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- 3011: Hamlet - A Comparison To Human
- ... the human mind. The approach taken by Shakespeare in Hamlet has generated countless different interpretations of meaning, but it is through Hamlet's struggle to confront his internal dilemma, deciding when to revenge his fathers death, that the reader becomes aware of one of the more common interpretations in Hamlet; the idea that Shakespeare is attempting to comment on the influence that one's state of mind can have on the ... make sense of his moral dilemma through personal meditations, which Shakespeare presents as soliloquies. Another perspective of Hamlet's internal struggle suggests that the prince has become so disenchanted with life since his father's death that he has neither the desire nor the will to exact revenge. (74) Mr. Scott points out morality and disenchantment, both of which belong solely to an individuals own conscious, as two potential causes of ... the idea that Shakespeare is using Hamlet's dilemma to illustrate the effect that perspective, or state of mind, can have on a given situation. Hamlet's delay in seeking revenge for his father's death plays an important role in allowing Shakespeare's look into the human mind to manifest itself. If Hamlet had killed Claudius at first opportunity, there would have been little chance for Shakespeare to develop ...
- 3012: Sonnet 12
- ... and deeper as time on the clock marches on. Time is destruction. "When I behold violet past prime"(L.3), Shakespeare is again adding to his catalogue. The idea Shakespeare tries to convey is that death takes everything. The violet was once beautiful and strong but as time passes, the violet will age and become frail. Shakespeare proceeds to speak of black sable curls hiding behind white. I have two observations ... of the dead man. He has aged and gives us proof to the references made in the fourth line of the first quatrain. Those summer flowers may add color to the somber coffin. Life and death, complete opposites of each another, are drawn together. Yet, the flowers are plucked from the ground and will eventually be buried with the coffin. The white and bristly beard represents the summer growth now deprived ... at what rate. Beauty will wither away, and the subject, whom Shakespeare speaks to, will perish. Shakespeare gives closure to his sonnet in the last two lines. There is no defense from aging, time, and death. Because time is evil and superior, it has the power to change day into night and summer into winter. It has the ability to strip the leaves off a lofty tree and to kill ...
- 3013: Shakespeare And Frost - Masters Of Their Trade
- ... No. Thirty. "Then I can drown an eye (unused in flow), For precious friends hid in deaths dateless night," While reminiscing on times gone by, the persona comes across the memory of a friends death. Shakespeare here has written about the "final stop on our earthly journey", death, and the people who are affected by it. The persona mourns for his lost friend at first, but as the poet goes on to say "But if the while I think on thee (dear friend) All losses are restored, and sorrows end." This shows, using Frosts On a Tree Fallen Across the Road, that the death of the personas friend was a moment for pause on his personal "journey". While both poems deals with the existentialist concept, Shakespeare differs from Frost by using a different aspect of existence. It is ...
- 3014: The Resurrection of Jesus Christ
- ... than that of the Biblical account. Three of them include the "Visionary" theory, the theft theory, and the wrong tomb theory. The first theory is that of Strauss, that the appearances of Jesus after His death on the cross were "visions generated by the imaginations of the disciples (Ramsey 48)." This may be the easiest of all the theories to discredit. First of all it does not take into account the ... of sixteen, eight at a time would guard the tomb, and every four hours they would be relieved. The Guards were laden with the best armor and weapons of the time. Their only punishment was death, these men did not fail assignments (McDowell 227-229). According to Streeter this unit must have fallen asleep, which if caught, would result in death. Next is the boulder, it weighed between one and a half to two tons (McDowell 226). The moving of this boulder would have been a very difficult thing to do without waking up the ...
- 3015: Shakespeare
- ... The whole secrete of the play is that the deaths of Wise,3 the lovers are not the result of the hatred of the houses, nor of any other cause except love itself, which seeks death in its own restoring cordial. Love conquers death even more surly than it defeats hate. It sweeps aside all accidents so that fate itself seems powerless. Time is defeated, in that first stirring of a belief that Shakespeare came later to trust completely: that the intensity of an emotion towers above its temporal duration or success(Stauffer 32). What Stauffer is trying to say is that love is very powerful and even in death the love continues. Romeo finds Juliet's sleeping body after she had drank the potion, and he believes her to be dead. Romeo is slain when Juliet wakes up from here sleep. Out of ...
