A Man Lay Dead

In James Joyce’s stories “Araby” and “The Dead”, both main characters fight deep inner battles that drive them to feel alienated. Alienation is depicted through the stories in different forms, spanning from the depiction of weather to the description of a neighborhood. Both characters have different manners in handling their inner battle. In Araby, the unnamed character is filled with anguish and retreats into the darkness of his thoughts. On the other hand, Gabriel feels himself becoming one of…

He witnesses a sick man be healed by the Sangreal, but cannot himself stand in front of the Grail as he is full of sin. When he fully awakens, he hears a voice tell him to leave the holy place. The voice tells him that he is harder than a stone, more bitter than wood and more…

As she lay sat on the floor with both knees, she began to hear footsteps walk across the floor, and with each step it became louder, and louder. After a few moments the sound of the footsteps have stopped and Augustine would then pray to God to yoursel, God I know I haven't been the womenI am supposed to be, but I beg you to please have mercy on me, please I also ask you for forgive me for all the wrong that I have done, and to please, Augustine couldn't get another word out as the man would…

When Romeo first lays eyes on Juliet, his enemy’s daughter, he instantly falls in love. Thirteen year old Juliet quickly learns to love Romeo, however, she is unsure what to do when her parents force her to marry another man named Paris. Demented, Juliet asks religious man Friar Laurence for advice. After hearing about her situation, Friar Lawrence hands her a concoction which will cause her to appear dead for forty hours. This scenes marks the point when the theme of death begins to become…

feel like waking up or doing anything at all. So I lay there, unmoving, for the longest time. Then I could see. I opened my eyes and looked around. I was lying on a bed in the middle of a mint green room. Two men dressed in hazmat suits surrounded me. “What happened?” I asked, rubbing my eyes. “You mean, you don’t remember?” one of the men asked, obviously nervous. “I don’t think so,” I responded. “Where am I?” “In Capita,” replied the man. He took something from a tray next to the bed and…

act—unweaving her gorgeous web." (2. 117-121) Penelope had promised the suitors that she would choose a man to marry as soon as she finished her shroud for Laertes, but what the suitors had not yet discovered was that at night, when all alone, she would unweave what she had completed the day before. Now, you don't just accidentally unweave a funeral shroud, especially when Laertes wasn't even dead. Penelope was very smart and used her intelligence against the suitors, she tricked them in hopes…

and selfish. “I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet” (Shelley 43). I believe Shelley said this to give the audience an idea of how Victor thinks it's easy to play God and put dead pieces together in order to create life. A major theme in the book “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley is “Man cannot handle and isn't able to play god or a creator without having difficulty”.Victor creates this monster and he fails to…

say “because Homer himself had remarked--he liked men, and it was known that he drank with the younger men in the Elks' Club--that he was not a marrying man.”(520) and Miss Grierson became a women scorn to commit the crime. But how do we know Miss Grierson really wanted to marry Homer Barron all we know of is the time they spent together as a man and a women and only predicted they would marry but who said that their relationship was the case maybe Miss Grierson wanted a companion is fill that…

Death is going to come to us all no matter what…we 're like a flower. We come up, we flourish, we die off. Another seed is sowed for a new plant to come up. And that 's the end of the story…" but what if there’s something beyond mortal life? What if ‘dead’ is a trivial concept and the soul lives on? These are only few of the many questions that linger worldwide, but most prominently behind the gates of Dublin 's Glasnevin Cemetery: a Cemetery in Ireland which holds as a domicile for people – of…

The all knowing narrative lays out the intense cruelty of the happenings in Maycomb County. Scout was thinking to herself, “Tom was dead the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed.” Due to the color of this man's skin he now lies six feet under the ground still, cold, and dead. The odds of a black male winning a case against a white woman is un heard off, so even before anyone put one foot in the…