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- 831: Ernest Hemingway 3
- ... in Pamplona, Spain. He planned on calling this book Fiesta, but changed the name to The Sun Also Rises, a saying from the Bible. This book, as in his other books, shows Hemingway obsessed with death. In 1927, Ernest found himself unhappy with his wife and son. They decided to divorce and he married Pauline, a woman he had been involved with while he was married to Hadley. A year later ... A common theme throughout Hemingway's stories is that no matter how hard we fight to live, we end up defeated, but we are here and we must go on. At age 31 he wrote Death in the Afternoon, about bullfighting in his beloved Spain. Ernest was a restless man; he traveled all over the United States, Europe, Cuba and Africa. At the age of 37 Ernest met the woman who ... and so he created lives by writing stories. Hemingway acted out his feelings of inadequacy and powerlessness by hunting, drinking, spending lots of money and having many girlfriends. I think that Hemingway was obsessed with death and not too sane. His obsession shows itself in the morbid death of Miss Barkley and her child. Hemingway was probably very confused about religion and sin and somehow felt or feared that people ...
- 832: The Life of Edgar Allan Poe
- ... Its dark and gloomy settings along with often depressing topics mirror his difficult times. "The Raven" shows his feelings of loss when his wife, Virginia, died from an illness. Many of his poems contain the death of beautiful women, most of which, even though they were written before her death, are understood to be about the loss of her life. The poem "Annabel Lee" is also clearly about his wife and his sense of loss. Many of his poems are also about sadness over a ... not a big part of his life. Over the next fifteen years Poe wrote many poems for contests, newspapers, and magazines; he wrote some collections as well. Many of them had to do with the death of beautiful woman, most can be said to be concerned with the death of Jane Stith Stanard. Some can be attributed to his wife's failing health. Of these the most famous is probably " ...
- 833: T.S. Elliot - The Hollow Men
- ... urban disease and decay, showing us a sort of fleeting snapshot, almost subliminally planted, and raising in us an instantaneous reaction of revulsion. Eliot then mentions the dead, calling them "Those who have crossed...to death's other kingdom." These people are made real by Eliot's repeated mention of their eyes. He refers to them first as making their crossing into death with "direct eyes," meaning that they faced and succumbed to death, unable to turn away. Also he states they have "eyes I dare not meet in dreams," indicating that this narrator fears addressing death, either his own or those who have "crossed." Later in the ...
- 834: Jacques Louis David
- ... distinct coldness and rationalism of approach. David's reputation was made by the Salon of 1784. In that year he produced his first masterwork, The Oath of the Horatii (Louvre). This work and his celebrated Death of Socrates (1787; Metropolitan Mus.) as well as Lictors Bringing to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons (1789; Louvre) were themes appropriate to the political climate of the time. They secured for David vast popularity ... success. David was admitted to the Académie royale in 1780 and worked as court painter to the king. As a powerful republican David, upon being elected to the revolutionary Convention, voted for the king's death and for the dissolution of the Académie royale both in France and in Rome. In his paintings of the Revolution's martyrs, especially in his Marat (1793; Brussels), his iron control is softened and the ... The Coronation of Napoleon and Josephine". Following Napoleon's downfall in 1815, David was exiled to Brussels, where he returned to mythological subjects drawn from the Greek and Roman past. He stayed there until his death on 29, 1825. David, throughout his career, was also a prolific portraitist. Smaller in scale and more intimately human than his larger works, his portraits, such as the famous "Madame Récamier", show great technical ...
- 835: April Morning
- Title: April Morning 1)Adam Cooper, a young man that fought the British at the age of fifteen. During that battle he witnessed the tragic death of his father. From the death of his father he learned to be a man and knew he would have to take care of his family. His father never once showed him that he loved him by words or actions, until ... father did love him after all. 2)Moses Cooper, father of Adam, was a very strict father, he was always making Adam work and never once showed compassion towards him, until the night before his death. He was shot in the chest and killed during the battle against the British. What Moses learned is that his son was now a man, and that if he died that morning, he would ...
