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- 5781: Rasputin: The Man, The Mystery
- ... of the land of Russia, if you hear the sound of the bell which will tell you that Grigory has been killed, you must know this: if it was your relations who have wrought my death then no one of your family, that is to say, none of your children or relations will remain alive for more than two years. They will be killed by the Russian people...I shall be ... the living. Pray, pray, be strong, think of your blessed family. This letter was written to Tsarina Alexandra on December 7, 1916. Twenty-three days later Rasputin was killed and nineteen months later after Rasputins death the Tsar and his family lay dead.
- 5782: Antigone
- ... more characters within the tragedy. Appropriately, Creon’s station as king place shim in a position of great power, influence and responsibility. The extent of this power was quite evident when he sentenced Antigone to death for disobeying his proclamation. In the mythical story “Antigone,” two men which were brothers have slain each other for the throne. The older brother, Polynieces, beleived that the throne rightfully belonged to him. However, Eteocles ... had hung herself, and his son Haemon had also taken his own life. When Creon returned to the palace, he found his wife dead. Eurydice had killed herself when she learned of her son’s death. Thus if one must follow Aristotelian theory, the true tragic hero can only be Creon and not, as many continue to hold, Antigone.
- 5783: Aristotle And Virtue
- ... one who bravely faces what is difficult and challenging and shuns that which is foolish or evil. A man who jumps out of an airplane without a parachute just because he isn't afraid of death would probably be considered foolish while a man who takes responsibility for his actions and admits his shortcomings would be considered brave. A man who charges windmills like Don Quixote with little or no common ... who have strayed one way or another from the temperate path either through abuse of power, abuse of controlled substances, lack of compassion or even an excess of compassion leading to the planned or unplanned death of patients. The rub of human nature is this: We know what path we are supposed to take. We know that moderation is the key to virtue, we know that happiness isn't found in ...
- 5784: Herman Melville
- ... Dick. The story revolves around the idea of an awesome sea mammal, which drives the passions of revenge in one man and forces him to pursue a course of action which leads ultimately to his death as well as the deaths of his companions. There is a great deal of imagination involved in these stories and the creativity is highly apparent. There is an expression of belief in the supernatural, as ... image of a hard core idealist who is converted to a realist through the experiences that he goes through. This also drew on his seafaring days as experience and he struggled to bring across the death of the idealist and the birth of the realist. But at the end of the day, whatever emotions he possessed about the nature of idealism and idealistic thought, still form an integral part of him ...
- 5785: Heart Of Darkness - Racism
- ... civilized life for the Whites. The Blacks are being used by the civilized, in turn making them uncivilized. But, the fact remains that the Whites may be considered the savages for working these Blacks to death. However, as ironic as it may seem, their view was that the natives were there to be conquered. All in all, Conrad writes about civilization versus savagery. Through the novel, he implies that the setting ... be seen only through Kurtz, because he gives in to the powers of the wilderness. Conrad writes that Lai 5 through the influence of the wilderness, basic human nature is revealed to him. At his death, he sees the true state of mankind. His gaze is "piercing enough to penetrate all the hearts that beat in the darkness" (113). His final statement of "The horror! The horror!" (112) is his judgment ...
- 5786: Advantages And Disadvantages O
- ... of all partners (excluding limited partners under the Limited Partners Act 1907). If a partner dies, his estate may still be liable for the businesses debts. Unless specific continuation provisions are made in the agreement, death, bankruptcy or retirement will dissolve the partnership. Less flexibility than a limited company, in transferring ownership. High level of trust required. Whether drawn or not, the profits are taxed as income. Self-employed national insurance ... name. As the company is independent of its members, there is limited liability for its shareholders who just risk the amounts invested. Unlike a sole trader and a partnership, the company owns the assets. The death or bankruptcy of a member does not affect the company, which has perpetual succession. Also, the members do not go bankrupt if the company is being wound up. To provide funds for the company shares ...
- 5787: Heart Of Darkness
- ... tend only to their home worlds, while the only African women is portrayed as a sexual object. It is this objectivity that causes Marlow to never reveal the truth about Mr. Kurtz’s life and death. The first woman that we meet is Marlow’s aunt. She is the one paying for his trip to the Congo, yet Marlow does not respect her views. Marlow says, "She talked about ‘weaning those ... and his station. He sees her as a belonging instead of a real person. It is the objectification of Kurtz’s Intended that in the end stops Marlow from telling the truth about Kurtz’s death. With Kutrz’s Intended in mourning, Marlow tells her, "’The last word he pronounced was- your name’" (Conrad 71). Marlow knows Kurtz’s true last words, which were "’The horror! The horror!’" (Conrad 64), but ...
- 5788: Heart Of Darkness
- ... totally corrupt though to all appearances established to last for a long time" (Dorall 309). The conditions described in Heart of Darkness reflect the horror of Kurtz's words: the chain gangs, the grove of death, the payment in brass rods, the cannibalism and the human skulls on the fence posts. Africans bound with thongs that contracted in the rain and cut to the bone, had their swollen hands beaten with ... shadows every human, who has some form of darkness deep within their heart, waiting to be unleashed. "The horror that has been perpetrated, the horror that descends as judgment, either in this pitiless and empty death or in whatever domination there could be to come" (Stewart 366). Once the horror was unleashed, there was no way of again restraining it.
- 5789: Heart Of Darkness
- ... that he may have had before. In Kurtz, Marlow sees "the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself" (p.150). As Kurtz approaches death, he struggles desperately with himself and the evil that he had resigned his soul too. "..Both the diabolic love and the unearthly hate of the mysteries it had penetrated fought for the possession of that ... p.155). "The horror" that Kurtz labels is the struggle between good and evil that a great man experienced when faced with human nature in its purest form, without society’s constraints. After Kurtz's death, Marlow takes with him the knowledge of human nature that he gains from him. He says, "I remembered his abject pleading, his abject threats, the colossal scale of his vile desires, the meanness, the torment ...
- 5790: Heart Of Darkness
- ... civilized life for the Whites. The Blacks are being used by the civilized, in turn making them uncivilized. But, the fact remains that the Whites may be considered the savages for working these Blacks to death. However, as ironic as it may seem, their view was that the natives were there to be conquered. All in all, Conrad writes about civilization versus savagery. Through the novel, he implies that the setting ... be seen only through Kurtz, because he gives in to the powers of the wilderness. Conrad writes that Lai 5 through the influence of the wilderness, basic human nature is revealed to him. At his death, he sees the true state of mankind. His gaze is "piercing enough to penetrate all the hearts that beat in the darkness" (113). His final statement of "The horror! The horror!" (112) is his judgment ...
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