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- 911: Death Of A Salesman 9
- ... is, in many ways, the earth mother who embodies the play s ultimate moral value--love. But in the beautiful, ironic complexity of her creation, she is also Willy s destroyer. In Arthur Miller s Death of a Salesman Linda continually suffers from Willy s frustrations. Even so, she manages to be the loving woman who attempts to keep her family happy However, by covering up failures and protecting pride, Linda ...
- 912: The Outsiders 2
- ... of the story was sensible and easy to understand. It was clear and simple, and the events have occurred in a reasonable order. The ending of the story was a bit expected. I anticipated the death of Johnny because a broken neck usually means death. The death of Dally was not as predictable as Johnny's death because it was said that: "He was tougher than the rest of us tougher, colder, meaner." (page 19). I did not think that such ...
- 913: Francesco Petrarch
- ... let Giovanni live with him till he could no longer stand the sight of him and sent him to live in Avignon, at the age of 20. It wasn't until just before Giovanni's death, of the Black Plague, did they start to write each other. Just before his sons death, Petrarch's friends though of Giovanni as a good person and wrote Petrarch about this. He never saw his son before his death but in his mind knew that he had started to get his life back together. He also had a daughter, Francesca, she gave birth to Petrarch's grandchildren one of which died during the ...
- 914: Hemingway and His Writing Style
- ... few select members of the distinguished, but with the whole community. The organization of this community is stated with great eloquence in the quotation from one of the poet John Donnes sermons upon the death of a close friend. This is the quotation from which the book takes its title: No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe, every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of ... a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne were; any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for I thee. Therefore, while the hero retains the qualities of the Hemingway Code, he has been built up by his unity with mankind. In the end, he finds the world a fine place, that is worth fighting for(Curly 795). In his personal confrontation with death, Robert Jordan realizes that there is a larger cause that a man can chose to serve. In this way he differs from the earlier Hemingway hero. The insistence that action and its form be ...
- 915: Emily Dickinson 3
- ... clues are given - her poems both deal with and mirror this phenomenon. And through a riddle, at the last - sagacity must go - (#501) (In these lines Dickinson doubts the sense of religious claims about life, death and life after death). Her cryptic language thus became part of her search for truth and personal clarification. She couched her poetry in ambiguous, complex and multi-layered language - in this form it became both a defence, and a ... by the existence of three possible endings. The original ending(1859), is one stanza which continues on in the same vein of the satire in stanza1 - a play on the then current Christian concept of death and resurrection. Dickinson plays ironically with the Protestant consolatory language, using typology. In 1861, a new second stanza was written, that sways towards horror. This "nihilistic" second stanza contrasts completely with the somewhat cloyingly ...
- 916: The Life of 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 ...
- 917: Attica
- ... revolutionary writings in his book he had written Soledad Brother was passed from inmate to inmate inside Attica State Prison, which had an enormous impact on the prisoners awareness of their feelings. Mr. Jackson s death lead to the direct uprising of New York s Attica State Correctional facility which was approximately two weeks after George Jackson s death. The uprising of New York s Attica State Correctional Facility is known as the most notorious prison riot in American History. During this time New York s Governor Nelson Rockefeller ran the Attica State prison ... stated during the riot, he was beaten, forced to walk across broken glass, burned and claimed officers made him lie naked on a picnic table four hours during the riots, threatening him with castration and death. Frank Smith was accused of castrating hostages and killing an inmate and was indicted on both kidnapping and murder charges, but these charges were dismissed. He stated, these alleged accusations were untrue and that ...
- 918: Emily Dickinson: Individuality
- ... Edward Dickinson, a well-respected lawyer, and his wife Emily Norcross Dickinson, whom she was named after. She lived her whole life in the same house with her sister Lavina including after her parents death in her middle years. Her parents had been very traditional, as most people were in those days. Her father, along with the rest of the family, were Christians and she alone decided to rebel against ... to find morning. It can be inferred that morning, something so common place and taken for granted, cannot be grasped by even the greatest so-called minds. Emily also saw the frightful part of nature. Death was an extension of the natural order. Probably the most prominent theme in her writing is death. She took death in a relatively casual way when compared to the puritan beliefs that surrounded her life. Death to her was just the next logical step of life and compares it to a ...
- 919: Romeo and Juliet: Forbidden Love Leads To Death
- Romeo and Juliet: Forbidden Love Leads To Death We just finished reading the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. In this play we are introduced to the tragic story of their forbidden "love" which ultimately leads to their deaths. Although Romeo and ...
- 920: Death Of A Salesman 4
- Critical Essay Drama The idea that any person can rise from humble beginnings to greatness is the basis of the American Dream. Arthur Miller paints a harsh picture of this ideal in the drama Death of a Salesman. The main character, Willy Loman, is a complex and tragic figure. He is a man striving to hold onto what dignity he has left in a world that no longer values the ...
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