A Happy Death

sometimes even including the climate and the social, psychological, or spiritual state of the characters. For this story, the setting is within Mrs. Mallard’s home during the time she finds out her husband has been in an accident that resulted in his death. The 6th paragraph exhibits a sense of happiness despite the circumstances. Mrs. Mallard is looking around from her bedroom window and is taking notice of all the pleasant things around her, such as the “new spring life” and “delicious breath…

Violence has always and always be a part of human life on Earth, but does it come naturally or is it created by humans to destroy each other. If humans have evolved as aggressors, if using violence is a core part of our nature, then aggression needs to be a trait that can be targeted and shaped by evolutionary processes. But it doesn’t seem like it is, there are plenty of completely peaceful societies. But these places are usually found only in incredibly remote places of the world. Not in…

In Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Ilyich”, Ivan Ilyich was a man who tried to be unique and apart from the rest of society. Whenever he tries to do something different he would always look at society and realize that he has not done anything to make him stand out from his peers. Ivan was constantly wanting more money to buy what he thought was necessary in life. Whenever Mr. Ilyich had a question of life he would constantly look to society for answers. In the end Ivan Ilyich realizes that he…

Survived”. “Divorced, Beheaded, Survived” is a short story written by the author Robin Black in 2010. Everyone copes differently, some cry for the loss of a loved one others smile because they know they will see them again, and some hide the trauma of a death tragedy. It is just this, our main character Sarah copes with in Robin Black’s short story “Divorced, Beheaded, Survived”. Everyone dies, no one lives forever, eventually we all experiences losing someone dear to us. This time around, we…

In “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, the reader is seeing how Mrs. Mallard is reacting to the news of her husband’s death. By looking at this short story through a feminist lens, it is very clear that women during the 1800’s are undermined. We can see that women are undermined because while the men are at work, the wives are at home. One example from the story is when Josephine, Mrs. Mallard’s sister, told her that her husband, Brently Mallard, was dead. Josephine broke this news to her…

portrayed his sadness for the passing of his friend Gatsby. The scene begins with the mysterious and profound cry of the breeze traveling through the desolate home of Gatsby. The sound highlights the sense of emptiness and misery felt by Nick for Gatsby’s death. The breeze sounds symbolized the desolate and Gatsby’s empty home, but also the sadness left inside Nick’s heart because the breeze creates a mysterious yet sad and emotional atmosphere for the audience. The wail of the breeze is an…

“They’re all dead. But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world” (255). O’Brien uses his imagination or fantasy to keep around those friends who died a senseless death in Vietnam and that is the artwork of storytelling that keep’s them in this world, which is like a tale. O’Brien also says that as a writer, he can bring his elementary school sweetheart, which died of a tumor on her brain. Yet, he could bring her…

“After the Burial” by Lowell differ significantly in the treatment of the author’s daughters’ deaths. For example, Longfellow’s poem is hopeful, while Lowell’s is hopeless. Longfellow believes his daughter is protected in Heaven and that one day he will get to see her in “celestial grace.” He commands a positive outlook by boldly stating, “Let us be patient!” On the other hand, Lowell focuses on the sting of death and the fact that he will never see his daughter again on earth. He “finds in the…

For every human being created, there is an ultimate end which is death apart from some special cases recorded in the Holy Books. Basically, the idea of death is regarded as the main rite of passage in the modern and the traditional society. It was regarded to be the ultimate end of a human being. The human body is mortal and so it draws a conclusion that every human being is to die. The human body dies because it’s made up of tissues which after long time whatever the duration it may take, must…

Louise probably didn't have a healthy or good relationship with her husband, although the author writes “She knew that she would weep again when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her, fixed and gray and dead.”( “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin). Whatever the case of their marriage, she didn't really or truly love him, which makes me wonder why they got married in the…