- 836: Death And The Maiden
- From the Western perspective, it is hard to understand ritual suicide as anything positive or helpful to the living. There almost seems to be no Western equivalent to the "duty" of Elesin in Death and the King's Horseman. However, Wole Soyinka gives us a comparable situation in Jane's description of a captain blowing up a ship to save the people on the shore. It's a moment ...
- 837: Images Of Light And Darkness I
- ... side of his nature. However, before the scene ends, Romeo tells Mercutio about his “bad dream,” and says that he is filled with premonitions of something about to happen that can only lead to his death. Again, Shakepeare is employing the technique of divide and contrast to build tension and move the play along. After two scenes of preparation, we come to the party at Lord Capulets. Romeo is there to ... have chosen cannot last. Their love is not moderate and longlasting. It can only be as Friar Lawrence warns: lit up in a brief but brilliant flame, consumed by itself, and in the end, by death. (Darkness overtakes light). The day that Romeo weds Juliet should bring “lightness,” and joy, however, the “lightness,” is not sustained. Soon after the wedding, Mercutio fights Tybalt. As Mercutio dies, Romeo stands stunned, muttering to himself at the indignity he feels over what has happened. Romeo loses his “lightheartedness,” and can see nothing but the blackness of the day. The blackness of many days to come. Avenging Mercutio’s death, Romeo kills Tybalt. This scene marks the turning point in the play. It turns it from high romance to tragedy. In a matter of hours, Romeo has been hurled from his position of new ...
- 838: Iliad As A Dictate Of The Fath
- ... his enemy/ and bring home the bloodiest spoils, and delight the heart of his mother” (6, 476-481). This is strongly related to the heroic code in which a warrior must fight without fear of death. Fear of the agon cannot bring glory to any fighter, since he cannot win. Being faced with death but overcoming this fear and coming out as the victor of the battle brings honor to the father. Being reminded of the paternal injunction and the greatness of their fathers urged many warriors into battle ... go to the war. Andromache, stood close beside him, letting her tears fall,/ and clung to his hand and called him by name and spoke to him: “Dearest,/ your own great strength will be your death, and you have no pity/ on your little son, nor on me, ill-starred, who soon must be your widow;/ for presently the Achaians, gathering together,/ will set upon you and kill you;…/ Please ...
- 839: What Does Shakespeare Have To
- ... despite it being fast-moving, we constantly see the past being set against the present as the shadow of the feud between the Capulets and the Montagues is constantly hanging over Romeo and Juliet's 'death~marked love'. We also start to see a love of power, in a far more subtle way in the character of Juliet, when she becomes very frank and tells Romeo what she wants if his ... jokes which are often puns saying 'raise a spirit in his mistress' circle' and also joking at the Nurses's expense calling her 'a bawd'. Mercutio's love of punning carries right through to his death as he cannot resist punning saying that if they ask for him tomorrow they 'shall find me a grave man'. It is only when Mercutio dies that the special type of love, found only in close friendships, between Romeo and Mercutio becomes apparent. Romeo's declaration after Mercutio's death that 'fire-eyed fury be my conduct now' shows how much the death of his best friend has affected him. The way in which he is more than willing to put his life on ...
- 840: Euthanasia
- Euthanasia An eighty-seven year old grandmother on a respirator, a newborn child with AIDS, and a father in a coma; all put to death by respectable doctors with the O.K. of their families. But is it really 3O.K.ý? Euthanasia, or doctor-assisted suicide, has become as common as jumping off of a fifteen story building or taking a gun to one1s own head. Certainly society frowns upon suicide, but yet putting an old lady or a man in a coma to death is being accepted every day. Society knows that suicide is bad, but euthanasia is even worse. The guilt and blame of a lost life is falling on the hands of doctor1s that we are supposed to trust, and even worse, the family members themselves. A doctor is to be known as a healer, not an agent of death. A family is supposed to love and support, not kill and inherit. Every person makes the light of the world brighter. The world needs everyone1s power and contribution. It1s the power and energy of ...
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