Especially in Act 3 Scene 1, Benvolio’s friendship and loyalty to Romeo had been tested. When Romeo kills Tybalt for killing Mercutio he immediately says: Romeo, away, be gone! The citizens are up, and Tybalt slain. Stand not amazed. The Prince will doom thee death If thou art taken.
He is happy to commit murder if that was to be the end of it but he fears the consequences and is concerned that the same fate will befall him, “Bloody instructions, which being taught, return To plague the inventor”. He is moral man, loyal to the King who has recently honoured him. Macbeth tells himself that he cannot escape the consequences of assassinating Duncan yet ‘only vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself And falls on the other”. This suggests that his own motivation is ambition, which he understands makes people rush ahead of themselves and ends in a downfall. This is a prophetic reflection of the final denouement of the play.
Hardy in ‘The Man He Killed’ is trying to tell us how war is futile as men are killed just because they are on opposing sides. The poem, compared to ‘Drummer Hodge,’ is much more retrospective. Hardy uses a dramatic monologue throughout the poem, making the poem itself much more personal and leaving a larger impression on the reader, whereas Drummer Hodge is written in the third person; this allows Hardy to describe the treatment of the dead
Another example of blood portraying honor takes place later in the play during the death scene of Macbeth. Right before Macduff kills Macbeth, he tells the ill-fated title character, “My voice is in my sword, thou bloodier than terms can give thee out.” With this line, the audience knows that Macbeth’s pleas to have his life spared will not be answered by Macduff. In turn, this is a display of courage on Macduff’s part. Where betrayal is concerned, blood also symbolizes acts of murder and treason. One such allusion is mentioned in act 2, scene 1, during Macbeth‘s soliloquy.
Owen makes this piece an elegy by portraying the battlefield as hell ‘like a man in fire or lime’ or terrible enough to make the devil feel sick ‘like a devils sick of sin’ in order to make people realise that war will only achieve loss and sadness and convey the sadness and fear the soldiers had to face every day. The title of the poem ‘Dulce et Decorum est’ originates from the Roman poet, Horace ‘Dulce et Decorum set Pro patria mori’ and can be roughly translated into English as It is Right and Fitting to die for your Country. The title is a satire and instead of writing pro-war poetry, he puts an ironic slant on the maxim challenging the historical conventions and attitudes towards war. The reader is also able to
One of his famous quotes “I'll tell you this, in any fight it's the guy whose willing to die whose gonna win” expresses the success that one can possibly have after getting over the fear of death. It should not be a bad and embarrassing thing for Jack, many people have a fear of death. Jack just lets it haunt him too much. The protagonist Jack Gladney yearned to figure out how not to fear death in the novel White Noise written by Don Delillo. He is easily influenced by other characters in the book such as Vernon Dickey, Bee, Orest Mercator, and other media portrayed occurrences like Hitlers mass killings.
DEATH BE NOT PROUD Divine Meditation 10 Summary The speaker tells Death that it should not feel proud, for though some have called it “mighty and dreadful,” it is not. Those whom Death thinks it kills do not truly die, nor, the speaker says, “can’st thou kill me.” Rest and sleep are like little copies of Death, and they are pleasurable; thus, the speaker reasons, Death itself must be even more so—indeed, it is the best men who go soonest to Death, to rest their bones and enjoy the delivery of their souls. Death, the speaker claims, is a slave to “fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,” and is forced to dwell with war, poison, and sickness. The speaker says that poppies and magic charms can make men sleep as well as, or better than, Death’s stroke, so why should Death swell with pride? Death is merely a short sleep, after which the dead awake into eternal life, where Death shall no longer exist: Death itself will die.
With no real purpose but to be mindlessly massacred. Through personification, the guns responsible for taking so much human life are made out to be monstrous, even evil. The poem also likens their deaths to a funeral, but one where the bells are shots, and the mourning choirs are the army's bugles. The drawing down of the blinds, the traditional sign to show that the family is in mourning, has been likened to the drawing of a sheet to cover the dead. Through various literary techniques, Wilfred Owen enhances the meaning of the poem.
As the rioter stated that they are brothers that would defend each other, their intentions were nothing but good. They portray themselves as three men who truly care for one another, and who want to accomplish something good. Later in the same dialogue, the rioter says, “And we will kill this traitor Death, I say!/Away with him as he has made away/With all our friends,” (96-98). Chaucer now emphasizes how the rioters intend on avenging the deaths of their friends, by killing “Death” himself. Chaucer points this out in order to allow readers to understand that the rioters did have good intentions to begin with.
Bradbury has chosen these final words for Beatty to show the readers that by using literature, Beatty dares Montag to end his life. There is a sense of irony in the cause of Beatty’s death because what drives Captain Beatty to die is the shame of discovering that he had been lying to himself about his feelings for books. Captain Beatty was not worried about any threats because he already “wanted to die,”(122) he didn’t fear death, on the contrary, he looked forward to it. In Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, the Caesar believes he’s God and that he has so much power that he needs to be reminded that he is mortal. The fire chief is telling Montag, through literature, that he doesn’t care about anything Montag says because he believes in his ideas and he doesn’t respect Montag’s believes.