A lie fuelled by propaganda which drowned the desperate amongst a green sea of choking gas. It is from these experiences that my poem ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ was inspired. At war, you will be degraded to ‘beggars’ and ‘hags’ and you will be hacked away so when you are at your most vulnerable, the gas attacks will send you into a desperate panic for clean air. The quickened pace stimulated by repetition and punctuation of the ‘Gas! GAS!
In the play “Twelfth night” it is set when Christianity dominated England and when we had divine order. Casablanca on the other hand was set during World War 2 when the world was in a state of uncertainty over who was in control. Love as a cause of suffering is a huge concept in “Twelfth Night”. Shakespeare writes to show love can cause pain and many of the characters seem to view love as a curse and suffer painfully from it. Orsino depicts love as an “appetite” that he cannot feed.
* 1. { 04/01/07 Analysis of poem for GCSE English Literature Edexcel ‘Relationships’ * 2. The telephone shatters the night’s dark glass. I’m suddenly awake in the new year air The use of the onomatopoeia ‘shatters’ connotes violence and a sense of intrusion, which implies, to the reader, that the telephone is bringing bad news. The personification of ‘the night’s dark glass’ creates an image of shock which has a lasting impact on the reader .This is supposedly transferred from the author, thus implying that their life has been left in pieces by the news the telephone brings.
She writes, “A bomb drops. All the windows rattle” (937). The use of syntax, and short sentences, Woolf tries to bring the audience into the story. These short phrases depict the destruction and sudden death to the victims, but also the sudden realization to the women at home that they truly need help. Furthermore, Woolf uses more rhetorical questions when se says, “Why not bury the head in the pillow, plug the ears, and cease the futile activity of idea-making?
Metaphor: p.20 “it was the blood stained gate, the entrance to the hell of slavery, that I was about to pass.” He uses this to show how much the whipping of his aunt traumatized him, and to show how horrible slavery was. Ch.2 1. Irony: p.23 “they find less difficulty from the want of beds than the want of sleep.” This is irony because it is more common to view slaves and poor people as not having beds, but the reality is that they suffered more from the lack of sleep. 2. Repetition p.24 “He was less cruel, less profane, and made less noise.” He uses repetition to emphasize the point that he was better than others, but the cruelty just occurred on a smaller scale.
Brooks shows us that the plague causes many to suffer not only physically however mentally and emotionally as well. Before Anna could “mourn the (people) that (she) loved, another (person) was ill in her arms”. This caused Anna to come to a point in her life where she could either sink or swim and Anna decided to sink. Anna decided to be cruel to herself and turned to poppies, even though it did relieve her pain then, she suffered much more later. Not only did people suffer from the plague and what it brings, however people suffered from their own personal upbringing.
It is as much of an ignorant comment as an untrue one, which becomes increasingly evident as the film progresses. The Japanese Army targets the most vulnerable, a ship containing women and children. It is a cowardly attack yet it strikes loudly to the men back at home who belittled the Japanese’s ability to fight in the War. Conflict of any scale is usually caused by an individual’s blindness, lack of knowledge or lack of understanding towards a situation or individual. As evident in “Paradise roads”, such ignorance can have dramatic negative effects.
Ender’s excellence brings a lot of torture for him when Stilson wants to overrule him, Bernard frustrates him and Graff uses his sister to break Ender down emotionally. To begin with, Stilson wants to hurt Ender because he thinks he was excellent if his monitor and which is taken off. “Oh, gonna fight me huh? Gonna fight me, Thirde?” (Card 7). In this quote, Stilson shows anger toward Ender who deliberately creates a situation to hurt Ender.
In an article about corporal punishment titled “Get your beat on,” by Cathy Barnum, she writes about the negative and positive effects of corporal punishment in schools. Barnum attempts to explain the negative effects of corporal punishment. She notes that spanking lowers children’s self-worth and hinders their academic abilities. And, she notes that it negatively alters their behavior while instilling fear in them. While the situation can be seen from the Barnum’s point of view, her opinions are completely wrong One thing Barnum is completely wrong in is when she notes “We should beat the kids every day to teach them we love them” (17).
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder We live in a world raged with war, hatred, rapes, loss, love, trust and peace to name a few. With continued threat of nuclear war, murder to include mass killings of innocent people (children), and increased mental illnesses life can be difficult for people to find their balance especially after suffering a traumatic event. The past has taught many to hide the negative and show the positive. The old fake it until you make it concept. The past has taught that it was almost shameful to show weaknesses and difficulties in a person’s life, especially when the persons issues may reflective negatively on the family.