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Defining an 'Antihero' in Literature

rules that serve as a compass for the character when facing great and insurmountable odds. Willy had no moral code. He worshiped m...

Suicide or Murder of Ophelia in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

the water by someone. As such her death is not an obvious murder. But, do we consider it murder if she was so distraught by the cr...

Man and the Creation of Fear and God

As for mankind, numbered are their days/ Whatever they achieve is but the wind!" (Epic of Gilgamesh 8). When Gilgameshs friend Enk...

Tragic Hero Represented by Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

the span of a day comes face-to-face with the realization that the American Dream has become a nightmare of his own making, that t...

Overview of Chinese Beliefs

2002). In addition, dietary practices in Asia are often associated with religious practices and customs (Gifford, 2002). R...

Tragedy as Defined in Death Of A Salesman and Aristotle

play, I think, and maybe that is what does it. We are faced with the spectacle of all that love being lost on someone who can t r...

Ernest Hemingway's Primary Literary Themes

he presents. There is pain and violence and death in Hemingways world, and he struggles to show his readers this aspect of life....

Human Development Stage of Death

there is no single way, or normal way, to handle death and dying. "However, psychologists and sociologists have isolated some of t...

'To An Athlete Dying Young' by A.E. Housman

has died. Beginning in the third stanza, the poet discusses the death and again addresses the deceased directly. He says the youn...

People with HIV and AIDS, Impacts of the Process of Dying, and Family Resistance to Death

overall problem of HIV/AIDs, including current statistics about the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in certain populations and the role tha...

Grief Counseling in High Schools

influenced by a variety of factors, such as family and cultural background, life experiences and environmental influences. Noppe a...

Willy Loman as Both Victimizer and Victim in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

a job he has obviously done for decades. This image is one that induces sympathy and empathy and thus presents the reader or viewe...

Cultural Variatioins on Death and Dying

death. For some families extreme suffering is something to be avoided even if it means that they resort to extreme measures such ...

Death Confrontation in Tolstoy, Virgil, and Homer

father and travels great distances until he comes to Italy where he holds games and celebrations for his fathers death. He is told...

'The Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin

is being raped, the experience evolves into something that is "sensually stimulating, relaxing, and, of course, spiritually illumi...

Two Science Fiction Story Characterizations

stars for me, weaponed me to make my way in the world...Did I slay him, what horror would come upon me and mine?" (Anderson 305). ...

Willy Loman and Exhaustion

soreness of his palms...then carries his case out into the living-room...Im tired to death" he tells his wife (Miller 12-13). Hi...

Death and Love from William Faulkner's Perspective

In five pages this essay examines Faulkner's 'Barn Burning' and 'A Rose for Emily' as they represent the themes of death and love....

Life of Kate Chopin and 'Story of an Hour'

She was the eldest of seven children and, though the family was well-established, they had fallen on hard times (Kate Chopin, A Wo...

The Gambino Family

Luciano would bring the Mafia into the modern age, putting the group into organized crime. Out of the ruins of the Masseria and Ma...

Jewish Burial And Mourning Customs

This also explains why autopsies of Jewish people are not allowed (Chabad.org, 2005). Besides the fact that this type of procedure...

Relationship between Death and Sex in A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

does in the story. She arrives in the place filled with life and energy in relationship to her outward personality, yet she is als...

Tragedy Concepts

the audience; and finally, it must be complex (McManus, 1999). Complex here means the plot contains a "reversal of intention (peri...

Patriarchal Culture, Gender, and the Works of Tayeb Salih and Gabriel Garcia Marquez

of Angela addresses the rituals that surround marriage in Latin American culture during this time. Bayardo brings Angela presents,...

Causes of the Chicago Race Riot of 1919

respect as the white soldiers during or after World War I; while black Americans fought just as hard and loyally as their lighter-...

Dying and Death Readings

he defends himself well, Socrates is still found guilty and stoically accepts his fate, indicating that since only the gods are aw...

Comparing the Gospels

as actively participating in his fate, rather than demonstrating passive acceptance. In the synoptic gospels, action is, for the m...

Death in the Paintings 'My Birth' by Frida Kahlo and 'The Trench' by Jose Clemente Orozco

me today?" (Reed 25) His art has been described as being both powerful and extraordinary, and since the Mexican Revolution coinci...

A Variety of Viewpoints on Racism

society as we know it and, furthermore, the end of Western civilization in the process. His vision of the "Death of the West" is f...

An Analysis of Tragedy in Miller's Death of a Salesman

faults at all. In our modern society, and perhaps in the past century or so, a tragedy does not necessarily possess all those qu...