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- 5441: Antigone
- ... off laughing. Bring her here! Let him see her. Kill her here, beside her bridegroom’” (Sophocles 919-921). This was too much for Haimon to take, and he runs out of the room, yelling, “’…her death will destroy others’” (Sophocles 908). Blinded by his pride and arrogance, Kreon takes that remark as a threat to himself, unknowing that it wasn’t directed to himself, but was a suicide threat by his ... he fits all the requirements of a tragic hero. Antigone, on the other hand, does not. She does not realize her hamartia, and while Kreon must live with what he has done, Antigone is dead. Death, which ceases her suffering, letting her rest for infinity.
- 5442: Animism V. Marxism
- ... looking, didn't talk very much but always got what they wanted through force. In one part of the book Napoleon charged the dogs on Snowball, another animal. Stalin became the Soviet Leader after the death of Lenin. His opponents who always became his victims underestimated him, and he had one of the most ruthless, regimes in history. In was not till very many years later that the world found out ... Trotsky and Stalin's relationship was very much like Snowball's and Napoleons. Trotsky organized the Red Army and gave speeches and everyone in Russia thought he would win power over Stalin. After Lenin's death Trotsky lost all his power to Stalin and was expelled from the communist party. He was at one time considered the second most powerful man in Russia. (Trotsky" Comptons 290). Besides characters there are many ...
- 5443: Analysis Of Similes In The Ill
- ... scene assumes quite a juxtaposition. A flower-bespangled battlefield? This is perhaps an attempt to show the absurdity of the Greek army, changing positions from fleeing to brazenness as flowers are to the field of death. Near the beginning of Book Three a group of elders of Troy, not fighting material, but skilled orators, are found resting on the tower "like cicadas that chirrup delicately from the boughs of some high ... the sight of the frightened fawns grouped together. But does not one also feel pity for them? This is a wonderful simile that brings home the nervous twitchiness that would denote a person scared to death in such a situation. Later in Book Five there is a great dichotomy of similes. First, Hera comes down "flying like turtledoves in eagerness to help the Argives." followed by a scene surrounding Diomedes where ...
- 5444: Charles Dickens' Hard Times
- Charles Dickens' Hard Times In the novel Hard Times by Charles Dickens, Stephen Blackpool’s life and death were symbolic. Stephen was a forty year old man that looked older, who worked for a man named Bounderby as a power-loom weaver. His life was filled with the troubles that a lower-class ... in my trouble, I thowtit were the star as guided to Our Savior’s home. I awmust think it be the very star!”, this implied that the only way out of his “blackpool” was his death.
- 5445: Fire and Water Imagery In Jane Eyre
- ... three paintings soon after they meet, in fact, tell us much about Jane's values and concerns through the rich sense of imagery in them. The "green water" in the first painting, for example, represents death by drowning, as the woman is drowning in the water and the ship is capsizing. The image of "a swollen sea" carries with it expressions and expectations of impending danger. Jane, because of her passionate nature, sees water, representing a locking out of passion and emotion, as death itself. This is significant to our understanding of the thematic structure of the novel, as Jane must necessarily come to realise that while total reason without passion, as embodied in the water imagery described above ...
- 5446: Amy Foster & The Mythology Of
- ... she is incapable of joining Yanko on an earthly plane as Joseph Campbell describes (page 159). Whatever the reasons may be, Amy refuses to aid Yanko in his time of need, resulting in Yanko's death. There is a great change of heart from Amy's first compassion for Yanko to her nonchalance of his death. However, the results may have only been a product of the different levels of love felt by Amy for Yanko. The general population of Brenzett treats Yanko an escaped lunatic when he is first spotted ...
- 5447: The Scarlet Letter: Hester's Advice to Dimmesdale
- ... the people's perception of him. Dimmesdale commits his confession as a necessary act of repentance in order to find true relief. After delivering the horrid confession to the towns people, he falls to his death, ready to embrace his God. In the confession itself, Dimmesdale says that he is "one in the midst of you, at whose brand of sin and infamy ye have not shuddered." He believes that no ... be that of the sinner. His morality makes him confess his sins to cleanse his soul before his inevitable demise. By heeding Hester’s advice and thereby embracing sin, Dimmesdale's only true repentance is death.
- 5448: Citizen Soldiers: A Comparison
- ... men triumphed and at what cost. This man's experience stood out to me the most, probably because of Wray's Rambo like tactics. There are several other stories told, some containing friendship triumph, others death and loss, but all are important for the reader to understand what the men in Normandy had to endure. Citizen Soldier does not only tie into history, it is history; 100% real life accounts of ... to resist the Allies at this point. Hitler would not let his men cease. Some Germans, however, knew their fate if they continued to resist and simply fled. Not only was Hitler responsible for the death of millions of European Jews, he was also responsible for the deaths of the men that served him, by using them as cannon fodder in last minute attempts to stop the Allies and buy him ...
- 5449: A Summary Of Romeo And Juliet
- ... family. Romeo's friends can't understand why he won't stand up for himself so Mercutio steps in to do it for him. A swordfight with Tybalt follows. Mercutio is killed. To avenge the death of his friend, Romeo kills Tybalt, an act that will award him even more hatred from the Capulet family. The Prince of Verona banishes Romeo and he is forced to leave Juliet, who is devastated ... scene. With no reason left to live, Juliet kills herself with Romeo's dagger. The tragedy has a tremendous impact on both the Montagues and the Capulets. The families are hurt so much by the death of their children that they agree to never fight again.
- 5450: A Rose For Emily Characterizat
- ... No visitor had passed since she ceased giving china-painting lessons eight or ten years earlier" (394). Faulkner characterizes Miss Emily's attempt to remove herself from society through her actions. "After her father's death she went out very little; after her sweetheart went away, people hardly saw her at all" (395). The death of her father and the shattered relationship with her sweetheart contributed to her seclusion. Though her father was responsible for her becoming a recluse, her pride also contributed to her seclusion. "None of the young ...
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