He is distraught to kill a man that he finds out has a wife and child. This brings the realization to Paul of the total senselessness of war. Baumer’s narrative of war is not romantic, but ugly. By late 1918, Paul is still alive but his friends are dead. The rumor was that the Germans would surrender soon.
Their friendship, however, does not last very long and Liesel soon turns to thievery. To steal books from Ilsa’s library, Liesel waited for the right moment when she could gain access through “the open window that breathed a slice of air in” (286). By gaining this access, Liesel is exposed to words that eventually save her life from a bombing caused by the Fuhrer. Like Liesel, Hans Hubermann also had an incident with a window of the Nazi Party. It all started when the Jews were beginning to be terrorized.
The dreadful reality of death in war is present within the story, “The Things They Carried”. The story makes it obvious that the Alpha Company Squad was deeply moved by the effects of war. Lieutenant Cross, took the death of Ted Lavender personally and struggled with it. There are a couple symbols that we can take from Ted Lavender’s death. The reader of “The Things They Carried” can become engrossed it the story and become easily moved.
Mr. White wanted it so bad he paid for it even after he heard all the horrible stories about it. This also led to the third wish. The third wish was for Herbert to go back to the grave because his body was mangled and torn up because he was caught in the
Poverty as a Symbol In Crime and Punishment "Raskolnikov was crushed by poverty, but the anxieties of his position had of late ceased to weigh upon him" (Dostoevsky 12). Poverty in the novel Crime and Punishment is symbolized by many things and is spoken of often throughout the story. This book is about a man named Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov who brutally murders his pawnbroker and her niece, Lizaveta. After the murders Raskolnikov falls into a feverish state and begins to worry obsessively over them. Towards the end of the novel, after a long period of time trying to get away with committing the perfect crime, Raskolnikov is persuaded to admit to the murders by Sonya and is sent to Siberia.
Coping With Death O'Brien's novel, The Things They Carried, demonstrates the horrible reality of death in war and how soldiers deal with the pain. Death is one of life’s most challenging obstacles and the soldiers have their fare share of it. The American soldiers of Veitnam have many ways to make death less real through tactics like telling stories about the dead, as if they were living, and conceiving the dead as items instead of people. The Things They Carried shows the techniques in many different ways. O'Brien explains how the stories told about those who have passed on are meant to keep the deceased's alive.
Symbolism in The Scottish Play In this dark play, the symbol of blood becomes quite apparent. Not only is this dire word mentioned over forty times, but it is also a driving and reoccurring figure that greatly affects a number of characters. Both Macbeth and his wife, Lady Macbeth, deeply feel the guilt and sin that is caused by this symbol. Blood is a haunting stain that symbolically does not leave the hands of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth as it drives them to their downfall. The idea of blood in other works and novels typically evokes the idea of slaughter and massacre.
The Handling of Grief in Hamlet An ever present feeling in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is grief. Brought about by many different character’s deaths, grief is an emotion that turns toxic to the characters who struggle with it the most in Hamlet. According to dictionary.com, grief is defined as keen mental suffering or distress over affliction or loss; sharp sorrow; painful regret. With the untimely deaths of people close to the hearts of the play’s main characters, as readers we observe how they deal with grief in their own way. The play’s main protagonist Hamlet lets his grief over his father’s murder fuel his thirst for revenge, Ophelia lets the grief over the murder of her father Polonius drive her to apparent suicide, and Ophelia’s brother Laertes is pushed to conspire with Claudius to kill Hamlet as a result of his grief.
But during the plan Montag could not hold in his anger by shouting "'Shut up!'" towards Faber and the ladies (Bradbury 98). Montag despised the women who did not care about life in general because the women ignored Montag. He jeopardized the plan that Faber came up with and ended up betraying Faber. After, while Montag was igniting his house, Beatty claimed, "When you're quite finished, you're under arrest" (Bradbury 111).
Ideas about death constantly recur in much of the imagery in Hamlet, not only in order to depict the character development and convey Hamlet’s true emotions to the audience, but also to serve as a metaphorical message on a larger scale. For instance, the imagery of death is utilized to help comprehend the depression Hamlet feels in his first soliloquy about suicide: “O that this too sullied flesh would melt, thaw, and resolve itself into a dew (Act 1, Scene 2),” followed by his comparison of the world to an unweeded garden. This is the first time that Hamlet unleashes his thoughts on the situation and creates a visualization of death. Hamlet thus communicates with the audience putting strong emphasis on his desire not to exist in this world anymore. An image of Hamlet’s dying body is produced, followed by a picture of a beautiful garden corrupted by disastrous weeds that will destroy the good life.