In Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”, death is a reoccurring factor. Hamlet, who has recently faced the death of his father, is stricken with grief as he does not understand exactly what death is. Elizabethans all believed in the afterlife. Everyone strongly believed in ghosts, God, witches, and eventually ending up in either heaven or hell. Due to these beliefs and the complexity of Hamlet’s character, it is inevitable that his thoughts of death would wander outside the lines of his religion.
Theme- supernatural is Fantasy It might be easier to believe in the supernatural when it seems like the only explanation, but deep down lies the reality. When there is no real explanation for something we always jump to the conclusion of a supernatural occurrence because people want to believe in fantasy, and not natural things. The novel The Hound of the Baskervilles is one of Sherlock Holmes most famous mysteries, and a perfect example of supernatural verse natural. It is about a supernatural hound that haunts the Baskerville family. And is interpreted differently according to each person’s beliefs.
Michele’s initial thought, was that the boy was being kept a prisoner by the monsters in the stories he read, stating: ‘What if I arrived and found witches or an ogre there?’p64. His vivid imagination illustrates his innocence and interpretation of the real world. This depicts how scared Michele is of the “witches”, “ogres” and “monsters”. He eventually learns that these do not exist due to what his father said: “its men [he] should be afraid of, not monsters” p49. This statement about monsters and men made by Michele’s father is very ironic as his father is the “monster” who kidnaps Fillipo and hides him into a hole, not the “monsters” in his make-believe stories.
They killed us with land mines and booby traps; they disappeared in the night, or into the tunnels, or into the elephant grass and bamboo” (199n21). At the time the Vietnam war seemed unforgiving and mysterious, in ways that it made most soldiers naturally evil who in which portrayed enormous grief upon the enemy. It was a time where in every soldier's head they carried a motto, “kill or be killed.” In the novel, In The Lake Of The Woods, small and simple footnotes are attached at the end of important chapters and they give the reader clues concerning the story or they expresses symbolic twists that make the novel somewhat unpredictable. The Footnote I have chosen runs on the back of chapter 20. The small passage explains related truth on the Vietnam War, symbolizes what John Wade, the protagonists, has witnessed, and finally how it portrays the rest of the novel.
The vicious chain reaction of fear continues. After Macbeth kills Duncan, he is too scared to even carry the daggers back into the king’s chamber. He is completely surrounded by the immense fear which takes root in his mind and repeatedly reminds him of the fact that the regicide will eventually be discovered. In order to relieve this horror, Macbeth has no choices but to blame the murderous deed upon the two drunken chamberlains who are instigated by both Duncan’s sons. After he is successfully crowned as the king of Scotland, the prior fear fades away and begets another fear which forms images in Macbeth’ head with the previous scene of the day where him and Banquo listen to the prophecies of the three witches.
Hrafnkel Paper In “Hrankfel’s Saga”, the emotionally draining and revengeful chronicle that has its share of ups and downs, things turn messy when people misuse their freedom and lack to use it for the benefit of themselves and others. The story takes a turn for the worst when Hrafnkel, a wealthy man and owner of Adalbol, kills Einar. Einar is his shepherd who disobeys his instructions to refrain from riding the horse Freyfaxi under any circumstances. As soon as Hrafnkel employed him, he clearly warned him that he once swore an oath to kill anyone who ever rode his special horse. People are responsible for the way they manage their freedom and for accepting the consequences of their actions, but Hrafnkel subconsciously limited his own freedom when he swore an oath to kill in case someone wronged him.
For years after, he had waited for John to come to his door and demand that Mort make it right but he never came along. Now after the divorce, he’s become depressed and withdrawn from everyone. He felt that he needed to be punished for the plagiarism of the story so in his own mind, John Shooter was created. Shooter came to his house and accused Mort of copying his story “Secret Window, Secret Garden” and publishing it in a magazine under the title “Sowing Season”. Shooter tormented Mort for a while, first killing his cat then burning his ex-wife’s house to the ground.
He is trying to avoid the sense of guilt, if anything goes wrong, and the couple had children, because he is responsible for Frankenstein, because he is the creator. Victor has every reason to feel guilty and to have bad conscience, because he is the one who created Frankenstein, and therefore is responsible for the murder of his family, best friend and his wife. These feelings appear in the text: ‘For this I had deprived myself of rest and health.’ And ‘…horror and disgust filled my heart. Unable to endure the aspect to the being I had created.’ Because he had created a monster he feels terrible, and he is afraid of him. Which you also can see in the last part of the story: ‘…My teeth chattered...
After he discovers that the man he is looking for is Reverend Dimmesdale, he creates an evil plot to destroy him. Roger Chillingworth becomes the doctor to the ailed Reverend Dimmesdale. Chillingworth knows that Dimmesdale is the one whom he seeks revenge upon. He tries to pry his way into the reverend’s mind and heart as he sits at his bedside every day. “He now dug into the poor clergyman's heart, like a miner searching for gold; or, rather, like a sexton delving into a grave, possibly in quest of a jewel that had been buried on the dead man's bosom, but likely to find nothing save mortality and corruption.”(pg.129) When
Simon’s death symbolises the death of all he represents: hope, He foresees the future, the division and opposing leaders: “Simon looked now, from Ralph to Jack, as he had looked from Ralph to the horizon, and what he saw made him afraid.” He realises that the beast is them and that the fear for the beast is unconquerable unless the other boys realise it. But when he dies, it established a sense of hopelessness on the island. Simon, also, is William Golding’s mouthpiece: through Simon’s death Golding emphasises ‘mankind’s essential illness’”. The other boys, ironically, believe that Simon is the beast: “A thing was crawling out of the forest” (…) “the beast stumbled into the horse shoe.” His goodness is not tolerated, it’s destroyed. This suggests that truth and goodness fail to survive in the world.