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- 4581: Symbolism In The Great Gatsby
- ... at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart" (Samuel) yet nothing is done when "God's" eyes see all the immorality and garbage during the "ballyhoo" years. After the death of Myrtle, George realizes that these eyes in fact symbolize the notion that God is dead (C37). This is not only due to Myrtle's death, but also by the same eyes witnessing the troubled '20's, as well as seeing the affair between Tom and Myrtle. Throughout the history of literature, symbolism has been used by many to convey a ...
- 4582: Poem: The Fate of Hamlet
- ... by kinship and rebuked, Resentment toward his mother the queen, Stemmed from him trying to be redeemed. Many tiring sleepless nights, Caused Hamlet much pain and fright. When ghost revealed truths of his father’s death, Hamlet vowed to take Claudius’s last breath. In the turmoil of all this. His true affection for Ophelia found no bliss. He could never share his thoughts, Revenge made him overwrought. All this pain caused him to plot, He made the plan to end his lot. But this scheme avenging death, Took also Hamlet’s last breath. Hamlet should have taken heed, And become king indeed. He never had a chance in Shakespheare’s plan, A tragic hero, just another great dead man.
- 4583: Symbolism In The Call Of The W
- ... and doing nothing, he learns to work in a way he doesn t know too well about. He learns to fight and/or steal his food, if he didn t , he would have starved to death. That is why Buck is portrayed as one who achieves full potential. Mercedes portrays the absolute opposite to Buck. She represents all that is weak in a civilized society. She cannot live without her precious ... civilization. John Thornton was the only thing holding Buck to the civilized world. When he was killed by the Yeehats, Buck would now be a primitive animal. All he had to do was avenge the death of the only man he ever loved, John Thornton. There are many other symbols in the book, these were just the most obvious. I liked the book, it was well written in a time I ...
- 4584: Supernatural Forces In Macbeth
- ... letters have transported me beyond The ignorant present, and I feel now The future in the instant."(Act I, Scene V, 42-57). The three sisters are capable of leading people into danger resulting in death, such as the sailor who never slept (Act I, Scene III, ll.1-37). Lady Macbeth has convinced her husband Macbeth to murder King Duncan. On the night they planned to kill Duncan, Macbeth is ... Birnam wood to High Dunsinane Hill shall come against him." (Act VI, Scene I, ll.98-102). These apparitions convinced Macbeth that this was his fate and became over confident, and lead him to his death. The use of the supernatural in Macbeth results quite well with the respect of the unknown. Without the witches, the ghost, the visions, and the apparitions, "Macbeth" would have been a dull and tiresome play ...
- 4585: Supernatural Forces In Macbeth
- ... to give her the power to plot the murder of Duncan without any remorse or conscience (Act I, Scene V, ll.42-57). The three sisters are capable of leading people into danger resulting in death, such as the sailor who never slept (Act I, Scene III, ll.1-37). Lady Macbeth has convinced her husband Macbeth to murder King Duncan. On the night they planned to kill Duncan, Macbeth is ... Birnam wood to High Dunsinane Hill shall come against him." (Act VI, Scene I, ll.98-102). These apparitions convinced Macbeth that this was his fate and became over confident, and lead him to his death. The use of the supernatural in Macbeth results quite well with the respect of the unknown. Without the witches, the ghost, the visions, and the apparitions, "Macbeth" would have been a dull and tiresome play ...
- 4586: Supernatural Elements In Macbe
- ... The witches were misleading with their ambiguous predictions because they wanted to disrupt the order of the hierarchy. The witches and the powers that they represented roused Macbeth to the kingship and eventually to his death. Macbeth, just like anybody else, had some weaknesses. He was a gullible and a very single-minded person. He always thought of himself as being better than the rest. So he found nothing wrong with ... dedicated Kinsman to Duncan and possess him until his downfall. It was the witches that lead Macbeth, by evil, to murder Duncan. They caused chaos in the chain of hierarchy, and lead Macbeth to his death. The witches successfully lead a weak-willed Macbeth into a life of evil through their ambiguous predictions. The only thing Macbeth cared about was maintaining the throne. The witches predictions may have been ambiguous with ...
- 4587: Summertime Blues
- ... the earth. Shakespeare then goes on to speak about how exquisite she is. She is different from everyone because she will always have what she has now unlike others that will lose it. Even if death looms before her he has to right or reason to "brag." (Line 11) She will not pale in his shadow. Shakespeare capitalizes Death and personifies him and gives us an image of a grim reaper type character. In Shakespeare's ending couplet, he states that no matter what, as long as people are still living and literate, they ...
- 4588: Princess Diana 3
- ... in 1969. Earl Spencer later married Raine, Countess of Dartmouth in 1976. Diana, her two older sisters, Sarah and Jane, and her younger brother, Charles lived with their father at Park House, Sandringham until the death of her grandfather, Earl Spencer VII. The family moved to the Spencer family seat at Althorp in Northamptonshire, in 1975. Diana first went to Riddlesworth Hall, a preparatory school in Diss, Norfolk, and then in ... on July 1, 1997 attending the Tate Gallery's 100th Anniversary celebrations. Her last official engagement in Britain was on July 21, when she visited Northwick Park Hospital in London. In the year before her death, Princess Diana was an active campaigner for a ban on the manufacture and use of land mines. In January of 1997, she visited Angola as part of her campaign. In June, Diana spoke at the ...
- 4589: A Comparison and Contrast of Love in Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love" and C. Day Lewis's "Song"
- ... to her beauty while emphasizing that love requires work. Despite the absence of material objects, he still tries to be romantic. When the speaker says, "Hunger shall make thy modest zone (waist) / And cheat fond death of all but bone" (13-14) he means that she will be thin not through intent, but through necessity. The different emphasis on what constitutes love for the speakers of the two poems is very ... on thy maiden brow shall put A wreath of wrinkles, and thy foot Be shod with pain: not silken dress But toil shall tire thy loveliness. Hunger shall make thy modest zone And cheat fond death of all but bone - If these delights thy mind may move, Then live with me and be my love. Bibliography Lewis, C. Day. "Two Songs. (2)" Poems of C. Day Lewis 1925-1972. Ed. Jonathan ...
- 4590: Poet's Use of Mockery As Diction in Poem
- ... The word "chap" conveys an casual attitude towards the heroes as people. It seems to elevate the status of the majors to a false superior position. "Scrap" makes it seems as if the soldier's death occurred on a playground, not a battlefield. It seems to trivialize war in general. "And when the war is done and the youth stone dead, I'd toddle safely home and die - in bed." The poet's last lines give the reader an insight into the true wishes of the soldier. The youth stone dead allow the reader to acknowledge the finality of death and the wasted lives of the young soldiers while the old, fat men are allowed the luxury of living to old age and then dying in their own beds. "Toddle" is a word that not ...
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