The first piece of literature I will discuss is a short story by William Faulkner, entitled A Rose for Emily. The second piece, a poem by Edgar Allan Poe, is called Annabelle Lee. In A Rose for Emily, death is imminent throughout the story. The narrator gives allusions of death using vivid descriptions of Emily’s environment and appearance. For example, Emily lives in “a squarish frame house that had once been white.” (Schakel & Ridl, p. 362) This gives the reader the impression that the house was once full of life but has since diminished.
"Good wombs have borne bad sons"(Act 1, Sc.2, Line 143) says Miranda after she hears of the things Antonio had done in the past. Prospero tells how his own brother, Antonio, went behind his back to remove him from power and claim Prospero's Dukedom for his own. Antonio had worked with Alonso, the king of Naples, to raise an army and drive Prospero into the hands of death. Trying to kill his only brother that he has known for his entire life, Antonio wanted to have the power that Prospero had. "Draw thy sword.
"Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown and put a barren scepter in my grip, thence to be wrenched with an unlineal hand, no son of mine succeeding." Macbeth prophesized that he would be king from the witches, but they also said that Banquo would possess the throne as well. His jealousy seduced him to kill Banquo. 7. Narrative Point of View - Shakespeare put the play in a 3rd person point of view.
The ghost asks Hamlet to avenge his “most foul murder.” However, he warns Hamlet not to let revenge consume his mind. Ironically, Hamlet states “I’ll wipe away all trivial, fond records, all saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, that youth and observation copied there, and thy commandment all alone shall live within the book and volume of my brain, unmixed with baser matter”(Shakespeare I.V.106-111). In order for Hamlet to avenge his father, first he needs the proper evidence. Hamlet decides to create a play about a man who kills his brother, hoping that when Claudius sees it, he has a reaction showing his guilt. It is when Hamlet gets proof of Claudius’ guilt that he allows his emotions to dictate his actions.
“An oracle came to Laius one fine day…and it said that doom would strike him down at the hands of a son, our son, to be born of our own flesh and blood” (Sophocles 784-788). This predestined fate is what started the chaos that brought down two kings. Although the Oracle at Delphi told this fate to Laius, Laius had a son anyways, but decided to discard his son after birth. The child, Oedipus, was not discarded of easily, he was sent to the hills to die, but a caring shepherd saved him and brought him to a new family and a new city. Laius’ decision to discard of Oedipus ultimately caused Oedipus to question where he came from and his origin.
The Execution of Lady Jane Grey was painted by Delaroche in 1833 almost 300 years after the execution, depicting the moment of the once Queen of England preparing for her death. Finding of the Saviour in the Temple painted by Holman William Hunt in 1854 is a scene cleverly created with vast amounts of symbolism behind his work. Lady of Shallot by John William Waterhouse painted in 1888 was inspired by a poem by Tennyson about a woman forbidden to look at the world directly. The true tragedy of Jane Grey, who was the great-granddaughter of Henry VII, is that her death was through no fault of her own, but of the unfortunate fact of her heritage and of her Protestant Christian religion. The figure of Lady Jane Grey was resurrected in the Victorian era as a Protestant martyr, the innocent girl slaughtered by an overzealous Catholic monarch.
Till Death Do Us Part A person of power is responsible for those underneath them. In William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet, there are many people who were the reason of their death. Tybalt is one of the persons who caused the death of Romeo and Juliet, because he killed Romeo’s best friend, with the death of Mercutio Romeo thought it was the right thing to go kill Tybalt, Romeo didn’t think of the consequences of murdering Tybalt and was banished from Verona. Capulet didn’t think at all about his daughter Juliet of how she felt about marrying Parris, he rushed into things and didn’t mind talking to his own daughter about her feelings and that was one reason she died because she did not love Parris and didn’t want to marry him. Though there are many characters Friar Lawrence is most to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet.
For instance, when Gilgamesh runs into Shiduri she tells him, “Humans are born, they live, then they die” (Mitchell, 456). Shiduri is making it clear that humans live only to meet death. The theme of life becomes apparent because Shiduri is mentioning that humans live then die and that is how the universe was made and that is how it is going to stay. Later on in the story Gilgamesh is being challenged by Utnapishtim to stay awake for seven days, if he can survive seven days with no sleep he can overcome death, but Gilgamesh falls asleep and fails the test. Utnapishtim makes it clear that overcoming death is going to be a challenge that is nearly impossible.
Friar John, go hence, get me an iron crow and bring it straight unto my cell” (Shakespeare 5.2, 18-23). Fate ruins Friar Laurence plan to reunite Romeo and Juliet. Friar Laurence tries to fix the plan but fate comes in to making the plan completely failure and end in Romeo and Juliet’s death. Fate makes it that Balthazar to reach Romeo first with the false news. So Romeo buys the poison to die next to Juliet.
What message? The cause of Old Hamlet’s death, and seeks for revenge. “I am your father’s ghost; doomed for a certain period to walk at night, and during the daytime to fast in fires, till the wicked sins done during my lifetime are burnt and purged away. If I were not forbidden to reveal the secrets of my prison, I could tell you a tale whose simplest word would terrify your soul” Here the ghost is simply informing Hamlet’ his purpose of randomly