At the palace of Circe, where Odysseus and his men stopped along their journey, there a death occurred. Elpenor, who was among Odysseus’ men, became intoxicated and fell off of Circe’s roof, breaking his neck and therefor killing him. Odysseus spoke out in honor of him, “‘So I spoke, and the inward heart in them was broken. They sat down on the ground and lamented and tore their hair out, but there came no advantage to them for all their sorrowing. When we came down to our fast ship and the sand of the seashore, we sat down, sorrowful, and weeping big tears’” (book 10, 566-570).
Later in the book, Con has flashbacks to his dark moments. One of them is the moment of his brother drowning: Unforgivable. It is unforgivable. They wrestle with the boat together, the sails snapping like a rifle cracks in the wind “Get it down! Get the goddamn sail down!” (pg.
O’Brien writes “They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing-these were intangibles, but intangibles has their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight.” (108) Death changes a solder. Cross’s solders all told jokes after the death of Ted Lavender. This was their way of making themselves deal with the loss of a close friend and soldier. “Zapped while zipping” (107) is what they all said because Lavender died while returning from going to the bathroom.
Guilt is a feeling of responsibility or remorse for some offence, crime or wrong doing. Guilt is a cause of suicide. Conrad’s attempted suicide, in the novel Ordinary People by Judith Guest, was caused by guilt. Conrad felt guilty about his brother’s death with the boating accident. He felt like he should have been the one to die, so he tried to take his own life away.
However, in the anesthetic cold water the first class and some steerage were dying together (12). Not only were the people first class, but their death was a first class death as well because they went down “with crowds of people, friends, servants, well fed, with music m with lights!” (5) Slavitt is trying to relay the idea that it was not so bad to have drowned on the Titanic.. He uses words such as “ah!” to denote enjoyment, and he also asks who would not want to go on a copy trip of the passage. “We all go down,
Another visual image is used when “many has lost their boots but limped on, blood shot” and “drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots” creates the mental image of men struggling to stay alive, half rotten and half alive and closer to death (5-7). Another sample of image is used when he begging’s to describe the terrain “dim, through the misty panes and the thick green light, as under a green sea, I saw him drowning” not only does he describe the gas gulping his fellow friends but he describes the death of a soldier when he becomes drowned from the gas and his own vomit and saliva (13-14) Owen also uses auditory image when describing the effects of the gas on one of his fellow soldiers “come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud” the auditory image of such death is compared to being ill with cancer and knowing you’re dieing (22-23). Another visual image paired with “gas! Gas! Quick boys, an ecstasy of fumbling” and but someone still was yelling out and stumbling” creates the image of chaos and confusion within the soldiers that are being attacked and infected with the poisonous gas (9-10).
Then he runs over to the river and jumps in” (Louise Erdrich 313). Henry chose his own death in this story, which was to commit suicide; from struggling with the PTSD from the war, the river is his freedom from the struggle, “’My boots are filling,’ he says. He says this in a normal voice, like he just noticed and he doesn’t know what to think of it. Then he’s gone” (Louise Erdrich 314). Both of the characters Henry and Farquhar saw the river as being their way to freedom, it was a different type off freedom but yet it was still freedom to them to escape their
‘as a green sea, I saw him drowning’ in stanza 3 the poet has a recurring nightmare of the soldier he saw dying in agony, a sight that will stay with him forever. In the last stanza, stanza 4 the poet attacks the people at home who do not realise the reality of war and the suffering of the soldiers. “My friend ....” is aimed at an author who writes children’s fiction who glorifies war. He could see the sights especially this soldier who is dying from inhaling gas writhing in pain this is because he couldn’t get his mask on quick enough. Route March Rest is the Second World War poem I am going to compare.
Wilfred Owen’s poem ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ describes a particular scene in the lives of WWI soldiers. Owen opens the poem with a description of the soldiers who are ‘Bent double, like old beggars’ (line 1). The soldiers are tired, fatigued, their feet are bleeding; they are marching from the battlefield towards their camp for some rest. They are then attacked by poisonous gas, effects of which are similar to drowning. One of the soldiers fails to fit the gas mask in time, and Owen masterfully describes himself witnessing the soldier’s gruesome death.
Is it your depression that’s the struggle throughout your life after your father’s death? According to you, explain exactly what you consider struggles of depression. Here you have a young man seeks the death of his close father. Depression seems as the only obvious mistress to fault for the young man actions. Evidently, here Hamlet says “If only my too solid flesh would melt thaw and turn itself into dew; or that the Almighty had not prohibited suicide!