What warning does Friar Laurence give in lines 9-10? These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume.” I think he is telling them to think about the future because anything could happen and one thing could ruin everything. 4. What is Friar Laurence’s advice to Romeo? “Therefore love moderately: long love doth so: Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.” That he should not go to fast because it is as bad as too slow.
“Whichever one death fells must deem it a just judgment by God. (440-441)” The poet of Beowulf constantly emphasizes that death comes to everyone whenever God decides it’s time; there is nothing mortal man can do to avoid this eventual fate. Beowulf doesn't enter into his battle with Grendel expecting to triumph over the demon. Instead, he is able to fight Grendel with courage because he's already accepted that he will most likely die in the attempt. This morose attitude releases him from the fear of death.
What he’s saying to Creon is he is depriving the dead of another soul by leaving Polynices’ body without burial. Creon has also contained Antigone in her stone tomb and left her there to die, therefore taking someone living and making her potentially wait for death. The Leader explains to Creon, “For mortal men/ there is no escape from the doom we must endure” (1457-1458). The Leader is saying that Creon needs to fight through the pain and suffering because he can’t change fate. How he lives on or dies now is up to the
First, he and the sailors are denied the satisfaction of drinking; now the Ancient Mariner will be denied the satisfaction of being able to die. His spirit is trapped in his own body, in an excruciating state of limbo - the realm of Life-in-Death. His "glittering eye" suggests more than madness; it is also a synecdoche representing his soul, which longs to be released from living death. It yearns to
Is it noble to put up with the struggles and the difficulties in life or simply ending them all at once by dying? His questions are left to be answered by himself. Hamlet compares that sleeping is similar to dying because it ends all the heartache and shocks that life consists of. To be able to sleep is to also to dream by putting aside the commotion and stress of life behind an individual. Hamlet’s speech reveals his in depth on the idea of suicide and death.
Cabrera, 1 Hannah Cabrera Block 4 Awp 9/21/11 Life Death is only the beginning. In “The Epic of Gilgamesh”, translated by Stephen Mitchell, the meaning of life is mainly death. Gilgamesh goes searching for eternal life and discovers something better the meaning of life, in “The Epic of Gilgamesh” the book portrays the meaning of life to be that death is inevitable. The thought that life can be restored after death leads Gilgamesh into the quest for everlasting life. For an example, when Gilgamesh’s friend Enkidu dies he is left broken hearted and thinks, “If my grief is violent enough perhaps he will come back to life” (Mitchell, 445).
However, Romeo states that he would rather die because of the Capulets hate, then be alive and fight for their love. The audience is aware that unless a miracle is to happen, the Capulets will not love Romeo, and thus his life will end of their hate. Finally, when talking to Friar Lawrence, Romeo tells him that “Death do what he dare,/ It is enough I may but call her mine." (2.6.7-8). Romeo shows the audience that he is okay with dying, because now he is able to call Juliet his, however most people do what they can to remain alive, this is not the case with Romeo, thus telling the audience that he is to die soon.
“ Macbeth has changed (weak to strong,emotionless) “She should have died hereafter. There would have been a time for such a word”. “I am in blood stepp’d in so far that, should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o’er” “"The castle of Macduff I will surprise… His wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls That trace him in his line." Lady Macbeth Changed (strong to weak guilty) “Out damn spot! Out I say..” “The queen my lord, is dead.” Sick from guilt and died Loyalty “For Brave Macbeth-well he deserves that name” captain “O valiant cousin, worthy gentleman” Duncan talk about malcolm “Fit to govern?
The most common candidate is the terminally ill patient whose prognosis is extremely poor, extreme pain, and will die within a short period of time. Advocates of assisted suicide believe it's the patients right to choose a peaceful pain free GUILT FREE, death. Why should they have to suffer? Those who do not support assisted suicide claim that this is a moral issue and those who choose to assist in one's death should be charged with murder. They believe the legalization of assisted suicide opens the “ flood gates of immorality” which will lead to a “Slippery Slope” effect where any one can claim that assisted suicide is the only option and cause mass demoralization and mass killings.
He asks if it is “Nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” – life – passively, and simply endure the pain, or to be active in your protests and end your own life. He then proceeds to compare death to sleeping, and contemplates the end of suffering and questions that it might bring to him, or as he put it: “the heartache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to”. It is at this point that he decides that suicide would be the desirable course of action, but then realizes that there is more to the question, such as, what will happen in the afterlife.