”
- 2607: Israfel By Poe, An Analysis
- ... the beginning of which was first set down by Poe during his days at West Point College.(Allen 233) The poem itself is a direct contrast to Poe's usual poetry, which usually deal with death and dark thoughts or other melancholy, Gothic ideas. Poe's idea of the death of beautiful woman being the most poetical of all topics is here, nowhere to be found. This proves that Poe, when so inclined, could indeed write about something other than opium induced nightmares and paranoid grieving men who are frightened to death by sarcastic,talkative, ravens. Besides "Israfel", Poe's other poetry, "To Helen", as well as "Annabel Lee" and others, are virtually unrecognizable to the everyday reader as being works by Edgar Allan Poe. His ...
- 2608: Sigmund Freud
- ... qualities of the productive adult are the ability to love well and the ability to work well. Adults who fail to achieve a sense of productivity begin to stagnate, which s a form of psychological death. The years of maturity are typified by the stage of Integrity of the Self versus Despair. This is the most illuminating stage of a person's life. If all the crises of earlier stages are ... a healthy manifestation of self. Maintaining a sense of worth and personal integrity during the final years is natural. Those who could not resolve earlier crises will look upon the prospects of old age and death with a deep sense of dread and despair. Another primary concept to Erikson's system is ego identity development and the ego strengths that delineate each of the eight stages. His system stresses the ego ... Perhaps she wished to possess her mother, since she had taken on the male role. When she married, this psychosexual confusion was not resolved. In fact, it may have been worsened by her husband's death. It is said that Jenny did not grieve for her husband. Perhaps she merely transferred her womanly affection onto Ross, expecting a relationship from him that was like that of a lover and not ...
- 2609: The Story of An Hour: Pain and Suffering From False News
- ... her husband had died. The story shows the pain and suffering she went through because she loved her husband. Josephine, Mrs. Mallard's sister, and Richard, a friend, told Mrs. Mallard of her husband's death. Mrs. Mallard could not accept the significance of the news, she cried instantly. This shows the abandonment Mrs. Mallard now felt. While in her room by herself she felt that something or someone was coming ... leaves you in a state of "awe". You have no idea why Mrs. Mallard died. Even though you knew that she had heart problems you don't know for sure the real reason of her death. The doctors said that she died from heart problems but the last sentence states, "she had died of heart disease - of joy that kills". This statement makes you, the reader, wonder if she died from ... had, knowing that her husband was actually alive. "The Story of An Hour" is a wonderful story on how the effects of hearing false news can lead to a lot of pain and suffering, eventually death. This story was and awesome description of how so many events can happen in "an hour".
- 2610: Herman Melville
- ... began a pattern of writing evenings, weekends, and on vacations. In 1867 his son Malcolm shot himself, accidentally the jury decided, though it appeared that he had quarrelled with his father the night before his death. His second son, Stanwix, who had gone to sea in 1869, died in a San Francisco hospital in 1886 after a long illness. Throughout these griefs, and for the whole of his 19 years in ... with the date April 19, 1891. Five months later Melville died. His life was neither happy nor successful. By the end of the 1840s he was among the most celebrated of American writers, yet his death evoked but a single obituary notice. Melville's was provided with influences for his writings throughout his entire lifetime. A poverty-stricken childhood and issued within his family became the inspiration for the novel Pierre. Years later, after his father's death, he took a cabin boy position on board the whaler "Acushnet". This voyage took him to the South Seas and to the Marquesas Islands where he was held captive by the cannibalistic Typee people. ...
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