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- 791: Hamlet 17
- HAMLET 1. As the play opens, Hamlet is troubled by the turn of events following his father's death. It seems (and later becomes apparent), that Hamlet's upset is caused more by the remarriage of his mother and her love and devotion towards Claudius so soon after King Hamlet's death, than by simple mourning of his fathers passing. This is shown in lines 147-162 "Why she would hang on him / As if increase of appetite had grown / By what it fed on. And yet ... satirical mood. In lines 79-89 of the same scene, Hamlet opens up a little more to his mother after she asks him why it is that he "seems" so distressed/depressed by his father death, explaining to him "All that lives must die." [Act I, Scene II, L. 74]. In response to his mothers question Hamlet explains that he does not act his depression, and he is still truly ...
- 792: Hamlet 15
- ... be that Hamlet was not completely sure that Claudius had killed his father. The ghost who claims to be Hamlet's father and has some unfinished business on earth asks for Hamlet to revenge his death. The reason that Hamlet is not sure whether or not the ghost is telling the truth is that he feels the ghost may be the devil. This idea is portrayed when Hamlet says, "The spirit ... what is right. He does not want to be influenced by the devil in any way. The Christian thoughts of the time stated that vengeance was a sin. Hamlet wants to avenge his father's death but if he were to kill Claudius his soul may not be saved. Hamlet wants to be a better person than his Uncle, but if he were to become a murderer he would be just ... has done wrong to the family. When the ghost of his father tells Hamlet that he was murdered by the person who "now holds his crown," (I.v., 39) Hamlet would like to revenge that death by killing his Uncle Claudius. Hamlet is also upset with his Uncle for marrying his mother only two months after his father's death. Hamlet thinks a lot, almost too much. In this instance ...
- 793: The Color of Water: When Tragedy Strikes
- ... said, into each life some rain must fall. In James McBride’s The Color of Water, Ruth has enough rain in her life to fashion a great deluge. Due to the prejudice she experiences, the death of her mother, and the death of her two beloved husbands, Ruth becomes increasingly emotionally unstable. As a young girl, Ruth lives in a southern town called Suffolk, in which Jews are looked down upon. People laugh at her as she ... consequently means abandoning her mother, Hudis, in a time of illness. Ruth loves Hudis very much and feels guilty about leaving her when she moves away from Suffolk. When she learns of her mother’s death, Ruth is devastated. While at work, she is informed of the news over the phone, and immediately falls to the floor from despair. The foreman and other workers try to help her stand, but ...
- 794: All Quiet On Westren Front
- ... need to know how to escape the shells as well as the emotional and psychological torment of the war. The war takes an heavy toll on the soldiers who fight in it. The terror of death will infest the minds of soldiers and bring about horrible images of death and destruction until they break down and go to pieces. "Every hour and everyday, every shell and every death cuts this thin [line of sanity], and the years waste it rapidly." In these dangerous moments, anybody would have gone mad, have deserted their post, or have fallen. It takes a special kind of ...
- 795: The Pit And The Pendulum
- The Pit And The Pendulum "The Pit and the Pendulum" is a story about one man's struggle against death (3) and how this battle (4) affects his psyche. Edgar (5) Allan Poe, when writing “The Pit and the Pendulum,”(6) included every macabre detail that life in the dungeon involved. The horror of Poe ... 21)).(22) Poe's dungeon is somewhat stereotypical; it is exactly as one would imagine, and the eloquent words describing it add an involving sense of realism. This setting also is typical of a grave; death and burial are some(23) of the major themes of the story. This gravelike feeling also makes the narrator lose touch with reality, and he becomes very fearful (Burdick 91(25)).(24,26) This quote ... of (47) the inquisitor's(48) complete and deliberate attempts to kill him (Burdick 92(50))(49). He also realizes that the only way he can(51) be saved is by personal struggle to avoid death while waiting for a miracle. In a world of solitude, the rats that devour the meat serve almost as companions. Described as “...(52) wild, bold, ravenous; their red eyes glaring (53)...” the rats are ...
- 796: Tupac And The Outlawz History
- ... just before his "Me Against the World" LP came out. And just before sentencing for that trial, he was shot in a NY recording studio. Out of jail nearly 8 months later, he signed with Death Row and one Mr. Suge Knight paid his bail. He then came out with his best work yet called "All Eyez on Me" which is now 7X Platinum. His next album "Makaveli: 7DT" was released just 2 weeks after his untimely death on Sep. 13th, 1996. It went close to 4X Platinum.Although after his death, as you know, his success has continued through Death Row as well as through his mother Afeni as Afeni's Amaru Records released "R U Sill Down", a collaberation of material from 91-94 ...
- 797: Wilson's Fences
- ... an injury in sports. “You go on and learn to put your hands to some good use. Besides hauling people’s garbage (p.35).” He is a great fighter when it comes to dealing with death, which is closing in. Troy compares Death to baseball because sooner or later, he’s gonna lose. He sees Death as a fastball on the outside corner of the plate. He says when it comes close, he’s gonna hit it goodbye like a home run. However, there’s gonna be a time when ...
- 798: Analysis of "Scared to Death of Dying", Article by Herbert Hendin
- Analysis of "Scared to Death of Dying", Article by Herbert Hendin The background for this work is that the existing conflict over legalizing assisted suicides and euthanasia could bring our values down and society apart. The problem is not legalizing ... the Oregon Law, he would have asked a doctor to assist him in suicide and the doctor would have assisted him without any problem since he had no mental illness. Doctors can cause or hastened death without the patient's request. This can be seen in the Netherlands were a 30 year-old man who was H.I.V.-positive, but had no symptoms and may not develop them for years ...
- 799: The World View Of Bertrand Russell
- ... considered thought while those that happen outside the mind are considered casual events. Mind and body are just convenient ways of organizing events. Of the mind is memory. The memory is thought to survive after death, however, the part of the brain that decays at death ceases to exist meaning that the memory would also. He believes that the materialism opponents are correct in their desires to prove that the mind is immoral and that the ultimate power is mental rather ... any reason to believe is true (6). I agree to an extent with Russell's point of view about God and religion. I believe religion is a way for people to comfort themselves. People fear death and a way for them to be at ease is saying death is just the end of the physical and the soul will live on. Russell says that the memory-mind are apart of ...
- 800: All Quiet On Westren Front
- ... need to know how to escape the shells as well as the emotional and psychological torment of the war. The war takes an heavy toll on the soldiers who fight in it. The terror of death will infest the minds of soldiers and bring about horrible images of death and destruction until they break down and go to pieces. "Every hour and everyday, every shell and every death cuts this thin [line of sanity], and the years waste it rapidly." In these dangerous moments, anybody would have gone mad, have deserted their post, or have fallen. It takes a special kind of ...
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