Again, he has no logical reason to want or need to fight the dragon, but he does it simply to be a hero and to keep his reputation of a warrior. He even states, “I am old, now, but I will fight again, seek fame still” (Raffel 101). Beowulf only wants to fight to prove himself as a hero yet again. However this time, the risk is too great and he ends up getting killed in the fight. But, he died a hero so he had no regrets.
To Paul, Duval is just like any other man, and in this instance, a man who needs Pauls help. But Paul kills him, and in that moment totally loses his way. In addition, Hardy’s poem isn’t as intense as Remarque’s novel, but nontheless effective in its message. One doesn’t enlist in the war to kill but instead one is “out of work…no other reason why.” He writes that if two enemies were to meet in any other circumstances, then they could have been friends, possibly even shared a drink. In the third stanza, the
They are both similar in meaning to fight against death. Each tercets ends with the same message as it lists all types of men who “rage against the dying of the light”. In the first staza Thomas tells old men to “burn and rage” against “close of day” which is a metaphor for dying (balakier). In the next stanza, He writes about wise men who go against death. Although wise, Thomas says that “dark is right” meaning men will die regardless of how much they may go against it.
Hamlet ponders what an improvement his life would be without his grief. Although he is not fully willing to meet his death because he feels as though he has duties to fulfil and revenge to seek out, when he questions, “Who would bear the whips and scorns of time” ( III, i, 70). Hamlet logically inquires the pros and cons of suicide and what affects it may have on him and others. He apprehends that he must not let culpable Claudius get away with his father’s murder, consequently allowing his mother to be married to a
Hamlet is also faced with his own mortality when he loses his father. He realises that life does not last forever, prompting questions whether death could be justified as legitimate in such a miserable world. However, he fears what lies beyond when, in his fourth soliloquy he wonders “Whether ‘t is nobler in the mind to suffer / The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune… die: to sleep; No more”. Hamlet philosophically concludes that no one would choose to endure the pain of life if they were not afraid of what follows death. It is not unlikely
Again, Beatty tries to bring Montag down one last time, his dying words are quoted from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar: “There is no terror, Cassius, in your/ threats, for I am arm’d so strong in honesty that/ they pass me in an idle wind, which I respect not!” (Bradbury 119). Beatty mocks Montag as a “second-hand litterateur.” He underestimated Montag, and it cost him his life. That was what Beatty wanted though, to push Montag over the edge. He wanted to die because he was unhappy with his own life and saw he could not succeed in keeping Montag unhappy as
Emily depicts death in an unconventional way, challenging the age old belief of death and its elation to immortality in death. In stanza one, Dickinson personifies death, as being a gentleman with human characteristics. This interpretation put a twist to the age old description of death as a cryptic, sinister figure from hell that comes for our soul and invokes fear into our very being. The speaker said “‘because I could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me’” (line 1-2), this woman was too busy with her everyday life that she never thought of the inevitability of death. Traditionally, it is taught that death cares and waits for no one; ironically, he ‘kindly’ stops for her, portraying her as though they are going on a date.
Multiple times through out the book Johnny admits that he would like to die, and goes on to describe his frustrations about his lack of ability to do so. He feels pointless, worthless, and disgusting, but later in the book he is content on showing the world what war really is; to let every man who was ever drafted and will ever be drafted know what he is really getting in to.
That his life has ended and there is no direction he can take. A similarity between the two poems is that they both use imperatives. Evidence of this in ‘Death be not proud’ is ‘be not proud’. Donne is commanding Death not to be proud and is saying that Death should not be proud of himself because Death is powerless and irrelevant. However, although they both use imperatives, they still present death completely differently.
Ironically, Mercutio dies of a wound “occasioned partly by Romeo’s love, while Romeo, no less a man, will die not of a wound but of the poison he voluntarily takes for love” (Kahn 64). The men in the play are viewed to be under pressure. The fathers cannot perform as fathers and the sons cannot perform as sons. “The fathers cannot enforce the law so long as they themselves are living in a self-imposed condition of ‘mutiny’ or ‘rebellion’” (Appelbaum