Even though he found out the hard way he understands the way of life. The Epic of Gilgamesh I thought was a superior epic poem. I absorbed a lot from all the themes. First, love for someone is an inspiring influence; if you really adore someone or something you should undergo pain when it’s gone. Second, The inescapability of death; no one can live forever so benefit the time you have and let every moment count.
We’ve all have heard the saying “whatever doesn’t kill us will only make us stronger”. It is clear that one day or another our time to come will come. In the article Hamlet’s Soliloquy he maintains that life is nothing but a long list of troubles and we should just give up. But, he himself writes “With a bare bodkin*? Who would fardels bear, dagger and burdens?” (Armstrong).
You will never learn much more about the Brotherhood than that it exists and that you belong to it." (Orwell 171) O'Brien knows that Winston and Julia have feelings, and he uses those feelings to further entrap them . In order to have a successful rebellion one must have hope that one's cause will work. After talking about the perils of the membership of the Brotherhood he closes saying, "You will have to get used to living without results and without hope. You will work for a while, you will be caught, you will confess, and then you will die."
Picture a world of much pain and suffering;Were only death can bring happiness, Were after life is the only possible escape for a peasent's social class. Place This image clearly in your mind, now imagine that this afterlife is guaranteed .A so called war; will redeem you in gods eyes for any misconsumptions he may have of you and without no doubt allow you access into his kingdom in heaven. On your crusade to recapture the holy land. You see new things but nothing will amaze you more then what your eyes come across at the end of your journey. Your used to a wretched life style, tasteless food, hard labor from sun up to sun down.
As a result, humans lose their free will and become victims in the machinery of war, casualties of political ends. The entire novel illustrates the destructiveness and suffering of war. By using a repeated refrain, precise characterization, satire, and tone, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. is able to effectively illustrate the destructiveness of war. Whenever someone (or something) dies in the novel, "so it goes" is Vonnegut's automatic mantra. There is nothing a person can do about death - it happens to us all.
As we emerged from the nightmare and began to search for meaning.Wiesel left the pain, humiliation and death of the past behind him and ventured into the future but in order to do this he had to struggle with the forces of meaning and memory. The survivors of the Holocaust were confronted by an absurd world; their great victory was to continue living as humans by rebuilding their lives over. This is what Wiesel insists on when stating, “In a world of absurdity we must invent reason, we must create beauty out of nothingness.”There is heroism in moving forward as a human and no longer dwelling in darkness. Wiesel, like the righteous gentiles, insists that his actions were those of an ordinary human being. This is true; his actions are purely human, no more or less, but in an inhuman world
It has a very powerful meaning behind it, to not take anything for granted because we are lucky to be blessed with what we have. The choices we make can determine our future. Eric had to learn the hard way that life is a precious and unpredictable. He thought surviving on top of the mountain was his greatest challenge, until he realized he was going to be living the rest of his life without his legs. The main message of the book is to live life to the fullest and think before you act.
In Lord Of the Flies, by William Golding, and “Masque of The Red Death,” by Edgar Allen Poe, the main elements that contributed to both stories are theme and symbolism. Golding showed how the boys descended into savagery, since one person did not contribute to the group effort. Piggy’s glasses represent the final evidence of the lawful, structured world. Poe showed how death is inevitable and there is no way to escape it. Even a secluded abbey will not be able to save you from dying.
Utnapishtim makes it clear that overcoming death is going to be a challenge that is nearly impossible. The situation Gilgamesh is in help shows that the life is based upon the inevitableness of death because of the predicaments Gilgamesh into when he tries to change how the world works. Gilgamesh’s search for eternal life because a search for the truth about
Ondrey summarized the major intentions and objectives within his writings: Death is inescapable, death with dignity, and the value to suffering. He noted that, “We make life precious by embracing the reality of death, not by repressing it or denying it” (53). The inevitability of death gives no patient reassurance in their terminal illness. “My deepest desire is always to choose death with dignity over a life that has become either hopelessly painful and dysfunctional or empty and devoid of all meaning” (Ondrey, James H., ed 54). Life is intended to be lived fully and balanced, it is seen as irrational to end life due to illnesses.