To hell with the glory. | 83 | Why the hell should they want the war to end? They got lots of damn fools like us who’ll enlist, and when they stop enlisting they’ll drag ‘em in. | 95 | Who can comfort whom in war? Who can care for us, we who are set loose at each and tear at each other’s entrails with silent gleaming bayonets?
There is no glory, it is impossible that soldiers sacrificing themselves to attend the whole of war. Harrison despites in the novel that illustrate behavior, survival at any time, thoughts of the soldiers of others; make the reader consider deeply what the ideas the Harrison presents. There is no heroism in the war causing the soldiers have no stake to devote their life, even though they have no experiences to attack in the first bombarment. For axample, in chapter 2 the narrator sign ‘I can find nothing to appease my terror’. Even though the narrtor do not believe in God but also begins to pray”God-God-please.” The soldiers just crawl over in the trenches and finding the safe places even there is no place to avoid the bombarment.
Because he was blind to the prophecy, he blinds himself to remember everything he had done. His fate would have been execution, but by punishing himself, he makes other believe that he is punished. In addition to Oedipus avoiding his fate he is a coward in terms of his actions. He tells Creon to exile him far away because he is too afraid to deal with all that has happed. When he says “Drive me out of this country as quickly as may be to a place where no human voice can ever greet me.” (Ln.
Virgil told Dante “They now commingle with the coward angels, the company of those who were not rebels nor faithful to their God, but stood apart. The heavens, that their beauty not be lessened, have cast them out, nor will deep Hell receive them-even the wicked cannot glory in them” (Virgil, 37-42). The people that reside in this level of hell did not side with God but did not side with Satan; they always went back and forth. Therefore their punishment for all eternity was running back and forth with no direction in life, they had no peace, they were always running away from the wasps. Another example is the Furies, they were in Canto 9 which was the fifth circle, the circle for wrath and sullen.
The review of the book, “Knowing Jesus”; I will show how the author, Christopher J. H. Wright explains how understanding Jesus, one must understand the Old Testament and it’s narratives that paint a picture of the one who prophets elude to as the one who will fulfill the law, by delivering Israel. In doing so, using Israel as the prototype of God’s mission to provide salvation to them and to all nations. Prophetical narratives that paint pictures of one, who is destined to be the savior of God’s chosen people, Israel, and all mankind. The crescendo of events in the Old Testament that takes the reader through time, places, and events that provides credence to who Jesus really was and his purpose here on the earth. The relationship that Old
In cantos III Dante asked Virgil why the people were there and Virgil’s response was, “These have no longer any hope of death; And this blind life of theirs is so debased, They envious are of every other fate. No fame of them the world permits to be; Misericord and Justice both disdain them. Let us not speak of them, but look, and pass.” Just as in life we don’t pay much attention to those who don’t warrant any real sin, in hell these same people are looked over. They chose to live in a state of limbo on earth, so they are now condemned to live out the rest of eternity like that. Some of them chose neither good nor evil and the others did not accept Christ and heaven or hell wants nothing to do with them.
It had become ‘every man for himself,’ and there was no concern for others, just their determination to save their own lives. Fry was lying on the battle field, badly injured and dying, screaming ‘save me, don’t leave me’, but the protagonist continued on without even a backwards glance or any consideration of saving him, even when he was a mate and a comrade. All dignity and respect was lost due to one’s concern to save himself. This is one of the many instances where war had dehumanised the soldiers and the mateship and comradeship, which was once strong, was also claimed by the
There is no room for compromise in the world he now inhabits. Only 24 years old and not a risk-taker, as demonstrated by his chaste relationship with Martha, Cross has the safety of his men in his hands, and he cannot juggle two priorities; as the text states, “He was just a kid at war, in love.” Cross’s method of symbolic reasoning finds further emphasis in his digging of a foxhole that night and crawling inside, thus repeating the fantasy playing out in his head in the moments before Lavender’s death. There he comes to the realization that Martha “did not love him and never would,” a fact obvious to the story’s readers. With his love for Martha forbidden to him — or at the least, transformed into a “hard, hating kind of love” — Jimmy Cross turns to what can substitute as its
Our ideas about race and racial identity are clouded by these preemptive thoughts that distort our views about others. It is once again our responsibility to create a new image of darkness. We can begin to deconstruct the racial boundaries by examining the situation in regards to the word “twilight”. Twilight doesn’t have any boundaries, it is an in-between state. If we begin to see darkness in terms of twilight, we are taking a step in the right direction and dismantling boundaries set by societal norms.
At the end of act four Proctor refuses to give his name to the court, he clearly stated that he had already gave himself in and told them that he was a man of the devil and that they couldn’t take his name, because that’s the only thing he had left. He made it clear to Danforth and the rest by saying, “Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies? Because I am not worth the dust on my feet of them that hang!