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- 391: Housman's "To An Athlete Dying Young"
- Housman's "To An Athlete Dying Young" A. E. Housman's "To an Athlete Dying Young," also known as Lyric XIX in A Shropshire Lad, holds as its main theme the premature death of a young athlete as told from the point of view of a friend serving as pall bearer. The poem reveals the concept that those dying at the peak of their glory or youth are really quite lucky. The first few readings of "To an Athlete Dying Young" provides the reader with an understanding of Housman's view of death. Additional readings reveal Housman's attempt to convey the classical idea that youth, beauty, and glory can be preserved only in death. A line-by-line analysis helps to determine the purpose of the poem. The first stanza of the poem tells of the athlete's triumph and his glory filled parade through the town in ...
- 392: Macbeth: The Supernatural and the Theme of Death
- Macbeth: The Supernatural and the Theme of Death Throughout William Shakespeare's Macbeth, many characters evolve and many disappear into the background. The main character, Macbeth (MB for short), travels through utter chaos when he proclaims himself monarch. When he first meets the ... the play is the circle of life, from the beginning to the end. The visions provided by the three witches begin Macbeth's quest for dominance. The three main effects of this theme are: the death of Macbeth's friends and family. Second, the deaths of his mortal enemies. The last point is the death of himself. The supernatural amplifies the theme of death. From the first brief encounter of the witches, to the last nightmarish visions that Macbeth has, many close friends and relatives have died because of ...
- 393: Orestes An Innocent Hero
- ... there has been a universal question that does not yet yield a universal answer. All people have a different view on whether or not it is right to avenge the killing of another, through the death of the killers. In America during this day and age, it is the obligation of the court system to decide whether or not a murderer should be put to death. Most of the time, the criminal is sentenced to a prison term, but when a judge decides to issue the death penalty there is usually an uproar among the people. Does the court now become a murderer along with the convicted felon or is the court an innocent body. Is it a hero who is ...
- 394: Dead Man Walking
- ... Matthew Poncelet, and he is played by Sean Penn. The film is set in the Angola state penitentiary, in Louisiana. Matthew Poncelet first asks her to get him a lawyer so he can repeal his Death sentence. Sister Helen gets him a lawyer, but they fail after several good attempts to get him off death row. Sister Helen begins to come to him almost every day after Poncelet asks her to be his spiritual advisor on the day of his death. During this phase of the film Sister Helen tries to get Poncelet to tell her about his own life. Poncelet tells her about his life and why he was put on death row. Poncelet ...
- 395: Christopher Marlowe
- ... on me, And hide me from the heavy wrath of God! (Britannica 918) In addition to writing plays, Marlowe also wrote poetry. His major poetic work was Hero and Leander. This was incomplete at his death, the first two sections were completed at his death and the remaining two were finished by George Chapman in 1598, almost five years after Marlowe s death. Marlowes writing here shows an amazing skill in the management of the narrative decasyllable couplet. No agreement was reached as to the composition date of this poem, but it is ranked as a major ...
- 396: The Outsider And The Secret Li
- ... had to face whatever came their way; they had to face the reality of the world that they lived in. With every action, or lack of, Meursault and Mitty were pressing on to their inevitable death. Meursault's came because he did not want to conform to society and was facing death penalty by the guillotine. The events that led to his execution were his deep beliefs - the obsession for the truth. This truth was a negative one; nevertheless it was the truth that he was willing ...
- 397: The Tragedy Of Hamlet
- The Tragedy Of Hamlet In Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, the death of a character becomes a frequent event. Although many people lose their lives as a result of their own self-centered wrong-doing, there are others whose deaths are a result of manipulation from the ... duty to obey the king and queen's wishes and it is this loyalty that eventually proves to be fatal for him. An example of how Polonius' innocent involvement with the royalty results in his death can be found at the beginning of Act III, scene iv, when Hamlet stabs him while he is hiding behind the arras in Gertrude's room. This shows how Polonius, a man unaware of the true nature of the situation he is in, is killed by a member of the royalty during the execution of one of their schemes. This makes Polonius' death a tragedy. The next member of Polonius' family to die is his daughter Ophelia. Ophelia's death is tragic because of her complete innocence in the situation. Some may argue that Polonius deserves his ...
- 398: Americas Fetish For Death
- ... fit the severity of the crime. Though due to the fashions of society, racism crept its ways into this form of punishment and transformed it into a form of family entertainment. In past years, human death has become widely accepted and has sprung it roots into the couches of America along with other forms of wholesome programming such as pornography, sadomasochism, and narcotics. Nationalism and racial superiority have existed since the ... Saxons always ended in a severe from of punishment. As these statistics continued to stagger, the district attorney of Georgia argued that despite the intimidating facts that there was no substantial evidence of racial discrimination. Death's effect upon racism was detrimental to African-Americans, though its transformation of American society would ultimately lead to the sadistic lust of massacre. Since the implication of death and racism, family entertainment has taken some part. Mobs of white men as well as curious children and women have enjoyed the event for years; it has become "folk pornography." Though in an age, ...
- 399: Hamlet Polonius Family
- Hamlet - The "Real" Tragedy In Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, the death of a character becomes a frequent event. Although many people lose their lives as a result of their own self-centered wrong-doing, there are others whose death are a result of manipulation from the royalty. This is the case of Polonius family. The real tragedy of Hamlet is not that of Hamlet or his family but of Polonius family because their deaths ... duty to obey the king and queen s wishes and it is this loyalty that eventually proves to be fatal for him. An example of hoe Polonius innocent involvement with the royalty results in his death can be found at the beginning of Act III, scene iv, when Hamlet stabs him while he is hiding behind the arras in Gertude s room. This shows how Polonius, a man unaware of ...
- 400: Hamlet And Comic Relief
- ... Horatio! The funeral baked meats / Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables (1.2.180-81). Here Hamlet bitterly jokes that the real reason his mother's remarriage came so soon after her husband's death was so that she could save money by serving the leftover funeral refreshments to the wedding guests. In the last scene of act one, the reader meets Hamlet s last family member, his deceased father ... of him that lets me! (1.4.84-5). In Elizabethan English, lets means allows AND hinders (Charney 51). Now the sentence has two different meanings. Hamlet s instinctive and unconscious punning here foreshadows Polonius death by Hamlet; at the very least, it foreshadows the murder of someone by Hamlet. Shakespeare also adds societal and theatrical references to Hamlet. Hamlet describes actions that a man might play (1.2.84) when ... he can go backwards in time. Of course, Polonius cannot go backwards in time, but he does not understand what Hamlet has just said, thus emphasizing what a comical fool he is. Hamlet comments on death when Polonius asks him some innocent questions in the same scene. Into my grave (2.2.207), replies Hamlet to Polonius question, Will you walk out of the air, my lord? Apparently, the room ...
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