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- 851: Ludwig Van Beethoven
- ... October 1802, he reveals his malaise that was sending him to the edge of despair. He speaks of suicide in the same breath as a reluctance to die, expressing his helplessness against the inevitability of death. Having searched vainly for a cure, he seems to have lost all hope -- "As the leaves of autumn fall and are withered-so likewise has my hope been blighted-I leave here- almost as I ... on. At a time when Beethoven had reached the end of the musical challenge of the day, he also faced what seemed to him the end of hope in his personal life. In his Testament, death seems imminent -- "With joy I hasten to meet death" -- but hope and determination, though weak and unsure, are evident. In the Heiligenstadt Testament the composer comes to terms with his deafness and leaves what is beyond his control to what must be, trying ...
- 852: The Tupac Conspiracy
- The Tupac Conspiracy The Italian Machavelli wrote two books before disclosing his theory about faking ones death. Notice that the 2 CD's from all eyes on me are called Book 1 and Book 2 instead of being called CD 1 and CD 2. And Now to the Alive Theory... The uncontested ... pictures released of Tupac in the hospital. In the song "Life Goes On", Tupac raps about his own funeral. The driver of the car in which Tupac was riding, Suge Knight (the executive producer of Death Row Records), didn't show up for questioning about the shooting. The video "I ain't Mad at Cha" was released only a few days after his death. "I ain't Mad at Cha" is track 13 on the album All Eyes On Me. The video shows Tupac as an angel in heaven. In the video, Tupac was shot after leaving a ...
- 853: Ernest Hemmingway
- ... 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 ...
- 854: Emily Dickinson
- ... this time that Emily totally secluded herself from the world and started what would be world famous poems throughout the future . She adopted her ideas on poetry from her personal life, her fondness of nature, death, and her dislike of organized religion. War is occasionally pulled into Emily's poems also. Emily seemed truly concerned over happenings in her personal life. So she mainly focused her writings on the loss of ... on nature for help. Emily wrote "The Sky Is Low" to contrast the similarities of life and nature. She speaks of nature being an uncontrollable and unpredictable force just like people inhibit these same traits. Death was certainly not a disclosed subject to Emily. "I Shall Keep Singing" inspires us all to consider death as a brand new beginning. It says look forward to death because it will relieve you of all your worries and frustrations. "The GraveMy Little Cottage Is" also encourages us to battle through struggles ...
- 855: Antigone
- ... ever dare to disobey the law and risk your life for it just so you could do what you thought was right? In the play Antigone, the main character Antigone, had her actions rewarded by death. She had disobeyed the law made by Creon (the king) and therefore had to be punished. It seems as if she made her actions just so people would think of her as a heroine. What ... just been recently made. People should know and learn that they too can change things that seem to be unchangeable if they believe that is the right thing to do, even if the results are death. She even knew the consequences of her actions and yet ignored them. Antigone even accepted her death when Creon found her guilty. Antigone. I knew I must die, even without your decree; Living, as I live, with evil all about me, Think death less than a friend? This death of mine ...
- 856: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... magic once again by claiming his mother. In 1811, when Poe was two, his mother passed away, leaving him with his second depressing loss (540). After his father’s cowardly retreat and mother’s sudden death, Poe was left in the capable hand of his godfather, John Allan. John Allan was a wealthy merchant based in Richmond, Virginia with the means, knowledge and affluence to provide a good life for Poe ... to be Poe’s last. In 1847, Virginia Clemm died of tuberculosis and in doing so added one more name to Poe’s list of lost loves (“Poe, Edgar Allan,” World Book Encyclopedia 591). Her death had affected Poe more greatly than any other of his former loses. Poe was once quoted saying: Each time I felt all the agonies of her death—and at each accession of the disorder I loved her more dearly and clung to her life with more desperate pertinacity. But I am constitutionally sensitive—nervous in a very unusual degree. During these ...
- 857: Latin America And Slavery
- ... replace the dead natives, new races were popping up in Latin America. Right then the population in Latin America was undergoing vast changes. Population growth is usually due to either high birth rates with low death rates or heavy immigration. During this time there were normal birth rates, high death rates, and heavy immigration to compensate for the death rate. This caused a slight increase in the population during this time, but the demographics changed drastically. Over a short period of time an independent group of people had their identity erased only to ...
- 858: Christian Elements in Beowulf
- ... the hart pants after the running streams, so my soul cries aloud to Thee, O God.” The soul would rather die than hide his head in the mere, just as any rational soul would prefer death to eternal damnation. Beowulf’s last monstrous foe is designated by the word “wyrm” meaning a serpent or worm, and the word “draca” meaning dragon. In the Old English poetry, the worm and dragon represent enmity to mankind. The worms who devour man’s corpse after death, the dragons and serpents who receive his soul in hell, and the dragon of sin and mortality who rules over earth until Christ cancels for all time the work of the tempest. The Grendel kin ... and “evil destroyer.” They all live in demonic halls. Some poets believe that the dragon was “the devil himself, guarding a hoard of gold that infects men with greed and pride and so leads to death and damnation” (Clark, 257). The Beowulf dragon is sufficiently snakelike, both in his appearance and behavior, to qualify as a Christian symbol. In Genesis of the Bible, the serpent is never clearly called Satan. ...
- 859: Chronicle Of A Death Foretold
- In the novel, Chronicle of a Death Foretold by, Gabriel Marguez, the characters lack individualization and the communal values determine the events of the town. The characters in this novel only watch what happens but never try to stop it. The character ...
- 860: Edgar Allan Poe And The Raven
- Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before. The writer of these words was enchanted by darkness...thrilled by death. What sort of person would spend their whole life linking hands with Death and her counterparts? Quite possibly a literary genius by the name of Edgar Allan Poe. Famous for romanticizing the darker, more Gothic side of life, E. A. Poe had quite a collection of works from his lesser known stories to his most famous poem, The Raven . This great man s life has been analyzed to death (no pun intended) to find key s to unlock the maze of his apparent creativity. Here, the reader will find only an in depth look at The Raven , information on the author s life ...
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