It’s dark, horrific, and grave. Allan Poe sets an atmosphere for a whole story just from the first lines, when he introduces the Red Death “The Red Death had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal - the redness and the horror of blood” (389). The eerie mood covers every words of the story, from the luxurious masquerade ball to the death of everyone attending in that ball.
It is rumored that Claudius poisoned his older brother because the jealousy and hunger for power. In outrage of the murder many loyal people of Denmark took the street of Denmark in a massive wave of riots which resulted in violence and controversy. The body was found by one of the king’s closest servants, Gentlemen of the Bedchamber, who was on his way to inform King Hamlet that dinner was served.
The Huguenot political movement was crippled by the loss of many of its prominent aristocratic leaders, as well as many re-conversions by the rank and file, and those who remained were increasingly radicalized. Though by no means unique, it "was the worst of the century's religious massacres." [2] Throughout Europe, it "printed on Protestant minds the indelible conviction that Catholicism was a bloody and treacherous
Geraldine Brooks explores how ignorance, superstition and hysteria can be as fatal as any plague within her novel ‘Year of Wonders’. During the trying year of the plague superstition, ignorance, and hysteria took over the village, causing people to make irrational accusations, decisions and behave immorally, turning against each other. Brooks explores how the plague acts as a catalyst effecting each of the villagers differently on a physical and emotional level. The plague is defined as a large amount of insects or animals infesting a place causing damage, within the novel we see the villagers become these animals. Fear and anguish brought out some of the worst qualities in the villagers causing them to turn against one another creating anger, conflict and damage unto one another.
Hurt locker … war is a trap, it`s a vicious circle. In which most likely alternative is death. All round the lining of horizon there was chaos , noises and the air was filled with most terrible odor of decompostind bodies. Everything was gray, grim and the only lively color was red. Splashed blood leaves marks on buildings, roads and clothes.
A United States Commission Official would describe the battle as “utter devastation and ruin” where “For four miles in length, and nearly half a mile in width, the ground is strewn with . . . hats, caps, clothing, canteens, knapsacks, shells and shot.” The commonly asked question from many individuals after going over the Battle of Antietam is, why was this battle the most gruesome in American History? For the simple reason that it was “the event” that would decide “the fate of the American Civil War.”
Ones who died from these toxic gases were in a painful and miserable death. The ones that survived will never forget these images they saw and horrific experiences they had went through. Through Wilfred Owen’s imagery and Irony’s in his poem we can detect the tone, “Dulce et Decorum Est” is a horrific battle scene from World War I. The strong use of figurative language helps to interpret the real meaning of war. In the first line, "Bent double, like old beggars under sacks”, shows us that the troops are so tired that they look like old beggars, slouching from being so drowsy.
At Wexford, over 2,000 people were killed inside the city after nine days of bloody resistance to the English siege. A thousand were killed in similar fashion at Drogheda after eight days of resistance. At Drogheda, Cromwell himself joined in the assault. He ordered his men to kill all priests, monks, and nuns on sight. What role did the military play in Cromwell's rise to power?
In “the sentry” Wilfred Owen talks about the disgusting conditions of the trenches and the depressing weather and how the trenches would become flooded. “Rain, guttering down in waterfalls of slimeKept slush waist high, that rising hour by hour” Owen also describes the pain, suffering and fear from his
Dadaism and Surrealism Art Movements| | Barbara D Gentry| 11/13/2013| History of the art movements of Dada and Surrealism| The years between 1914 and 1918 were tumultuous ones. The world had broken out in a full scale war, beginning in Europe, with the assassination of the extremely disliked Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the Archduke of Austria Hungary, and his wife. The assassination was merely the catalyst to the mounting political tensions in Europe at that time. Many of Europe’s artists were horrified by slaughters being committed on a daily basis in the name of war and the social injustice they perceived, by the middle and upper class citizens. Furthermore, they were disgusted by the relentless quest to acquire more land and money by the various European nations.