A Happy Death

and Curley’s wife for her gender. While both characters have incredible dreams where they are not alienated from the rest of the world, they have drastically different deaths because Lennie is cared for by others whilst Curley’s wife does not receive any love at all. Whilst the love they receive makes a big difference in the deaths they suffer, it makes little difference in the life they lead. In fact, Lennie and Curley's…

Poem Analysis – The Thin Red Snake Death does not wait; it is sudden, abrupt, and unexpected. One may imagine that life will go on forever, but the painful and inevitable truth is that it simply does not, and that someday, somehow, somewhere, anyone will die. This is the message in Yash Arora’s “The Thin Red Snake”. The free-verse poem begins by outlining the journey of a thin red snake, as it climbs and descends through a terrain. Immediately after this, there are three consecutive beeps, which…

“Because I could not stop for Death” “Because I could not stop for Death-He kindly stopped for me-” the first two opening lines of Emily Dickinson’s poem “Because I could not stop for Death”. Just like many of Dickinson’s other poems this one focuses on the aspect of death and what happens to us after we die. The poem starts out with death driving a carriage who stops to pick up the author. They then begin to drive along a road very leisurely and the author recalls all these different images…

argument on Death and Harm I agree with this argument which tell us that you do not need to afraid the death, because the death cannot harm you. This argument gives me a logical, comprehensive explanation and I was persuaded by this article. Furthermore, when people cannot judge the argument by evidence, a good theory will became the one which benefit more to us and make us better. So we have good reason to express the conclusion in the way we do. (Rosenbaum 122) In Epicurus’s opinion, the…

The Story that led to her Death In a marriage, a man and a woman make vows to eternal, never-ending love, no matter what occurs in their lives. This marriage shall continue until the end, or until someone dies. In The Story of an Hour, by Kate Chopin, Mrs. Mallard makes the reason for her marriage unclear as she states that she loved him, sometimes, but often didn’t. When a woman is repressed in a marriage, she leads an unhappy and short life, and is very sure of her true feelings, but no one…

The images of death and innocence in William Blake’s “The Chimney Sweeper” poems “The Chimney Sweeper” is a title of two poems by William Blake, the first one was published in the collection of poems Songs of Innocence in 1789, the second one in Songs of Experience in 1794. Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience contain several titles which are contrasting with each other and Blake presents innocence and experience of the poems of chimney sweepers as a perfect example of it. As both these…

When someone close to a person dies, usually a person is sad for awhile. It takes a long time to recover from a death of a loved one. There are thousands of stories about someone loved one dying and them trying to recoup from the whole process. Well in a certain story there is a plot twist. We have a wife who is joyful that her husband has passed away on her. She sees a very bright future instead of a future of sad and gloomy. There are three messages in the story of Story of an Hour by Kate…

In A Christmas Carol, where Scrooge appears, he gets visited from the ghost of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Be. And in those visits, he is shown how no one enjoys him around and that if he keeps his act up, people will end up celebrating his death. Feeling sorry for himself, he desperately begs the spirit for another chance at life. Upon waking up, he instantly repents and starts being a better person. Due to his greed, he was stuck without purpose and no loved ones, and there isn't much…

Have you ever read the poem “Because I could not stop for death” by Emily Dickinson and wondering what the connotation could be? When you are looking at the denotation do you ever try to figure out the figurative language, then you are beginning to understand what the author it's trying to convey. The format of the poem helps us understand the tone shift and the poem's meaning. The poem “Because I could not stop death,” by Emily Dickinson is about this guy falling in love with a girl. The…

In the opening of “The Story of an Hour?” by Kate Chopin, we are introduced with the death of Brently Mallard whose wife, who also has heart trouble, is about to hear the saddening news. On the other hand, in the concluding paragraph, the doctors conclude with the wife’s death from heart disease, “of joy that kills”. Therefore what is ironic is the fact that in the end the wife turned out to be dead and not the husband, Mr. Mallard, although throughout the story Chopin made it seem as if the…