A Happy Death

Death. Many fear the word itself. How would you feel to not be able to have a child without causing it, or having someone volunteer for it? The theme of 2BR02B by Kurt Vonnegut is that there is no reward worth the life of another person, and Vonnegut does many to make this clear. One of the ways he does this is through character dialogue. When speaking to the orderly, the painter states on page 2, “The world could deal with a good deal more mess, if you ask me.” This shows that the painter…

‘And How Long?’ and ‘Death Alone’ present the emotion of accepting mortality. He interprets this idea of loss and hopelessness through tone, expressing his frustration of life and being alone. Letting us understand the limitations of human beings and the inevitability of death. Neruda expresses his curiosity and impacts of surroundings, which leads him to the idea of hope in death. This highlights the overall acceptance of mortality and the hope and desire it brings. In ‘Death Alone’, the…

regrets, he wants his father to fight until the end so that he can look at each person’s life and learn from their regrets. The narrator urges people to not give into death: “Do…

As I unlocked the door I expected to see my happy wife with the look of relief on her face. Instead I had seen her cold lifeless body on the ground. What could have killed her, and how long has she been dead? So many questions ran through my mind amd the emotions I felt were suffocating. I thought my wife looked vulnerable on the ground. She couldn’t question me anymore or look at me with regret. Louise was always a disobediant wife when I would tell her to do things a wife was supposed to do,…

tries to see humanity in a fly. It narrates the poet’s act of thoughtlessness in brushing away a fly which leads to the contemplation of the act and its implications, which further reveals the essence of life as “thought is life” and the lack of it, death. As the stanzas proceed from observation，contemplation, and conclusion to revelation and liberation, I get an understanding of Blake’s philosophical system. In my essay, I will argue that Blake uses a simile between the fate of a fly and the…

Love is Complicated Is Mrs. Mallard happy because she has freedom? Or is Mrs. Mallard very sad that her husband has passed? "The Story of an Hour" is a short story in which Kate Chopin, the author, presents a marriage where the woman at the eighteenth century had no opinion and had to obey everything that the husband said. It begins with Mrs. Louise Mallard, who crosses several feelings when her sister Josephine gave the news that her husband, Brently Mallard, died in a train wreck…

There are many different feelings surrounding the subject of death, specifically how one deals with the loss of a loved one. The death of someone close to you, especially a spouse or significant other, can be very hard to deal with. Some people can handle it better than others. Some might feel as though life cannot go on, while others may feel as though they have to move on so that they can try to be happy and not worry over their loss until they too pass away. The poem by Auden expresses the…

dying. The most important part of Morrie that will live on is his need to always want to talk to people and make them happy. After someone I know dies I always think about how much more peaceful they are in heaven rather than how much pain they felt while dying. Society deals with death in many ways some are scared and some cant wait to die. I don’t think anybody ever understands death until they die. If Morrie had the chance to be healthy for 24 hours he would…

in cycles, what is happening now has happened before and will happen again. In her poem “Apparently with no surprise” Emily Dickinson writes about the attitude of nature and demonstrates the nature’s cycle of life and death. The poem begins as the frost chops off the head of a happy and blossoming flower. She is not surprised with this happening because it is reenacted in the winter every year. The sun observes the whole thing, but is indifferent and proceeds to “measure off another day” (l. 7).…

objects in nature and leaves the audience thinking about their own lives. In section 50 of “Song of Myself” major themes such as a death, happiness, and a sense of purpose can all be found. In general, the themes show what the speaker is thinking and feeling at this point in his life and in the poem. In the poem, Walt Whitman does not directly come out and say the word death specifically, but the evidence behind the word can be implied. For example, Whitman said, “ I do not know what it is-…