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- 5431: Brave New World: The Future
- ... religion has disappeared and has been replaced by the worship of another God who is Ford. They basically live a fulfilled life and then they die. Also thanks to their conditioning they do not fear death but accept it as a way of life. That alone is a task that our world still has not been able to accomplish. In our world we must go through the ritual of the funeral. After one has died, his family must go through an enormous task of planning, organizing and dealing with the death of their now gone loved one. In utopian civilization, the people are isolated from one another, divided into five different classes. The classes range from the Alphas, the Betas, the Gammas, the Deltas and finally ...
- 5432: Cold Mountain: The Civil War
- ... injured Confederate private witnesses the brutality of both sides in the most bloody of American armed struggles, the War Between the States. Emotionally shaken, Inman realizes that he will return to the front and possible death as soon as he is well. He watches men on both sides ordered to charge into lethal barrages of gunfire and cannon shot, only to fall after a few precious steps. On more than one ... woman that he loves. Ada Monroe was the pampered daughter of a Charleston minister, Monroe. Sheltered by her father, who came to Cold Mountain to minister to the “heathen’s,” she is unprepared for his death. Like any lowland lady, she reads well, play the piano, and can plan parties. She knows not to plant, or sow, or reap. She comes very close to starving on her lovely mountain farm before ...
- 5433: A Worn Path
- ... through Phoenix’s answer “I have seen plenty [guns] go off closer by, in my day, and for less than what I done”(p.366). It was not the first time that she has faced death, and she is not going to be scared of that selfish man who believes that everyone and everything should be afraid of him. However, this old woman, who seems to be the weakest victim ever, and should be scared to death of the hunter, looks straight in his eyes telling him that she has no fear of him. The hunter is impressed by her attitude of being so physically weak and spiritually strong that even he ...
- 5434: Aliens
- ... it is Hudson, to whom Vasquez retorts, who through his own weakness becomes the films main object of emasculation. He comes to embody the feminine stereotype of irrational hysteria and fear when faced with potential death, contrary to the expectations of his role as soldier. The film rejects the application of stereotypical female traumatisation to female characters, perhaps in attempt to strengthen a degendering of maternal desire by weakening other gendered ... Newt's life however, and it is Bishop who prevents the child from also being expelled. This risk taken by Ripley is perhaps reason for her triumph; she cannot destroy her opponent without risking the death of the object of her maternal desire which she must protect. The film privileges this representation of positive maternal desire as Ripley's courage and strength of will to save Newtevenat cost to herself, arising ...
- 5435: A Separate Peace Is A Story Of
- ... time and all the anger grew and burst into war. The action of Gene making Finny fall from the tree was the war. All the major conflicts between Gene and Finny usually involved life or death just like war. For example, when Gene was about to jump from the tree but was distracted by Finny and almost fell; Finny grabbed his hand and helped him regain his balance. Gene's anger ... put on a uniform; he was on active duty all his time at school; he killed his enemy there." (Knowles 196) This proves "A Spearate Peace" is a story of war because all of the death, hate, jealousy, and ignorance that go into the story are what the story is based on.
- 5436: Babylon Revisited
- ... Charlie receiving custody of Honoria is Marion and Lincoln Peters. Marion Peters is the sister of Helen Wales, Charlie’s deceased wife. Helen is holding a grudge against Charlie and blames Charlie for Helen’s death as she loathes “ Frankly, from the night you did that terrible thing you haven’t really existed for me” (1873). Charlie is practically in court in the Peters’ household. After some persuasion and coaxing, Marion ... should get custody of Honoria. He removed himself from his past, mainly Lorraine Quarrles and Duncan Schaeffer. Responsibility is an essential component of parenting. Dependability shows the maturity and growth that Charlie illustrated after the death of his wife, Helen. Charlie should have custody of Honoria, primarily, because he is her biological father, not to mention Honoria would be delighted to live with her father whom she hasn’t seen in ...
- 5437: Atticus
- ... with their conflicts unresolved. Any hopes for reconciliation end when Scott supposedly commits suicide a few weeks later. Atticus journeys to Mexico to recover the body and he uncovers the story of his son's death, fitting together the pieces of mosaic that was Scott's life in Mexico--and encountering a group of disturbing characters along the way. Upon learning the circumstances surrounding his son's death, Atticus begins to suspect Scott was murdered. Unsatisfied with the police investigation, the sixty-seven year old father begins his own, struggling to comprehend the enigma of Scott's life and final days. It is ...
- 5438: Intolerance Within the Novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- ... be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin. That it makes clamity of so long life. For who fardel bear, till Birnam Wood do come to Dunshire, but that fear of something after death." Thirdly Clemens contrasts adults and children. Clemens portrays adults as the conventional group in society, and children as the unconventional. In the story adults are not portrayed with much bias, but children are portrayed as more imaginative. The two main examples of this are when Huckleberry fakes his death, and when Tom and Huck "help" Jim escape from captivity. This extra imaginative aspect Clemens gives to the children of the story adds a lot of humor to the plot. Fourthly in the novel Clemens ...
- 5439: The Awakening: A Woman's Fight for Independence
- ... one who would understand to confide into. Rather than be forced to live in such a world of tyranny and succumb once again to the mechanical lifestyle she had lived for so long, she chooses death. In death, there are no expectations, no one to impress or be "proper" for, and most importantly she has no one to answer to, except herself. It is all these aspects of the plot, in the story ...
- 5440: Antigones Theme
- ... properly bury her brother, Eteocles. She believed that the burial was a religious ceremony, and Creon did not have the power to deny Eteocles that right. Antigone's strong beliefs eventually led her to her death by the hand of Creon. Never, though, did she stop defending what she thought was right. As Creon ordered her to her death, Antigone exclaimed, "I go, his prisoner, because I honoured those things in which honour truly belongs." She is directly humiliating Creon by calling his opinions and decisions weak and unjust. She also emphasizes "his prisoner ...
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