This positive representation of conflict could be linked to Tennyson’s role of Poet Laureate under Queen Victoria’s reign. On the other hand Futility could be considered as an elegy for the unnamed solider and opens with a tender and sad tone shifting to pointlessness in the second stanza. The use of the pronoun him in the opening line suggests this could be any soldier from World War one demonstrating the number of men who would remain unnamed and unclaimed during this conflict and how bad it was that so many people died, and even the most patriotic soldiers would still die, unnamed in the end. The Charge of the light Brigade comprises of six stanzas, of varying in length from six to twelve lines and goes in chronological order. This could offer the reader the sense of riding in to the battle with the soldiers.
Again the denotative meaning is the physical downward of the ship sinking but it also means death is upon you. Later, Slavitt shows the things people die with. These luxuries show the sweeping romance of the trip. The mood of poem should be concerned about the great tragedy, it’s contemplative and lighthearted. The tone is happy and almost celebratory.
The narrator is only slightly upset by the fact that his brother is an invalid, but when confronted with the information that Doodle might be “not all there” his pride is absolutely destroyed. Therefore, his pride wins over, and the narrator sets out to kill Doodle and eliminate his embarrassment. However, love wins out in the end when Doodle smiles at the narrator and the narrator decides not to kill Doodle. This incident is given much meaning when Hurst writes, “Pride is a wonderful, terrible thing, a seed that bears two vines, life and death” (172). That quote is very powerful, as it not only explains the narrator’s ambitions to kill Doodle for his own pride, but also the entire scenario of Doodle becoming a regular person, followed by his death.
Antigone, an outstanding play written by “Sophocles”, in this play a quote is mentioned by a blind prophet that goes by the name of Tiresias. He goes on to say in pages 111 to 112 “Think: All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil: The only Crime is pride.” Right from the beginning he wants the reader to think. That if a man has a lot or too much pride; it can be their only true crime. For example, recently a story has come out about a NBC news reporter. Who eligibly said his helicopter was shot down in the Iraq war.
“They’re a rotten crowd…You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.” These words stated were the last words Nick Carraway said to Jay Gatsby before he met his demise. Nick Carraway, who said he was “inclined to reserve all judgments,” as stated in the beginning of the novel, finally makes discernment here. He called Daisy, Tom, Jordan, and all the upper class morally rotten. He knows and believes that Gatsby is worth more than them all. Gatsby’s heroism in the war, determination in the pursuit of his dreams, and his tenacious devotion to the love of Daisy forms Nick’s final opinion which leads him to give him the compliment.
Macbeth then begins to ponder the power of fate. However at the same time, Banquo understands the role that free will plays when he quotes I. iii. 158-160 “New honors came upon him,/ Like ouir strange garments, cleave not/ to their mold/ But with the aid of use.” I. ii. 8-12 “And fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling/ Showed like a rebel’s whore, but all’s too weak:/ For brave Macbeth-- well he deserves that name--/ Disdaining fortune, with his brandished steel,/ Which smoked with bloody executions,” A bleeding captain returns from the battlefield and describes to Duncan and Malcolm the victory of Macbeth
The famous assassination By Bronce Johnson Abraham Lincoln was a famous president who was assassinated because of his anti slavery views and disagreements with the confederate states. Why was he killed? Who did it? And what happened after? I am going to answer these questions and more throughout this essay.
Johnny B Goode Mr. Bland AP English Monday, September 26, 2011 Fatal Apathy “By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction” (William Osler.) The novella Benito Cereno by Herman Melville depicts an American sea captain who happens upon a seemingly lost Spanish vessel. He boards the ship and discovers something is amiss with the captain; Benito Cereno, and the crew. It is not until the end of the story that he discovers that the San Dominick had been taken over by the captive slaves aboard.
For example, when king Macbeth was ask to take a seat he replied " the table is full ." (Mac 3.4.54) Macbeth's guilt is portrayed through his conscience imaginations of Banquo's ghost which represents his remorse for his vile sin. The regret felt by Macbeth is very unexpected because of his master planning of the murder at first. Moreover, irony is also displayed because Banquo was his dearest and most loyal friend in the inauguration of the story. After confronting Banquo's ghost, Macbeth wails at it " thow canst not say I did it.
Erik Chung Tragedy of Death of a Salesman The great Aristotle’s definition of tragedy is still heard and used today from over 2000 years ago. Aristotle defined a tragedy as a reversal of fortune of a great and noble man to a man that is brought to ruin due to a tragic flaw. The fall of the “hero” creates pity and fear in the audience, but in the play Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, one would possibly think otherwise. Our “tragic” hero in the play is Willy Loman, an unsuccessful man left abandoned by those he thought that loved him. Yes, although many would think we are supposed to pity this man, I simply cannot.