Arthur speaks in disappointment and despair, he is dying and his knights will not fulfill his last request. When Sir Bedivere finally completes his master's wishes Arthur is able to leave and rest in peace and Sir Bedivere stays to guard his grave in loyalty. The important message conveyed by the somber tone and the betrayal of Sir Bedivere is the theme of the importance of loyalty. The story has a dark tone because King Arthur is being betrayed. In The Once and Future King the tone is not somber but hopeful.
that this too too solid flesh would melt … all the uses of this world.” (I, ii, 129-135) Hamlet’s life no longer serves any value to him. He longs for death, wishing that he could end his own life without being doomed to an eternity in hell. This feeling lingers in his mind throughout most of the play, as in Hamlet’s fourth soliloquy it is believed he is debating killing himself as he ponders approaches that would not leave him at fault for his death; “Whether t’is nobler in the mind … and by opposing, end them?” (III, i, 57-60) Meanwhile, he also fears death as many of us today still do. Upon meeting his father’s apparition and learning of his unnatural murder, he is introduced to a new factor of death that was not considered before: purgatory. “Thou poor ghost.” (I, v, 97) Hamlet pities his father, as he was murdered and was not given the chance to pray.
They feel guilty for the deaths of men in their platoon, for the deaths of Vietnamese, and for their own inadequacies. This leads each individual’s guilt to develop in a different manner and force the individual to cope with the guilt in the best way they see fit. After the war, the psychological burdens the men carry during the war continue to define them. Years after the end of the war, Jimmy Cross goes to visit Tim O’Brien at his home and together they look at old photographs and reminisce. “We paused over a snapshot of Ted Lavender, and after a while Jimmy rubbed his eyes and said he’d never forgiven himself for Lavender’s death.
Gary-James Gunnarson English 2 Professor Karen Rose In “How to Watch your Brother Die” by Michael Lassell, is about a narrator's brother dies from AIDS and how the narrator had shunned his brother out of his life due to his brother's chosen lifestyle. The brother's death is symbolic in galvanizing the narrator's perspective to accepting this once taboo lifestyle that he had never understood or had taken the effort to acknowledge. The narrator's sense of rejection is felt throughout the beginning of the poem. The narrator is placed into an awkward moment of events that he ins't able to comprehend until the end of the poem. The narrator isn't the only individual mentioned in the poem who's resistant to the brother's lifestyle,“Call your wife on the telephone.
Holden shows symptoms of depression by giving up when life confronts him with a problem. There are two examples that express’ Holden’s feelings towards death that are exhibited in this novel. A major conflict in this story is when Holden and his roommate get into a dispute. Holden mourns while looking out the window and says “I felt so lonesome, all of a sudden. I almost wished I was dead” (page 48, chapter 7).
He describes the moment in which he is told of his son’s death and his denial by writing, “For three seconds I felt peace of resignation: arms extended, limp son in hand, peacefully offering him to someone-Someone. Then the pain-cold burning pain” (Wolterstorff, 1987). His anger is expressed in the passage in which he questions, “Why did he do it? Why did he climb that mountain? Why didn’t he stay on flat earth?
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). Furthermore, He begins to think the fear of death sends him on his quest for everlasting life, “This fear of death that restlessly drives me onward” (Mitchell, 451”). Gilgamesh has this great fear of death and begins to believe it can be overcome. This quote begins to develop the idea through Gilgamesh’s journey that maybe death can be overcome that there
Nick Carraway is grief-stricken after his friend Jay Gatsby is murdered. F. Scott Fitzgerald reveals Nick’s feeling of sadness through diction. Fitzgerald writes “...perhaps he had made a story about it all his own.
All of the good things of the once lively city had gone away while the evil starts to build up its power and the city is in ruins. The message Edgar is trying to send out is that even the most beautiful things in life may be covered in darkness and the beauty of it all is gone. As I have mentioned Edgar had lost his mother, his brother, eventually his father, and his cousin/wife to death and it left his mind in dark shadows causing grieve and depression. Edgar Allan Poe had developed a drinking problem later on in life because he couldn’t live with reality. I have lost someone close to me and I know that darkness falls and it can bring you to a very depressed state, which is where Edgar had fallen.
People are beginning to tuen against him and he feel she has nothing left to live for. He "My way of life is fall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf" It is at this point Macbeth feels he there is nothing worth living for, he feels he wants to die as nothing is going the way he planned for it to. He believes his life is is beginning to wither and die like a yellowing leaf in Autumn. The audience also feel pity for Macbeth because he learns his wife has commited suicide. I think he feels lonely and that his life is just dragging by.