- 3016: Christianity Vs. Islam
- ... Both took separate paths to accomplish their prospective goals, thus explaining the Islam influence in the Middle East and North Africa, and the Christian influence in Europe and North America. During the decades following the death of Muhammad certain essential principles were singled out from his teachings to serve as anchoring points for the Islamic community. These have come to be called the "five pillars of Islam." Similar to the five ... experience, as he preached the oneness of God to the Arabs in Mecca. The implication was that he was the last in the series of prophets, the last reveler of divine truth. After Muhammad's death in AD 632, it was feared that the content of the revelations might be lost, as those who had originally memorized it began to die. It was therefore decided to collect all the revelations, from ... which requires you to prayer individually, but also collectively. Congregational prayer is started with the imam, the prayer leader, standing at the front of the mosque facing Mecca, the holy city of Islam being the death place of Muhammad). The congregation is lined up in rows behind him. (There are no seats in a mosque.) Each prayer consists of several units, during which the individual is standing, kneeling, or prostrate. ...
- 3017: The Stranger 3
- ... nor does he express much feeling in relationships or during emotional times. He displays an impassiveness throughout the book in his reactions to the people and events described in the book. After his mother's death he sheds no tears; seems to show no emotions. He displays limited feelings for his girlfriend, Marie Cardona, and shows no remorse at all for killing an Arab. His reactions to life and to people ... totally unruffled and untouched by events and people around him. He is unwilling to lie, during his trial, about killing the Arab. His reluctance to get involved in defending himself results in a verdict of death by guillotine. Had Meursault been engaged in his defense, explaining his actions, he might have been set free. Meursault's unresponsive behavior, distant from any apparent emotions, is probably reinforced by the despair which he ... cheated on and hurt by a girlfriend, and sees his other neighbor, Salamano, very depressed when he loses a dear companion, his dog. Meursault's responses are very different, he doesn't get depressed at death nor does he get emotionally involved. He appears to be totally apathetic. Thus, he seems to feel no pain and is protected from life's disappointments. Sometimes a person like Meursault can be appealing ...
- 3018: Christianity And Judaism
- ... while the term Messiah took on a more Judaic-influenced meaning. This division regarding the messiah created one of the greatest points of tension between Jews and Christians. Christians held the Jews responsible for the death of Jesus. They believed that until Jews accepted Christ as their savior they would never be saved. They would be damned. Christians passionately fed the fire of hate by blaming the Jews for Christ's death. Often such hate resulted in bloody conflict. In an attempt to discourage anti-Semitism amongst Roman Catholics, Pope Pius XII stated, "Spiritually, we are all Semites." Since the holocaust, Catholic-Jewish relations seemed to improve ... intolerance bred by the ignorance of men like Adolph Hitler. The Crusades and the Holocaust seem to point to one thing: Religious hatred, bred by lack of knowledge and sheer ignorance, only lead to the death and destruction of innocent lives. "Jews an Christians are variations on one theme. Judaism and Christianity are alternative developments of one religious tradition that produced the Hebrew Bible." They are indeed alternatives developments of ...
- 3019: Romeo And Juliet - Fate
- ... believed in the stars, and that their actions weren't always their own. Romeo, for example, 1.4.115-120, he says, "Some consequence yet hanging in the stars...by some vile forfeit of untimely death. But he that hath the steerage over my course Direct my sail." He's basically saying to his friends that he had a dream which leads him to believe that he will die young because ... mystical power that controls who and what we become, and it explains that which can not be explained. Romeo was looking to this power, asking of this power to direct him, not to an untimely death as he foresaw in his dream, but to just steer him, because that is the control which he knows he does not have over himself. Nonetheless, fate still managed to weave Romeo into a twisted ... have been. Even if their lives were ended by it, like Romeo says 2.2.83, "And, But thou love me, let them find me here. My life is better ended by their hate Than death prorogued, wanted of thy love." He would have preferred to die then to have lived without Juliet, or not to have Juliet's love and be left only with hate. He so proves the ...
- 3020: The Beliefs of John Locke and Thomas Hobbes
- ... his political philosophy in a book called Leviathan, published in 1651. His Leviathan presents a bleak picture of human beings in the state of nature, where life is nasty, brutish, and short. Fear of violent death is the principal motive that causes people to create a state. In order to maintain a stable society, people made an unwritten social contract. So people chose a leader to rule them. Any attempt to break this contract is punishable by whatever penalty the monarchy may exact in order to protect his subjects from returning to that state of anarchy. However Hobbes justified the absolute power not on grounds of divine right, but on its usefulness. The only ...
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