A Happy Death

The Falsehood in Life and the Clarity of Death “Everything progressed until it began to approach the ideal he had set himself” (56). Ivan Ilyich lives his entire life according to the exact ideas and specifications that he expects of others and thinks others expect of him. He does everything, from marrying his wife to having children to decorating his house, the way that others have done in order to keep up the appearance of a happy, normal life. Ivan’s obsession with the way he appears to…

I believe that death is not an event that should be feared, and this goes along with the message represented in “Thanatopsis.” On line 80 and 81 it states “Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch about him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.” This line compares death to a warm couch where someone is sleeping comfortable. This shows that William Cullen Bryant does not fear death, but rater sees it as rest. Death happens to each person, so it should not be feared. I also believe that as each…

People are stuck in ignorance everyday, but there is a way to escape the ignorance to escape the cave that traps them. The main character Montag follows important steps that lead him to get away from ignorance in time before death a meaningless death. He finds that the truth is something not to be afraid of, he protects himself from those who want to stop him and he learns how to help and protect others from the ignorance. Montag is the main character of Fahrenheit 451, he is stuck inside the,…

Death is not the End "The act of dying is one of the acts of life." That how Marcus Aurelius describes death. Whether people acknowledge it or not, most of humans fear death. Even though dying is a natural part of existence, death is not the end. In the poem, “because I could not stop for death,” Emilia Dickinson explains that death is an investable stage of unending human life. In addition, the story “because I could not stop for death”, by Steve Fischer discusses the influence of death in…

about the death and dying process. For example in the first article “The Hospice Concept” It brought it home for me regarding the true essence of hospice. This one statement gave me clarity “Hospice is primarily a concept of care, not a specific place of care. My first nursing home job was in 1970 and there were patients who ended up under hospice care. The patients prior to going under hospice care were animated, ate their meals without experiencing nausea, and they seemed to be happy, and…

Like politics and religion, death is a topic that many chose not to freely explore because of the vast opinions of others. Death is something we have yet to understand, causing some to fear death while others are intrigued by death. Death and suicide go “hand and hand,” two topics everyone is curious about but fear discussing. Edwin Arlington the father of unhappiness, growing up in Maine living a stark childhood with his mother and father. Through the use of tone, theme, and point of view of…

We recently read a story in class called “The Story of an Hour” where a woman thinks that her husband died so she is happy and excited and crying tears of joy while everyone else thinks her tears are because of sadness. In the end we find out that her husband is alive and she ends up dying of the surprise, but to this day people say she died of a broken heart which is all dramatic irony. Dramatic irony is when the audience knows something that the characters in the story do not. One of the…

her husbands unexpected death. She uses a suspensful tone to reflect the new found freedom of Mrs. Mallard after being released from the tyranny of unhappiness. Freedom is defined as the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance. In this story, Mrs. Mallard wasn’t able to express her feelings out loud because of the patriarchal society she lived in. When she was feeling sorrow…

The Story of an Hour and The Whirling of Life are both great stories with great topics. There are many similarities and differences between the two. One similarity is the topic of death. This is both physically and mentally. In The Story of an Hour, Mrs. Mallards husband physically died. In The Whirling of Life, the couple both felt mentally dead inside without each other. The stories are also the same because they both have ironic endings. Mrs. Mallards husband was supposed to be dead. At the…

to die versus an unnatural or wrong way to die. I find Tolstoy’s concept of a right and wrong death are based upon the following two factors: the way in which the person or character dies and what choices they made or accomplishments did they achieve with time they were given. An example of the right kind of death would be dying to save a brother in arms or passing of natural causes, while the wrong death could be someone committing suicide for selfish reasons or not making the effort to…