My honours for the dead must last much longer than for those up here. I’ll lie down there forever.” (Antigone 89-94) Antigone states that she’d rather die trying then not try at all. She did whatever it took to bury her brother. The central theme of Antigone is loyalty and commitment. This theme was showed continuously throughout the book when Antigone stuck with her brother’s wishes and didn’t back down – even through adversity.
She went to the department store she found a pair of silk stockings that suited her. She bought it and as she tried it on she felt the freedom of not having any responsibilities. As she went on shopping she bought stuff for her own and felt nostalgic for her old life and how she had been longing for it. Once all her shopping was done she went into a restaurant and the theater. After all of the spending for her desires, she rode on a cable car and remembered about the family that she totally forgot.
So with her love for Kejun, and refusal to accept that he was dead, she left behind her family and friends in Suzhou, the town she knew so well and left for Tibet on a journey of a lifetime. At the time, Wen didn’t know how long it was going to be until she saw her family again “Wen saw her family grow smaller and smaller and finally disappear from sight. She took her last look at Suzhou” Some thirty years later, Wen returned to a not so familiar Suzhou and looked forward to being reunited with her family that she hadn’t seen in so long. To Wen’s surprise however, when she went to find her sister, there was no sign of her, her parents or their home. In fact the majority of Suzhou was unknown to Shu Wen.
Death drives slowly, going at his own pace perhaps, signifying how from the time a person is born they begin to die. Death does not need to rush because he cannot be escaped. The speaker puts away her leisure and her civility out of respect for Death who was kind enough to stop for her. The third stanza, filled with imagery, has the trio passing a school of children, grazing Grain, and a setting sun. This stanza seems to allude to the cycle of life starting.
He knows he will have to kill Mr. and Mrs. Coggio also, although they are not who he is after, but he enjoys their perfectionism. He never had a mother and father that loved him, or cared for him like they care for their children. He enjoys knowing all of their secrets, it gives him a feeling of control. He knows he can accomplish the task of taking their life because he says “their father is old, and bowlegged.” Their father is not a threat to his young and strong body.
The women in Tim O’Brien novel The Things They Carried are fresh, pure and innocent, untouched by the dirty reality of the war. They provide soldiers with the temporary relief from the war by allowing them to escape into the fantasy life, but they also represent the idealization of the civilian life that the soldiers left behind, as well as men’s own innocence lost in the war. Martha is Jimmy Cross’ friend, and since they had gone on one date before the war, and had been exchanging letters for a while, Jimmy pretends she is his girlfriend. He cherishes the letters, keeps them protected, “folded in plastic at the bottom of his rucksack,” (1) and reads them as part of his nightly ritual. Martha’s letters are not love letters, he knows that, but he keeps them and reads them and imagines the whole life for him and Martha.
It is something that is not easily dealt with and sometimes may seem unjust. It helps us become better people by accepting death and learning from it. <br> In Antigone, she kills herself because she kept her promise and buried Polyneices body. She died for a cause. A cause that she did not need to die for but since Creon did not think.
Because I could not stop for death In the poem “Because I could not stop for death”, by Emily Dickinson is describing her journey with death. The speaker personifies has been given human attributes. The death is personified as a gentleman, he’s calling on a young lady. In the opening stanza the speaker is too busy for death “Because I could not stop for death”, so death “he kindly stopped for me” and takes time to do what she cannot stop. In the second stanza “we slowly drove, he knew no haste” it suggests death has no hurry.
As June’s father, Canning, tells her the story of her mother, he says, “Finally, there was not one more step left in her body. She didn’t have the strength to carry those babies any farther. She slumped to the ground. She knew she would die…,” (Tan 282). Not allowing herself to die next to her babies, she resolves to leave them behind at the roadside
The comfortable, roomy armchair gives her a sense of security and comfort in spite of her husband's death. That is the first that she makes. Does not it mean that she had lack of freedom while being marriage and starts noticing that only after her husband’s death? Moreover, through the open window she can see “the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life”, feel that “the delicious breath of rain was in the air”, and hear “the notes of distant songs” (449, 450). It seems that the news has changed her life as if she has not noticed all these delights of life that surrounded her for so many years.